It is an odd sensation when I do not feel like a new start, but that is how I have felt for some time now. I think it is because I have so much cluttering up the place that I want to finish, it makes  a new start just seem like it will add to the pressure… so this list is to help keep me on track. I like to keep statistics of what I do… it is odd I know but I am not as rigid as some and often lose track along the way and for all my ‘statistics’ it really is just for fun and nothing I obsess over.

This is a listing of all the wips I have that I intend to finish or at least keep working on. Some are for gifts or things I have promised to do for people but mostly it is the remains of all the projects I have started since getting hooked on stitching. I have finished only a few projects over the past 6 or 7 years and none for myself. I doubt this will increase the number of finishes I have (seeing as most of my projects are large HAEDs) but I should at least be able to see how I am progressing from month to month .. year to year. Every six months (or whenever the fancy takes me) I will regroup and check my counts to see how much I have added and if I have managed to strip anything from the very long list. I plan  on grouping the projects into categories e.g. small, medium, large and HAEDfs (full size Charts) and HAEDqs (quick stitches) but really that is too much effort for this post (I will group them when I put a link to a permamnent page where I intend to keep proper track of them all).  I have also added a list of my expected starts, these are gifts / planned stitching that I am yet to make an actual start on yet but are committed to. There is also a small list of items I have stitched but not ‘finished’ yet thatI have plans for.. one day.

Projects

1. Lesley Name Tree
2. Trick Or’Treat – JustNan
3. Rosemarkie – Long Dog
4. Cirques des Circles – Ink Circles
5. Bramble and the Rose – Ink Circles
6. Rose of Sharon in Pink – Mirabillia
7. Gaelic Banner – Dracolair
8. Red Dragon Book Mark – Dracolair
9. Autumn Dragon – Patricia Allison
10. Dragon Lore – Ian Daniels
11. Aredhel – Mark Potts
12. Turquoise – Linda Ravenscroft
13. Metamorphosis – Sheila Wolk
14. Perfect Poison – Annie Rodrique
15. Violet Sometimes – JBG
16. Belladonna’s Gift – JBG
17. Sea Beacon- JBG
18. At the Masquerade Ball – JBG
19. Snow Princess and the Polr Bear – Ruth Sanderson
20. Phoenix Rising – Linda Ravenscroft
21. St Nick in His Study – Scott Gustufson
22. Return of Spring – Ian Daniels
23. Tarot: The Devil – Stephanie Pui-Man Law
24. End of the Quest – PR
25. Lost – Lisa Victoria
26. Broken Angel – Meredith Dillman
27. Fire – Sara Butcher

Items to be ‘finished’

1. Lost Dragon Sampler
2. Good Knight Sleep tight
3. Red wyvern ornament
4. Griffin christmyth ornamant

Planned Starts

1. Letters By Nora – A
2. Letters By Nora – L
3. Colin Name Tree
4. Oriental kit for Lesley

I’m sure to add more to this list as I enevitably find thingsthat were started and completely forgotten about, but for now this is close enough. I think I will keep a running tally and maybe look at it each month but I haven’t quite decided yet.

** Quick edit to add the projects that have been stripped for either not really beinag started (100 odd stitches) or pieces I wish to restart with newer charts / different fabric or designs I jsut don’t think I want to stitch anymore. These are: Scotland – Ian Daniels, Storykeeper- Wentzler, Storyteller- Fenech, Phoenix Rising- Linda Ravenscroft, Cice Tree – Sara Butcher, An elizabeth designs piece that may or may not ever see the light of day again, red square 9 -AMAP- as a biscornu, Sanman originals halloween banner, My aunts attic butterflies and Autumn Queen- Mirabillia.