WIPocalypse 2024 Check-In - June 30, 2024

Today's discussion topic is:

"Half-year recap:  How are you doing with your goals so far this year?"

Here are my 2024 goals, as stated in January 2024:

Goals for 2024 (in addition to finishing two Fox & Rabbit SALs):

• beading the "Christmas Banner 2023" by Stitchonomy and "Hope & Strength" by Glendale Place
• putting at least a few stitches in Elizabeth Almond's "Save the Stitches"
• finishing "Kingdoms of Life" by Stitchonomy

1. Fox & Rabbit SAL 2023 - making progress despite finding a potential nasty error in the bottom left corner of the border.
2. Fox & Rabbit SAL 2024 - Up to date through installment 6.
3. Beaded the 2023 "Christmas Banner"
4. Haven't touched the beading on "Hope & Strength"
5. Have stitched blocks 78 - 107 of Elizabeth Almond (24 blocks to go to have a finish!)
6. Finished "Protista, Archaea and Fungi wedges and am approximately 50% finished on Animalia wedge for "Kingdoms of Life" SAL.
7. No progress on my traveling needlepoint... I need to sort threads before our July road trip...

So, over all, I'd say I'm on scheduled to have a near-zero WIP stash by the end of 2024. 

~~~~~WIPS~~~~~
1. Elizabeth Almond's "Save the Stitches", begun in 2014. I worked on blocks 101-107 (out of 131) this month. 

2. "Kingdoms of Life" by Stitchonomy, begun in 2023. Using the kit provided (an oatmeal Aida and DMC colors) plus a select few skeins of grey and greens for the changes to make my biology major mind happy with how the individual organisms look in real life. I made progress on the animal kingdom this month...

3. "Royal Gardens", a mystery SAL by Fox & Rabbit, begun in 2023. On a pale green 32ct Lugana (it said "sapphire" but it doesn't look blue to me) and Threadworx variegated thread (1048 "Woodland Green"). I continued to work on the left border this month. (It as ONE stitch off so I need to figure out how to fudge the design between the borders at the bottom left to meet up properly. AARGH!).

4. "Faith, Hope, Love", a mystery SAL for 2024 by Fox & Rabbit. On antique white 28 ct Lugana using a Threadworx variegated (Autumn Leaves 1039) and three DMC colors (436, 975, and 310) that closely match some colors on that Threadworx floss... I'm on schedule here - July's installment is due out on momentarily...

~~~~~ A FINISH!~~~~~
Stitchoomy Summer Banner 2024 SAL. This SAL began for club subscribers on May 14... I am stitching on the Midas Gold AIDA and the DMC threads in the kit. I have stitched all bands called for, with the exception of two, where I chose the alternate provided. I purposely omitted the 16th "installment" of "white sparklers" so that this version of the banner would not be an exact copy of the 2022 version (210920746822434353.weebly.com/my-stitchery-journal/archives/07-2022).

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On the non-SAL (and inactive SAL) front:

• The Glendon Place "Hope & Strength" piece still requires extensive beading.
• The Lakeside SAL "Login" still languishes untouched.
• My traveling needlepoint was taken out in March and put right back in the project bag. I still need to sit down with the chart and sort and label large hanks of numbered threads by color so I can actually stitch!  I haven't gotten around to it yet... AAARGH!.

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And that is my June report...