February WIPocalypse Most Admired

WIPocalypse is hosted by Measi's Musings

Each month we have to share the projects we want to complete before the End Of The World.

The focus of my WIPocalypse will be my "16 in '16" which are 16 projects I particularly wanted to concentrate on in 2016.   The full list can be found on my WIPocalypse page where you can also find my secondary list "16 Series in '16".

My main goal is to keep to my rotation of one small every Friday and the rest of the month working on my focus piece until it is finished.  I also have a number of SALs I want to keep up with:

The Alphabet Club - a different letter on the first Saturday of each month

Gifted Gorgeousness - post anything gifted on the 15th

Hallowe'en Ornie Blog - a different spooky theme each month

Christmas Ornie Blog - a different festive theme each month

Smalls SAL - last Thursday of each month

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And now for the progress report:

So far this month I've worked on six of the main 16 and three of the series list.

7. Strawberry Sampler by The Sampler House - WIP

8. Book of Spells by The Goode Huswif - Finished

11. Elizabeth Shephard by The Scarlet Letter - WIP

I worked and finished on the motif on the far left last Friday

13. C by Nora Corbett - Finished

15. S by Nora Corbett - WIP

I am OBSESSED with this piece!  I simply cannot put her down!  I stitched her wing all of Sunday.

16. Counting Bats by Just Nan - WIP

And the series:

1. Christmas Cubes by The Primitive Hare - WIP

I am stitching these out of order to fit in with the themes on the Christmas Ornie blog

6. The Stitcher's Alphabet by Brooke's Books - WIP

15. Alphabet Fairies by Nora Corbett - see above.

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Measi always gives us a topic to discuss too:

February - If you have any of your pieces on display in your home which attracts the most plaudits?

I do have quite a lot of my stitching on display at home.  It doesn't actually attract a lot of comments, partly because we don't have a lot of visitors these days.  When the Large Boy was at Primary School we were always having coffee mornings and get-togethers but as our children have grown up we have gone back to work and have less time to meet up.

The piece which gets the most attention is Mirabilia's Bluebeard's Mermaid.  Mostly because she is most visible when you enter the room.  I think the problem is that the pictures I have on display are so different to the average English person's idea of cross stitch that they don't even register as stitching!  The Eilean Donan Castle looks like a painting and I'm assuming they think the same of my other larger pieces.

I looked at my Happy Dance blog to see which posts there have the most visitors.  The Round Robin posts are clear favourites with the most visitors.  And on this blog, the Gifted Gorgeousness posts are run away winners with in excess of 1000 pages views for each one.  I am guessing that people like a communal post!  Either that or people usually read posts in their Readers rather than visiting the website.

Finally, I blogged about the Concern Stitching for Syria project last post.  The charity is running a Women's Centre in Lebanon and wants to make a hanging for the walls to show the women that the international stitching community is aware of their difficulties.  You sign up on the website and they send you a little chart to stitch and send the square to their London office.

It really is a little design, only 2.2 inches on 28 count.  Although they talk about aida, this is often used as a generic term for "cross stitch fabric" in the same way "Hoover" mean "a vaccum-cleaner" and evenweave is fine.  I asked!

Stitched in DMC 107

This took me about 1,5 hours stitching while the Small Boy was in the bath over the course of three evenings.  So really, there's no excuse not to get involved!