Finished, WIP's and 'To Do's'

How long is everyone's list of finished needlework pieces as opposed to
your list of works in progress. Here is what I have compiled so far
from my own stash.

W.I.P. Jean McIntosh's 'English Garden'
Babs Fuhrmann's 'A Winter Scene By Moonlight'
My own chart from photograph ~ finished will be 7" X 12"
Jean McIntosh's 'Bowl of Roses'

Finished Alice Godkin's 'Roses' set
Jean McIntosh's 'Butch'
Jean McIntosh's 'Praying Hands'
Helen Burgess 'Red Rose'
Jean McIntosh's 'Pansies'
Louise Gregoire 'Tulips'

Charts in my 'To Do' pile Stitch With Maria 'Peacock'
Lavender & Lace's Santa Of The Forest
Bab's Petit Point 'Blue Boy'
Bab's Petit Point 'Pinky'
Linda Bird's 'Herb Window Garden'
My own chart of 'A Good Friend'

My aim is to some day finish MAR-BEK'S 'NATIVITY' But I have to buy all
the charts, threads, fabric and firescreen frame first. ) Time to
start saving and picking all the pieces up one at a time.

I also have a little chart here from Eterna Silk called Eterna Wreath if
anybody wants it.

Maureen In Vancouver, B.C.

How long is everyone's list of finished needlework pieces as opposed to
your list of works in progress. Here is what I have compiled so far
from my own stash.

I tend to lose track of finished pieces, as I give so many away.

My WIP's is something like 40 or so, 14 of them TW's! lol

Caryn
Blue Wizard Designs
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View WIPs at: http://community.webshots.com/user/carynlws (Caryn's UFO's)

Maureen Miller wrote:
How long is everyone's list of finished needlework pieces as opposed to
your list of works in progress.

I have a very liberal interpretation of "WIP", as longtime readers here
may recall, so my WIP list is extensive. (As long as I haven't raided a
project for supplies - excluding scroll rods - it's a WIP to me.)

Currently, I'm actively working on:

John Clayton's "Paris" (my Christmas gift to my mom in 2002)
A Hardanger scissors keep adapted from a design by Meg Shinall
Several Mill Hill kits
Just Nan's Gingham Christmas
A silk gauze piece adapted from a Leisure Arts chart

Some of my WIPs:

Cross My Heart's "Three Wolves"
Just Nan's "Reginald Hedgehog"
MLI's The Quiltmaker
A Hardanger table runner
Three or four Shepherd's Bush needlerolls
An American flag wreath from an old magazine
Bent Creek's "Glory"
Several Sweetheart Tree hearts
Several of Just Nan's smaller designs


I'd have to clean out my closet to get any kind of a handle on what I
really have started.


There are also several projects that I'm forcing myself to hold off on
until I've pruned my WIPs. Among those:


AmyBear's "Jennie Jean" (I can scarcely wait to start this. It's beautiful.)
Another Hardanger piece. I can't remain sane if I don't have some
Hardanger in progress.
Some Silken Wing kits.
A lot more Mill Hill stuff.


Karen E., and that's really just for starters...

My current project is:
Jacobean silk painting
Mary Beale Christmas stocking
Jennifer Gilligan Hours
redwork quilt

In the wings:
Leon Conrad Elizabethan Elegance

Maureen Miller wrote:
How long is everyone's list of finished needlework pieces as opposed to
your list of works in progress. Here is what I have compiled so far
from my own stash.
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My list of finished needlework pieces (I'm talking cross-stitch here)
far outweighs my list of works in progress (WIPs). My list of "want to
do someday"....well, that's another story! ;-)

WIP:
1) Stoney Creek wedding sampler
2) Leisure Arts Winnie the Pooh baby sampler
3) Leisure Arts towel - Christmas bells (uses metallic DMC thread which
has been a pain in the rear-end, so this is almost UFO status at this
point).

Finished (what I can remember, most from magazines, few from kits - I
started at ~age 7). I only have 2 of these finished pieces, the motto
pillow and the "home sweet home" wreath, both small items. The rest
were gifts:

Rooster handkerchiefs (printed - first ever xs project)
Sampler from kit (blue ribbon in 4-H fair)
Teddy bear with butterflies picture (mag)
"Friends are forever" (mag)
Seascape (mag)
Pigs towel (mag)
Jar tops (mag) - flowers, plum, strawberry, grapes, "home sweet home"
Blue cornflower pillow sham (mag)
"Blessed are the poor" stained glass window (mag) - what I consider my
best piece ever, honor roll at 4-H fair, didn't place at state fair but
Mom, who picked it up while I was at a summer camp, said many were
surprised it hadn't gotten a ribbon)
2 guardian angel baby samplers (for diff. babies) (mag)
2 flower and ivy "welcome" towels (Leisure Arts leaflet)
2 psalms (Leisure Arts leaflet)
2 other small kits, 6" hoop, with sayings (flowers on one, holly berries
on another - both were made as gifts a long time ago)
Mug - vinyl canvas, a cat with sunglasses "on vacation" (Leisure arts)
"home sweet home" wreath (small, from mag)
various small Christmas ornaments (mag)
Rose, framed in a box lid for Mom (mag)
Wedding sampler (mag)
various bookmarks
Black-eyed susan flower on T-shirt pocket (Leisure Arts leaflet)
1 small "motto" pillow ("hands to work, hearts to God") (mag)

--Barbara HJ

Since I've been doing some kind of needlework or knitting, or crocheting for
about 62 years I couldn't possibly list it all. As a matter of fact, I
don't want to even try to remember the number. I find it kind of
depressing.

