Link-up For Fully-Finished Gallery - March 2020

Hello all!

It's the 10th of the month so time for another Fully Finished Gallery SAL, the place to show your FFOing achievements since your last link-up.

The link-up for this SAL opens on the 10th of each month and stays open for 10 days, so you have plenty of time to turn those UFOs into FFOs and join in.

I achieved six FFOs over the last month, although it's not as impressive as it sounds as five took less than one hour in total. Nevertheless, six is six!

Chirpy Bird was February's Small SAL piece and FFOd in less than 5 minutes by cutting the fabric and inserting it into a small Framecraft frame:

Yawning Christmas Cat was my July 2019 Smalls SAL piece and finished as another ornie to match the other two in this series. If you remember, I couldn't find the barley twist cord; I had all the other colours but the grey one I needed was nowhere to be found, of course! Well, I ordered some more but didn't use it as it was thinner. Then, a couple of weeks ago, when I was going through a box of  'to sort out later' stuff I found it, along with a couple of other things I was missing. So I immediately got to work and FFOd this little cutie:

Here are the three Christmas Cats together with their cute little Santa pom-pom hats:

Then there were Advent Calendar Days 4, 5 and 11, simply finished off with felt to match those FFOd previously:

I also FFOd one of the six Dark Shadows pieces, Hocus Pocus, stitched towards the end of last year. For this, the design was padded and attached to some card, laid on top of some black felt-covered card and then framed with black tinsel wool. The black-on-black tinsel wool doesn't show up very well in the photo but the finished piece is exactly how I hoped it would turn out. No hanging loop though, just a piece to prop up somewhere, or insert in a glassless frame:

And that's it for me this month. Now it's over to you to show what you have finished.

Please link-up using the URL of your FFG SAL post and not the home page of your blog, adding a thumbnail of a finish and either your name or your blog name as the caption. The link-up will remain open for 10 days, closing at 6am UK time on 20th March.

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And please don't forget to follow other links and see what fellow fully-finishers have been up to; you never know, other projects may give you an idea for your next finish!

Once the link-up has closed I shall update the FFG SAL page with the number of entrants and entries. Last month there were 13 participants with another 51 FFOs, making 90 FFOs so far in 2020. WOW! Well done and thank you!

Next month's post will go live on 10th April at 6am UK time. Hope to see you there!

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And finally.... the winner of my Blogoversary giveaway. Remember, you had to guess how many projects I've started in my lifetime. The winner would be the person(s) who guessed the closest.

I gave you a hint that it was somewhere between 250 and 500 and enjoyed watching the answers come in. Guesses ranged from 366 to 452 with all but two being in the 400s. Interestingly, all were w-a-y above the answer.

The actual answer is cunningly available on my blog, although you would have had to go rummaging for it! 

1994-2013 finishes = 57
2014 finishes = 8
2015 finishes = 35
2016 finishes = 54
2017 finishes = 26
2018 finishes = 29
2019 finishes = 35
2020 finishes = 9
Current WIPs = 47
And the abandoned/purged/restarted projects I mentioned = 10

Add them all together and you get a total of 'only' 310, much lower than all of you thought.

[For The People's Choice SAL back in January 2019 when the category was New Starts, I also showed a graph of how many projects I'd started each year up the end of 2018, so that would have been another clue. But I genuinely wasn't expecting anyone to remember that!]

So the winner, guessing the closest at 366 (and who was actually the first person to comment) is..... Rhona. Congratulations Rhona!

If you leave a comment or email me directly at tenhourstitcher@gmail.com I'll arrange some sort of voucher for you.

Sorry if you didn't win; better luck for next year's blogoversary giveaway (I already have the question safely stored away!)

Take care,

Rachel x