February WIPocalypse

 It's not often that I'm on time posting for this SAL, but since the last Sunday is actually the last day of the month this year, I got a chance! The question this month is What stitch-a-longs (SALs) are you participating in this year? This year, I limited myself to just two 'actual' year long stitch alongs (so, monthly or weekly parts to stitch), and I introduced them a couple of weeks ago here. I might also participate in some shorter SAL (like Magical525's seasonal Mystery SALs, although I'm trying to be good and finish the two I have started first!). For the monthly blogging 'SALs', there is WIPocalypse, of course, Gifted Gorgeousness, Jo's Monthly Themed SAL, Fully Finished Gallery and a couple of the fun monthly starting challenges Rachel has cooked up! There is also Carla's and mine Halloween SAL, starting in August - this year, we'll be starting Bellatrix by Bella Philipina in different colour ways with a couple of our girl friends. So I actually have a pretty busy stitching/blogging life, which is good as it always gives me something to do and keeps me on track. 

Of course, there is one more SAL I haven't mentioned yet - The Loneliness of Autumn, which Rachel and I are SALing on at the pace of ten hours a month (her)/one length a day (me) (but it comes out pretty close at the end of the month). Last month I was here - at 26.7% and 31.724 stitches, almost done with my third colour.

A week later, I finished the 3852:

Now the next colour is a little more boring again - another brown, 898. It's also super spread out, so while I completed all of it on the first two and a half rows of the picture, so of the 3752 stitches it started out with, I still need to do 2456. The difference is really had to see, but it's there!

So my new total is 28.24% done at 33,547 stitches. As the 898 is so spread out, it's going more slowly, but I hope to get this colour really close to finished over the course of March! After this, it's a nice dark read, so much more exciting again.

March is also the first one-a-day challenge of WIPocalypse itself, and I have decided to pull out The Puppeteer for that. I have over 50k stitches of black done on this and still 11k left to do, and I'd really like to make a dent in that this year (I kind of want to get it done, but think that would eat too much of my other stitching time). 

I just finished putting my current progress into PK - this is 50,773 stitches or 45.33% done. 11,178 stitches of black left to go on the bottom row-and-a-half of pages!