Well we made it a week into the new year! I hope everyone is enjoying 2024 so far; I know I am. Well all except for this cold weather we are having. I don't enjoy that at all and I am patiently waiting for summer to come back! LOL
For my stitching plans for 2024, as I stated before; I decided to join my friend Katie in a couple of stitching challenges.
The first challenge is in a facebook group called Magazine Monthly Cross Stitch Challenge though I don't see anyone working on projects from magazines. Every month there is a Theme and and Acrostic that we have to work with. We have to fit our stitching pieces in with these in any way we can! That was the first fun part! LOL This also means that my set of projects will change monthly and what I am stitching will most likely change every few days! For January (see below) there is the theme and six different letters in the Acrostic so that means seven projects for January. We can set our own goals and then divided them however we want. Since for the second challenge I need 2,400 stitches per month I will divvy that total between the projects I have for the month in the way I think is best for me.
So these are my January goals:
I think it looks pretty reasonable so I should have no problem with this.
84 Stitches
I hope you enjoyed seeing my flowers from long ago! I think I have a few more oldies in the WIP Box that I need to work on as well.
I also started a new piece. It is a small one with a Dog and a cute saying which is perfect for our house since we have five of them.
Progress 01/02/24
94 Stitches
8 comments:
These flowers from EMS are really great, I saved them too, but haven't stitched any yet. So I look forward to your progress.
An interesting challenge, I've never counted the stitch crosses before, so I have no idea how many I stitch a day or a week.
Have a nice week, Martina
You are a little busy bee , love the flowers .
I need to pop my hand into my Wip box to , I just hope I can get it back out again ha it's so deep.
Have a fun year , hugs June.
There are so many groups and SALs, isn't it great how sharing and inclusive stitching is. You've made a great start to 2024
Your flower piece is looking good as is the dog piece, Faith. I look forward to seeing your progress on your January plans.
That's one thing I really love about these challenges. A push to work on everything in the WIP process. I just love the progress on both. The dog piece is perfect of course. Spike says so haha. Have a fantastic week ahead.
It sounds like you're really excited about these two challenges! How different it will be seeing you regularly swap projects rather than focusing on just one for a week or month.
I remember when I did #24 how much I enjoyed slotting WIPs into acrostics, and hope you enjoy that bit too, especially when you have to shoe-horn!
The flowers from EMS Design are wonderful. I'm looking forward to the next flower.
Have fun with your Challenges.
Manuela
Both challenges look fun and doable, Faith. I'm curious as to how you keep track of the number of stitches you do each month? Love your old flower piece--I remember those! Hope you keep on working on it this year. Your dog piece is perfect for all the dog lovers out there. I'm more of a cat person--ha ha :)
Glad your new year is off to a wonderful start--hope it warms up for you! We had snow this past weekend--loved seeing it as we've had so little this year! ♥
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