This section of my blog is where I’m keeping my ongoing stitching statistics, year by year, to track progress. The definitions for each section of this page can be found if you scroll down this page. I will upload a new version of my project lists every year and update them occasionally to produce the information you see in the summaries here.
2025
Summary
- Start of year WIPs: 62
- Legacy Projects: 31
- Completions:
- Projects Worked:
- New Starts:
- Retirements: 0
Completions
New Starts
2024
Summary
- Start of year WIPs: 60
- Legacy Projects: 23
- Completions: 3
- Projects Worked: 34
- New Starts: 7
- Retirements: 0
Completions
- Be Merry (Ornament – forgot to note designer) – January 5, 2024
- I Love New England (Sampler Needlework) – October 18, 2024
- Snowflake Sheep (Counting Puddle Designs) – November 17, 2024
New Starts
- No Time Like the Present (Modern Folk Embroidery) – January 1, 2024
- Be Merry (Ornament – forgot to note designer) – January 3, 2024
- Frogwarts Year 5 (Black Needle Society) – June 30, 2024
- Mary Fosh (Running with Needles and Scissors) – August 1, 2024
- Ann Simpson 1837 (Olde Willow Stitchery) – September 7, 2024
- Snowflake Sheep (Counting Puddle Designs) – October 28, 2024
- Here We Come a Wassailing (Witch’s Garden Crafts) – November 27, 2024
2023
Summary
- Start of year WIPs: 56
- Legacy Projects: 23
- Completions: 6
- Projects Worked: 54
- New Starts: 9
- Retirements: 0
Completions
- Witchy Washy (Raise the Roof) – July 16, 2023
- You Were Hatched (Teresa Wentzler) – July 24, 2023
- Quaker Hornbooks (Ellen Chester/With My Needle) – September 23, 2023
- Winter Welcome (Park Hopper Bart) – September 26, 2023
- Candy Cane Wishes (With Thy Needle and Thread) – November 5, 2023
- Temperature Tree (Stitchin’ Mommy) – December 31, 2023
New Starts
- The River (Modern Folk Embroidery) – January 1, 2023
- Temperature Drink Shelf (Kristi DiClemente) – February 25, 2023
- Quaker Hornbooks (Ellen Chester/With My Needle) – May 9, 2023
- Opening Gambit (Long Dog) – June 9, 2023
- Frogwarts Year 4 (Black Needle Society) – July 2, 2023
- Bag Ladies (Sunset) – August 1, 2023
- Sampler Stories Huswif (Gentle Pursuit Designs) – August 19, 2023
- Miss Lucy Calcutt 1825 (Just Stitching Along) – September 11, 2023
- Candy Cane Wishes (With Thy Needle and Thread) – October 21, 2023
Definitions
Current WIPs are any projects that I either actively have been stitching on or that I consider active and want to stitch on. These projects include anything that was started before the current calendar year.
Legacy Projects is a definition based off an idea that my friend Amy (Gables Stitcher on YouTube) created, where she set a date that stalled her stitching for a while. Anything that hasn’t been touched since before that stall date is a Legacy WIP in her stash. In my case, Legacy WIPs are:
- My inactive Teresa Wentlzer projects – I only keep a couple at most in my active stash rotation at any one time both for sanity and to keep a diverse mix of designers in my WIP pile
- Any project that I haven’t worked on for one reason or another since my son was born in 2013.
- Any projects I have adopted from a stash table or another stitcher in which I haven’t yet put a stitch.
- Unfinished Objects (UFOs) for any other number of reasons – I’ve put the project in “Time Out” for frustration, there’s something wrong with it (ex – pieces that have gone missing), or I may just not be “feeling it” for some reason.
Projects Worked includes WIPs and any new starts during a calendar year.
Completions are stitching finishes, but not necessarily fully finished pieces.
New Starts are exactly what they say on the tin. Projects I start during the year. Projects that start and finish within a calendar year will NOT be included in the Current WIP total.
Retirements are any projects I decide to walk away from permanently for some reason and leave unfinished.