The topic for this month's discussion is:
"What is your process for working on WIPs? Are you a one-at-a-time stitcher, a rotation stitcher, or something else?"
I guess I would have to admit to being a rotation stitcher, although I can't pinpoint the exact time when I switched from being a one-at-a-time stitcher. It may have happened around 2012 when I embarked on a number of on-line challenges like TAST, the Crazy Quilt Journal project and the Bead Journal Project. Cross-stitching became a part of a cycle filling the time between these three different stitchery methods.
At the beginning of 2020, I had just gotten back into stitching after a four-year hiatus due to two different wrist surgeries and the accompanying physical therapy, so I have to say that ration became mandatory for me. I had three BAPs and one small long-term WIP that had languished in that four-year period and when I started stitching again, it was with the pure intention of clearing those pieces from my list. But... I got bit busy the SAL bug and found myself involved a five different SALs, one of which was a five-in-one challenge! Rotation became routine, even mandatory if I wanted to keep up, let alone make progress on the WIPs!
In 2021, with the completion of those five SALs and the elimination of three of the long-term WIPs, things have changed. I am only enlisted in two SALs this year, one of which has long intervals between installments and I have found that this month, while waiting for the third installment of one of the SALs and the first patterns for the second, I have slowed down a lot and found it hard to motivate on the remaining long-term WIP. I can't even find the motivation to start on any of the non-SALs that I have kitted up! In fact, during this slow period, I have only stitched three days on a new start (see below).
Basically, I have scaled WAY back on my stitchery in favor of the Mixed Media class I am enrolled in. My taxes are wrapped up and filed and so I have no excuse ofter than a lack of ambition.
~~~~~WIPS~~~~~
I re-started Elizabeth Almond's "Save the Stitches" in November 2020 and made a little progress on blocks 70 - 74. However, I haven't stitched on it at all since then.
~~~~~SALs~~~~~
Besides this WIPocalypse, I have scaled back this year and only have two (mystery) SALs in progress:
1. The Faithwurks/Just Cross Stitch Christmas Quaker, which now has two parts complete (see last month's post). Part three is due out in the June 2021 issue of Just Cross Stitch magazine, the digital version of which should be available April 6, 2021.
2. The Stitchonomy 2021 Sal series, part one of which is "Homely Houseplants II" a partner to the "Homely Houseplants" sample completed in 2020. First installment is April 16 although I have signed up for early access (April 9th).
~~~~~New Beginnings~~~~~
Back in May of 2020, on a whim, I ordered the full kit (32-ct Jade Lugana, Dinky-Dies silks, Mill Hill Beads, and Petit Lame Braid) for a sampler from Glendon Place called "Hope and Strength". I pulled it out this past week and stitched three days on it...
I guess I would have to admit to being a rotation stitcher, although I can't pinpoint the exact time when I switched from being a one-at-a-time stitcher. It may have happened around 2012 when I embarked on a number of on-line challenges like TAST, the Crazy Quilt Journal project and the Bead Journal Project. Cross-stitching became a part of a cycle filling the time between these three different stitchery methods.
At the beginning of 2020, I had just gotten back into stitching after a four-year hiatus due to two different wrist surgeries and the accompanying physical therapy, so I have to say that ration became mandatory for me. I had three BAPs and one small long-term WIP that had languished in that four-year period and when I started stitching again, it was with the pure intention of clearing those pieces from my list. But... I got bit busy the SAL bug and found myself involved a five different SALs, one of which was a five-in-one challenge! Rotation became routine, even mandatory if I wanted to keep up, let alone make progress on the WIPs!
In 2021, with the completion of those five SALs and the elimination of three of the long-term WIPs, things have changed. I am only enlisted in two SALs this year, one of which has long intervals between installments and I have found that this month, while waiting for the third installment of one of the SALs and the first patterns for the second, I have slowed down a lot and found it hard to motivate on the remaining long-term WIP. I can't even find the motivation to start on any of the non-SALs that I have kitted up! In fact, during this slow period, I have only stitched three days on a new start (see below).
Basically, I have scaled WAY back on my stitchery in favor of the Mixed Media class I am enrolled in. My taxes are wrapped up and filed and so I have no excuse ofter than a lack of ambition.
~~~~~WIPS~~~~~
I re-started Elizabeth Almond's "Save the Stitches" in November 2020 and made a little progress on blocks 70 - 74. However, I haven't stitched on it at all since then.
~~~~~SALs~~~~~
Besides this WIPocalypse, I have scaled back this year and only have two (mystery) SALs in progress:
1. The Faithwurks/Just Cross Stitch Christmas Quaker, which now has two parts complete (see last month's post). Part three is due out in the June 2021 issue of Just Cross Stitch magazine, the digital version of which should be available April 6, 2021.
2. The Stitchonomy 2021 Sal series, part one of which is "Homely Houseplants II" a partner to the "Homely Houseplants" sample completed in 2020. First installment is April 16 although I have signed up for early access (April 9th).
~~~~~New Beginnings~~~~~
Back in May of 2020, on a whim, I ordered the full kit (32-ct Jade Lugana, Dinky-Dies silks, Mill Hill Beads, and Petit Lame Braid) for a sampler from Glendon Place called "Hope and Strength". I pulled it out this past week and stitched three days on it...
I am loving stitching with the silks and am surprised how easy stitching on 32 count Lugana, 2 over 2, after struggling al last year with 28 count linens!
Stay safe and healthy out there...
Stay safe and healthy out there...
