December Stitch From Stash and Pie

 It's Old Year's Night and time for a look back at the past 365 days of stitching.

First of all, here is the Pie for December:

The two main projects were chosen by,my WIPGO Board and I was very pleased to see that Cottage Garden Samplings Year in the Woods was one of them.  It's a smaller design with not too many colours and the chance to stitch outlines then fill in without looking at the chart too much.

At the end of the month I had reached this point:

stitched over 1 on 25 count Cirrus from Chromatic Alchemy

By lucky chance, it is the first number to be called for 2024 so I can finish The Fox and make a start on February's Swans.

I saved Fairy Idyll for the period after Christmas and have been stitching some not very exciting draperies and columns.  But every stitch counts.

stitched on 32 count Murano in Vinyard from Crafty Kitten

Here's the Evening Pie:

I showed all the Just Nan's in my Smalls' post - December Smalls

In my WIPocalypse post I showed you my finishes from my "23 in '23" list and now here are the rest of my finishes for the year:

Let's have a look at the Annual Pie Chart now:

The top three individual projects were:

Hawk Run Hollow - 107 days and a finish

Little Snapdragon  - 37 days and a finish

CCN's Main Street - 34 days and a finish

I came into the year with 15 WIPs and started 20 projects over the course of the year of which 5 are still WIPs (although one only needs beads).  I also completed 4 projects started prior to 2023.  My current WIPs are:

Prior to 2020     7

2021                  2

2023                  5

Total                14

How did the spending go last month?  My magazine subscription came out and that was it for the month.

I also tallied up the spend for the whole year:

Magazines are a little bit up, I only get Cross Stitcher via subscription and Just Cross Stitch digital subscription plus paper copies of the Halloween and Christmas Specials.

Charts are way down, I bought a few Just Nans, a Mirabilia and some spooky stuff but nothing big this year.  I'm still trying to work on stash charts.
Fabric was up however because I bought fabric for the next four Zodiac Girls and some from Chromatic Alchemy for the Year in the Woods.  Plus a big piece of the charted fabric for Turn, Turn, Turn which I plan to use a few more times in 2024.

Threads were about the same and "other" included two bead packs for the Zodiac Girls.

Looking at the last ten years, this was pretty much an average spend which is good.

Finally,

Have a very Happy Old Year's Night

and a very Peaceful New Year's Day