Hello blogging friends! Two posts in one week, I know! I am off to a great start. So, as you can tell from my title, I will be participating in WIPGO for the first time in 2026. If you don’t know what WIPGO is, it is basically a bingo where you put items on a board that you want to accomplish in the year. You can use it for Cross Stitch, knitting, quilting, places you want to go, things you want to do. The possibilities are endless. I will be using mine for Cross Stitch. If you want to find out in more detail what it is all about, you can visit Jessie Marie Does Stuff on Facebook, Instagram or her You Tube channel. She is the one that created it and will be calling the numbers each month.

I will be using a board created by Nichol Spohr. During her Vlogmas videos this month, she talked about doing a Christmas WIPGO. I thought that was an awesome idea since I have been stitching on 2 Christmas projects for this last year and currently. And every time I saw a Christmas pattern in my stash or that someone else was doing, I would say “Oh I should do that for Christmas!” and knowing there was no way I was going to get any of them finished for this year. But I could for next year! And if you have been following me, you know that the 30+ year old Nativity project is still not finished. So I downloaded the board from Nichol’s You Tube channel and proceeded to pick and choose which projects I wanted to do this year. You can download it from her channel or her website shown on the photo of the board above. I had no problem filling up the 25 spaces, adding the Nativity several times and also adding a project to my free space.

Jesse Marie Does Stuff chooses the numbers every month on the 25th of the month and on December 25th she chose the numbers 2 and 7 for January 2026. The number 2 was perfect! Big City Christmas!! Which is what I am currently working on. But I had an issue with the number 7. It is the Letter Q from Nora Corbett. I plan on stitching the letters N Q E L this year, making the Q into an O to spell Noel. I only just ordered fabric for these letters about a week or so ago, so I will not be able to work on that one. So I made some adjustments to my board.

I swapped number 7 with number 4. Hopefully by the time any of the numbers with Nora letters are called in the future, I will have my fabric. So, for now, this is my final WIPGO board for 2026 . Only 2 projects are WIP’s. All of the others will be new starts and hopefully most will be finished before Christmas next year. Since I am a stitch whatever I want, whenever I want kind of gal, and I don’t count stitches, EVER, I did not put any restrictions on my projects. I just need to work on them in the month that they are called. That can be for a day, 3 days, a week, or until I am ready to do something else. Jessie Marie says you can make WIPGO your own and that is what I am doing. Look forward to seeing lots of Christmas stitching this year, as well as other WIP’s and knitting and crocheting and whatever else I get up to in 2026. I am really looking forward to trying WIPGO out and seeing how much Christmas stitching I can get done.

What are your plans for 2026? I’d love to hear about them.

Happy Stitching!

ginny