WIPocalypse is a monthly check-in SAL hosted by Mel over at measi(dot)blog – click the icon on the right to be taken to her blog. You can now also find us on FB!
Stitch From Stash is also a monthly check-in, hosted on FB by Stephanie, Ms Oh Sew Crafty on IG, blogland & YouTube.
So let’s get the shite part over with – I am officially well in the hole and very unlikely to get out this year. I *may* be fine in 2018, as I have fabric or kits now for a number of starts I want to do, plus I am in total love with Fairy Idyll. I am definitely more aware of what I am spending and doing a lot to avoid impulse buys, which I guess could be counted as a success.
| Oct-17 | |
| Allowance | $25.00 |
| FB Dreamer/Watergarden | -24.96 |
| Hospice – JCS pile | -2.00 |
| NO FINISHES | |
| Rollover | -$56.97 |
| Total Available Budget | -$58.93 |
This month’s stitchy focus was Fairy Idyll, altho I also wanted to finish the two Jamaica Santas as my travel pieces. I started beading last night on those, & I’m happy with my progress on FI so far also. Those pinks, while they look like the charted pinks, aren’t. But the lightest colour, a blend of 819/blanc, looked too pale on the Applemint fabric, so I’ve increased the intensity. And I used my stash for that (bonus point, Stephanie? LOL)
I am still waiting to stitch on two of the round robin pieces – which would increase my SFS balance but take away from FI. I should chase those up – I believe they are both in Scotland.
November goals:
- Leave Fairy Idyll as the focus piece
- Bead & FFO both Jamaica Santa pieces
- Bead & FFO Mill Hill Autumn Harvest Honey Pot pieces (started yesterday at work)
Question of the Month – How did you begin stitching? Both my grandmothers were crafty, especially Nana, as she was a farmer’s wife, but a big influence was Auntie Mick. She’s not my “real” aunty, but a great aunt a couple of times removed, but she was huge in the needlework world at the time. Te Papa, our national museum, has some of her work archived. See this post: https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/5m51/mills-marjory-hinemoa
Next posting date: November 26, 2017
Topic for next time: What finishing style have you never tried but would love to do?
As an additional blogging question this month, I pose to you: Do you have any plans or instructions for your stitching projects and stash for after you’re gone? Not really! I don’t have a local stitchy buddy and none of my children are as focused on stitching as I would like. Hopefully the stash will go to the local rest home & the finished pieces will be kept by the kids in memoriam.
sewscrapmuse 
I like the question about how you started stitching. No one in my family was even remotely craft oriented. I had my first embroidery in grade school and loved it ever since.
I think it’s sad when the older crafts, be they thread or wood or glass or lace, die out. Mase & I were watching a doco on Venice (his latest fad) and the type of lace they make will be gone in 10-15 years.
I am so glad that at least I know how to cook. I guess that ability is disappearing in the U.S. too.
I’m getting the kids to cook various meals. Mase makes decent nacho mince.
Good work. I am teaching my granddaughter.
I’m hoping that they also learn to clean up after… I’m optimistic!!!
We finally own a dishwasher for the first time in my life, so clean up is much easier.
I had to teach one of the buyers assistants that the filter existed & needed to be regularly checked. Oh. My. She’s 20-flaming-6 & oblivious to how to clean.
It took dirty dishes to make me realize there even was a filter!
Lovely job on the stitching 🙂 There seems to have been rather a large jump in the Fairy Idyll piece, wel done!
Well I had a lot of time while MIL was in the hospital!
Love your Fairy Idyll piece. That one is on “to do” list for someday. The colors in it are gorgeous, especially the pinks. I look forward to seeing more of this one. As for the question how did I start stitching? The new girl at work, many years ago, was stitching on a project and I just loved watching her pass the needle up and down in the fabric, creating little colorful X’s that turned into something beautiful. She taught me the basics and I haven’t stopped since. That was 29 years ago! And I love it just as much today as when I first started and can’t imagine my life without stitching.