My Sunday Stitchy Update 09/14/25

Hello All, I hope that you are having a good day. 

Nothing exciting is happening around here except stitching, which can be exciting. 

I spun the Tiny Decision Wheel and what came up for stitching at the Mall with my friends was the Temperature Library. I decided to stitch it at home instead of in our group and I added two feet of stitches, get it? ha ha There is also a book to the left of the feet which you can't really see. Now to decide; should I take it out and change that color for the chart or will the book outline be good enough to bring attention to it?  So many decisions...maybe I should use the wheel?! 

Temperature Library

Kristi’s Corner Needlework

Put in 133 stitched on this round.

After that I went back to the ornaments and started the Snowman AGAIN! This is it's last chance so I hope it works out. I decided to start in the center this time and see if that helps me. I don't want to jinx it but so far, so good! 

Snowman 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching
 

Starting again with 331 stitches.

And another new start! Last night I couldn't sleep again and I was thinking about Jacob's birthday at the end of the month. With our family being from Chicago, the guys in this house cheer for the Chicago teams. One of the gifts we are getting him is a Chicago Blackhawks jersey and so today I decide to stitch him their logo to hang in his room. It is kind of plain, but he will like it. Now to finish it and frame it by the end of the month! 

Chicago Blackhawks Logo
found all over Pinterest

52 stitches so far.

And that is it for stitching for the week!

Now, with the permission of her husband, I have a little sad news to share with you. Linda Scott, a blogger from a few years ago with the blog Stitchin with my Furbabies has passed away on September 8th, 2025. Her husband  did not provide any details but I just wanted you guys to know since she was a friend to many of us. Linda will be missed along with her Disney stitching.  

Thank you so much for stopping by and
I hope you know how much I appreciate you and your comments.

Please stay safe and keep stitching and see you again soon!

💜   Love to you all!   💜

My Sunday Stitchy Update 09/07/25

Good Evening Friends! 

I hope that you had a wonderful week. My week was kind of good. The weather has cooled down and we even got a little rain. 

This week will be a very short post. I only stitched on one piece, Stephen King's House. I finished all the brown (DMC 400) on the top floor. 

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

I added 450 stitches this week.

Now I will put this away for a while and switch to something else after I spin the wheel today.

Well that is it for today. Short and sweet and to the point!

Thanks for stopping by and please continue to pray for Glenn, thank you.

Stay safe and I will
see you next week!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/31/25

Well that is another month in the books; August is over, done with, gone!! We have finally had our temperatures drop to under 100° an now we are just waiting for some rain. 

During the week I tried to stitch the Snowman and he is giving me lots of trouble! I am constantly putting in stitches and taking them out, over and over again! I hope to FINALLY get that scarf right soon! 

Snowman 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

  

I manage to get in 177 stitches. I am not sure they stayed in but I tried!

I also worked on Mr. King's House on Friday, It was a nice break from the snowman, even if it was only for  day! 

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

Added 128 stitches to this one.

And that is all I have for this week!

We can still use some prayers for my brother Glenn, if you can.

He has an incurable cancer and was put into hospice. They seem to be keeping him heavily medicated and he can't really hold a conversation. I am so upset over this situation that I just keep on breaking out in tears. I am praying for him to have the strength to get through this without the constant pain as his cancer has spread throughout his body. We thank you for any prayers said on his behalf. 

Thanks for stopping by,

I hope to see you next Sunday.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/24/25

Hello Everyone! I hope you had a great week! I had a pretty good week myself.  

I want to say thanks for telling me about your favorite genre of books. It was interesting to see how similar many of our likes are! Some of the more popular ones are Stephen King, mysteries, cozy mysteries along with biographies and the list goes on and on.

Now for the important stuff!

This week I stitched on three different projects. I don't remember if I mentioned that I needed to finish the penguin for J's birthday in September or not but I did get all the stitching on that done! To be honest, it was almost finished already but until you put in that last X, it is not ready to go! Now I need to FFO it so it will be ready for gift giving time. First though I need to decide how I should finish it.

Penguin Ice Slide

Daily Cross Stitch
 
Added the final 224 stitches!

Then I decided I wanted to add some color to Stephen King's House. Unfortunately, the next color was brown! But I think as long as I am nor using more black, it should be just what I needed! I think that it will help me keep track of where I am a little easier. 

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

I added 172 stitches this week.

And last but not least for the week I worked on the Snowman 3D Ornament. Today I finished what I will call the bottom snowball, tomorrow I think I will start on the pretty blue scarf.

Snowman 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

Put in an additional 362 icy stitches this week.

So what is everyone else working on? If you stitch Christmas gifts, what do you stitch? Larger  Christmas scenes, cards, something personal, stockings, ornaments or something else? Have you started yet?? As of today; Sunday, August 24th you have 123 days until Christmas! I think that means you should get started! For some reason, I always seem to pick ones that need lots of stitches so I need plenty of time.  

This week I plan to catch up with some blog reading but before that happens, I just wanted to say

THANKS

for stopping by! So until I see you again, stay safe and out of trouble!

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My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/17/25

A new week, same charts, new Xs!  

I am TRYING to make progress on the snowman ornament but there is soooo much WHITE! LOL  I get tired of looking at it! I think that this week I will need to finish stitching the Penguin for Jacob's birthday card! It is coming up in September, so I need to get busy.

Snowman 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

This week I add 586 stitched to the snowman
and I think I have a million left!

This week I also continued with my Stephen King House. There are so many black stitches that I have to count and recount and sometimes count again to make sure I have the right number of stitches in the right spot. So anyways, this is what I am stitching at the mall this week. 

