2019 End Of Year Summary

Hello all!

So, here we are at the end of another year and time again for me to look back on my stitching and FFOing over the last twelve months. No pictures, but you can see all of my finishes and current WIPs on the page tabs at the top if you're interested.

My plans for 2019 involved abandoning all previous WIPs and working on just new starts and, boy, did I have a fun year!

I kept up with stitching the birthstones, monarchs and a Smalls SAL piece each month. although didn't finish my focus piece, Hogwarts, mainly because of the seven summer and six Dark October projects eating into its time. But it doesn't matter; every single project has been fun to work on and I have no regrets about starting any of them.

My overall statistics now appear like this:

Number of WIPs brought forward from 2018 - 12 large, 24 challenge = 36
Plus number of new starts - 2 large, 42 others = 44
Less number of finishes - 0 large, 35 others (plus 1 purge) = 36
Number of WIPs to carry forward into 2020 - 14 large, 24 challenge, 6 others = 44

So I ended the year with 8 mores WIPs than I started with. I'm OK with that; like I said, no regrets.

Now for the lists of those projects in the above stats:

LARGE WIPs (mostly inactive but never say never)
1) Mythical Dragon (True Colors)
2) QS Emerald Dragon (HAED)
3) SK The History Of Chocolate (HAED)
4) QS Come Softly (HAED)
5) Mini Bookworm Fairy (HAED)
6) Mini The Owrd Lord (HAED)

7) Mini One (HAED)

8) Dolphin Ruins (Rabnann - ebay)
9) OMG Tigger Is Out (UnconventionalX - etsy)
10) Dragon Eye (not yet blogged)
11) Magnolia (not yet blogged)
12) Tribal Dragon (Thread Geeks)
13) NEW Hogwarts In A Bottle
14) NEW Kings and Queens

CHALLENGE WIPs FROM JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2015
1) Friends For Life
2) Feline Groovy
3) Loves Me ... Love Me Not
4) Daisy Hugs
5) Book Worm

6) Carefree Summer

7) A Tatty Friend

8) Dandelion Time

9) Flower Power

10) All Aboard The Walnut Shells

11) Christmas Wishes

12) Daisy Umbrella

13) Cuddly Feline Friends

14) Choc-A-Holic

15) I Love Butter

16) Good Morning Nelson

17) Winter Hugs

18) Lickle Snooze

19) A Windy Day
20) Little Green
21) Start Trek TOS
22) Clue
23) Evil Minions
24) Pandas

2019 NEW STARTS (excluding large)
1) January Birthstone - FINISHED
2) A Very Merry Winter - FINISHED
3) Parrot On Parade - FINISHED
4) Green Halloween Banner - FINISHED

5) February Birthstone - FINISHED
6) Green Dragon - FINISHED
7) March Birthstone - FINISHED

8) Purple Dragon - FINISHED
9) April Birthstone - FINISHED

10) A Very Merry Spring - FINISHED
11) May Birthstone - FINISHED
12) Kookaburra - FINISHED
13) June Birthstone - FINISHED
14) Parrot 1 - FINISHED
15) July Birthstone - FINISHED
16) Christmas Cat Yawning - FINISHED
17) Snow Globe Tree
18) Winter Bird - FINISHED
19) August Birthstone - FINISHED
20) Autumn Twirls - FINISHED
21) Autumn Bird - FINISHED
22) Scaredy Cats - FINISHED
23) A Little Witch Of The Night
24) A Little Wizard Of The Night
25) Christmas Cat With Present
26) September Birthstone - FINISHED
27) Blue Patchwork Hootie - FINISHED
28) Chandelier - FINISHED
29) October Birthstone - FINISHED
30) RIP Halloween Hootie - FINISHED
31) Trick Or Treat - FINISHED
32) Bird Candelabra - FINISHED
33) Boo! - FINISHED
34) Candelabra - FINISHED
35) Hocus Pocus - FINISHED
36) Haunted Library (on perforated paper) - PURGED
37) Haunted Library (on aida)
38) November Birthstone - FINISHED
39) Happy Christmas - FINISHED
40) December Birthstone - FINISHED
41) Ho ho ho - FINISHED
42) Grow Your Own


As for my Box of Shame, I started the year with 18 pieces, added 35 more, fully finished off 28, so have ended the year with 25 pieces; lots of projects for FFOing in 2020 then!

So, here's what was and/or still is in my Box Of Shame:

BOX OF SHAME PIECES
1) Cookie and Cream - FINISHED
2) French Country Witch - FINISHED
3) Humerous Alphabet - FINISHED
4) Snowman - FINISHED
5) January Calendar
6) February Calendar
7) March Calendar
8) April Calendar
9) May Calendar
10) June Calendar
11) July Calendar
12) August Calendar
13) September Calendar
14) October Calendar
15) November Calendar
16) December Calendar

17) Spotted Owls
18) Midnight Manor
19) NEW January Birthstone - FINISHED

20) NEW A Very Merry Winter - FINISHED

21) NEW February Birthstone - FINISHED

22) NEW Purple Dragon - FINISHED
23) NEW March Birthstone - FINISHED
24) NEW Green Dragon - FINISHED
25) NEW April Birthstone - FINISHED
26) NEW A Very Merry Spring - FINISHED
27) NEW Parrot On Parade
28) NEW May Birthstone - FINISHED
29) NEW Kookaburra - FINISHED
30) NEW June Birthstone - FINISHED
31) NEW Eastern Rosella - FINISHED
32) NEW July Birthstone - FINISHED

33) NEW Christmas Cat Yawning

34) NEW August Birthstone - FINISHED
35) NEW Autumn Twirls - FINISHED
36) NEW Green Halloween Banner
37) NEW Autumn Bird - FINISHED
38) NEW Scaredy Cats - FINISHED
39) NEW September Birthstone - FINISHED
40) NEW Blue Patchwork Hootie - FINISHED
41) NEW Winter Bird - FINISHED
42) NEW October Birthstone - FINISHED
43) NEW RIP Halloween Hootie - FINISHED
44) NEW Chandelier
45) NEW Trick Or Treat
46) NEW November Birthstone - FINISHED
47) NEW Bird Candelabra

48) NEW Happy Christmas
49) NEW Boo!

50) NEW Candelabra
51) NEW December Birthstone - FINISHED
52) NEW Ho Ho Ho
53) NEW Hocus Pocus


Finally, I stitched for a total of 608 hours during the year (which is at least 125 hours more than in both 2017 and 2018) averaging out at 1h 40m per day. I count myself very lucky indeed.

Tomorrow I'll reveal my 2020 plans... and they're BIG!

All the best and

Happy stitching :)

Rachel x