Sunday, March 17, 2024

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/17/24

Hello People!  I hope you are all having a wonderful week! It was one of "those" weeks for me. I really wanted to stitch but I just couldn't get myself motivated. I am hoping that next week I will be better at picking up my needle and thread so I can get busy!

Well, let me show you what I did manage to stitch.

First up is Home is Where the Dog is

Home is Where the Dog is
Daily Cross Stitch
  
Progress 03/12/24
211 stitches added


This is one of the pieces I stitch when I go to the cross stitch get together since it is a pretty easy stitch that only requires one color. 


I also stitched Lucky Shamrocks

Lucky Shamrocks
 
Progress 03/15/24
Only 72 little Xs

This is another one that is an easy stitch that doesn’t require any real concentration since I just have to fill in the Shamrocks. Though I must say the “lucky” shamrocks did not bring me any luck! I decided to play the Powerball since it was over $600 million but I didn’t even get one stinking number (as usual)! 


Then I moved on to the Peppermint Purple SAL.


2024 Blackwork SAL
Peppermint Purple

Progress 03/13/24
260 stitches as you have to count
blackwork as two stitches for one.

Right now, I am only working on the border (or frame) of the piece. I will start adding in the fills once I am finished with this part. This is the kind of design I really enjoy stitching!

This is a free yearlong SAL available on Facebook!

Thanks so much for stopping by!
I appreciate your visit and comments.

I hope you  will come by again soon.

Sunday, March 10, 2024

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/10/24

Hi Everybody! I hope that everyone is doing well. I almost forgot to post today but here I am just in time! 

This has been one of those crazy weeks that started off with my car getting a flat tire! So we ordered some new tires for her. They say they take a week to arrive so they schedule an appointment for putting them on a week after you order them. So it was a long week of driving on a spare and worrying every minute that something will go wrong. Fortunately, I had safe travels and she has new shoes on all the way around. 

Now on to the stitching! 

This week I started off with the I Stitch Sampler. I ended up having to do the S twice because I miscounted when stitching it. 

I Stitch Sampler
Rhona Norrie

Progress 03/06/24
316 stitches


Next up I started my Lucky Shamrocks. I decided to do the outlines so I can take it to our stitching group and I can just stitch while we talk and talk and then talk some more! This will NOT be finished by St.Patricks Day! 

Lucky Shamrocks
  
Progress 03/09/24
576 stitches


Finally today (Sunday) I worked on The Flower A Day piece. I really like this piece and I hope I can squeeze it in next month too. 

The Flower A Day
Designer - Carolyn Manning
  
Progress 03/10/24
152 Stitches

And that was my week!  Full of adventures and 1,044 stitches.

How was your week? Anything exciting going on?

So I am signing off now but I really
hope to see you again next Sunday!

In the meantime I am trying to catch up with blogs, Instagram and email.

Have a great week!

Saturday, March 09, 2024

February 2024 Stitching Stats!

Man I feel like I keep forgetting the things I plan or want to do like my stats!! 

I am going to have to make myself some reminders to get me back on track. Anyways here are my current numbers and hopefully I will get myself organized! 

Here are my February Numbers:

Number of Days Stitched This Month = 29
Number of Days Stitched This Year = 60
Number of Days Stitched Consecutively = 790

Number of *Projects Worked on This Month = 12
     *Includes WIPs, UFOs (which may have already been worked on) and new starts.

Number of New Projects Started This Month = 4
Number of New Projects Started This Year = 8

Number of Projects Finished This Month = 1
Number of Projects *Finished This Year = 2
     *Does Not included any mini finishes.


Here is a round up of February's stitching:

2024 PP SAL
Designer - Clare Ardali
275 Stitches





Fun Every Day
Designer - SamSarah Design Studio
(no longer in business)
278 Stitches
  



I Stitch Sampler
Rhona Norrie
136 stitches
 



Nintendo
397 Stitches



Quilt Block Sampler
Designer - Loretta Oliver
310 Stitches
  



Shades of Gold
Designer - Nicole Dostal
200 Stitches
  



Small Christmas (Ornaments)
147 Stitches
  



String of Lights Christmas Tree
Artist - Ruth



Temperature Library
Designer - Kristi DiClemente
 




The Enchanted Christmas Snowman
Artist - Dona Gelsinger
The Flower A Day
Designer - Carolyn Manning
200 Stitches




 Valentine
1,038 Stitches


  


That is 3,853 Stitches for the month!

