My Sunday Stitchy Update 11/03/24

Well Hello Everyone!  Another Sunday, Another Update. I hope that everyone is doing fine. I am doing pretty good. Nothing much happening here. The weather is still bouncing all around but hopefully it will decide that we are in Autumn and adjust accordingly! The good news is that we have R A I N today! 

How was your Halloween night? Lots of Trick or Treaters?  This year  had quite a few Witches, Marios, Spidermen, Ninja Turtles and other characters including one Michael Jackson! It was nice to see so many kiddos out and about but we did have warmer weather (low 80s) so it is easier for them to come out and walk around. Oh yeah, sorry to all of you that lost an hour sleep because of DST. I thought they were going to pick one time zone and stick to it!

This week I have been doing some stitching using the prompts in the "Fandom Stitching Central" group on Facebook while working on the acrostics, from Facebook groups "Magazine Monthly Cross Stitch Challenge!" and the "Fun with Cross Stitch" groups. I mainly follow the Fandom prompts and I fill in the acrostics from the pieces I use for Fandom. 

So now let's see what the Fandom prompts were for this past week! 


Last Sunday was just a day with no prompts but I needed this for an acrostic so I stitched a little on it.

Lucky Shamrocks

Daily Cross Stitch

On 10/27 I added 100 stitches.

On Monday they wanted me to "Stitch on a project that I absolutely love and explain why." So that would be this one with a million flowers. I just love flowers and this one has MANY to look at in all kinds of shapes, sizes and colors. It is going to take forever but I have patience; most of the time.

The Flower A Day

Designer - Carolyn Manning

CM Designs

Put in 117 stitches on 10/28/24

Tuesday was a fun prompt! "Stitch with blue thread or on blue fabric." Well lucky for me; I have one piece that fits both prompts! So I pulled it out and did a few stitches on it! 

Quilt Block Sampler

Artist - Loretta Oliver

Stitching the Night Away

Stitched 169 Xs on 10/29/24

Tuesday night I had a super bad sleeping night so I pulled out this piece since there are no color changes and I stitched in bed while watching some home flipping show. I finally got tired and ready to sleep at around 3:30am so I put it away. I really don't like insomnia but it seems to go with being older. 

Home is Where the Dog Is

Daily Cross Stitch
 

On 10/30 there was 117 stitches were added.

Then on  Wednesday and Thursday both prompts seemed Halloweenie to me so I worked on one piece for both evenings. Wednesday they thought I should "Stitch on a project with a ghost." You can't see the ghost right now but it is there in spirit! LOL Then on  Monday I needed to "Stitch on a project that means Halloween to you." So this one reminds me of Halloween since it has ghosts, goblins, pumpkins and candy on it. Who wouldn't want to stitch it? LOL

Sweet and Spooky

Fat Quarter Shop
  
Added 113 on 10/30 and another 206 on 10/31/24.

Friday was "Stitch on a project with water, if it is not visible in your stitching." Well I can't find my Vase of Flowers! I have searched and searched to no avail. I decide to work on my Christmas ornaments instead because I REALLY need to get them done!!

Small Christmas Ornaments

Durene Jones

 

On 11/01/24 I added 246 stitches.

And then on to this one... "Stitch on a project you wish would just disappear". When I say I wish it would disappear I really do! So many color changes in one section  that it seems to take forever and ever. One day I hope to finally get thru this piece and my grandson really hopes so too. That is one good thing about these prompts, they give me a chance to get through a lot of different pieces for at least a few stitches. 

Dinosaurs

Flumpkins X Stitchers

Artist - Stephen Michael Gardner

On 11/02/24 I only added 44 Stitches but I will continue it today!

So that is just over 1,100 stitches for a successful week.

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Thanks a bunch for stopping by.

I hope you enjoyed reading about my stitching at
least half as much as I enjoyed blogging about it!

Now to go work a little on those stinking dinosaurs again.
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My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/27/24

Hi Friends! How are you doing this week? I'm doing great! This past week we actually had two days in the 70s! It was kind of nice not running the AC and having the door open for a while; ah... fresh air! I have really missed that! LOL Unfortunately we jumped right back into the 90s. Mother Nature can be such a tease! I see we are supposed to cool off this week but I hope not to cool for the trick or treaters! 

I hope you were able to get in some time for stitching. Any new starts or finishes? Last week I managed to get in some stitching, not much but all the Xs count! No finishes for me but I hope to get my ornaments finished soon so they will be ready for Christmas mailing. So lets see how I did at finding a piece to stitch for each prompt. Deciding what to stitch is the most challenging part and it is also the part I enjoy. Ready to see what the prompts were and you can decide if I was successful or not?

