Turtle Trot January 2015 Check-In

Turtle Trot is a year long SAL hosted by Claudette of BAP Attack.  You pick 10 pieces at the beginning of the year and post your progress on them once a month on the 10th.  You can join up at any time during the year.  

So, I was a dork and somehow didn't notice that yesterday was the 10th until today (the 11th).  Sheesh.  Where has my brain gone?  So I'm a day late in my Turtle Trot check-in, but as they say, better late than never. 

I did 7/10 projects this month, so not too bad.  Two of my WIPs that my goal is to finish through Turtle Trot didn't get worked on at all, and one of my new starts did not get started.  But here is what I managed to finish.

The WIP I did get to work on was Tree Frog Trio:

Start of 2015 progress

I managed to completely finish the light green on the left frog and start on some of the darker green in his legs:

 

 

Britannia Pillow was a completely new start.  This is going to be huge when it's finished, it's on 20 count evenweave, and it's also my first project on evenweave.  Yikes!  Here's what the start looks like so far:

First started Jan 2015
 

Gingerbread Houses is a SAL I joined last year on Facebook.  Despite my best intentions and completely kitting it up back in November, I didn't get anything done until January.  Here's where the start is so far:

First started Jan 2015

I can't remember the actual name for this project, but in my head I've dubbed it Purple Paisley.  This is my first time buying colored aida that didn't come from Charles Craft, and I have to say I love the texture of it so far.  I managed to get part of one chunk of purple done so far.  The thread looks variegated in this photo, but it's actually DMC 210 and is all one color. 

First started Jan 2015 

This is a gift I'm planning on stitching for my mother, one I've dubbed Polka Dot Bouquet.  I managed to get one color green on one long leaf done in January.  

 First started Jan 2015 

Reindeer Square and it's companion piece Polar Bear Square are new starts for 2015 as well.  These are part of the six Christmas Cuties designs Maria Diaz did for Enjoy Cross Stitch many years ago.  I only really liked the Reindeer and Polar Bear designs, so I will only be doing these two for now. 

 First started Jan 2015  

First started Jan 2015

So that's it for Turtle Trot this month!  We'll see how things look come March 10th.  You can keep you with my progress throughout the year by checking the Turtle Trot page. 

Side question for those of you who blog and are doing the Turtle Trot yourself.  Specifically if you have a Turtle Trot page set up.  Are you updating the page with your progress once a month, or as you go along?  Are you keeping your beginning 2015 pictures up, or just showing the new progress?  Still trying to decide what to do with my page, and I could use the advice...