Hello friends, today is the official start of Soulful Stitching's Year of WIPs (YOW) 2018! Soulful Stitching is a Facebook group run by Melanie Watkins. Last year, I finished 12 out of 16 projects and I feel pretty good about that. Some of them were WIPs that were around for years. So this year, I have chosen 20 projects to work on for this SAL.
Project #1: This is Dreidel, Dreidel from Ink Circles. This was my January 1 start this year (barely!)
Project #2: This is Carve Blessings from Count Your Blessings. Started in January 2017... this was supposed to be a 10 stitches per day project, but I found that hard to do, so here it is!
Project #3: This is Thread Gathering from Little House Needleworks. This was the original kit, and I started it soon after it came out, but I can't remember when that was, sometime in 2006 though.
Project #4: This is Olde Shaker Tune from Homespun Elegance. This was started January 2011, s part of Crazy January Challenge.
Project #5: This is Hawaiian Mandala from Ink Circles. This was started in July 2016. I've had to buy threads for this 3 times because I kept losing them!
Project #6:This is Coffee Quaker from Heartstring Samplery. This was started in September 2017, a SAL I didn't keep up with.
Project #7: This is Mansfield Park from The Sampler Girl. I started this many years ago, but didn't like the fabric, so I restarted it again in November 2017. (this was one of my original pieces from last year but I misplaced the pattern and had to replace it with a different project.)
Project #8: This is Thirty Birds from Hands to Work. I started this in January 2011, another Crazy January Challenge start.
Project #9: This is The Bookshelf from Little House Needleworks. I started this in June 2006. (another piece from last year that I lost the pattern for...do you see a trend here?)
Project #10: This is A Good Marriage from Lizzie Kate. I started this in January 2017 (again, barely!) I had hoped to finish this for our wedding anniversary last year...maybe this year?
Project #11: This is My To Do List from Lizzie Kate. I started this in January 2017.
Project #12: This is Necessities Sampler from Little House Needleworks, I started this in January 2015, another Crazy January Challenge start.
Project #13: This is Ocean Daughter from Who Knows? I started this in January 2017. I started this as pasrt of a monochrome challenge SAL but didn't get very far.
Project #14: This is Deers Among Wood from Dessins DHC. I started this in December 2017. I've had this in my stash for so long and I'm glad to finally have started it!
Project #15: This is To Be Thankful from Country Cottage Needleworks. I started this in September 2017, another birthday SAL piece.
Project #16: This is Warm Winter Woolens from Little House Needleworks. I started this in January 2012, another Crazy January Challenge piece.
Project #17: This is Gina, Queen of the Sea from Ink Circles. I started this in September 2017, as part of a birthday SAL.
Project #18: This is 47 Hearts from Silver Creek Samplers. i started this in February 2015.
Project #19: This is Quaker Gone Poe from Mchelle Ink. I started this in November 2017.
Project #20: This is Cinnamon Stars from Plum Street Samplers. I started this in November 2017.
Whew! So that's quite a lot! I think I have my work cut out for me. No real plan...I thought about doing a rotation, but I think I am more likely to just stitch what I feel like each day. I'll post my progress here, so I hope you'll follow me on this journey.
Until next time, please remember to be kind to yourself and others and to be grateful very day!
Thanks for visiting!
Great choices. This was my first time joining in YOW. I picked out 15 so far haha. One is really 12 pieces though. Good luck. I'll enjoy cheering you along.
ReplyDeleteOh my, Lynda, this is such a lot of great projects and there'a a lot of variety so that you will never get bored. I also find rotations difficult as it's never the project that I should stich on that really attracts me most.
ReplyDeleteI wish you all the best of luck with your 20 projects. And of course I will follow your progress.
You have a mountain of work ahead of you. But I am sure you will tame it.
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