WIPocalypse 2019 - Kick Off Post

WIPocalypse is hosted by Measi's Musings

The object of the WIPocalypse is to stitch on projects that you want to complete before the end of the world, or the end of the year - whichever might come first! WIPocalypse is run by Melissa over at Measi's Musings and is now in it's 8th year.  

For 2019 I am going to try and work on 19 projects (ie 19 in 2019!).  The full list of my projects can be found on my WIPocalypse 2019 page.

Okay.... yes I know I failed dismally last year with posting about my chosen 18 in 18, and I can't make promises about this year but I will try harder to post regularly on my chosen 19 in 19!

So what have I chosen this year?  There are a couple of favourites still in the list because they didn't get finished last year, but there are also some newbies in the list.  I have tried to be a bit more strategic in my thinking this year and have picked projects that have been around a long time but are also very close to being finished.  I have also picked a couple of bigger projects in the hope that I will get some progress on them during the year and they then might also become close to being finished!

So here we go - welcome to my "19 in 19" 😃

 12 Days of Christmas - Little House Needleworks

12 Days of Christmas - Maria Diaz

Quaker a Halloween - Jardin Prive

Pink Sparrow Sampler - With Thy Needle & Thread

Orchid (Flower Pixie Fairy) - Nora Corbett

Peace on Earth - Cottage Garden Samplings

 
Deer & Grapes Mystery Sampler - Jean Farish

 
 
Snow Love (Snow Story) - Lizzie Kate

Pumpkins 4 Sale - Little House Needleworks

Henry VIII - Cloudsfactory

Dog Park - Satsuma Street

Autumn Bird - Satsuma Street

 

Shimmering Mermaid - Mirabilia

 
Spring Bouquet - Margaret Sherry

 
Tulip Time - Just Nan

Mini Mandala II "C" - Chatelaine

Eightsome Reel - Papillon Creations

 

Peacock Lady - Joan Elliott

 
Coffee Saves Lives - Heartstring Samplery

My goal for 2019 is to try and get at least 50% of these finished (ie 8 or 9 out of 19 WIP's finished).  A stretch goal would be to get either the Mira or the Nora Corbett design also finished in 2019!

Wish me luck.... I will need buckets of it!! 😊

Til next time, happy stitching

Hugs xx

WIPocalypse 2018 - End of Year Review

WIPocalypse is hosted by Measi's Musings

The object of the WIPocalypse is to stitch on projects that you want to complete before the end of the world, or the end of the year - whichever might come first! WIPocalypse is run by Melissa over at Measi's Musings and is now in it's 7th year.  

For 2018 I am going to try and work on 18 projects (ie 18 in 2018!).  The full list of my projects can be found on my WIPocalypse 2018 page.

Snail's pace is definitely about right for me..... 2018 turned out to be an interesting year - lots of stitching completed but not a lot of blogging.... 2019 will be different as I plan to try and do more blogging and just as much (if not more) stitching!

This is a really quick post to round out the 2018 WIPocalypse.  I chose 18 WIPs to work on last year and unfortunately I didn't get a lot of progress on most of them.....

But I did manage to finish 3 of them:

Boo Club - Lizzie Kate (finished 11 December 2018)

Jingles - Lizzie Kate (finished 30th August 2018)

Moutons de Saisons "été" - Collection Tra La La (finished 2 April 2018)

I have planned to continue with some of the WIPs from 2018 and they have been added into my plans for 2019 with a goal to finish most of them before the end of the year!! 😏

So that's it for WIPocalypse 2018... not as good a result as I would have liked, but that was mostly because of my poor choices in projects and under-estimating my penchant for bright, shiny new things!!!  🙈😼

2019 is a new year and I am ready to accept the challenge!

Til next time, happy stitching

Hugs x

Happy New Year

Image from Princess Sassy Pants & Co

Hello.... long time no post...
Sorry that I have been gone for so long - no excuse other than life and time getting away from me!

This is just a very quick post to say Happy New Year!  I will be back later in the week/month for some updates on my 2018 finishes and plans for 2019.  If you wish to catch up on some of my stitching sooner, I have recently started to update my flosstube channel as well so there are a couple of new videos up that you can have a look at it if you wish to do so.

Flosstube #14 - 8 October 2018

Flosstube #15 - 10 November 2018

Flosstube #16 - 28 November 2018

Flosstube #17 - 28 December 2018

Til my next post... take care, and have a great stitchy week.
Hugs xx

Stitch Maynia 2018 Starts 15 - 18 / May Update 2018

Image from Princess Sassy Pants website

Ok, so as you have probably realised today is a bit of a catch up blogging day....  May was a busy month for one reason or another, and I didn't get back to post the last of my Stitch Maynia starts... and then we went to Singapore for a week for Hubby's milestone birthday celebrations and now it's June!

