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I was not aware there were designated cross stitch holidays like this lol! Sadly I will be out of town this weekend, but I will try to take part in the next one!
Oh you're in a whole new world now. Just wait til you see the kind of absolute nonsense stitchers get up to every year in May!
Why, what happens in May?
I've seen one challenge that was about making 30 starts in 30 days but that would be a disaster in my house. I'm not sure what it was called though.
Yeah so there's so-called Stitch Maynia which is the one you're thinking of. But then I think people realised how unsustainable that was and now there are about a million offshoots and competing May challenges.
Medieval May was a new one I saw around the place this year, and a friend of mine is trying to get something called Moody May off the ground too. Of course a lot of people take an existing challenge and just make up their own rules, which is how we get vaguely-defined variants like Stitch Sania.
Then there's the fact that the 100 Day Project runs through May as well...basically there's a lot going on at once!
I learned early on that such challenges are not for me and I have enough stress in my life as it is without making cross stitch into another source of it ๐