2025 Stitching Plans and Goals

I’m turning 50 in 2025, and I decided that as part of celebrating my half century turn around the sun, I’m going to do a Stitch What I Want, When I Want year. If I want to start something new? Cool – go for it. If I focus on a piece for a while? That’s cool too. Go for it. 🙂 It’ll be my Year of Glorious Chaos. And I am all here for it.

However, there are some challenges and goals I’m participating in for various groups. To keep everything together, I’m adding all of my challenges and such below:

My Personal Goals for 2025

• Stitch all the things
• Enjoy stitching all the things
• Celebrate at least a couple stitchy finishes
• Go nuts and start whatever the heck I want
• Frame and enter I Love New England into the Big E fair.

Semi-Sane Stitchers Goals for 2025

• Frogwarts Year 5 – finish
• Jade Band Sampler – finish
• Flying Lesson – frog and correct miscounts, then finish
• And They Sinned – 15,000 stitches
• The Fruits of Plenty – 10,000 stitches (1,006/10,000 done)
• Live on Little – Complete the house
• Musical Harmony – finish
• Here We Come a Wassailing – finish
• Early Americans – Complete 3 squares
• Pandemic – 10,000 stitches

WIPGO 2025

Goal: 1,000 stitches. (2/25 complete)

01 – Mute But Not Silent (Amy Mitten)
02 – What Remains (Blackbird Designs)
03 – Egyptian Sampler (TW)
04 – Coming to America (With Thy Needle)
05 – Miss Lucy Calcutt 1825 (Just Stitching Along)
06 – Pandemic (Long Dog)
07 – Hugs & Kisses (Blue Ribbon Designs) – FEBRUARY
08 – Frogwarts 4 and/or 5 (Black Needle Society) – FEBRUARY
09 – Book of Ink Circles (Ink Circles)
10 – Hyperborea (Owl Forest)
11 – The River (Modern Folk Embroidery) – JANUARY – COMPLETE
12 – Quaker Mystery 2020 (Fox & Rabbit)
13 – Ann Simpson (Olde Willow Stitchery)
14 – Supernatural (Witchy Stitcher)
15 – Quaker Halloween Sampler (Cherished Stitches)
16 – Deep Blue Sea (Chatelaine)
17 – Quaker Compass (Rosewood Manor)
18 – And They Sinned (Exemplar Dames)
19 – Mary Fosh (Running with Needles & Scissors)
20 – Fruits of Plenty (Modern Folk Embroidery) – JANUARY – COMPLETE
21 – Colonial Sampler (Betsy Stinner)
22 – Live on Little (Plum Street)
23 – Baba Yaga (Autumn Lane)
24 – Smoky Mountain Cats (Janlynn)
25 – Early Americans (Little House)

Retreats

I plan on attending a few retreats this year, both virtual and in-person. If you’re going to be there, say hi! 🙂

• April 9 – 13 – Stitching at Downton (Virtual Retreat)
• May 17th – Tudor Rose Sampler Guild 25th Anniversary in DFW area – maybe
• July 9 -13 – Frogwarts Year 6 (Virtual Retreat)
• July 18 – 19 Midsummer Stitch (Virtual Retreat) – maybe
• October 2 – 4 – Stitch New England, Warwick, RI
• November 13-16 – Stitch Inn at the Farm, Troy, NH
• December 5 – 7 – Jingle Ball (Virtual Retreat)

I’m also really going to try to blog more. I pay enough for this website – I really should use the thing for my own blogging. So plan on scribbles about stitching and life and letters and books. 2024 was a pretty wild year but I was hanging on for the ride. Hopefully 2025 and age 50 will bring an adventure.

To the New Year! Onward!