The last start that I showed you was start #14 - so here we go for the last 4 official Stitch Maynia starts.

Start 15/18 - 15th May 2018
Start #43/2018
Enjoy the Moment Tea Sampler
Gail Bussi
Fabric: 28ct Lugana - "Pixie Kiss" / Hand Dyed by Stephanie
Thread: DMC as charted
Source: Cross Stitch Collection May 2011

Start 16/18 - 16th May 2018
Start #44/2018
Violet
Mill Hill Kit

Start 17/18 - 17th May 2018
Start #45/2018
Morning Has Broken
Mari Richards
Fabric: 28ct Opal Lugana - "Galene" / Under The Sea Fabrics
Thread: DMC as charted
Source: Cross Stitch Collection

Start 18/18 - 18th May 2018
Start #46/2018
Pink Sparrow Sampler
With Thy Needle & Thread
Fabric: 36ct Edinburgh - "Dubloon" / Picture This Plus
Thread: WDW, GAST as charted

So that was Stitch Maynia!  I loved doing the 18 starts for 18 days... and I left my favourite til the last... Pink Sparrow got some more love during May which I will show shortly...

The rest of May was filled with the following:

Start #47/2018
Christmas Penguin
Helz Chuppleditch
Source: Free Gift - World of Cross Stitching
Started: 19th May 2018

WIP Update
Winter Bluster - Glendon Place

WIP Update
Tabby Cat - Mill Hill Kit

WIP Update
Happy Birthday Puppy

WIP Update
Pink Sparrow Sampler
With Thy Needle & Thread

not a great photo.. sorry

I loved stitching on Pink Sparrow during May... I took this one to Singapore with me not expecting to get much done but I did manage to get a couple of hours in here and there... I put this away after stitching on 31st May with a heavy heart - I could have just kept on stitching, but June has to be a catch up month for my other WIPs... Pink Sparrow will come out again soon for some more love!

Stitching Graph for May

Having 19 starts in one month makes for a very big graph...

June's plans are to mainly try and catch up on the Sheep Virtues and my monthly Christmas stitching.  Stitch Maynia has the World Cup SAL during June so I am going to try and fit some of my WIPs into that SAL and hopefully I will have heaps of progress next month!

Til then, happy stitching
Hugs x

WIPocalypse 2018 - May update

WIPocalypse is hosted by Measi's Musings

The object of the WIPocalypse is to stitch on projects that you want to complete before the end of the world, or the end of the year - whichever might come first! WIPocalypse is run by Melissa over at Measi's Musings and is now in it's 7th year.  

For 2018 I am going to try and work on 18 projects (ie 18 in 2018!).  The full list of my projects can be found on my WIPocalypse 2018 page.

May has been and gone... and this update is very late! What's new for me?  I'm always late!

With Stitch Maynia happening throughout May, I didn't get to touch many of my WIPocalypse projects. In fact, the only project that saw some progress was Lizzie Kate's Boo Club.

Boo Club - Lizzie Kate

Started: 1 January 2018

Fabric: 28ct Lugana (studio session -Wicked Garden) Colour Cascade Fabrics

Threads: DMC & Weeks Dye Works

Both the "Spiders" and "Eek" blocks are now finished!  "Spiders" was finished on 31st May and "Eek" was finished 3rd June.  Technically neither should be on the May update...but there wouldn't be an update if I didn't include them!!  I decided to stitch all of the black spiders rather than add buttons for the ones that were supposed to be buttons - I like them much better that way!

Boo Club is pretty much back on track now (except for the border...)

Question of the month: Where do you love to shop for stash?

Good question.... I generally shop online rather than from a store front.  The main reason for that is that I don't have a local LNS close to me.  I do have a Spotlight  (general craft) store about 10 mins away but they don't have a lot of cross stitch supplies so I don't shop there very often.  We do have a great LNS in Perth called "Stitcher's Corner" but I only get to them about 3 times a year - they do mail order though so that's good!

Online stores I buy from are generally fabric dyers (Colour Cascade Fabrics, Jodyri Designs, Under the Sea Fabrics, Hand Dyed by Stephanie) or my absolute favourite 1-2-3 Stitch!  Colour Cascade Fabrics also has an online store for cross stitch supplies so I often buy charts, DMC etc from Tammy as well as fabric.

I recently started buying from Crazy Annie as I joined their PTP fabric of the month club.  And, there is one more online store that I have just found on FB - JK's Cross Stitching Supplies.

Sorry for the very lame update this month... June will be better!! 😁

That's it for this month - til next time, happy stitching