May WIPocalypse

 Another month gone by, and I'm still stitching like it's the end of the world! Or just like I'm having a ton of fun doing it. Your choice ;) 

This month's question is, I believe, a repeat, and sadly, my answer hasn't changed since the last time it came up - Retreats and seminars – have you ever been to any stitching events? If so, tell us about them! I still haven't had an opportunity to take part in any retreats. I've read about a couple, mostly knitting ones, in Germany, but they are usually way up in the North, and I didn't really want to travel that far in the last years!

Now for my stitching progress, this is the spot where I share my updates on The Loneliness of Autumn (as charted by Love Thy Thread), my long-term SAL with Rachel. In May, I went back to my usual method of not stitching this every day, but rather stitching 3-4 days worth every 3-4 days. So I did all my stitching for the month, and even caught up a little on what I missed in January and February (I'm still behind quite a bit, though). In total, I added 2019 stitches in May, finishing the 3826 and making a start on the next colour, which is 221 - a very reddish dark brown, which is kind of nice to stitch! In fact, I already finished most of it, just 730 stitches to go, which pretty much guarantees that we will see another new colour during June.

My new total is 61,853/118800 stitches done, or 52.06%. There's still so much negative space left to fill, though...

In other news, June and July mark the next focus challenge of WIPocalypse. The goal is to pick a project that you stitch on every day. As usual, I might not make it every day on the day, but I am planning to stitch the equivalent of one length of thread a day on The Puppeteer. After the last focus challenge, he looked like this:

 

... and  I haven't touched him since! I'm still trying to finish all the black, which will hopefully happen sometime in July. 3429 stitches left to go!