January WIPocalypse

 Can you believe the first month of the year is already over? And quite a month is has been! However, I am quite happy with my personal achievements this month. I got caught up on blog-writing, almost caught up on blog-reading, and got a lot of crafting done!

Before we get into my progress for the month, the Question of the Month for January. Tell us about the oldest WIP you have in your stash. In fact, this is one you've seen a couple times last year, and WILL see a couple of times this year! This is a stamped table cloth kit I started well over 20 years ago, and have been bringing out whenever we got a "One stitch a Day" challenge going on. What you see here is the third of four sides, so I'm actually over halfway done now and hope to finish is this sometime later this year!

Now for my progress this month. You've seen most of what I've been up to. I had one finish - the One Love KAL shawl - and no new starts, or rather, only one new start that I finished pretty much straight away (you haven't seen that one year, but it's my Valentine's gift for Felix for the year, so I will be posting it closer to the date). So that brings my WIP count down by one to 57. Not a bad start for the year, considering I've mostly been chipping away on some bigger WIPs!

Apart from the gift, there are two more projects I've worked on that haven't come up on the blog so far. Both were picks of my RNG wheel and thus part of my goal to work on as many of my WIPs as possible this year. First, there was Lady and the Tramp - long time readers might remember this kit from the Thomas Kinkade Disney Dreams collection from my early blogging days, but I haven't worked on it in quite a while. I added a little over 500 stitches but also did some house keeping, like replacing disintegrating floss cards.

The other was a crochet project that I've not shown here before. I have since reached my original goal on it, but decided to keep going until I finish. So I'm sure it'll come up again here on the blog quite soon!

February has the Olympic stitching challenge from the 6th to the 22nd of the month. There are different challenges to choose - we can either focus on something representative of our nation or in colours of the olympic rings, rotate through a lot of WIPs, or focus on one WIP alone. I have several ideas of what I want to do, but have not yet decided. I still got a couple of days to think it over, and you know I'm not a big planner!