Round Up of 2025

As you've probably realised, 2025 went pear-shaped some point in May and didn't really recover.  Several things took a hit and blogging was one of them.  Fortunately stitching limped on and recovered remarkedly well.  Thanks in part to my WIPGO plans and the fact that I love all my current projects!

I came into the year with 14 WIPs and started 23 projects over the course of the year of which only 2 are still WIPs. I also completed 6 projects started prior to 2025. My current WIPs are:

Prior to 2020 5
2021-24         3
2025              2
Total            10

So that's a total of 27 finishes this year.  12 were the Annie Beez 12 Days of Christmas Stockings.  Some have even been sewed into a stocking shape and just need their trim.

Here's the rest of my finishes in order:

January

Shannon Christine 

12 Days of Christmas Day 1

Life in Stitch

Aslan

The Steady Thread
Temperature Tree for 2024

February

Cottage Garden Samplings

Year in the Woods - Swans

July

photo to follow!

Cottage Garden Samplings

12 Days of Christmas Day 2

August

Satsuma Street 

Aquarius

Shannon Christine 

12 Days of Christmas Day 2

September

Living on the Rainbow

Fall Bookshelf

October

Heart in Hand

Tiny Halloween Town

Nora Corbett

Evanora

Nora Corbett

Scorpio

Living on the Rainbow

Haunted Bookshelf

November

The Steady Thread

Halloween Shelf

Craft Collection

Art Nouveau Head

(my oldest WIP!)

Cricket Collection

Summer

It does look like I didn't stitch much between February and August but that is when I was starting a lot of my WIPGO projects which got finished later in the year.

WIPGO was a great success and I ticked off every box this year.  Even if my Longest Day Marathon ended up taking place in November and not June!  Literally the first day I had with nothing else on so I decided to treat myself to a whole day of stitching.

I also made incredible progress on my Mirabilia Fairy Idyll project.  She started the year looking like this:

By the end of November, she looked like this:

I stitched her for the entirety of December and now she looks like this:

I am so happy with my progress on her!  I plan to stitch her for at least 12 weeks next year.  She has 6 numbers on my WIPGO board the same as this year.  Who know, we could see a finish next year?


Thanks to a computer malfunction I lost a lot of my statistics including Stitch from Stash and the Pie charts so no updates there.  I know I didn't spend much due to a lack of actual money.  I also lost my WIP photos from May to November.

Let's finish on a happier note!  I have some great stitching plans for 2026.  I do plan to "WIP down" further if I can.  I want to get my oldest WIP completed again along with Fairy Idyll.  I want to stitch more Nora Corbett and more Just Nan as well as the other series I have started.  I'm undecided about a Temperature SAL for 2026 as I have two uncompleted ones already!

Finally,

Have a very Happy Old Year's Night

and a very Peaceful New Year's Day