Theme: Recap your accomplishments for the year! (Your finishes, your final before/after photos, etc).

1. Bee’s Needleworks – Tree of Stitches
   Progress at January 1, 2015
   
   
2. Blackwork Journey – Save the Stitches
3. Châtelaine – Workshop 1
4. Châtelaine – Workshop 2
5. CloudsFactory – 2015 Zodiac Sampler
6. The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery – 2015 Story Time Sampler
7. The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery – Autumn Harvest Festival
   Progress at January 1, 2015
   
   
8. The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery – Christmas Celebration Sampler
   Progress at January 1, 2015
   
   
9. Glendon Place – Baked Alaska
10. HAED – Dona Gelsinger – Teddy Bear Tree
11. HAED – Aimee Stewart – World Traveler Bookshelf (Large)
12. InkCircles – Celebrate Diversity
13. Nora Corbett – Bluebell Pixie
14. Passione Ricamo – Under the Sea – Mystery SAL 04
    Progress at January 7, 2015
    
    
15. New cuffs for my bunad shirt

Current progress:

I had finished parts 1-6 on Under the Moonlight before the last update, but I had not yet started the two SALs.

1. CloudsFactory – 2015 Zodiac Sampler
   Started January 12, 2015
   
   
2. The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery – 2015 Story Time Sampler
   Started January 18, 2015
   
   
3. Passione Ricamo – Under the Sea – Mystery SAL 04
   Before – Parts 1-6 finished on January 7, 2015
   
   
   
   After – Part 7 finished on February 2, 2015:
   
   
   
   Part 8 partially finished as of February 4, 2015:
   
   
   
   

Monthly question:

How do you overcome that feeling that you’re in a rut with a particular project?

If I get in a rut with a project I just put it away until I feel like working on it again. I don’t give myself a deadline for when my projects have to be finished, so if I get bored I find something else to work on. However, sometimes I postpone the parts I don’t enjoy, like borders and background, until the end and I have to force myself to carry on to get to the finish. I don’t have any way to overcome the boredom, but the goal of getting a finish is usually enough motivation to keep me working.