WIPocalypse update #9 and more finishes!

Four bookmarks - FINISHED!

Since the last WIPocalypse update, I have finished four bookmarks and another month of the Prairie Schooler Spring & Fall series.  My WIPocalypse page is slowly shrinking and my Finishes 2012 page is growing!

Monkey Read, Monkey Do bookmark - FINISHED!

Memento Mori bookmark - FINISHED!

Spooky bookmark - FINISHED!

"Spooky" bookmark
Designed by Barbi Singlar
amintkipattan
Started 2/23/2012, Finished 8/26/2012

Hands Off My Book bookmark - FINISHED!

"Hands Off My Book" bookmark
Designed by Kell Smurthwaite
Kincavel Krosses
Started 2/8/2012, Finished 9/1/2012

Spring & Fall (May) FINISHED!

I started June in the Summer & Winter booklet from The Prairie Schooler.

Summer & Winter (June) update #1

BBQ Queen has a chef's hat and a smiling sun now.  I think she'll be done by the next WIPocalypse update.

BBQ Queen update #18

Halloween House has the second floor started.

Halloween House update #20

Santa has one of the three French hens for Santa's 12 Days of Christmas.

Santa's 12 Days of Christmas (Day 3) update #1

The Passione Ricamo Fairy Mystery SAL has part 1 and some of part 2 finished.

Passione Ricamo Fairy Mystery SAL - update #2

I stitched a gray squirrel on Universal Unity.  This is a Dimensions Gold Collection kit that I started in 1998 and haven't touched it since!

Universal Unity - update #1

 

I started a Day of the Dead flowery skull face from the book, Twisted Stitches. This is the nose!

Day of the Dead

Don't forget to check in on Measi's blog with a link to your WIPocalypse blog post, too!

Halloween House update and two bookmarks!

Halloween House update #20

I finally started on the second floor.  Most of the other stitchers in our SAL started with the second floor first.  Check out their progress HERE.  One person has already finished!

My son gave me the Twisted Stitches cross stitch book.  The first thing I stitched was this bookmark, which will be a gift for my friend's niece.

Memento Mori bookmark - finished!

"Memento Mori bookmark"
Designed by Phil Davison
Twisted Stitches
Started 8/15/2012, Finished 8/17/2012

I also got back to this Spooky bookmark, which was one of my Super Duper Ultimate Crazy February Challenge starts.  Linda and I had new starts every day in January and February (it was all her idea!).  I will give this bookmark to my friend's other niece.

Spooky bookmark - update #1

I found this free design on a Hungarian blog, amintkipattan.  Barbi has lots of cute free charts!

Happy Stitching, everyone!

Halloween House SAL update #6

Halloween House update #6

On this Friday, I stitched more of the purple house below the window and started on the black wrought iron fence.  The dark purple floss I am using was a free skein from Rosace Threads, and now I notice that the color is slightly different than the DMC, so I hope one skein will be enough for the whole house!  Rosace gave away 3 skeins of floss to everyone last year.  The company is in Spain and they use the same floss numbers as DMC.  The cost is only 0.50 Euros each, so maybe this is a better price for my stitchy friends in Europe.

Bird update #1

I am really enjoying stitching this Bird for World of Charity Stitching.  Everyone is stitching the same freebie pattern from a French blog, gazette94, in their own choice of color, and they will all be put together in a quilt.

Spooky

Day #54 is Spooky, a freebie from a Hungarian blog, amintkipattan.  The chart was just the right size for a bookmark.  I think it's adorable!

C'est Noel

Day #55 is C'est Noel, a freebie from The Sampler Girl.  I am using DMC Light Effects metallic floss, which is very difficult!  I have to be so careful that it doesn't kink up with every stitch, so I didn't get very much done on it.  I am stitching on green hand-dyed Aida with sparkles.  My plan is to make it into an ornament with ribbon trim and backing fabric in a holiday print.

You can see all my current WIPs on my WIPocalypse page.  In just a few more days, I will not be starting a new project everyday and will be filling up my Finishes 2012 page instead!