WIPocalypse 2025 April Check In - April 1, 2025 (11 days late)

Today's discussion topic is:  "Let’s talk fabric – what is your go-to fabric dyer, your preferred type, count, color, etc?" I tend to prefer even weaves like Lugana or Jobelin and I tend to pick 28 count, but I have some higher count linens and even a scrap of Aida or two in my stash as well. As for color, I lean toward solids and avoid fabrics which are very bold, dark or blotchy. I want my stitching to be visible... ~~~~~WIPS~~~~~ 1. Elizabeth Almond's "Save the Stitches". My long dormant SAL: I started it in February, 2014, but by the end of summer, 2014, it was languishing. As near as I can tell, I didn't pick it back up again until 2021 when I started in again in November, stopped, took it back up in March of 2022, and stopped again until January 2024 when I actually persisted through September 2024 as a part of a complex rotation with a series of SALs from other sources.. It went back into the unfinished pile when construction activity in our house made my stitching room (AKA bedroom) inaccessible for two weeks and the entire rotation came to a halt.  I had hopes that I would be able to pick this up again this past month and finish it --- there isn't that much more to stitch, but I still haven't progressed since my last post because of a major frogging incident on my other WIP. No photo to show. 2  "Cloister Garden", a year-long SAL from Fox & Rabbit. Parts 1, 2, 3  and poptions of part 4 are stitched on white 28ct Jobelan using DMC 597, 931, 992, 3910 for patterns, 3750 for “borders” , all to coordinate with DMC 4030. Part 4 was released March 31.  This piece isn't up-to-date because of a massive counting error the second week of March which meant I had to rip out everything I had stitched on part 3 and start that over. It was so traumatic that I actually took a several weeks off stitching before starting again.  The photo below shows where I am now --- perhaps a week of stitching on part four remains. And then I can get started on part 5 (which was released on May 1). But first, I have to get my stitching mojo back... On the non-SAL (and inactive SAL) front: The Glendon Place "Hope & Strength" piece still requires extensive beading. The Lakeside SAL "Kogin" still languishes untouched. Traveling needlepoint is awaiting a road trip to justify taking it out again. ~~~~~ and that is my very late April report! Happy stitching, everyone!