I do still have several items that I finished in the 70's hanging on my
walls, and somewhere in my house is a set of x-stitch hand towels that I did
when I was a kid, and several tablecloths and sweaters from who knows when,
but most of the older things are either given away or who knows where.

My work in progress at the moment is a set of crocheted placemats that are
1/2 done, a petit point canvas that I'm really trying to finish, an x-stitch
that I want to finish so I can give it as a gift and an assortment of other
projects that I prefer to leave in the cabinet and not look at.

Lucille

"Maureen Miller" wrote in message
...
How long is everyone's list of finished needlework pieces as opposed to
your list of works in progress. Here is what I have compiled so far
from my own stash.

W.I.P. Jean McIntosh's 'English Garden'
Babs Fuhrmann's 'A Winter Scene By Moonlight'
My own chart from photograph ~ finished will be 7" X 12"
Jean McIntosh's 'Bowl of Roses'

Finished Alice Godkin's 'Roses' set
Jean McIntosh's 'Butch'
Jean McIntosh's 'Praying Hands'
Helen Burgess 'Red Rose'
Jean McIntosh's 'Pansies'
Louise Gregoire 'Tulips'

Charts in my 'To Do' pile Stitch With Maria 'Peacock'
Lavender & Lace's Santa Of The Forest
Bab's Petit Point 'Blue Boy'
Bab's Petit Point 'Pinky'
Linda Bird's 'Herb Window Garden'
My own chart of 'A Good Friend'

My aim is to some day finish MAR-BEK'S 'NATIVITY' But I have to buy all
the charts, threads, fabric and firescreen frame first. ) Time to
start saving and picking all the pieces up one at a time.

I also have a little chart here from Eterna Silk called Eterna Wreath if
anybody wants it.

Maureen In Vancouver, B.C.

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 10:23:03 -0700, Maureen Miller
wrote:

How long is everyone's list of finished needlework pieces as opposed to
your list of works in progress.


I didn't think to keep track of finishes until the tail end of 2002.
However, since January 1, 2003, I have 54 finishes under my belt.
Some of those were projects started prior to 01/01/03, and I'd have to
go back through my 2003 stitching calendar to determine how many there
were.

As for WIPs, I try and keep this number as low as I can. I consider
something a UFO if I haven't put in any time on it in 3 months or
more.

My WIPs:
Just Nan "Winter Blues"
Just Nan "Lady Scarlet's Journey"
Dimensions "One Heart One Love" - was a UFO until yesterday, I
stitched this piece in 1996 to have on hand for a future wedding gift
Lynne Nicoletti "Thimbelina"

My UFOs:
Mirabilia "Lady of the Flag"
Cross Stitcher mag ' Rose Welcome"
Blue Wizard Designs (Caryn, has this been officially released yet? You
know the one I mean. It's not on your site yet.)


On the short list of soon-to-starts:
Silver Lining "Nordic Needle Rose"
Just Nan "September Song"
Fanta Cat Designs "Lying High"


Jenn L.
--
http://community.webshots.com/user/jaliace
http://sewu9corn.blogspot.com
Pastel Horse baby book cover (Cross Stitcher 1993)
UFO's:
Lady Scarlet's Journey (Just Nan)
Lady of the Flag (MIrabilia)

How long is everyone's list of finished needlework pieces as opposed to
your list of works in progress.

I have one cross stitch project I'm working on now, The Yellow House Sampler by
Praiseworthy Stitches. It's large, so I might pause at some point and do a
smaller piece.

I have one cross stitch UFO, a hand towel that probably won't get finished
unless I'm stuck without the floss to kit up anything else. There are two
quilt tops languishing in my closet which I want to quilt someday, and I have a
batch chicken scratch placemats I was going to finish today, but apparently I
put my bag of thread and bias tape somewhere safe when my husband's family was
visiting, and now I can't find it. So the placemats and sitting out, all
pinned together and ready to go.

While I don't go around counting all the things I've finished and framed, I'm
sure they far out-weigh what is waiting to be finished, even if you include the
afghan I started this winter. Last night I hung the Celtic Horse Goddess in my
son's room, over his collection of plastic horses, the perfect place for it.

Katrina L.

I'm only going to list this year, or the list of finished projects would be
depressingly short and a bit pathetic.

Finished this year:
3 knitted scarves
needlepoint tea cosy, Graham Rust mouse in a teapot
2 jewelry bags, embroidered with velvet pansies
1 needlekeep, crazy quilting
2 beaded ornament covers
1 brick stitch amulet bag
plus various pieces of jewelry

WIP/UFO's
Living room curtains
Fair Isle sweater
counterpane
green knitted lace scarf - it just isn't the right color
needlepoint dollhouse rug
cross stitch musical angel
holly cross stitch

To Do:
This changes from day to day. But I would really like to start on a hanging for
the living room, and do a velvet pansy pillow on plum silk. And my niece is
preggers again, so I have to start looking around for something to make for the
baby. Her last baby I made a hat and mits, and as an afterthought gave the kid
a stuffed bulldog toy (they have two bulldogs as pets). She drags that toy
bulldog everywhere she goes, so I might just go with a stuffed toy this time.
Anyone have a pattern for a knitted bulldog?
Dora

I'm with Lucille. I have been doing this for (gasp) 40 years, and can't recall
everything I've done. I don't even have photos of most of it.

My biggest project was a 104" tablecloth for my grandmother.

In addition to all the embroidery and NP, there are also countless crocheted
afghans (probably in the hundreds, including the baby afghans), dozens of
knitted socks and sweaters, wardrobes of Barbie clothes....


--
Finished 5/21/04 - Fireman's Wife
WIP: Fireman's Prayer (#2), Amid Amish Life, Angel of Autumn, Calif Sampler,
Holiday Snowglobe

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