Hello my friends! I am looking ahead to 2025 for my goal planning and I thought I would share one of them with y’all a little early since the window to participate closes on 12/13/24. This year I am going to work through one of the charts for the 2025 HAED SAL. It is a looooot of work since these charts are so dense and have thousands of stitches but I have already purchased my spot and am committed. Here is the link to the SAL page on their website. I am not an affiliate for HAED but I would love to have some fellow stitchers join in the fun!

I am going to working on Innocent Dreams by L&L Designs for this challenge. It is super cute and has tons of great color shading that looks fun to work with. I have never done one of these stitch a longs before so I am curious if the pattern will be released horizontally or vertically four pages at a time. The goal is to finish 6 pages by the end of 2025 to receive a copy of all the charts available for the SAL with the stretch goal to finish the whole chart by the end of the year with a prize of one additional chart from their website. HAED is releasing four pages at a time so I am guessing each chart is 12 pages with the last set possibly being partial pages. That is a page a month of stitching!

For context, here is my current WIP from HAED. It is the Quick Stitch of Randal Spangler’s Literate Dragon (link) and on 1/1/25 I will hit the 10 year mark for working on it. This is most of one page done with some of the bottom and page to the right of the first one. My original goal was to finish it within one year but I had small kids at home and very little time to work on it for a long time. I have made a lot of progress on it the past few months and hope to at least finish the first page by the end of the year.

Floss can get very expensive for these large charts and typically the charts have between 80 and 90 colors to them. HAED does provide a floss estimate on the listing page so everyone can see what is needed and order ahead of time so we are all ready to go on 1/1/25. I am one to “borrow” thread from other charts since a lot of the time you only need the skeins for a few stitches but I will definitely be shopping sales to get a full set for this design. I have had a hard time finding all of my threads at places like JoAnn but I have had good luck getting both fabric and threads from 123Stitch. They have excellent customer service and I always receive my order quickly! HAED is currently having their annual Black Friday sale with all patterns 50% off so if you find something you like you should snag it while they are on sale. I did order a couple of other patterns I have been pining for but I know those won’t get started for a while.

Watch for my progress on both Instagram and Threads as well as our Facebook page. I will try to post regular updates on the blog as well.

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I hope you join me in participating in the SAL!

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2025 SAL Description

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