WIPocalypse Check In January 2024

This month has been rather productive and it surprised me, especially since a I’ve a busy home life. 🤱🏻

This month I stitched a total of 2,741 stitches over the 5 WIPs I had picked out for January:

January WIPS

WIPgo block 9 - Gangster

630 stitches completed whilst playing the Myths and Magic Wars for round 3, and first level for the Alux creature in Magical StItches. Not a page finish yet but I’m hoping Marilyn will come up again on the Full Coverage Wheel soon in order to get the rest of the stitches done before the end of the year.

WIPgo block 22 - Kelly Eden

Kelly Eden is my success story for January. 1104 stitches done and I hit my page finish goal for this wip. Awesomeness!!! This wip was part of the Muth and Magic Wars and completed 2nd level for the Alux creature.  I thoroughly enjoyed stitching on this one and can’t wait to stitch on it again. 

I Dare You Sal WIP - Quilted Heels

This is my ongoing IDY Sal project that I will have each month until it is finished. I am classing my stitches as 2 back stitches = 1 full stitch to match all the Facebook groups so it’s easier for me to keep track. This month I have managed 621 stitches on these shoes and am

Really thrilled. I’m thinking it will t be long before I get my first fjj in ish for 2024, fingers crossed 🤞🏻 it’s in February. 

Full Coverage Wheel Pick - Zebracorn

Not got a lot of progress into Zebracorn and only managed 281 stitches by end of January. Unhappily just as I put my last couple of stitches in I realise I have made a mistake and now need to frog about 25 stitches. Great!!

Extra WIP - Well Suited

This wip was just a little extra added to January because I needed a chart beginning with the Letter “W” for Scattergories.  I put in 105 stitches to meet that prompt. I’m not concerned about hitting 500 stitches in this one as it wasn’t supposed to be in play this month. 

Summary of January’s achievements

Earned myself the Prehistoric Art Certificate with stitches from Gangster Marilyn and Kelly Eden.

Werewolves were not the first clan to get knocked out of Round 3 Myths and Magic Wars. On break before Round 4 starts so looking forward to that.

Managed a few snowballs for the snowball fight game with Semi Sane Stitchers before I got too confused with counting all the stitches for each event.

Got 9 out of 12 prompts completed for Wip Warriors’ Scattergories event and scraped a win in the road trip with the cruise although hoping to be more successful and keep up with the main crowd for the Australia leg one part of the tour. 

In Magical Stitches I have managed to successfully Identify and Study the Alux. Just have to complete Feed and Befriend levels in February and then I can move on to the Aziza (don’t ask me why that is because I don’t know 😂)

Outside of stitching Magical Stitches has a month Reading challenge I have read the main book of the month: Tithe by Holly Black and also

Completed The Switch by Beth O’Leary. Currently reading The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Tudor and enjoying it. Still have Lost in the Never Woods by Aiden Thomas but don’t think I’m going to be able to get to it by end of January. 

I’m not sure yet but was thinking of doing some short book reviews on the books I read in 2024 for the Reading Challenge. What do you think? Would this a blog you would consider reading?

Question of the Month: Tell us about the oldest WIP you have in your stash.

My oldest WIP is a Geckorouge Kit called Sally Squirrel.  It was started in 2015 as part of their Anita Inverarity SAL with a mini sized WIP (4 pages). Confetti Mega City and very slow going - It was a major learning curve as I was a cross stitching newbie and to this day I still haven't finished it.  Hopefully 2024 will be the year to finish it as I only have approximately 2000 stitches left on it.