January WIPocalypse & my oldest WIP

January is almost over (when did THAT happen?!), and so far, 2025 has...been a bit of a challenge. My grandma spent a week in the hospital (she's back home and fine, thank heavens), which in turn messed up my work schedule a lot and I'm still catching up on stuff. My husband went to a concert last week and came back with a bit of a respitory bug so now we are just hoping me and grandma won't catch it. Otherwise, things have been great! I got a bit of decent crafting in, had a couple great gaming nights with friends, and got some stuff crossed off my todo list! I've also done a lot better keeping up with my blogging, as I hope you noticed. So, very mixed bag so far, and that is without counting everything else going on in the world!

So, despite my brain telling me the year only just started, it's already time for January WIPocalypse! The question Measi poses this month is Tell us about the oldest WIP you have in your stash. That would be the last of my printed table cloth kits. I don't know if it has an official name, I'm just calling it the Blue Tablecloth. Coincidentally, Measi has also be talking about the One-stitch-a-day challenge that she'll be holding in March, and traditionally I bring out my oldest WIPs for that, so you might see this again very soon!

Now I promised you this would be the place where I talk about The Loneliness of Autumn every month, and the progress I'm making towards a big finish this year! I actually picked it up again in January and added another ~1200 stitches, so we are up to 87.9% now. I even managed to get a page finish - that is page 13, if we're counting!

The next page also still has a lot of work to do, so I'm not sure I'll get it all filled in in February, but it's (almost) the last page that still has this much white space - after this, should be moving a lot quicker! Fingers crossed that's not just the optimism talking.