Hello, friends especially needleworkers!
After I skimmed the WIP Challenge article
@needleworkmonday/needleworkmondays-wip-challenge
from our @needleworkmonday community, i thought it is a good opportunity for us as the members to join this challenge. But it made me think twice, first I know I have many of the unfinished abandoned projects but I was not sure, which one to continue or even modify… But after I communicated with
@jicrochet then I realized that yes, the challenge doesn’t mean we have to finish the project in the 2 months of the term, but we just progressed so then I read carefully to the article and then decided to enter this challenge. So I opened the closet where I put all of my crafts need last night.
Well, mine is not a large closet to put all of my craft needs, because I needed to share between my 3 hobbies there, I have some drawing equipments, fabrics as I love felt crafts, some other fabrics such as the cross stitch aida fabrics, and I also still had yarns, hooks there, still there handsewing needs even paper crafts need. So even little, my closet contains almost all that I need to do crafting. Sometimes I just wonder if I had a suitcase like Newt Scamander had to put them all, lol.
Now let me introduce you so many abandoned projects that I have… First I would start from the cross stitch sections, well I left them for some years. Well, oh no, these were some, and I would start to explain from the top left.
I remembered that I would like to make a tiny cushion with lollipops and also candies on it, but I only made the lollipop on the top, then didn’t continue it. While the left bottom one, I once planned to make a small long cushion with it but then I realized that the color didn’t look well with the fabric then I stopped my working (actually I spent already too much time in doing it before realized it, what a waste of time :’).. Next let me tell you about one on the right, the bunnies I thought I would make easter bunny theme tissue box cover but then I changed my mind, and I even couldn’t remember why? No wonder because I left them untouchable for several years..
And good thing is, I still have two other more cross stitch projects that I left behind, I even don’t remember what are these going to be? Any ideas? By the way I also left them for several years already, how time flies!
Well and I still have some Christmas theme abandoned cross stitch projects, the first one on the left was a red car, I was going to make it as a gift then I realized that the fabrics was not good at all, it even too rough for a project, but it looked okay in the camera… well, then the Christmas tree, I remember that I ran out of the floss and I couldn’t find the other with the same color (I forgot the number of the color actually, lol), next I couldn’t remember why I didn’t continue the snowman, dog and the Christmas mini sock, well I couldn’t remember all.. OMG, look you could count, I have 10 abandoned projects already..
Now let us continue to the hand embroidery, my abandoned projects were……
Hmm, owl I would like to do x stitch not on the holes fabric so I couldn’t continue it, too difficult. Then the bear face, I forgot what would I make with this actually. And the cute pretty flower garden, oh wow think I could get something nice with this embroidery on the top, right? Daisy duck, well I thought once I would like to make a pouch with it, but somehow I also discontinued it.. Oh my another 4 abandoned projects. Well and it keeps going…
Even in crocheting that I just started this year, I already made many abandoned projects already, haha. Look, I planned to make the red heart (as I remembered), but somehow I didn’t continue it (why?), supposed because I tempted to make another project, then I also made some HDC with the soft blue grey color yarn then I confused of what to make then I just loved it much to release it (haha). The bottom showed two attempts for me to make crochet bags. Left one I tried to make the shell pattern, but the mixed color of the yarn annoyed and distracted the pattern so I just let it go, but I love, really love it that I cannot release the yarn, I was so in love, even I know it now that maybe the yarn won’t be enough for the project, and last, the blue color yarn I loved, I tried t-shirt yarn to make a bag too, net bag, but it just left because I didn’t have the proper size of the crochet hook actually :,..
And for this community and in my attempt to finish one from the abandoned projects I have, I already bought the larger size of the crochet hook. I was glad that it came in just a day after i had bought it online.. btw, you must could guess one of the project that I would continue right now..?
I also bought the tapestry needle and some pins to mark my crochet. Love them all and I would continue one of my abandoned projects soon, pray that I could finish more than 1 of the abandoned projects!
Oh yeah I was also so happy to find some of the felt plushie patterns in my closet and some embroidery hoops last night, I remembered that I bought it for a project that I never begin until now.. lol.
Anyway, i am so happy to share these all with you guys, especially our community @needleworkmonday. Let us encourage each other to finish our abandoned projects! Thank you so much for the opportunity to join this contest, I will let you know soon the progress of my project.
Thanks for reading my article, hope you enjoy it and stay tune for more CRAFT things from me!
All of the pictures were taken with Samsung A52 5G android phone with no filters.
She works in a bank but she interests in CRAFT (CRaft, Art, Food and Travel). To pursue her art passion she does the cross stitch, embroidery, handsewing, crafts, crochet and also draws. Find hers in
https://de-creartique.redbubble.com and https://decreartique.threadless.com . Also find her cute collectibles pixel cat pictures here https://opensea.io/collection/pixelcryptocat .