Whew that was a lot of pictures but I hope you enjoyed seeing the progress!

Now I have to get busy working on March's pieces.

Thank you everyone for stopping and I hope to see you again soon
and hopefully I will have myself organized in a helpful way! 

Again, sorry for the late post!

Sunday, March 03, 2024

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/03/24

Evening everyone, I hope that you had a great week. I had a pretty good week for the most part. 

Earlier this week I was a little disappointed that I was not able to reach all my goals for the February challenges. I keep telling myself that I sure could have used those missing days at the end of February! LOL  I did stitch on each of the three pieces, just not enough. So I ended up stitching each of the three pieces first in March! Not that it really matters but it made me feel better for some reason.  This is how the two challenges ended up for the month. 
    

So this is what I have stitched this past week.

I Stitch Sampler
Rhona Norrie
Rhona Norrie Designs

Progress 02/27/24
136 Stitches


Small Christmas (Ornaments)
Reindeer
Durene Jones

Progress 03/02/24
205 Stitches


String of Lights Christmas Tree
Artist - Ruth
Progress 03/03/24
229 Stitches


I also posted my acrostics for March

    

I am going to see what I can finish this month! Hopefully lots of them but I want to do them ALL!!

In the meantime THANKS for stopping by!

Have a great stitching filled week.


Sunday, February 25, 2024

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/25/24

Hello there!! I am glad that you could join me again today. I really do appreciate the people who stop by every now and then to see what I have been up to. 

Last week I worked on quite a few different pieces and I would like to share them with you now. 


I started off the week with the Blackwork SAL. I love stitching Blackwork because it looks kind of delicate to me. 

Peppermint Purple 2024 Blackwork SAL
Peppermint Purple
Designer - Clare Ardali
 
Progress 02/22/24
275 Stitches
For the blackwork stitches two stitches counts as 1 stitch.
Right now I am working on the border and I will do the fills once that is finished. 


Then I moved over to do a Quilt Block

Quilt Block Sampler
Stitching the Night Away
Designer - Loretta Oliver

Progress 02/23/24
310 Stitches

Next I needed something a little more cheerful, Flowers! 

The Flower A Day
Designer - Carolyn Manning
CM Designs
Progress 02/24/24
200 Stitches

There was also the Home is Where the Dog is piece but all it is is a lot of boring block Xs doing the fill on the dog house so I will post that one when it is a bit more exciting!

So that is pretty much it for the week.

I am settling on exactly what will be in the March stitch and one of them is super long!

    

I will show them all filled out next week!

In the mean time;
Have a wonderful week and thanks for stopping by.




Sunday, February 18, 2024

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/18/24

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope that you had a wonderful week. It seems to me that 2024 is going by pretty quickly and so I need to catch up with it! 

This week I stitched on a few pieces for my challenge. The first one up was The Enchanted Snowman. This piece is one that goes way back! It was a gift from Deb; a friend of mine who no longer blogs in 2018. I promptly started it but who know what happened. It got pushed to the back of the box to rarely be seen again. The last time I worked on it was in February of 2022.

The Enchanted Christmas Snowman

 
Progress 02/12/24
244 stitches for the 200 required.


The next thing I worked on was the Fun Every Day calendar tags. This is another oldie but definitely a goodie! I was also so gung ho when I first bought them. They were my 'waiting in the car project' for a while when I was picking up Jacob from school but now I don't really wait in the car! So I thought I should take them to my stitching group and do them there!! So... I was happily stitching away when I discovered a mistake on the one I was stitching! So I started looking at the rest of them because instead of following the chart each time I followed the one I stitched before it. It was only one line on each but wouldn't you know it; they were all wrong. I had to pick them all apart and do them over again. On perforated paper it isn't that much fun! 

Fun Every Day
Designer - SamSarah Design Studio
(no longer in business)


 
The left is some of the wrong ones and the one on the right is on it's way to be corrected!
I managed to get 214 stitches in correct this week


And the last one for the week is Valentine! I don't know why but then I look at one like this I always think 'No problem, this one will be quick!' but it never fails; it takes forever! 

🩷 Valentine ðŸ©·

Finished 02/17/24
561 stitches this week for a total of 1,038 for the finish.

And that is my stitching for the week!

Thanks for stopping by to see what I have been up to.

Now I need to finish filling in my acrostic for March and see what I should stitch today!

Have an awesome week.