December Stitch from Stash and Pie

It's Old Year's Night and time for a look back at the past 366 days of stitching.

First of all, here is the Pie for December:

All three projects were chosen by,my WIPGO Board.  Maria Brovko's Life in the Shire was November's pick which was a finish in the first week of December.

stitched on 32 count Millenium Blue fabric

Shannon Christine's 12 Days of Christmas is still awaiting beads, so I've been focusing on Life in Stitch's Aslan.  I've got some really good progress over the Christmas period to make up for several days of very little stitching prior to the break!

stitched on 28 count black evenweave

Here's the Evening Pie:

Because I couldn't finish the 12 Days design, I carried on with Aslan in the evenings for the last 9 days. 

In my WIPocalypse post I showed you my finishes from my "24 in '24" list and now here are the rest of my finishes for the year:

I am particularly proud of the giant blackwork Zodiac design from Circle Cross.

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

A very different story to last year where one project used over 100 days.  This year was a "Rotation" year and I chose 12 projects which I thought would take about a month each to stitch. 

Those turned out to be the Top 12 taking between 12 and 36 days to complete.

My usual 1 day Marathon was spread over a week due to time constraints.  I also had my A-Z Challenge for IHSW (when I remembered!) so that meant a lot of projects got 2-3 days across the year. 

I came into the year with 14 WIPs and started 29 projects over the course of the year of which only 4 are still WIPs (although one only needs beads).  I also completed 4 projects started prior to 2024.  My current WIPs are:

Prior to 2020     6

2021-23             4

2024                  4

Total                14

How did the spending go last month?  My magazine subscription came out, I also bought some DMC and a roll of aida banding for my Temperature SAL next year.

I also tallied up the spend for the whole year:

Magazines almost exactly the same, I only get Cross Stitcher via subscription and Just Cross Stitch digital subscription plus paper copies of the Halloween and Christmas Specials.

Charts are a little bit down, the big expense was the Just Nan Magical chart which was a Birthday present.  I'm still trying to work on stash charts.
Fabric was also a little bit down, bought another three pieces for the Zodiac Girls.

Threads were a little bit up because I splurged in the sale at the Wool Shop (60p a skein can't be beat!) and "other" included beads for one of 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