~~~~~WIPs~~~~~
What I stitched on in October:
1. Fox & Rabbit's Patreon "Temperature Chart" for the year 2023. Stitched on 28 ct. "Star Sapphire" Gobelin (although it looks more pale green than "sapphire" to me) using DMC floss. I'm stitching the day's low on the left side of the hearts and the high on the right side. All temperatures are based on the recorded highs and lows from an online "past weather" temperature chart for near-by Bowling Green, Ohio (we don't have a reliable outdoor temperature thermometer for our home so I'm assuming same ZIP code, similar temperature, although that isn't totally accurate). I am pretty much keeping up with the days, waiting until I have at least five days of temperatures charted to stitch each session. I spend the rest of the time on the border and the hangers. The picture below shows temperatures through October 26, sans hangers for the last few days...
I have started on the borders, parts of which were in the January, February, March, and May pattern releases. Since I have so much of the pattern in hand (through October, with November due this coming week), I am setting the borders on each side and then trying to finish the stitching in the center of the pattern, from left to right, top to bottom. I hope that this approach will result in better progress.
4. Stitchonomy Halloween 2023 SAL. I am a member of the Pattern Club and have received and stitched the patterns for all installments so far but, until participants not in the Pattern Club have received their patterns (one week later), I cannot show my progress of any parts they have yet to receive, and so I am not yet counting this as a completed project. Therefore, all I can reveal is the frame: stitched in DMC 310 (two strands) on the kit 14-ct AIDA (a sort of brownish olive green), and the piece up to and including part 29:
That sums up my October stitchery progress.
For the first time in a LONG time (maybe ever), I have multiple WIPS languishing unfinished: Elizabeth Almond's "Save the Stitches", Glendon Place's "Hope & Strength" which needs beads, Stitchonomy's 2022 "Christmas Banner" which needs beads, and Stitchonomy's "Kingdom's of Life" which needs editing (Fox & Rabbit's "Royal Gardens" and "2023 Temperature" are the only two pieces currently in my rotation.). Adding to this "horror", there are at least two Christmas SALs coming up, one which I have already signed up for and one which is due as soon as the Halloween SAL is completed.