#24HOCS February Challenges Recap

#24HoursOfCrossStitch has been the source of my major motivation. Jen puts out monthly challenges and for whatever reason I just fell in love with them. I love setting up monthly goals and doing my best to stick to them. If I don't I don't feel stressed I just enjoy the progress I have made. Love it! The group is welcoming and very kind. Again no stress. Just motivation and lots and lots of it.

I just posted the photos for my WIPocalypse update so this post will mostly be a lot of information if you are interested. Let's see how my February challenges went.

1st Challenge is to stitch a total of 24 hours throughout the month. I thought I was lazy in January when I got a total of 90 hours and 13 minutes. I beat that this month with 92 hours and 13 minutes. Funny how I stuck with the 13 minutes. I did miss one day in January so maybe that was the extra 2 hours worth of stitching I missed haha. I stitched EVERY day in February!

2nd Challenge is my favorite challenge the acrostic. February's acrostic was LEAPYEAR20.

✅ L - Feb Fairy
Connection: Lili of the Valley
Goal: Finish
Goal Met: Finished

 ✅ E - Heart Freebie
Connection: Each Day
Goal: Finished?

Goal Met: Finished the last day of the challenge.

 ✅ A - Winter Time
Connection: A Gift to Me
Goal: At least 24 Minutes
Goal Met: 3 Hrs 22 Mins

 ✅ P - Homely Houseplants SAL
Connection: Plants
Goal: Keep Up with SAL
Progress: 11 of 12 Done 

With all time spent with this one I'm calling it met.

Just one plant to go now. If it wasn't for our fun weekend away

I would have finished it.

 ✅ Y - 99 Bottles
Connection: Yeast in Beer
Goal: Add 4 Bottles
Goal Met

 ✅ E - Wish Upon a Starfish
Connection: Easy Stitch
Goal: At Least 24 Minutes 

Actual: 1 Hour 4 Minutes

 ✅ A - Camping Out MH
Connection: Another Section
Goal: Finish at least 1 

Goal Met

 ✅ R - Rules for Life
Connection: R in Rules
Goal: At least 24 Minutes 

Goal Met: 1 Hour 23 Minutes

 ✅ 2 - Boba Fett
Connection: Start 2nd Page
Goal: At least 24 Minutes 

Goal Met Actual: 3 Hours 32 Minutes

 ✅ 0 - Beer Dragon
Connection: Over One
Goal: At least 400 Stitches
For WIPGO Board 

Goal Met Actual: 546 Stitches 

3rd Challenge is a fun one. Jen gives us a list of weird holidays for each day of the month. We are to try to plug our stitching into the holiday somehow. This challenge encourages us to use our creativity and it's so much fun to see how people connect their pieces. I picked 12 that I think work quite well...

1st -- Spunky Old Broads Day -- Homely Houseplants -- I think older ladies would enjoy keeping plants. Now after stitching them I even want one haha. 

3rd -- Feed the Birds Day -- Winter Time -- This piece has cardinals on it. 

5th -- Western Monarch Day -- Homely Houseplants -- Butterflies love flowers and plants. 

8th -- Laugh and Get Rich Day -- Boba Fett -- Boba Fett is a bounty hunter in Star Wars. He likes to sit back and get rich by hunting bounties. He laughs at the challenge. He thinks he can do anything.

13th -- Get a Different Name Day -- Wish Upon a Starfish -- Starfish are now known as Sea Stars because they aren't really fish and the old name was misleading. 

16th -- Do a Grouch a Favor Day -- 99 Bottles -- If you give a grouch 2 bottles of beer it will probably cheer him right up.

17th -- Random Acts of Kindness Day -- Beer Dragon -- This piece is for my hubby.

20th -- Love your Pet Day -- Camping Out -- Izzy (our dog) loves going to our campground. She can run around off leash and smell all the smells she wants.

24th -- World Bartender Day -- 99 Bottles -- Bartenders serve a lot more than 99 bottles of beer in their careers I bet.

26th -- Tell a Fairy Tale Day -- February Fairy -- Fairies are in a lot of fairy tales.

27th -- No Brainer Day -- Rules for Life -- Seems like no brainer things to be. Have hope. Be nice to each other. 

29th -- Leap Day -- Heart Freebie -- I worked on this piece on the Leap Day. It was the last half hour I needed to complete the piece. 

Now off to make a post about my March challenge plans.