Sewing – Page 3 – Feather Stitching

I joined an exchange for the first time – I hadn’t touched my sewing machine in almost 4 years, and I found it a struggle I’ll be honest. Then when I was made redundant in the last month of prepping for the exchange I just didn’t have the headspace available to finish the last couple of homemade gifts that I wanted to include. I’m still proud of what I managed to achieve, but it wasn’t the exchange gift I wanted to send. I may still complete the remaining two items in the new year and send on to my recipient, though.

These are photos of what I sent to my exchange partner – the criteria was to send something in each of the following 5 categories/themes:

Something special for the recipient
A small doily or table runner
Something for the sewing room
A Christmas ornament
Something to eat

Something special

A small doily or table runner

Something for the sewing room

A Christmas ornament

Something to eat

I can’t believe it, I have another stitching update – maybe the mojo really IS back again?! I joined a new-to-me Facebook group called WIP Warriors and I’ve joined in with one of the challenges, and that’s really helped me get back my love of stitching. Still working on getting a comfy stitching spot worked out in the lounge, but very day is one step closer to getting settled …

This week I’ve managed progress on two of my WIPs – I managed just over 200 stitches on Quaker Christmas II by ByGone Stitches, and 300 stitches on HAED’s Mini Sunflowers.

Here are photos of most of my WIPs/UFOs as they stand now, just to keep track of any future progress I make.

I have to say it feels really good to have a needle between my fingers once again – hopefully this is the start of continued progress. I’m especially loving working on the Mini Sunflowers, and that will remain one of my three focus pieces for next year.

Question of the Month: How do you begin planning for the next year with your stitching? Tell us your process.

I have to admit while my mojo has been absent each year I’ve planned and failed, and so each following year I whittle down my goals to what may be more achievable. This year is no different, so I had a closer look at my WIPs list and realised a lot of them don’t give me a lot of joy – because of that I decided it was time to freshen up my WIP list with some new starts, hoping that would help give me momentum to continue stitching regularly instead of being such a chore. I’ve decided to still have my WIPGO board, which will help me do a small amount of stitching on my oldest, and less loved, WIPs – but instead of lofty goals I’ve decided to just focus primarily on 3-4 projects to get them closer to a finish, and just chip away slowly at the remaining ones. Maybe next year will be the year I finally have something to show for all my planning … although I love the planning stage, even if I rarely tick of achievements – it’s fun to do all on its own.