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!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/20/25

Hello Stitchy Friends! I do hope that you had a wonderful week! I had a pretty good week; we finally got the long expected rain. It really made the hot weather a little cooler and we were able to finally relax a bit! There is nothing else really happening around here except that I had another FINISH! 

I finished all the stitching on the Reindeer Bauble Ornament! I don't want to stitch them into the ornament shape until I am closer to Christmas, this way I can safely store them, without smashing them.  I also want to get a piece of scrapbook paper to cover the stitching on the inside, so the stitches are not able to be pulled out by anyone. So without much further ado... here is the Reindeer Bauble!

Reindeer Bauble Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

I added the LAST 55 Xs to finish the stitching.

I will make them into ornaments closer to Christmas.

Then I spun the tiny decision wheel and it decided that I should work on the Peppermint Purple's 2024 Annual Blackwork SAL. I have missed this piece! This will be the piece I stitch at the Mall for a few weeks. I am hoping to get plenty finished in that time. 

Annual Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

I added 417 stiches this week

As far as the project that I will be stitching at home there is no decision wheel needed! I will start on the next Christmas ornament in the pile. I would like to stitch them all so I am not rushing (as usual) at the last minute. 

So that is all for this week. 

Thanks, as always, for stopping by to see what I am up to. 

Hope to see you again next week!

Until then don't forget to

stitch, stitch, stitch!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/13/25

Hi there! I hope everyone had a great week. It is pretty good here. We are still in the 100s with very small amounts of rain here and there. This will be a very quick post, even though I have really been stitching and I have a finish to show for it, finally! 

The first stitch I have for you is the Quilt Block Sampler! I am so happy to finally have it finished and I love how the variegated floss turned out on it. Thank you to everyone for all your comments on this piece over the time I have been stitching it, I think looking at those comments helped me finally get to the end.

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

Added the last 185 stitches on 07/11/25.

I also worked on the Reindeer Ornament this week. I did manage to put in all the cross stitches and some of the back stitches but last night my eyes were to tired to continue. I do hope to have all the stitching finished on this one this week, so I can start the next ornament. I won't FFO them until closer to Christmas so I can mail this one right out. I tried to draw my own penguin for the missing ornament I need but I see that I am not really very good at drawing! 

Reindeer Bauble Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

This week I added 430 stitches.

Thank you for stopping by!
I appreciate it and hope to see you next week.

Stay safe and keep on stithcing!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/06/25

Welcome Everyone! 

I hope you are doing well! Where you able to get in any stitching time? I hope you were.

This week I tried to keep busy working on three different pieces. But I found that I had this problem while stitching and it is called... watching TV shows and documentaries! I was concentrating on them and neglected my stitching; among other things!  I always watch TV while stitching but I guess this week the television was more interesting than the needle. So I didn't get in a lot of stitches this week.

First, I worked on the Quilt Blocks. I was hoping to finish this last block but unfortunately I didn't quite get there! I am not going to say this is the week because that always seem to jinx my plans. So maybe you can just come back next week to see where I get to. 

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

Put in 141 this week.

Then one of the ladies in our stitching group wanted us to stitch something patriotic on the Fourth of July,  So I dug through my WIPs and came up with this piece featuring a flag. I changed the wording from "Long May You Stitch" to "Long May You Wave" because it just seemed like the right thing to stitch. I noticed I still have some of the white stripes to stitch and I have to finish the pole. I did finish the stars on the top but I guess I put the wording over it.

Long May You Stitch

Lucy Beam

Love In Stitches

Added 111 stitches this week.

And last but not least... I worked on the Reindeer Ornament. This piece suffered the most because of watching the TV but I am getting him finished. I think he is looking pretty good and he will look awesome when he is assembled!

Reindeer Bauble Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

I added 174 stitches this week.

Well that is it for the week, we have been around 100° each day but we finally got a little rain. We are suppose to get some more this week and I hope we do. It helps cool things down a little

Thank you so much for stopping by to see me!

I hope to see you back here again next week.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/29/25

Welcome Everyone! I hope that you are doing well! Everything is great here in Arizona. The weather forecasters are still promising rain, though I have not seen any yet. Hopefully it will be soon because the birds do not want to eat their food in the heat. We (and most neighbors) have NO shade around our homes. A lot of homes have cacti growing in their front yard since this is the desert; but that does not provide any shade either; putting out water during the summer is not really a good idea either as the sun heats it up. It is not easy being a bird here in the summer months.

So on to my stitching! This week was a repeat of the last where I only stitched on the quilt blocks and the reindeer. I made good progress with them so let me show you!

First up, I'll show you the quilt blocks. I am still working on the last block and it looks like it should be finished this week. Then I have a fill in a few places I missed when I originally stitched those blocks.

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

I worked on this on Tuesday and Friday during our
weekly get togethers and I put in 158 stitches this week.

Next up is my first Christmas ornament of the year, the Reindeer Bauble. I am getting kind of excited because I am about two thirds of the way finished, and you can really see the reindeer. I think the scary part of this will be cutting it out because that always makes me nervous! 

Reindeer Bauble Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

 

I put in 413 stitches on this piece.

I have still been looking for a penguin ornament like these, but I haven't had much success. I have thought about trying to make it on my own, but I am not an artist! 

So, I think that is it for the week.

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Thank you very much for stopping by!

Hope that I see you next week.