Stitch from Stash 2014-March

3 months in and I haven't cracked yet!

Yes it's March and I still haven't added to my stash, I've also not started anything new apart from a Valentine's gift but I am making progress on some WIP's so that's something.

I won't show pics of Super Mario through the ages as I showed it in my last post but
I have also been working on my 'Rainbow Road' granny stripe blanket (yarn stash is still huge though!)

So that's it for my SFS2014 March report, no new starts or finishes but some progress made and most importantly, NO SPENDING :)

xX Fiona Xx

Theme-a-licious March Madness, TUSAL & WIPocalypse posts coming soon!

IHSW March 2014

So this weekend just gone was International Hermit & Stitch Weekend. I didn't sign up for it this month as my grandparents were coming down I didn't think I'd get anytime to stitch before going back to work on Sunday.

However Sunday evening I had no plans as I sat down and stitched and stitched and stitched!

This was my progress before I started (excuse the chocs and DS, I sent this pic to Lee to show him what my plans were for the evening)

 And this was the progress I'd made when I stopped! I've finished a page and started a new one, the this blue line you can see at the bottom is the bottom of the design! The end is in sight!

So that's it for my IHSW report, stay tuned for Themealicious March Madness & Stitch From Stitch March posts coming soon!

xX Fiona Xx

Stitch from Stash2014- Splurge weekend report

So this weekend gone was Nashville Market in the States and as a birthday treat Mel at Epic Stitching said we could have a splurge spending weekend with a $100 limit (anything over would be counted as stash spending for the month)

I am happy to report that as I had absolutely no money to splurge I spent £0 - that's right nada, zip, zilch. 

To be honest although I have charts in my wishlist from 123stitch that I would LOVE to own right now I simply don't have the funds to buy them so I'm actually finding it pretty easy to not spend on stash. Once payday rolls round it may be another matter though!

xX Fiona Xx

Where the hell did the month go?

seriously!! It's been almost a month since my last post and that means that I've missed a couple of posting dates for groups! So this will be a catch-up post of sorts

TUSAL was January 30th-thankfully I've not stitched much since then seeing as I finished Lee's Valentine's project before the posting date so here is what my jar looks like-threads from 'secret valentines project' & super mario thru the ages.

Theme-a-licious January came to an end and I didn't work on a single Garden themed piece. Feb's theme is 'Fantasy February' again I have nothing in my WIP/UFO pile that fits the theme and I want to finish Super Mario so I'll be working on that.

WIPocalypse post was Feb 14th (I was in Haslemere with Lee celebrating Valentine's Day but I'll post more about that another time) and the topic of discussion was on 'Stitching habits-rotation or one at a time?'

This is a harder topic for me to pin down as I have tried it both ways. I've tried rotational stitching, dedicating days to certain projects or setting goal based deadlines (super mario in the run up to new year) and for me it just doesn't work, I've tried one at a time as well but I find that I get bored and get the itch to start something new.

I did the Crazy January Challenge a few years ago hoping that the flurry of starts at the beginning of the year would encourage me to finish them all by the year end but all that happened was that I lost interest in the larger projects opting for newer smaller starts.

So I guess I am an anything goes stitcher, it really does depend on my mood, yes I'll dedicate time to one project but if it starts to bore me I will start something new, they all get finished in the end and as long as they aren't for anybody else I guess all that matters is that I'm enjoying the time I spend working on it.

In terms of projects worked on this month, I worked on Super Mario & I finished Lee's Valentine project. Thankfully he loved it :)

Secret Project.....

Can you keep a secret??

I'm working on something special this weekend for the boyfriend for Valentine's Day :) I'm hoping he's going to love it because not only will it be our first Valentine's Day together (of many I hope!) but this will be the first time I have ever stitched him something & I've made the pattern from scratch!

I won't post anything else on here about it just yet, just in case he goes snooping online ;) but I'll be sure to post pictures & the pattern up after Valentine's Day.

xX Fiona Xx

Stitch from Stash 2014 January Check-in

It's almost the end of the month so it's time to check in with Stitch from Stash 2014.

The aim of this SAL is to curb the unnecessary spending and start working through 'stash mountain'. I have a tendency to buy a huge amount of stash in one go but I rarely get round to actually stitching any of it so here's hoping this SAL will change all that.

Off to a good start this month; As I have been broke since payday I haven't really felt the urge to buy anything stash wise. However Lizzie Kate have announced several new charts this month and I'm a sucker for Lizzie Kate designs so I'm hoping I'll be able to resist the temptation to buy them for a little while longer!!

So without further ado here is the break down of my SFS January:

Amount spent: £0
Stash Starts: None
Projects Worked on: Super Mario Thru The Ages

Speaking of which, here's a progress shot!

Sorry it's so small, I downloaded it from my phone so it's a bit of a rubbish shot, hoping to get more of this worked up this week. 

xX Fiona Xx

IHSW January 2014

This weekend was the first International Hermit & Stitch weekend of 2014. Originally I had planned to get some serious work done on Super Mario, maybe finish a section/page & move onto the next bit....

These plans soon went out of the proverbial window because I spent the weekend with my boyfriend instead, he's a gamer too though so he's pretty excited to see this project finished. Despite a lack of stitching for the majority of the weekend, I managed to put some stitches in on Sunday night and this is where I am up to now :)

hope your weekends were a little more successful than mine :)

Happy Stitching!!

xX Fiona Xx