Full Coverage Month End Report - January 2025 and Full Coverage February plans

 My Full Coverage pattern is Mead Dragon - art by Stanley Morrison, charting by Paine Free Crafts.

As of the end of January, I have been working on this pattern for exactly one year.  I am 41.61% complete, with 39,322 / 94,500 stitches completed.   The chart down to Row 130 is totally completed.  The green basting is the halfway point.

I am stitching this one over one (full cross) on 28 count EZ grid evenweave using the charted DMC colors.

Where I was at the end of December to compare.   I worked on background and wing fill in, plus there's a bit of the back hip starting to make an appearance.  I added 3,230 stitches this month.

Next month is the start of what is usually Full Coverage February.   Collette is having some health issues that impact her stitching, so she won't be doing the full-on event that she's hosted the last few years.   Since I only have one full coverage piece, I wasn't able to do the acrostic or other multi-project challenges, so I'm OK with that.  Like last year, I'm going to concentrate on putting in as many stitches on this project as I can during the month.

I will commit to continuing my "Temperature Stitches" with one specialty stitch each day.  (I'll show it tomorrow since January will be done then.  Each day logs the prior days official high temp.)  I'd also like to put in enough time on the crewel eagle project that I can finish ten hours during the month to complete the first round of my rotation.  But the dragon will be worked on every day for as much time as I can possibly find.