2024 End Of Year Summary

Morning all!

Although I've hardly been around during 2024 I'd like to continue my usual year-end round up and look back at my WIPs, new starts and FFOs for the year.

My plans for 2024 were laughably ambitious and I knew I wouldn't achieve them all, but I didn't anticipate failing by such a large margin!

As usual, all of the following waffle and lists are just for my benefit so ignore as you wish!

Total stitching time was 148 hours 15 minutes, which doesn't sound too bad until I disclose that January, February and March accounted for 130 hours of that, and that I had *gasp*156 days (including three full months) with no stitching at all. I didn't see that coming!

Here are my successes and failures:

SALs - each month join in with:

FFG SAL - ✅ my only real success! I actually managed to FFO something each month!

Smalls SAL - ✅ and ❌ - I only had a Small for 6/12 months and was late posting 3 times. My bad. VERY bad.

Potential stitching included:

A Monarch A Month - stitch the remaining 8 monarchs and potentially finish - ❌ stitched two

The Loneliness Of Autumn - continue and catch-up - ❌ only added 22 hours

A-Z of WIPs - work though an alphabet of WIPs - ✅ ❌ I only managed A-F

Mischievous March - start four projects and finish the four projects - ✅ ❌ started four, finished two

Summer Olympics and Paralympics - Harry Potter advent calendar - ❌ nothing

Christmas In July - continue Merry Christmas By The Letter - ❌ nothing

Dark October - continue (finish?) Haunted Library - ❌ nothing

Naughty November - start four projects and finish the four projects - ❌ nothing

Christmas Day onwards - continue (finish?) Merry Christmas By The Letter - ❌ nothing

Potentially start and work on:

Female Rainbow Dragon - ✅ and ❌ put in 20 hours of stitching (only posted the first 10)

Monochromatic Library - ❌ nothing

Scarlet Macaw Preening - ❌ nothing

So lots of red there - good job red is one of my favourite colours!

My overall statistics look like this:

Number of WIPs brought forward from 2023 = 60
Plus number of new starts = 10
Less number of finishes = 7

Number of WIPs to carry forward into 2025 = 63

Here are the lists of projects which make up those statistics. Those in red have been finished, those in black will be carried forward to 2025.

LARGE WIPs BROUGHT FORWARD
1) SK The History Of Chocolate (HAED)
2) Mini Bookworm Fairy (HAED)
3) OMG Tigger Is Out (UnconventionalX - etsy)
4) Kings and Queens

5) The Loneliness Of Autumn
'NORMAL' WIPs BROUGHT FORWARD
6) Mythical Dragon (True Colors)

7) Ballerina

8) Giraffe

9) Greedy Robin

10) Friends For Life
11) Feline Groovy
12) Loves Me ... Love Me Not
13) Book Worm

14) Carefree Summer

15) Dandelion Time

16) Flower Power

17) All Aboard The Walnut Shells

18) Christmas Wishes

19) Cuddly Feline Friends

20) Choc-A-Holic

21) I Love Butter

22) Good Morning Nelson

23) Winter Hugs

24) Lickle Snooze

25) A Windy Day
26) Little Green
27) Start Trek TOS
28) Clue
29) Evil Minions
30) Dragon Eye (not yet blogged)

31) Magnolia (not yet blogged)

32) Haunted Library
33) Pretty Little Toronto

34) Basket Case - progress

35) Mouse Reading Book
36) Wonderful Fright

37) Happiness Delivery Couple - progress
38) Mouse With Books
39) Gatekeepers

40) Let's Bloom

41) Let's Have Fun In The Sun
42) Let's Breeze Into Autumn - progress

43) Burrow Snow Globe

44) Dragon Shelf - progress

45) Godric's Hollow Snow Globe

46) Mexico

47) Korea

48) Netherlands

49) France - progress

50) Privet Drive Snow Globe

51) Rome

52) Russia

53) Shell Cottage Snow Globe

54) United Kingdom

55) USA

56) Witch's Hat Shelf

57) Elixir Of Luck - progress

58) Spring Keyhole Stamp

59) Night Lantern Stamp

60) He's A Fun-Gi

NEW STARTS IN 2024

1) Nordic Christmas Sampler 16 - Snowflake

2) Santa Ornie (for Clare's Christmas Tree)

3) Nordic Christmas Sampler 1 - Star

4) February Biscornu

5) Female Rainbow Dragon

6) Nordic Christmas Sampler 15 - Love

7) Japan (Mount Fuji) Bauble

8) Halloween Pumpkin

9) March Biscornu

10) April Biscornu

An increase was not exactly what I had planned, but it's OK as it's not by much.

As for my Box of Shame:

Brought forward from 2023 = 60
Added = 6

Finished = 12
Carried forward into 2025 = 54

Here's another list of the the projects which were in and have been added to my Box Of Shame. As above, those in red have now been FFOd, those in black will be carried forward.

BOX OF SHAME PIECES BROUGHT FORWARD

1) Piglet's Snowflake (gone AWOL!)

2) Green Halloween Banner

3) A Little Witch Of The Night

4) Let's Play

5) Chick Berry

6) Humming Along

7) Lady In Red

8) Going For Walkies

9) Simply Wren

10) Winnie the Pooh 1

11) Winnie the Pooh 2

12) In The Dog House

13) In The Bath

14) Resting My Eyes

15) Noel

16) Moonrise - Gravestone

17) Moonrise - Fence

18) Moonrise - Mansion

19) Season's Greetings

20) Moonrise - Memorial

21) Let's Be Frozen

22) Dragon 9

23) Dragon 2

24) Dragon 11

25) Dragon 5

26) Dragon 4

27) Dragon 10

28) Dragon 12

29) Dragon 1

30) Dragon 6

31) Dragon 3

32) Grow Your Own

33) Elixir Of Life

34) Gift (not been shown on blog)

35) Gift (not been shown on blog)

36) A Tatty Friend

37) Mouse Reading Scroll

38) Winnie The Pooh 4

39) Winnie The Pooh 3

40) Golden Snitch In A Bottle

41) Pandas

42) Winnie The Pooh 5

43) Autumnal Baby Dragon

44) Grand Teton National Park

45) Grand Canyon National Park

46) Rocky Mountain National Park

47) Hot Springs National Park

48) Snuffles In Lime

49) Moonset - Gate

50) Moonset - Cenotaph

51) Moonset - Cross

52) Moonset - Lamppost

53) Best Wishes For The New Year QR Code

54) Front-Facing Dolphin (right)

55) Dolphin Swimming (right)

56) Jumping Dolphin (left)

57) Merry Christmas By The Letter

58) Preening Scarlet Macaw (left)

59) Front-Facing Scarlet Macaw (left)

60) Flying Scarlet Macaw (left)

NEW BOX OF SHAME PIECES IN 2024

1) Nordic Christmas Sampler 16 - snowflake

2) Nordic Christmas Sampler 1 - star

3) February Biscornu

4) Nordic Christmas Sampler 15 - love

5) March Biscornu

6) April Biscornu

EXCLUDED FROM BOX OF SHAME

1) Santa Ornie for Clare's Christmas Tree

That's a tad better but it still leaves me with loads of FFOing to do in 2025!

And that's it.

As for my stitching 'plans' for 2025... all will be revealed tomorrow!

All the best and

Happy stitching :)

Rachel x