WIPocalypse February 2020 Check-in An Adventure in Parking

 Hi Everyone,

It has been a great stitching month for me! I decided try parking again.  And I realized that it depends on the project I am working on if like parking or not.  Lets look at my progress in February!

Starting with SK Sunny! Such a colorful stitch, I thoroughly enjoyed working on her after a prolonged period of no progress!

 

The pics don't give it justice to the vibrancy of the colors.

So happy with this finish!


Update on my Facebook group Sals:

Ultimate Cross Stitch Group 

  

I was supposed to work on Ganesha, unfortunately  I never got much progress done on this one. I was too busy with other projects this month. I hope to change that this month!

On the counting challenge each day a number was given to be stitched. Total for 24 days was 5050 Stitches. I was able to stitch that and more, I completed 5443!

At the beginning of the month, I was here:

 

And  at the end of the month I was here!!!!!

So this is where I thought to pick up the parking again. I have had my ups and downs with parking, I love it, then I hate it. However, with this project I loved it.   I decided to park by working on 20x20 blocks. Which meant once I finished one section, that meant I finished 400 stitches!!

Full Coverage Cross Stitch Group

I was able to sneak in just enough stitches on SK Winter Wings

Full Coverage Fanatics Group
I just had to show my progress on SK Winter Wings in this one.

I started her here at the beginning of the month

 

 And ended the month here

For the other sals I used World Travel bookshelf.  I really enjoyed stitching on it and really got in a groove for parking with it.

Question for February WIPocalypse

In honor of "Leap Year", tell the story of a time you had to make some sort o "leap" in stitching - taking a chance on a new style, attending a meetup or class, etc.

Hmmm, a leap that I have taken this year....I thinkn that the leap I have taken this year is with the parking technique.  In the past I have dabbled in it, but this year I have leapt into it with gusto.  Hoping I continue to like it as much as I have this past month!

My plans for the month of march are:

1 - Work on SK Winter wings for the Full Coverage Fanatics Around the World Sal.  This month is Canada!  What better project to pick than Winter Wings!  We are still in the middle of a very snowy winter.  This is from just yesterday.

2 - Continue with my 20 in 20 challenge for Full Coverage Fanatics using World Travel Bookshelf.  As of the end of February I had 6578 stitches complete!  Only 13422 left to complete this challenge!

3 - For the 2020 in 2020 challenge in Full Coverage Cross, I will be stitching on Ganesha, I really need to get to the end of the top row.  Its been a dull/easy stitch but I want to push myself to finish it and move down to the next row.

4 - For the Just Show Progress challenge for March with the Ultimate Cross Stitch group I will use Ganesha again.

5 - There is a counting challenge in the Ultimate Cross stitch group as well, I think I will use World Travel Bookshelf.

6 - And if I manage to make solid progress on these pieces I will pick up another Wip! Or maybe a new start????

Happy Stitching!

~~~Vani~~~

New Year New Stitching Goals

Happy New Year!!!!

My stitching New Year resolution is to stitch as much as I can and blog about it regularly!  

I have a few projects in mind for this year, that I will be working on in a rotation.  Currently all of them are HAEDs, I might add a non-HAED, but undecided just yet.

I have a few goals that I have for my projects this year.

• Complete at least a page on each of my current projects, which you can see their progress bars to the right.
• Blog weekly on any progress made 
• Complete the 3 UFOs in my rotation - QS Christmas Presence and SK Sunny and SK Winter Wings.  They have been lying around for a long time!
• Stitch every day even if its just one stitch

 I am also part of so many stitching related groups on Facebook, who all have their own challenges, I found it hard to keep up. So this year I have just a couple of challenges I'm going to try and keep up with.

The first one is a WIPocalypse SAL.  Basically I will be working on some of my Wips, that have been slow going and try and make some progress on them.  I have to blog about my progress and submit my post to the group for viewing.  So consider this as my first post for the WIPocalypse SAL!  I will be working on in rotation :

1. SK Winter Wings
2. Ganesha
3. World Travel Bookshelf 1
4. QS Peridot
5. SK Sunny
6. QS Christmas Presence

The next one I have decided to join is in a Facebook group called Full Coverage Cross Stitch, I am going to take part in their challenge to stitch 2020 stitches every month.  You have to pick which project you would like to work on each month and complete 2020 stitches on that project for the month to be eligible for a prize at the end of the year! For January I picked SK Winter Wings, got around 650 stitches in yesterday!

And finally I will participate in some challenges in The Ultimate Cross Stitch Group.  They have different challenges every month to help us stay motivated.

This month is:

• The Cupcake Conundrum - There are 11 sections to this challenge. So far we know that in the first section we have to stitch 300 stitches.  Got that done yesterday!
• Winter Delight Cupcake - This is strictly just a show your progress challenge.

Here is what I have in my rotation so far, you can always see my progress to the right of this post in the easy to see progress bars for each project!

SK Winter Wings

Ganesha

World Travel Bookshelf 1

QS Peridot

SK Sunny

QS Christmas Presence

Happy Stitching!

~Vani