Tuesday, 7 January 2014

TUSAL - post #1 and the 2014 SALs/challenges ...

Hello all,

Happy New Year! Hope 2014 brings all of you lots of stitching and other nice things. I thought this year I will be on top of everything. Map out my commitments so to say. And there I am on the 2nd of January realising I am already behind on my 1st update of the year (I know, I know today is not the 2nd). Oh well better late than never.

My little jar: 

TUSAL - post #1

I need to free up the big one for the year ... so need to get rid of previous year's orts somehow. Maybe an ornament needs stitching. But I will cross that bridge when I get there. 

2014 SALs/challenges:

You might be curious to know that I have signed up to too many again. And my posting schedule (especially around the end of the month is becoming rather scary). So the challenges I have signed up to so far:
All of them are clickable so that you can find out all the info and decide if you want to join them too. The first two I have done for a few years now, TUSAL as you can see is a monthly post of a jar with orts (with a very appropriate title ... Totally Useless Stitch-A-Long), and Wipocalypse will have an updated tab soon. And I will mention my goals/wips/projects for it in the first post, later on in the month.

The new ones see me join Stitch from Stash challenge (check the tab for info - but it is there to make me budget and not go spending all that hard earned cash on more stash), Smalls SAL (check the tab - from what I gather it is in place instead of the annual ornament SAL), and I Love Library Books will have a new tab soon too. This is a reading one, rather than stitching. There are various levels one can participate on. And I will be aiming for 'Adult'. Although 'Just insert IV' is very tempting. One can go up a level but not down. So 36 books to read in a year. That is 3 per month. The main rule is they have to be borrowed from the library. It doesn't require an update post ... so the list will go in the tab with the dates I finished reading books on.

There might be a few others coming... there is the 2013 SAL blog that hasn't seen much action recently, but might become active again. I might decide to do another Margaret Sherry one this year, and I also take part in a few forum ones from time to time.

Talk soon,

 


Sunday, 22 December 2013

Wipocalypse - post #12 or the final report, including some previously unseen finishes & made up biscornus ...

Dear all,

This post is going to make me cry. Since I haven't done a starting point post this year... this is what I will do this year sort of thing ... I now will need to try to remember all my wips. And also since I was doing so poorly on my goals I changed half way to a broad goal of 25 finishes (regardless of size). So this included a lot of smaller projects... but the goal was met.


Progress:

Christmas Candle (HAED):

December 2012

December 2013


Good Heavens (Anchor kit by Margaret Sherry):

October/November 2011
December 2013


Picture of Elegance:

Sometime in 2011

December 2013


QS Literate Dragon (HAED):

Started in 2013

Field of Poppies (Yiota's XStitch):

Started in 2013

Untouched: 


Xmas Chums

Tending the Flock

Fizzy Moon card kit

Cabin Fever by Dimensions (Gold Collection)


Making Lickle Wishes

Venice by John Clayton

Finishes:

For detailed info check out the "Pre-2014 Finishes" tab. There are some finishes here that I haven't blogged about before (the finishes tab will be updated to have them in the next few days), including the finishing off of the biscornus:



December 2013

December 2013

November 2013 - makeup bag finish

November 2013 - makeup bag finish

November 2013 - closeup

November 2013 - makeup bag finish

October 2013

October 2013

September 2013

August 2013

August 2013 - front

August 2013 - back

Biscornu finish

Biscornu finish

Biscornu finish

August 2013

August 2013

July 2013
Makeup bag finish

July 2013

Biscornu finish

Biscornu finish

July 2013
Biscornu finish

Biscornu finish

Biscornu finish


July 2013 - Front

July 2013 - Back
Biscornu finish

Biscornu finish
Biscornu finish
Biscornu finish


June 2013

July 2013

June 2013

June 2013

June 2013

March 2013


March 2013

February 2013

February 2013

January 2013
January 2013

A few giveaways to browse and enter ...


  • Two by Nancy:

The Twelve Days of Christmas $50 gift certificate giveaway



Click on Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe to enter by the 24th December 2013


Fourth Day of Christmas Give-away:



Click on Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe to enter by the 25th December 2013



  • And one giveaway by Gaynor aka StitcherAnon


Click on Stitchers Anon to enter by the 26th December 2013

Speaking of Stitcher Anon do check out her charts tab ... pdfs are currently on sale. I couldn't resist and bought one (which has been tempting me for some time now)...

my purchase

I will now need to say my goodbyes. This post has taken me quite number of days, of uploading and editing. One thing I have learnt from this ... I am going to have a clear starting point for next year's Wipocalypse. So expect that sometime soon, and the update of the tab. You can see a few new SAL ones have sprung up already. I am starting them in 2014, as well as getting a new finishes tab then too (the other one is getting rather long). 

Till soon, when I might update you on craft fairs and such like (something I have been promising for some time now),