Another Month over

 I guess I knew it was the end of October, but totally forgot that I needed to post until I opened up FB this evening.  So here is my update such as it is....

Each month we post our accomplishments for WIPocalypse, which the founding mother of the group can be found here in. WIPocalypse.  The idea is to finish things before our time on earth comes to an end, but it seems that each year I end the year with a few more WIP's than I started at the beginning.  Oh well, if I have WIP's I'll live forever.

Each month we have a question to answer, this month's is how do you store your WIPs and your stash.  Normally my stash if VERY organized, but over the past several years it has gotten very messy because I just keep adding to it without really putting anything away properly.  My goal is to get my charts to where I can find them and my linen separated by count.  

As for my WIP's, the ones that I am actually going to work on are in my living room (we live in 800 square foot house, so not a lot of options).   At the beginning of the year I had them in one area and as I worked on them I moved to another area so I knew what received loved and what hadn't.  That worked for awhile, but not so much anymore.  Thankfully I only have 3 projects that I have not touched this year.

So what have I done this month?

I pulled out Family by Dragon Dreams - this one gets put into timeout a LOT, but I'm determine to get it finished, mistakes and all - or maybe I should just call them creative differences between the pattern, my fingers and the frog.

All the words are done, and the right hand is just about done - just need to finish back stitching, but need to get the other hand going because the fingers intertwine 

I have another one called Friends, not sure if I will start that one anytime soon.

The next one up is a new start (see what I mean about ending with more than I start with??).  This one I saw and decided I had to stitch it, so I ended up ordering the chart.  It's called Good Heart by Dirty Annie.  I kitted it up on my last trip home to KY, with all but one color - guess which color I'm missing???  The buds on the border!!  Oh well, I found another color that will work from my stash.

this one is stitching up really fast.  What I have is from one day at a stitching get-together, so I think the next time it comes out if it's not a finish, it will be close to a finish.

Below is the chart if you are interest - it seems the older I get the more that mouth filter fades away and I tend to just say what's on my mind.  Still able to avoid some things, but it's getting harder and harder.

The next one up is Parker's Stocking by Shepherd's Bush.  This is the middle section of the stocking.   It was a start in September, but I didn't have a picture to post on my last blog, so posting it now.  My niece was expecting a baby and for some reason I now do the stockings this next generation of kids.  Since she didn't know if it was a boy or girl I needed to make sure I had one of each started.   

The girl stocking is already started, but I failed to take a picture of it, so you will see it next time, hopefully fully finished as she had a little girl!!   this stocking will get finished at some point as I'm sure there will be more babies.

This is PeliCan by Courtney Design.  I'm doing this on a 40 ct. linen with one color of thread.  Below is 2 pages finished out of 20!!  This one will take me forever to finish.  I measured the linen wrong so there isn't much of a top and bottom margin, so it's hard to put on the q-snaps.  I think I need to get a hoop to put it in so I can have it tight, then maybe I'll make more progress on it.  I really love chart and think I would enjoy stitching it more if it weren't so hard to hold.  

This last picture is a x-stitch my friend did for me as a surprise!!  She gave it to me the last time we were driving down I-75 from MI to KY.  She lives in Findlay which is a nice stopping point on the long drive.  It's even a better stop when it's on a Saturday and I can meet her at Kraft Gallery!!  If you've not been to the store - it's a must see if you are in OH.  

I have several more starts planned, I'm hoping to start some of them next week while I'm on vacation - so hopefully you'll see more then.