WIPocalypse 2024 Check-In - May 26, 2024

 Today's discussion topic is:

"How do you personally distinguish between a Work in Progress (WIP) and an Unfinished Object (UFO)?"

It's a matter of time away from the project and whether or not the subject/theme of the project is interesting me enough to finish it. In my stash, WIPs are being worked on, albeit slowly and intermittently. For example, right now, I have two "new" projects I'm working on, and three WIPs which get, at most,  two or three days of stitching before I move on to another.  UFOs are in a tote bag, carefully folded and ignored because they no longer "are my jam" and, odds are, they will remain unfinished. As for never-started projects, let's not even go there! 

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1. Elizabeth Almond's "Save the Stitches", begun in 2014. I worked on blocks 96 - 100 (out of 131) this month. 

2. "Kingdoms of Life" by Stitchonomy, begun in 2023. Using the kit provided (an oatmeal Aida and DMC colors) plus a select few skeins of grey and greens for the changes to make my biology major mind happy with how the individual organisms look in real life. I started on the animal kingdom this month...

3. "Royal Gardens", a mystery SAL by Fox & Rabbit, begun in 2023. On a pale green 32ct Lugana (it said "sapphire" but it doesn't look blue to me) and Threadworx variegated thread (1048 "Woodland Green"). I worked on the left border this month. (It as ONE stitch off so I need to figure out how to fudge the design between the borders at the bottom left to meet up properly. AARGH!).

4. "Faith, Hope, Love", a mystery SAL for 2024 by Fox & Rabbit. On antique white 28 ct Lugana using a Threadworx variegated (Autumn Leaves 1039) and three DMC colors (436, 975, and 310) that closely match some colors on that Threadworx floss... I'm on schedule here - June's installment is due out on June 1...

5. Stitchoomy Summer Banner 2024 SAL. This SAL began for club subscribers on May 14 and six installments have been released so far. I am stitching on the Midas Gold AIDA and the DMC threads in the kit. I have stitched all bands called for so far with the exception of one, where I chose the alternate provided. I am up to date on this one as well, but can't show any progress until the SAL is opened to non-club members. 

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On the non-SAL (and inactive SAL) front:

• The Glendon Place "Hope & Strength" piece still requires extensive beading.
• The Lakeside SAL "Login" still languishes untouched.
• My traveling needlepoint was taken out in March and put right back in the project bag. I still need to sit down with the chart and sort and label large hanks of numbered threads by color so I can actually stitch!  I haven't gotten around to it yet... AAARGH!.

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And that is my May report... On to June!