2026 WIPocalypse Kickoff

Hello everyone - in 2012, we all joked about the end of the world, and now the WIPocalypse SAL is starting its 15th year! For me, it's the 13th year I participate - this SAL just won't die, and aren't we all glad about it. Measi's brainchild is such a nice, low-key way to keep us all engaged and checking in every month, and this year, there are lots of fun events planned revolving around the upcoming Winter Olympics and FIFA Worldcup.

Today is the kickoff for the new year of this SAL (well, it is for me...being late with all the check ins is kind of on par for me, but we don't talk about that). This is the time to make (or reveal) our grand plans for the year, but I have to admit, mine are VERY unspecific at this point.

I am starting this year with 58 WIPs (that is all crafts combined), which is about 10 more than I'd like to have. So my goals are a) reducing my WIP count to get under 50. Of course I got some ideas about which of these I'd like to finish (and others I'd like to make progress on), but we'll see how it goes.

Now b), some of these 58 WIPs haven't seen the light of day in WAY too long. Some of them needs some house keeping (changing disintegrating floss cards, switching from paper patterns to digital, and sometimes, figuring out some things I should have written down YEARS ago, lol), others I haven't worked on so long I don't even know whether I still enjoy them. Either way, I want to work on as many of them as possible this year to get a feeling for what I still got going! To help with this, I put all my WIPs into a random wheel spin app and whenever I don't have anything specific I want to work on, I will spin the wheel and then aim for about 500 stitches (or the equivalent for whatever craft comes up) on the WIP in question.

So far, it's going well and I am already working on the third random pick of the year. You've already seen the first one of them - the diamond painting Towards the Light. It was nice to pick up this WIP (and also another one that I hadn't worked on in a while) and see some real progress. Hopefully, things will continue to be fun and satisfying - and if this doesn't work out, I'll think of something else!

So yeah, this is the plan for the year. I'll check in every month with the current WIP count and possibly an update on what WIPs haven't come up in any other way during the month. We'll figure things out as we go, as usual!