First prompt I stitched was "Stitch on something that reminds you of your mother, grandmother, or female that helped to raise you." This was an easy one! My Mom had a green thumb and we always had plants growing around the house both inside and out. I miss the plants and TRY to grow some but I even killed the cactus! Anyways I stitched this piece in Honor of my Mom whom I miss everyday.

Flowers of the Month

January, Carnation

Designer - Ellen Maurer-Stroh

 
Progress on 10/21/24 was 205 Stitches

The next prompt I had was not a good one for me! It was "Stitch on a piece that has rain, thunder, or lightning." I looked thru all my stitching and I got nothing! So I took the penalty and decided on the One Hundred Days of Tiny. The problem was that this was the evening I meet some other stitchers at the mall to stitch. There is some bad lighting there and I left my light at home! So I just made the squares without the fills to be on the safe side. 

One Hundred Days of Tiny 

The Steady Thread

Progress on 10/22/24 was adding 216 stitches.

The third prompt was to "Stitch on red fabric or with red thread."  Lucky me, I just happened to have something with red stitching on it. So I stitched the scarf which was red with a little yellow. What perfect timing I had on this one.

Winter 2024 SAL

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa

I added 216 stitches on 10/23/24.

I decided that the next two prompts I was using could be stitched on the same piece; Nintendo. The first prompt was to "Stitch on something that is considered hostile." I never played Contra before but just by the look of it, I think it is pretty hostile game.

The second prompt I used for Nintendo "Stitch on something that is new to you, a new designer, a new kind of thread, a different color fabric, a different count of fabric etc." This is the FIRST time I decided to stitch something this big! I wondered what in the world I was thinking when I cut the fabric and each time I get it out to stitch on it.

Nintendo

Contra

Armada Designs

I added 100 and 138 on 10/24 and 10/25/24 respectfully.

And the last prompt for the week was "Stitch on something that pictures what you would think of as silence and explain your answer."  Honestly, I after I stitching a piece for this it I thought about the temperature library but didn't feel like doing another piece so I used the Shades of Gold that I had stitched already. I said that since there is not a lot happening in the design it is what I would consider silent. It is just a bunch of simple lines that create a stunning picture free of confusion. 

I don't know if they will accept that explanation or not but I thought it was a good try!

Shades of Gold

Designer - Nicole Dostal

Northern Expressions Needlework

So I added 209 stitches to the piece on 10/26/24.

So I guess this is where my stitching prompts ended for the week. It was another fun week of stitching

I hope you enjoyed seeing what I stitched and why and now I need to go and find out what the prompts are for the upcoming week. But first, I need to stitch!

Thanks so much for stopping by!

I appreciate you checking on my blog.
Have an awesome and safe week.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/20/24

Hello and Happy Sunday. We made it through another week and that is a blessing. Our temperatures are FINALLY going down and we had a few days under 90° and even had a day in the 70s! What a difference the temperatures make. 

I haven't really been doing anything else except trying to slowly clean out and straighten my stitching cabinets. It can be pretty tiring and time consuming but I haven't done this in quite a while so it is long overdue. I will take some of the stuff to my stitching group to see if anyone wants it. If not I will call around for a donation place that might be interested. Last resort will be the Goodwill or some place like that because I would rather give it to someone that needs and will use it.

But anyways, I would like to show you this week's stitching! 

Last Sunday I worked on the Vase of Flowers. I was caught up in a movie and didn't get very many stitches put in but some are better than none. I did not have a prompt so I was just stitching.

Vase of Flowers

Durene Jones

Progress 10/13/24

I only managed to get in 71 stitches!

Then on Monday the prompt I had was "Stitch on a project that reminds you or makes you think of someone who has been a father figure in your life." That piece would have had to have been something with American Indians or Indigenous Americans on it but I have nothing like that in my stash. Once my Dad passed I stopped buying those types of charts since he was the only one who appreciated those types of scenes. So I stitched this piece instead and took the penalty.

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie

Rhona Norrie Designs 

 

Progress 10/14/24
I put in 214 stitches on this.

The prompt on Tuesday was to "Stitch on a project that contains a gem or a Phoenix." I consider the Stars are gems that light up the sky so I stitched on the piece with the American Flag. 

 Long May You Stitch

Lucy Beam from

Love In Stitches

Added 104 stitches on 10/15/24

Nintendo

Contra

Armada Designs
I stitched on Nintendo for three days so I am posting them all together for you.

