How do people stitch so quickly?

I'm on a few Facebook groups that are cross stitch themed, and one of them asks you to post your WIP every Wednesday. Someone posted their Holiday Village (the one I've put aside for now) and they managed to almost finish it in ten weeks!!! I could say I'm not jealous but I'd be lying...

Anyway, I've found that having very few tasks left to do has left me a little directionless strangely. I've only got the two left to complete now; the book plans and the savings target. The savings target is something that I can only influence once a month so that will take a while (on 65% now!) so the book plans are what I need to concentrate on but I'm finding my energy dissipating in general at the moment. I've had my two days off work this week and neither day was productive in any way, so the only thing I have to show for this week is my progress on the cross stitch.

So I'm feeling a little annoyed with myself this week but I suppose we all have our off weeks. I've got a week off soon so I can work harder then. I think part of my problem is not knowing what to work on next, which is why I tend to default to the stitching. The good thing is I haven't bought things, aside from a meal at Wetherspoons yesterday for £19.77. I am tempted by the new Sherlock funko pops though! Maybe for christmas?

So another stitchy post this week, but there is nothing wrong with that sometimes!

Ems

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