WIPocalypse 2018: It Begins!!

Okay y'all. I've been teasing it for a while and here is the first OFFICIAL post!! It's WIPocalypse and our first post centers around: 

"January 7 – Introduce yourself, your projects, and any goals you have for the year!"

So, here we go....

I'm a mom, a wife, a stitcher, and a hospice nurse. I started making Flosstube videos around May of 2017 and I love it! My family and I moved from Lihue, Kauai, Hawaii to Eugene, Oregon in March of 2016 and I'm still freezing. I'm a total joiner, the FOMO is real with me (right Kerry?), but not much of a completer. And I'm totally cool with that. This is probably why I have 23 WIPs in WIPocalypse.

SEGUE!!

1. Quotes to Live by SAL by Stitchrovia: my goal is to finish this completely: 

2. Whacky Witches in Stitches by Cloudsfactory: this is another one I'd like to completely finish:

3. Travel Through Europe SAL by DMC: going for another total finish here: 

4. Golden Gate Avenue, a Janlynn Kit: again, I'd like to finish this whole thing:

5. Halloween Luck by Glendon Place: this is one of the more attainable total finishes: 

6. Alice Under the Dreaming Tree from HAED: I'd like to totally... just KIDDING! Four pages would make me happy here (I have two already complete): 

7. Toasty TARDIS by Pixel Power: (this chart is no longer available) I can definitely finish this:

8. BeInkSpired by Stitchrovia: this will likely be my first WIPocalypse finish of 2018: 

9. Skeleton Crew by Cricket Collection: I very much doubt I'll finish this one, but it would be great:

10. Plague Doctor by Buzzbee Designs on Etsy: If I can finish the page I'm working currently, I can finish the entire thing:

11. Alice in Wonderland by DoNaStitch: I was going to say 4 pages here as well, but let's just go for a finish!

12. Lady of the Flag by Mirabilia, Sue: I'd like to finish Sue by next February: 

13. Lady of the Flag by Mirabilia, Moe: I'd like to finish Moe by next February too:

14. Halloween Quaker by Lila's Studio: I MUST finish this by Halloween:

15. Class Schedule SAL by Armada Designs: I may or may not kick this one off of my WIPocalypse line up. If I don't, I'm going for a total finish:

16. Skeleton Mosaic by Works by ABC: I love this and I'm finishing it completely:

17. Scary Mouse by Brenda Gervais: this is my smallest WIPocalypse project; I need to finish it:

18. Christmas SAL by TinyModernist: I want this finished and FFO'd in time for Christmas 2018: 

19. Wee Dance by Heart in Hand: oh wait, THIS is my smallest WIPocalypse project!! Total finish:

20. Brocade Boulevard by StoneStreetStitchworks on Etsy: I'd like to (are you sensing a theme here?) completely finish this one:

21. The Phantom Menace by FanGirlStitches on Etsy: This is going to take a deceptively long time to completely finish; ALL the color changes!

22. Bee Study by Kathy Barrick: I have to prioritize this one because I've promised the chart to a friend, and that needs to happen within a year:

23. Bird Study by Kathy Barrick: I've been meaning to start this for at LEAST six months, so I want a total finish this year:

And that's it!! Because that's PLENTY!! I just realized that I need to finish two of these every month!! 0_0 Weeeeelllll..... let's just have fun getting there, right? 

Thanks for scrolling through all of that and for putting up with my formatting challenges! \m/

Happy First Thursday!

Happy New Year y'all!! 2018 is looking chilly but awesome so far this year. No complaints here. Except the Outback Bowl. But University of Michigan (GO BLUE!) is notoriously terrible in bowls... so moving on!

Today was the first Thursday of the month so you (may or may not) know what that means!! Pacific Northwest Stitchers' meetup at Acorn & Threads in Portland! There's a Pacific Northwest Stitchers' Facebook group and every month we get together at our LNS, Acorns & Threads, for some stitching and chatting.

I was extra excited this week because I knew that Jeanine would have the flosses picked out for her conversion of the By the Bay Harbor Haven SAL:

And I was totally going to skip it, because it's HUGE, but then at the December meetup Jeanine showed me the fabric and colors that she wanted to use for the water: 

And, like the responsible stitcher with way too many projects already on the go that I am, I promptly asked her to order it for me! 

Jeanine did her conversion in silks, which were luscious but a tad over my budget. So I converted her silk conversion to fancy floss today and came away with a combination of Threadworx, Classic Colorworks, Gentle Arts, and Weeks Dye Works: 

Plus those Dinky Dyes silks (on the far left) that started it all! The only thing I'm missing is fabric and a color for the flowers on the tree. I may dye my own, as you know I like to do, rather than wait for the WDW Sea Foam. We shall see. 

Last week I took about four projects and worked on something else entirely so this week I just took my Tattoo SAL, BeInkSpired: 

I flippin love it.

Here's a pic of some of the ladies who made it today: 

I think there were nine of us all together! It was a great stitch in. 

And here's a picture of my Gram and I, because it's my blog and I miss her a lot: 

She never was overly impressed with technology..... This is GG (Great Grandma) Rose, the one we named our Rose Puakea after. <3 

See you guys soon!