Kathy in MO 2012 Challenges

1 Baby afghan
2 Long Dog Moulin Rouge
3 Workbasket Faith, Hope and Love
4 Blackbird Land of the Free
5 Blackbird Waiting For the Harvest
6 Blackbird Loose Feathers Summer
7 Blackbird Loose Feathers Autumn
8 Blackbird Loose Feathers Winter
9 JBW Reindeer Stocking
10 CHS Houses of Hawk Run Hollow
11 Hands to Work This is the Day
12 Blackbird Christmas Garden
All of these are WIP except for the baby afghan and the Christmas Garden. I had a completely different list written down than this so I might be changing it or adding to it as the year progresses.

The 2012 Challenge

After a great deal of "basket-digging", I think that these 12 projects are going to work quite well for me in 2012. A * indicates that the project is a new one for me.

1. Pocketful of Peppermint-Blue Ribbon Designs

2. The North Wind-Little House Needleworks

3. Dec 2011 JCS magazine-the Blackbird ornament*

4. July Square-Anniversaries of the Heart series from Blackbird Designs

5. December Square-Anniversaries of the Heart series from Blackbird Designs*

6. One square-Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow-Carriage House Samplers

7. A second square-Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow-Carriage House Samplers*

8. Crown Sampler-Plum Street

9-12. 4 stockings Crowning the Tree-Blackbird Designs*

I am anxious to make progress on the two large pieces-Anniversaries of the Heart and Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow. One day these will hopefully be finishes but probably not in the upcoming calendar year. I have one square (of 12) completed on C@HRH and 3 (of 14) on Anniversaries of the Heart.

And I will make every effort to post one picture per month starting in January!!!!!

Janice

P.S. Did I mention that I have (insanely) joined two other challenges for the year?!!!!!

Kathy In Ohio's 2012 List

1. Penny America-Tree of Life Samplings
   
2. Waiting for the Harvest -BBD
3. Winter Trio-Twisted Threads
4. Liberty-Birds of a Feather
5. Libertyville pt 1-Raise the Roof
6. 2001 Christmas Keepsake- HIHN
7. The Sparrow-Tree of Life Samplings
8. Peace- Mary Garry
9. French Country Turkey-JBW
10. Summer-The Drawn Thread
11. Generosity-The Drawn Thread
12. Spot of Winter- Trilogy

These are all UFO's.
Plus 10 2010 LHN ornaments and most of the 2011-I didn't buy them all
Also three SB Monthlies I'd like to do to finish the series and 2 HIHN monthlies to finish the series.

Our 2012 Challenge

Hey ladies,
Here it is almost 2012.  So dig into those stash boxes and bags and come up with your favorite 12 challenges to stitch for 2012. 
These can either be new starts or UFO's, or knitting and crocheting challenges.  Whatever your little stitching heart desires.  List them here so we can all share and talk about them. We can also post some pictures of our progress.  It will be lots of fun.  We all had a busy year in 2011 and we didn't get to write so much, so let this be another challenge for us.  To keep busy with our stitching and do lots of writing about it too. 
I am off to make my list.  Hope you will all be posting your lists soon.  You have until  December 12th to get them listed, so hurry up.
Love to all, Sharon

2011 Challenge

Well, looking at my list. . . I have not made much progress on any of my challenge pieces. I have started a new set of ornaments for my grandkids and also pulled out Sea Stars to work on that.
Next?
Sue R

Melissa's Emma Lerch

Emma Lerch

Scarlet Letter

32ct Cream Linen

DMC

February Finish-Ink Circles Winter Mandala

Here is my second finish of the year. It had a lot of solid stitching and I am so glad to be done with it and moving on to something else.

Kathy

One finish in January

This is my one and only finish for the month of January. It was a UFO that I finished up on January 3rd. If I keep going at this rate, I won't have very many finishes for this year.

How about the rest of you? What did you finish? Post a picture and share with the rest of the group.

Kathy

Sue R's UFO list

Well, here is the start of my list:

1. The Garden- Emie Bishop
2. The Nativity- center panel
3. Fantasy Tryptiche
4. Sea Stars
5. On-going ornaments for my grandkids- I will update with specific ornaments.


