WIPocalypse 2021 Check-In: October 31, 2021

 

The topic for this month's discussion is:  Do you prefer Halloween or Christmas stitching? I don't really have an answer for this question. An honest answer would be I don't tend to do holiday-oriented stitching of ANY kind of late. I USED to stitch a lot for both holidays and have a fairly extensive collection of ornaments for both. But, now, I am stitching more SALs than either ornaments or big projects. If there are holiday themes in the SALs I am registered for, then I stitch them. I you look back at last month's check-in at the projects I have "acquired" for the coming year(s), you can see that most of them include houses or buildings of some sort and none are holiday-oriented.  ~~~~~WIPS~~~~~ I still haven't stitched at all on Elizabeth Almond's "Save the Stitches" ; it's been "dormant" since November, 2020. I made some progress on the Glendon Place sampler "Hope & Strength": The inner border is nw complete as are the stars on the right the ampersand. Next, the lion on the left border matching the one on the left. Then it's only borders, more borders and beading, LOTS of beading! ~~~~~SALs~~~~~ 1. The Faithwurks/Just Cross Stitch Christmas Quaker, which now has five parts complete (less beads and charms)  and most of part 6: the upper garland, where I fudged around a misplaced ornament since I didn't feel like frogging at this late date, and the alphabet and numbers in the lower border. There are seven small motifs in the lower border and then buttons and charms to add and it will be finished by the next check-in! 2. The Stitchonomy "Halloween 2021" SAL, which started in mid-September, is now complete. Stitched on the supplied oatmeal AIDA (14 ct) and DMC threads: I filled in the spine of the book with Sulky 12 with "Autumn" and the paged with DMC Diamante Gold. I added red seed beads to the eyes of several of the characters and gold beads to the buttons of the headless horseman, lower left. I attached the supplied "blood drop" charm on the Dracula square and padlock-and-key set of charms on the Bluebeard square. I backstitched the flesh tones of faces and any white areas which were blending too  much into the background. All other changes were small edits to clarify the image or mistakes in color that I didn't not wish to frog, being as I was spending a lot of time playing thread-chicken with the supplied floss as it was! ~~~~~Travelling Needlepoint~~~~~ No activity ~~~~~~  In the Pipeline ~~~~~ My stitching mojo remains a little low. No new starts yet planned for November - I hope to clear the decks of "Hope & Strength" and maybe even put a few stitches in Elizabeth Almond's "Save the Stitches". There is a Christmas SAL from Stitchonomy starting in December to look forward to... See you next month!