WIPocalypse Introduction

I am new to this group and late with my first post!  My name is Cathy and I am a 69 year old wife and mother living in southern California. My husband is an engineer for a local baseball team and I have been retired for four years now.  My previous occupation was as a Software Support Specialist for a local university.  I have one daughter who is married and has one daughter of  her own.

I love to cross stitch and most of my projects come either from my humongous stash or the UK magazines.  When I'm not cross stitching, I'm either reading (mostly murder mysteries and action/adventures) or playing games on the computer.  I also volunteer at my granddaughter's school doing sorting and filing, the local Ronald McDonald House doing data entry and as the Product Coordinator & Treasurer for my granddaughter's Girl Scout Troop, all of which keeps me busy.

My goals for 2019 are:

1) Reduce my WIP piles.  To do this, I've joined YOW (Year of WIPs) and the Extreme Challenge 1 over at Soul Stitching.   I've chosen 24 WIPs for YOW, with the goal of finishing at least 12 of them.  For the Extreme Challenge, we had to add the same number of WIPs as our birth day.  Since I was born on the 6th, I've added another six, making 30 WIPs with the goal being to finish at least 15.  The Advent Animals count as 10 and Frosty Forest will count as nine.

Brooke's Books - Advent Animals

National Park Series - Big Trees

Dimensions - Blow Bubbles

UK Magazine Free Chart - Cute as a Button

Country Cottage Needlework - Frosty Forest (Raccoon Cottage)

Janlynn - Holiday Sentiments

 

Huddles - Dallas Cowboys

Sam Hawkins Fingertip Towels - Lemon & Strawberries

Mill Hill - Winged Monarch

Margaret Sherry - Teacup Kitty

The Art of Disney - Tinkerbell Spring Blossoms

Sunset - Majestic Eagle

Dimensions - Eagles

If this was all I worked on, I'm pretty sure I could finish them all, but of course, I have other plans.

2) Finish the rest of the blocks for Kyleigh's quilt and get it quilted -- I only need a few more blocks so this is definitely doable.

3) Participate in Leslie Teare's Owl SAL, the Christmas Ornie SAL (I still need to choose the projects for this one) and the Dimensions Year-Long SAL at Cross Stitch Frog Busters (I'm using the Eagles project for this one.)

4) Continue stitching for WOCS (World of Charity Stitching) and Q4OC (Quilts for Older Children and Adults)

5) Stitch an undetermined number of Mill Hill kits already in my stash as well as at least one of the Christmas Village buildings.

6) I'm also joining Linda at Stitching with my Furbabies in stitching on 69 projects this year.  That's my age; she's turning 70 so she will be trying for one more than I am.

Am I crazy? Am I being too ambitious?  Probably, but we'll see how it goes as we journey through the year.  I just hope I don't loose my mojo which seems to be an annual occurrence, especially during the summer months.