Potential WIPs-Part 3

OK, I'm really going to try to make this shorter, although it will have pics, which always makes posts look longer. This is for upcoming projects that I'd like to start this year. I'm kind of on a spending freeze, so I'm not sure when or even if these will get started, but it's nice to dream, right?

I still haven't started one of my 2025 starts I kitted up, Tiki Stitches Stretching Room Portraits. I planned on stitching all together on a sheet of plastic canvas and creating a frame around each to separate them, but I'm scared of the plastic canvas, so I haven't touched them yet. Plus, I can't decide whether to do three rows of brown for the frame or two (or maybe four, but there is a specific detail in the frame corners I'd definitely have to figure out if I make the frame too big). Then, do I stitch a row of white between the brown frame to separate them? It would look weird with six rows in the middle (three around each character), but with just three rows it won't distinguish one character from another. They "should" be a quick stitch though, just a lot of math. If you guys have any ideas on this, please let me know! I like that they are pixelated enough that you can't tell if they are the Disney World or Disneyland versions of the Stretching Portraits:

There are some that won't be started until their matching ones are finished, like DoNa's Sleeping Beauty after Merida, but I don't think that is an unachievable goal for 2026. I had Rapunzel finished in just over a month (but, for some reason, I can't get into Merida enough to stitch her that long). I have all of the DoNa patterns and I'm doing them in stages of three...my favorite three princesses and then down the line. I think they will look cool framed as a tripych for each group in a single frame with three mat holes. Aurora is my favorite princess, but because I want to change out the colors on the fairies to actually match Flora, Fauna, and Merriweather, my brain is scared of it. I'm really bad at making changes to patterns.

And after Kitchen Fun, I think Have A Mice Day would be a good one in the mice series:

There are others I'd like to start, but I'm just not really sure I want to tackle yet another full coverage. I really want to do a Marvel and I'm thinking Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. by Witchy Kitt Designs would be best (although I have several Captain American patterns to choose from as well). AOS is tied with Once Upon A Time for my all-time favorite TV show, but I have numerous Once projects in progress and no AOS ones, so I need to rectify that and Witchy Kitt did design this at my request, so it's the least I can do:

I also have quite a few Supernatural and a Firely ones that I'd like to start, but I need to just pick either Marvel, Supernatural or Firefly. The are all are quite large as well as being full coverage...I need to be sensible here. I only have so much life left. I've already done one Supernatural stitch, but speaking of Firefly, this one would be a good small one for next work project (and I could actually hang it at work...I have quite a few pop culture things at work and the young-uns don't get it, I love that!):

Prarie Moon's Thine Is the Trick and the Treat would also be a great option for work, but I still don't have the right fabric for it, so it's on hold for a while (if I'm planning to do all these work projects, I need to actually start stitching at work). This was one I was looking at silk for, but Vivster's changed that idea and I'm now back to 310.

Another great work option would be The Triumphant Ride by Charting Creations. I've had this forever (which is why the pic is so small) and was also one I was looking to buy silk for, but all this black gives me an excuse for a cone of DMC 310. I would also still need to get some opalescent Easy Grid for it, but that's an easier pick than specialty fabric for Thine:

And speaking of DMC but NOT work, the color chart by Sew Marie Studio would also be a good option and was almost a 2025 pick. It's got too many colors for work, but I have enough kitted up projects that I could just stitch on this as I hit the right colors. It's a win-win which is why I'd like to start it this year while I have so many WIPs:

Moving on from work projects, I have quite a few CloudsFactory and FanGirl Stitches charts already stitched up, framed, and hanging in my house, so the next logical step for me would either be CloudsFactory's Harry Potter or the Kings and Queens of England. I'm leaning more towards the Kings and Queens. I've just been putting these off because they aren't as easy as they look:

Boy, these are streamlining nicely because, speaking of Harry Potter, the next thought would be the the Harry Potter Adventure series, First Adventure (obviously) needs to be stitched first (because if I do them out of order, Second Adventure would never get done):

I do have to finish Disney's 35th Anniversary still (which is ironic considering this is Disney World's 55 Anniversary this year, but hey, navy fabric is a pain!). I have to use a light box with this, and considering I've spent the last 20 years suffering from migraines, it's made it even harder to stitch on. But, for now, my headaches are under control (fingers crossed they stay that way).

I UFO'ed it a few years ago and even took it off the scroll rods (which means I'll need to get more to pull it back out), but it is one of the UFO's I need to pull out for my Year Of 55's and it's 550 stitches (but I would like to finish it). I'm not sure I could work without grid lines, but I'm not the type of person to stitch in fishing line or whatever to have them, so yet another hurtle. Math and I aren't friends. Apparently, I haven't touched it since May of 2015, which means it's a pre-stats kit as well, but here is where I'm at:

But I still have quite a few of the old Disney World kits hanging around and, even though I hate all the specialty stitches (the reason why I will NEVER do any of the Thomas Kinkades...and I have all the Disney ones except Rapunzel, but that's another story for another day). I'd like to start this one next:

Then again, I just noticed all the French knots in that, so maybe not? But, speaking of Disney (I'm enjoying the parallels here), I really don't need to add another full coverage, but Tilton Crafts Hocus Pocus is also calling to me and I meant to start it years ago, but I went with the painful Hook Tilton instead...I regret that now:

And (last analogy, promise), speaking of very old UFO'ed WIPs, the only other one I have left is A Summer Ball:

This one I started in 2012 like 35th Anniversary (and the Tartan B, which I did finish last year). It was the first time I ever had more than one WIP. I was always a monogamous sitcher before. I absolutely HATE stitching this, but I absolutely love the design. I'm only about a third of the way in, but I stitch faster now, so maybe I could get it done fairly quickly if I just focus. At bare minimum, I need to get in at least 550 stitches before my 56th birthday. It is still on scroll rods, so that helps. I just hate all the half and quarter stitches and the back-stitching. Full coverage ruined me for basically any other kind of stitching. I stopped in January of 2015, but it's another paper chart that I don't have stats for (and it was pre-keeping up with stats).

There are also numerous HAEDs I'd like to start, but I seem to have a pattern of starting a HAED, then feeling guilty because I didn't pick a HAED Jasmine Becket-Griffith, so I also end up starting the JBG and I have two HAEDs on the go. I thought I could avoid that last year, so I just started a JBG first, but then I felt guilty about the HAED, so I STILL ended up starting two! I have probably a hundred or so HAED patterns, so no need to waste time with posting potentials of those.

And that's it for these blog posts! I'm not sure when (or if) I'll post here again. Maybe next WIP update will be a FlossTube video! If I do start a FlossTube though, I will definitely make a blog post about that! Thanks everyone and hope your stitching is as well as mine is right now! I just hope I can keep it up because I really need a "good" finish (aka, a full coverage one). Snow White is my closest, so I need to get focused instead of spreading myself so thin!