Wednesday's prompt was "Stitch on a project you have adapted to make it your own."

The layout is the change I made to the design. The one on the left is the designer's layout and the other one is mine. You would have to look at the names to see how I am arranging them. They will be in order of their original release date. 

 

On Thursday I needed to Stitch on something that includes an item you would find at a carnival and Friday I needed to Stitch on something that contains a tree.

  

On the entire chart I saw some cartoon characters the kids used to play with like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Disney characters to name a couple and said you would find them at the carnival as stuffies. On Friday I had to stitch some trees which this block is full of!

Progress on 10/18/24

I added 102 stitches on Wednesday and 100 on each of the other days.

Then over the weekend I needed to "Stitch on something that you’re so excited to work on that's distracting you from other projects or tasks you need to do." Well the Christmas ornaments definitely fit that prompt because I just keep thinking that Christmas is creeping up pretty fast! So I started the Elf ornament which is the fifth one out of the six.

Small Christmas Ornaments

Durene Jones

Progress 10/19 & 10/20
Put in a total of 256 stitches.

And there you have it,
a wide variety of projects!

Thanks for stopping by to see what keeps me busy in the evenings.

When do you stitch? In the mornings? Evenings? All Day? I mainly stitch in the evening after dinner. Sometimes I get in more time on the weekends because I don't usually have to cook dinner.

Well thanks again and I hope you will come back soon.
😊
Enjoy your week.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/13/24

Oh brother... I went to start this week's post and found last week's sitting there as a draft! Oops... 

Hello! I hope you had a great week with cooler temperatures but not to cold! Though there are only ten Fridays until Christmas! It is sneaking up on us pretty quickly so it is time to start the Christmas stitching and other projects. 

Every week the weather person says that we will be down to double digits by the weekend and every week they build up our hopes only to disappoint us time and time again! We are still in the 100s and have broken our own record of the most days in the 100s in a year! 

Each week we receive new prompts for stitching and while you you don't have to do each one I try to do them all while also filling in my acrostic puzzles. Changing project each day has kind of grown on me and keeps me busy. I enjoy touching each project and getting a chance to stitch on some that I haven't seen in  while!  Like this first one! 

On Monday the first prompt I stitched on was "Stitch on a WIP that went missing for awhile (either from your storage spot or from your brain)".  Well I have a few projects that can fit into this category but I have been seeing quite a few people stitching this one lately. So here is mine which has not been stitched on since 2022!

Mason Jar Lineup

Designer - Barb Tourtillotte
Dimensions

Progress of 127 Stitches on 10/07/24

The next prompt I stitched on was "Stitch on a project that contains something fragile." I think that snowmen are pretty fragile! Have you ever seen one starting to melt when the temperatures start to rise? They just start losing things like their face and then their whole head! The first time Jacob saw this happening he was very upset. 

Small Christmas Ornaments

Durene Jones

Finished the Snowman with 140 stitches on 10/08/24

The next prompt was to "Stitch on a project with a creature or plant that is found in the sea." Guess what, I don't have anything like that! LOL Instead I worked on the following project. They call that a penalty stitch and you can only count half the stitches 

Spooky & Sweet

Fat Quarter Shop

 

Progress 10/09/24

added 256 stitches

My next prompt seemed super easy... "Stitch on a project that is decidedly NOT musical." Well that is probably everything in the WIP Box so I just picked something I felt like adding some stitches to. I am about a a fifth of the way through this one so I thought it would be nice to add a couple if squares to it.

One Hundred Days of Tiny 

The Steady Thread

 
added 212 stitches on 10/10/24

For this next prompt I had to wrack my brain for a bit!! "Stitch on a project that displays a vehicle of sorts."  I had to go back through my old posts to see if I could find a car or something and I found one, thanks goodness. Mr. King's Christine is front and center on this piece!

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

 
on 10/11/24 I added 204 stitches

The next prompt was to "Stitch on a project that you had envied for awhile." When I first saw this one I just knew I HAD to have it along with it's companion piece; Twisted Band Sampler. But given all the charts I already have I couldn't justify it. But then my enablers aka my children, Matt & Tia bought them for me and kitted them up, problem solved! LOL

Twisted Rainbow Sampler

Northern Expressions Needlework

   

Progress 10/12/24 and add 100 stitches.

and this is the

Twisted Band Sampler

which I swear I will get to one of these days!

Well that is it for this week!

I hope you enjoyed seeing what I was up to this week!
Now I need to go get ready for next week!!
YaY

Thanks for stopping by!