Goals – Feather Stitching

WIPocalypse 2026 – end of year recap of goals

2 July, 2026 Anne S

Stitcher’s Question: Half-year recap – how are you doing with your goals so far this year?

My goals were relatively simple for 2026. The aim was to finish a couple of projects, but also make ‘some progress’ on other existing WIPs as well. So far there have been no stitching finishes, and only a small amount of progress on a few WIPs (very small in most cases). There have been a few sewing finishes, though, and this is the area where the most of my goals have been met so far.

Sewing finishes:

2026 Craft Goals:

Stitching:

Finish three stitching projects (at least one should be a current WIP)
Finish the stitching of a stitching small (eg needleroll or pincushion etc)
Complete at least 1,000 stitches on Chatelaine’s Egyptian Garden Mandala
Remain eligible to participate in WIP Warriors challenges by earning the necessary participation points each month (private Facebook group) (Jan-Jun goals met)
Participate in WIPGO (at least one hour or one length of thread progress on each project)
*DONE* Make progress on one canvaswork project (WIP or new start) (made progress on Bora Bora)
Finish-finish at least three items in my finishing pile (make into pincushions, ornaments, framing etc)

Crochet:

Make progress on a crochet blanket or shawl
Make progress on at least one project from Crate Crochet or Crochet Society (WIP or new start)

Sewing:

Make a start on the Coral Reef quilt by Tilda
(IN PROGRESS) Make a start on the Sea Swept quilt by Laura Flynn (I washed all the fabrics with Synthrapol and ironed them … not sure I’d class that as a start though, although the foundation papers are all printed ready to go haha)
*DONE* Make progress on at least three class/kit sewing projects (eg Tilda Club, Fee’s SALs, Kitty Rose kits – WIPs or new starts)
– Market Day Bag by Kitty Rose Cottage (finished)
– Tilda Club issue 33 – Stitching Companion by Larisa of Stitching Notes (finished)
– Slumbermouse Pouch by Kitty Rose Cottage (finished)
*DONE* Finish at least one existing sewing WIP – Lavender wardrobe sachet (embroidery finished and sewn together)
*DONE* Complete all 4 of the recommended free ByAnnie Basics patterns
– Petit Four Baskets
– Piecekeeper
– Call Me
– Easy Does It
*DONE* Start a printed ByAnnie pattern item – I started the Carry All Caddy 2.0 as part of a slow-along on Facebook, with just the binding left to be finished
*DONE* Start to make a travel organiser (either ByAnnie, eg A Place for Everything 2.0 or Zip It Up 2.0, or Center Street Quilts, eg Atlas or Nightingale organiser) – Stitching Companion by Stitching Notes (Tilda Club issue 33)
Participate in 52 week sewing challenge with aim for one project per month (12 items out of 52 completed)

Other crafts:

Complete at least one cartonnage project
Make progress on at least one mixed media project
Start a Kit & Clowder colouring class

WIPocalypse, Works in Progress

WIPocalypse 2024 – goals

7 January, 20247 January, 2024 Anne S

It’s been a loooong time since joining in with the WIPocalypse. Hopefully this year sees me back on track again with my stitching and I can finally see a few projects getting some love … and maybe even a finish or two? I’m going to try to keep my goals really minimal this year, though, I’ll be happy just to make any progress on WIPs – but it wouldn’t be a new year without setting at least some goals.

My crafting goals for 2024 are:

Progress on at least 12 WIPs (helped by the WIPGO challenge) – progress can be 1 stitch, 1 strand of thread, 1 day or 1 week, as long as it’s some sort of progress
Sew an item – whether clothing, quilting or finishing
Work on a crochet item WIP
Find a good balance to work on both needecrafts and papercrafts/cardmaking

To kick off the new year, I managed to pick up an old canvaswork WIP, Lahaina Breezes by Laura J Perin. I was supposed to work on my WIPGO projects in cells 9 and 22 but they didn’t call to me – I figured I can just swap my numbers around and work on any two projects each month initially while I’m continuing to get my stitching mojo back again … and Lahaina Breezes felt like it needed some love. Here are the before and after photos after a few days work. My thumb is sore from pulling the needle through the back of the stitches, and I’ve run out of the main thread, so it’s being put aside again for now … but gee I’m happy with the progress on this one!

I’m adding a gallery of all projects sitting on my WIPGO board and how they looked at the start of this year – hopefully 2024 will see them all get a bit of progress and love.

English Garden Sampler by Teresa Wentzler

Goals, WIPocalypse

2022 stitching recap

5 January, 20235 January, 2023 Anne S

My goodness, this is probably the easiest annual review I’ve ever done, as I only worked on two projects!

I started the year in January hopeful that I’d get back into my stitching again, but my mojo was short lived and only lasted a few hours – I did, however, manage to complete all the letters on this canvaswork cushion by The Stitchsmith called Aroha so it wasn’t all bad (even if I only had 1 1/2 letters needing to be stitched).

The next time I did any stitching was late last month in December, where I got a sudden urge to stitch some of the blocks of Banded by Bargello by Kathy Rees. I realised I hadn’t downloaded the final part of the chart before I flew to NZ to care for Mum, and no longer had access to the email address I’d originally used, but Kathy kindly helped me out by sending me the missing parts. I think working on this project has helped me to get my mojo back a bit. It reminded me just how much I love working on canvaswork pieces, especially when the blocks are small and easy to count. This is such a beautiful piece of work, photos will never do it justice, I think. Here’s the before and after. The ‘before’ photo is closer to the colours in real life. It was so nice to put needle through canvas again, especially on a project that was really calling my name loudly.