Hello, my lovelies! I am still busy catching up on blog reading and blogging, but meanwhile, have had a good start into the new year. I do still owe you some updates on what I was up to, and this is an important one!
So for December 2025, the question of the month for WIPocalypse was Recap your accomplishments for the year! (Your finishes, your final before/after photos, etc). For 2025, I only had one big goal for WIPocalypse, and that was to finish The Loneliness of Autumn by Leonid Afremov, as charted by Love Thy Thread.
I had started this project on January 1st 2020 as a SAL with Rachel the Ten Hour Stitcher, and the plan was to do one length of thread a day. I kept up with that for a couple of years, until I fell off the waggon a bit, but always kept working on it, even if at a slower pace. When I started, I did extreme cross country - finishing one colour over the whole design before picking the next one - but somewhere around the middle I switched over to filling in the missing colours in each page, so it was easier to see progress.
The total stitch count of this project is 118800 stitches, and it took me a total of 770 hours and 59 minutes to complete it - 144 hours and 37 minutes in 2025 alone. And as you can probably guess from these statistics - yes, I finished late on December 14th!
I have yet to pick out a frame for this, but am very happy to have it done and think it was worth the work. Chances are I will not be pickung up an other Afremov anytime soon, but it was a fun journey over all and will find a place of pride on my wall!
I hope to soon get the January kick-off post up, but as a little spoiler - no big goals this year, just progress and fun! Until I get another bee up my bonnet, that is...
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