Hello everyone! This is - crazy as it sounds - my 12th year participating in Measi's low key all purpose SAL, they (in)famous WIPocalypse! Where we all stitch like it's the end of the world and have a ton of fun doing so.
Now I am known to love making big plans...not so much known for sticking to them (that would be Jo!). As I just talked about in my recent post on the end of 2024 WIPocalpyse, last year I made a lot of very specific plans, and while I enjoyed just working on those in the beginning, soon enough I became rather frustrated with them. So this year, I am doing things differently to not repeat this mistake (I'll probably do that in 2026, I tend to alternate between years of very heavy and very little planning!).
There will only be one specific goal (getting to that in a moment) and otherwise I aim for a general...giving some love to WIPs, getting a couple finishes, and also starting and finishing some smaller or mid-sized projects. And posting a bit more regular instead of always holding up for that magical point when I have all the things done and dusted to show off!
Now for that one specific goal, some of you might already have guessed, it is, once again, The Loneliness of Autumn! Rachel and I started a SAL on this back in 2020, and both fell a little of the wagon (or we'd have already finished these, I think), but I'm getting close, oh so close! In fact, towards the end of December I picked this one up and thought I could get 'another quick page finish' in before the year was over. Well, about a week and almost two thousand stitches later, I had to admit to myself there wasn't going to be anything quick about this page finish, but after taking a little break, I'll be back for it!
As of today, this is 86.9% finished and needs another ~15k stitches to be done. I absolutely think that is possible to do this year, and I'll try to make it happen! To keep things a little more exciting, I will not be showing full pictures of the design now but only the area I'm working on at any given time. We'll just have to work and wait for that big reveal!
So that's the plan for the year. I'll also link up with Gifted Gorgeousness, Fully Finished Gallery and the Smalls SAL, where appropriate, but I might not have something relevant to show each and every month, and I'll be okay with that. At least I'll try to be!
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