I know there are many more, but this is my start.
Sue R

Kathy in MO's 2011 UFO Challenge List

1. Ink Cirlces-Winter Mandala
2. Heartstring Samplery-Rachael Holmes 1842
3. CCN-Summer Seascape Series
4. LHN-Winter Sampler
5. Blkbd-It's Berry Time
6. Hand to Work-This is the Day
7. LHN-Brave Hearts
8. Needleprint- Sarah Moon's Quaker Sampler
9. LHN-Summer House-freebie chart
10.Cherished Stitches-Quaker Halloween
11.Keslyn's-My Day Complete
12.Blkbd-Autumn Song
13.Long Dog-Moulin Rouge
14.Blue Ribbon-Stitches, Stars and Stripes
15.Erica Michaels-Land of Liberty

These are in no particular order. I have lots of BAP's, but I only included 3 of them because I do want to work on them and I also included a project that I am going to start as soon as I receive the supplies.
Now that this is all down in black and white, I probably won't be able to stick to it, but I will try.

Kathy

Kathy in OH's list

2011 UFO Challenge

LHN- Snowflakes
Twisted Threads-Winter Trio
Drawn Thread-Generosity
Raise the Roof-Libertyville
Drawn Thread-Summer
Heart in Hand-Autumn Medley
LHN Snow White
Dream Dancing Designs-Mighty Mac
Shepherd’s Bush-A Year in Stitches
     May
    August
    October
Heart in Hand-Monthly Mania Series
    January
    February
   December
LHN 2010 ornaments
   10 to do

UFO's

I have been making a list and have over 30. Yikes, why do I not finish these?
You asked for pictures so I have decided to add a few of the ones I have started and need to finish.

This is Rachael Holmes. It is the only one I could find on the computer right now. Guess I need to scan in a few more of them.

My Personal 2011 "Challenge"

Here's my list of stitching "challenges" for 2011:

Nine of the Little House Needlework ornaments from 2010

Little House Needlework's Pumpkin Hollow

La D Da's Live, Laugh, Love

Ink Circles' Sea Stars

Lizzie Kate's Christmas double flips (started at our retreat in 2008-the first 6 are done; I suppose these could count as 6 more but we'll leave it as one.)

Blackbird Designs' Flea Market Souvenir

Blackbird Designs' Bittersweet Moon

The above are in some state of stitching "readiness". I am anxious to start in on these on New Year's Day.

I have several SALs in progress and hope to get those moving along in 2011, too. These includes the Anniversaries of the Heart series done on one LARGE piece of fabric and Christmas at Hawk Run Hollow, where I have completed block 1 and made decent progress on blocks 2 and 3.

Feliz Ano Nuevo!

Janice

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2011

Hey Lizzies,
Let's get this party started. We are going to ring in the New Year with lots of great stitching plans. I for one want to finish many of my UFO's. How about you??
Let's make some lists and add them on here, it will be lots of fun to read and see what everyone is doing. Post some pictures. I am going to be working on my list this evening. So dive in your stash, see what you have and tell us all about it.

Sharon xoxox

A Finish, A Finish, I'm in Shock!

This morning I put the last stitches into my Laura Parker sampler.

I wanted to stitch this ever since I saw it in Carol Sims' webshots album. It was a fast stitch and I love that Laura's last name is Parker.

My first finish of the New Year

TA DA! I have my first finish of the year! I finished Small Token by Blackbird Designs while watching the Olympics last night. It took about a week or less to finish and I would have had it done a lot faster if I wouldn't have had to frog the same spot twice. Don't know why I had such a problem with that one area, but I finally saved it for last and got it to all match up.

Rachael Holmes 1842

Apologies for the poor picture, this is my current obsession, uh WIP, Heartstring Samplery's Rachael Holmes 1842. Kathy is a little farther along than I am but I'm working hard to catch up.

It's a sweet stitch and just full of funky wonderfulness. I don't want to put it down and get really annoyed when I have to do something like clean or cook that interrupts my stitching.

Lovely work stitched by our Stacy and Finished by Sue.

Here are a couple of beautiful WIPs from our Kathy.
This is Rachel Holmes


This is The Day


What is everyone else working on?? Come on ladies post some pictures we want to see!

Here is my first finish for 2010. It is Clara's Skating Sampler by Tanya Anderson, the Sampler girl. I put my name instead and the date I met my husband. We use to iceskate all the time together.

Sharon xoxo