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

  Today's discussion topic is:

"Which are your favorite three designers?"

I don't usually think in terms of designers but more often I choose by the subject matter. And these preferences evolve and change over time, What I liked back when I started , back in the late 1900s, differs significantly from what I stitch now.

Historically, my favorite designers has been Michael Powell and I have collected MANY of his charts, although  I have only stitched a few.

The designers I have been using most, recently design SALs: 

• Stitchonomy, whose European slant on SALs really rings a bell with me
• Fox & Rabbit, because, for some reason, I really like BIG smaller-style pieces.

~~~~~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 wouldl 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  and parts of threeare 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 whole week off stitching before starting again. 

The photo below shows where I am now --- perhaps a week of stitching on part three remains. An then I can get started on part 4. But first, I have to get my stitching mojo back...

The color of the blooms in part three below is slightly off --- it is a lighter purple than shows here.

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.

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and that is my March report! Happy stitching, everyone!