Jul 30, 2018

Smalls SAL / July WIPocalypse

We got back yesterday from our 5 night camping trip in Ohio. I'm so exhausted. We had a blast. The weather was perfect and we were actually cold at night instead of sweating to death. Anyway I will update more on that later this week. I need to do two SAL updates first.

Smalls SAL -- The goal for this SAL is to finish up a little small each month. I joined a few years ago and have decided to do a year long design that represents each month. This year I'm stitching the Durene Jones Calendar. I actually haven't finished July yet though. My stitching time has been almost gone. I have got a good start on it though and I really hope to have time to stitch tomorrow on it but I have accepted I might not finish it before the month changes. I tried so hard too...
July WIPocalypse will be just as sad I have a feeling. This purpose of this fun SAL is for us to finish all our WIPs before the world end's. Of course with my list I will probably never be finished. I like to use this SAL as an excuse to keep track of what I work on each day during the time span. Let's see what I've been working on since June 25th...

Salt Water Taffy -- 3 Days of Progress. I got this WIP out and let it play for a few days. Here it was before...
Now...
I really hope to get back to this one soon.

Durene Jones Calendar July -- 6 Days of Progress. I really wanted to be able to say start and finish like normal but just not this month. I already showed above where I am on it. Hopefully it will be finished soon.

I've had 26 days where I haven't stitched at all since June 25th. We've been scrambling to finish our cabin and our big camping trip this past week. I swear July was only a day long it felt like. I really hope the rest of the year slows down now. We'll see. Stop over to the WIPocalypse check in to hopefully see others progress better than me.

Okay. Now I'm off to try to relax some more and catch up on blog reading.

9 comments:

Faith... said...

Sometimes summer and stitching just don't mix. You certainly have been busy in other ways though which I am sure is more satisfying at this time!

Glad you had a great time away and even got some cold weather at night.

Rachel said...

26 days without stitching?! I thought you'd been quiet this month. But like Faith says, you've done other things which have taken up so much of your time with just as, if not more, satisfactory results. I hope August brings you a little more stitching time. :)

Mii Stitch said...

You've made progress on your projects, so it's all good!
Glad you had a great time while away.

Justine said...

Holidays are more important than stitching! Perhaps we are keeping the apocalypse at bay by not finishing all our WIPs?!

Mary said...

Summer is always difficult to find stitching time. You made some really great progress on Salt Water Taffy and it is really pretty.

Bethan said...

You've made progress on all your projects, which is great especially as you have been busy. Glad you had a good trip x

Preeti said...

Lovely stitching! Sometimes we have to give priority to priorities in life :D , stitching can wait for a while.

Astrids dragon said...

At least you're getting a stitch or two in here and there... as you go here and there in your busy summer!

Jo who can't think of a clever nickname said...

I agree with Justine, we are holding the end of the world at bay with all our unfinished WIPs!