Question of the Month: Recap your accomplishments for the year! (Your finishes, your final before/after photos, etc).
Well, this year was another success :D Managed to finish Death by Cross Stitch, kept #NoNewStarts2021 and haven't started anything, although I would've loved to make more progress on my wips, but work got in the way, especially towards the end of the year.
My wips for this year:
Starting point for the year:
Last month:
Currently:
Added: 1 colors, 369 stitches
Progress for the whole year: added 22 colors, 6912 stitches
Starting point for the year:
Last month:
Currently:
Added: 1 color, 194 stitches
Progress for the whole year: added 22 colors, 3708 stitches
Starting point for the year:
Last month:
Currently:
Added: 1 color, 99 stitches
Progress for the whole year: added 22 colors, 1747 stitches
Last month:
Currently:
Added: 1 color, 120 stitches
Starting point for the year:
Last month:
Currently:
Added: 1 color, 23 stitches
Progress for the whole year: added 22 colors, 382 stitches
Starting point for the year:
Last month:
Currently:
Added: 1 colors, 454 stitches
Progress for the whole year: added 22 colors, 7978 stitches
Starting point for the year:
Last month:
Currently:
Added: 1 color, 624 stitches
Progress for the whole year: added 22 colors, 12595 stitches
In August:
Starting point for the year:
Currently:
Added: 3 colors, 2729 stitches
Starting point for the year:
Currently:
Added: 3 colors, 6105 stitches
Questions from the previous months: Introduce yourself, your projects, and any goals you have for the year!
For those who visit my blog for the first time, my name is Maria, and I've been stitching for more than 20 years. My goal for this year is to finish Death by Cross Stitch, and stitch as much as possible on the rest of my wips:D I'm also doing #NoNewStarts2021, which won't really be a problem for me, since I'm actually trying to cut down the number of my wips to 8 :))
January: Tell us about a WIP on which you’ve really struggled to make progress. Explain its history. What appears to be the reason you’re struggling?
Well, currently I'm not struggling with any of them, but I did struggle a lot with the previous version of Montecristo. I even set it aside for quite a while, for so long that I didn't even remember why I did, then I remembered once I realized I miscounted at a point, and I would've had to frog so much I just wanted to throw it out. That combined with the fact that I hated the fabric I stitched it on (it was much larger than the 32 count I use now almost exclusively, so the fabric was peeking out from under the stitches) and that I made a newer, max color version of the chart resulted in a restart, and since then I'm not really struggling with it at all :D
February: What stitch-a-longs (SALs) are you participating in this year?
Apart from this one I'm also doing #NoNewStarts2021.
March: What is your process for working on WIPs? Are you a one-at-a-time stitcher, a rotation stitcher, or something else?
I'm definitely a rotation stitcher. I stitch everything extreme cross country, so I finish off all the stitches of a color in a wip, then move on to the next wip. This seems to work really well for me: since I start with the colors with the least stitches, my new starts don't take away much time from the older ones, and when I get close to finishing a wip, I spend more time on it than on the rest.
April: Have you found yourself to be more or less productive in your stitching during the Covid-19 pandemic?
Pretty much the same, although work lately really cut into my stitchy time.
May: What was the first project you ever stitched? (whether you finished or not)
I don't have a picture of it, but it was a printed needlepoint canvas, that my Grandma got from a friend of hers, and we stitched that one and a following one together. I think I was around 10 years old back then :D
June: Half-year recap: How are you doing with your goals so far this year?
Pretty well. I'm well on track to finish Death by Cross Stitch by the end of the year, and I haven't started anything :D
July: Have you ever attended a stitching retreat? If so, tell us about your experiences.
Unfortunately I haven't yet, but I'd love to. I don't think there are any here in Hungary, at least I haven't heard about them yet.
August: Which of your project finishes made you the most proud? The most relieved?
Most proud: definitely my Arrow poster. I posted it to Stephen Amell's Fan-art Friday, and he saw and liked it :D Most relieved: Death by Cross Stitch. I renamed it to Death by Backstitch by the end, because all the backstitching killed me.
September: List five projects you have unstarted in your stash that you’d like to start in the (relatively) near future.
I don't really have any that I'm gonna start in the near future, because I want to cut down the number of my wips to 8, but once I finish El Conquistador and Montecristo, one of the projects on my Future Starts page will finally get started, haven't decided, which one yet. Probably Peacocks Lagoon or the Lake Como photo.
October: Do you prefer Halloween or Christmas stitching?
Neither. We don't celebrate Halloween here in Hungary (except for those that want to ape the US), and none of my current and future wips are Christmas-themed, and I don't really feel like doing one either. It's not my style.
November: What new discoveries did you have in the stitching world this year?
PatternKeeper. God Bless Asa, its creator for coming up with such an awesome app for us full-coverage stitchers :D
Oh my! I love all your projects. I am in awe of people that do one color at a time on full coverage pieces.
VálaszTörlésThank you! :D I love this method, it's so much fun to see the picture come into focus with each added color :D
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