July got off to a rough start. No stitching happened until the 4th. But then it was three days of power stitching. Going from zero to almost 1,400 stitches on the Big 5 in that time.
I managed to make one card in July. I haven’t been feeling card making lately. But I’m trying to stay committed to my one card a month goal.
In later July I unexpectedly inherited more puzzles. Those have taken a huge backseat to cross stitching. But I decided for the sake of my shelving to pull one out to work on. Which then puts cross stitch farther behind.
I see similarities between puzzles and cross stitch. You have the final image for both, but it’s been chopped up and needs to be pieced together. Cross stitch is the ultimate in tiny pieces though. And thankfully comes with a “map.”
The big 5 update
If you would like to read the origin stories, you can find that here. Follow my Instagram to see official progress photos when they are released.
With two raid trains and two Monopoly boards, I kept busy putting stitches in this month. Cats Library saw the most progress. Everything except McGonagall reached 1,000 stitches this month. I stitched just a bit more than I did in May. There’s hope for me finishing these yet!
There is a discrepancy between the stitch count and the image for Mario. I worked on Mario on August 1 before taking the end of month update photo. I finished a row of blue that was only a few squares in when I started.
Monopoly update
You may have noticed Cats Library had quite the jump in stitching. I happened to get that project on both boards.
Some of it overlapped, but essentially I had to complete 1,100 stitches in on Cats between the two boards. It actually took about a year off my predicted end date.
How did July go?
My tracker has been motivating. I am trying to cut time off the estimated finishes every month. I now have math showing how many stitches I need each day/month to finish in 5-25 years. As of right now I’m tracking to finish between 25 and 30 years with all seven of the large projects.
Here’s how I did in July for chipping away at these: 6,216 stitches across the five. This was my highest monthly total for the year so far.
The Big 5 have a combined stitch count of 1,295,620. I’m 5.53% complete with all five.
It’s an FFO
Does making my one card a month count?
Happy crafting!