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

I only put in 134 stitches in 2 days this week.
Guess we were talking to much again!

Do any of you read Stephen King books? What is your favorite genre of books? Me; I like true crime, mysteries and police procedure type books. I also enjoy some autobiographies, and a good sappy love story every now and then! Sounds like I will read most anything! When I was still working, I switched to audiobooks since I could listen to them while I did my work. I also find I can get more books in this way! If I remember to update Goodreads, then you can always see what I am reading at the top of the column on the right. If you are a member (it’s free) there request my friendship so I can see what you are reading!

Nothing else exciting happening here except we finally got rain, but I don't think it was enough. So, I hope we will get some more soon. Plus, I love a good rain. We are still dealing with the reason for the prayer request; we have appreciated all the prayers but please don't stop if you can see to it in your heart. THANK YOU

Stay safe and I hope to see you next Sunday.

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My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/10/25

Welcome Welcome Welcome! 

Glad to see you here today. It has been a rough week in my personal life and this week my stitching and friends have been the biggest escape I had. Thank goodness for fabric and floss. 

So, I think I will just jump right in! You may not know or remember that I stitch two days at the Mall with some friends and the rest of the week I stitch another project at home. I normally spin the Tiny Decision wheel to help me decide what to stitch unless something is on a deadline. Well, that was a failure this week! I spun the wheel and it came up to the Temperature Library. I was happy and packed up my supplies. When I tried to stitch at the Mall it required me to turn to a certain page to get the temps and another page for the color and finally another page to get to the chart. Aye yi yi! I felt like I spent all my time looking for stuff! LOL so now I know everything can't leave home and get stitched. 

Temperature Library

Kristi’s Corner Needlework

I put in 61 stitches this week.

So, I spun the wheel AGAIN! This time I landed on another big one; the Stephen King House! I wish it was a real house so we could get a glimpse of all the movies and their stars in one place. I got a good start on this Friday and I will continue it for the next two weeks. 

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

 

I added 127 stitches to the house on Friday.

I also went to work on on my ornaments, with one little change. Since I was having so much trouble with the Snowman ornament I looked around the site for another and lo and behold there was another! I decided to give it a try and so far so good! I hope my luck holds out until he is finished. 

Snowman 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

I put in 510 stitches on this new start Snowman

And that is about it for the week!

I have answered quite a few of the comments I had sitting in my inbox and I hope to be able to answer more this week along with leaving some comments for you guys! 

I hope that you have a great week coming up and you are able to get in lots of stitches. 

Before I sign off for today I would like to ask that if you are a praying person to please say a prayer for my family. I can't say what it is as it is not my need, but I do appreciate it. THANK YOU

Love you guys!

Stay safe and out of trouble, but stitch a lot!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/03/25

Happy Sunday!  Welcome to August and I am glad that you were able to stop by.  I can remember when we were small and we always thought August was the hottest month of the year but I guess it is really July in most places including Chicago where I lived most of my life. In Tucson though they say August is the hottest month of the year and I can believe it! We are still having lots of hot weather with  barely any rain I am getting in some stitching. 

I know, I know... I fell behind with emails again this week but I am definitely going to catch up, during the upcoming week I hope! I hate when I fall behind so I don't know how or why it is always happening to me. I think I get so but I much junk email that I get tired of going through it. I spend more time deleting and unsubscribing from junk than I can stand. What I want to know is how they always get my information. 

This week I was finally able to finish copying the Snowman chart so that I could actually read and stitch it easier! The only problem is that I also saw all the mistakes I made doing the outline of the chart, oh well. I took all of that out and started again. Didn't do to much on it this week but some is better than none. 

Snowman 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

Put in 274 new stitches this week.

So after a couple of days on the Snowman I switched over to the 2024 Blackwork piece when I went to the Mall. After I got home I just kind of stuck with it for the rest of the week and it is over half way finished! Once it is finished I can start on the 2025 version!!

Annual Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

Put in an additional 480 stitches this week.

Tomorrow I plan on going back to the Snowman at home and I am not sure about what I will stitch at the Mall because I will need to spin the tiny decision wheel.

Thanks a bunch for stopping by and please don't hesitate to stop by again next week!

Love you guys!

Stay safe but stitch a lot!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/27/25

Hello Everyone! This week I have a new start to show you, another ornament! 

This week I started on the Snowman 3D Ornament. I was having a hard time with it because they released it as a very small freebie chart! It makes it hard to see the squares and the symbols for the colors. I kept trying to enlarge the picture which only made it blurry. Then I decided to take photos with my phone of smaller sections of the chart and that worked! YAY I am still copying it over to a blank piece of paper though, so I don't have to strain to see what color I need next. 

Snowman 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

I put in 148 stitches this week.

Sorry,  I could not find a finished picture of the snowman.

At the Mall this week, I am stitching the 2024 Blackwork SAL. I hope to fill in the row I am working on and maybe start the one on top of this one. If not, I guess it will have to wait until next time so I can spin the wheel and pull something else out of the WIP Box.

Annual Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

This week I added 301 stitches.

I think it is about halfway finished.

So that is it for the week, next week I plan on stitching the same two pieces; with hopes of getting in lots of Xs.  This week I would also like to say THANK YOU, KAREN! (no blog). She sent me a few more of the 3D Christmas ornaments and some other charts that she had doubles of. I love them, the gnome and elf are adorable and I appreciate them!! 

So, believe it or not, I am out of words to say! LOL ~ that hardly ever happens. Maybe, I am just tired. The days of 100+ degrees makes me sleepy. But trust me, it is still better than the cold weather, 

Well thanks a bunch for stopping by my space.

I do hope you will come back soon.

Take care and please stay safe!