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.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/22/25

Hello Everyone, I hope you are having a great week. We have been in the 100s for a few days now and despite having A/C it is HOT everywhere; so much for the beginning of summer!  

This week I stitched on two pieces so this will be a quick post.

I took the Quilt Block Sampler design to the our stitchy group and stitched it there this week and I think I will do the same next week. It is kinda easy to stitch even with distractions!  

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

           

Put in 274 stitches this week.

Then I decided to start working on my Christmas Ornaments for this year. I have been wanting to try doing some 3D ornaments and I decided that this would be the year! Yay me

Reindeer Bauble Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

  

This was a new start and I put in 412 stitches

This was one of the kits that was a freebie with The World of Cross Stitching magazine that I bought off of eBay. It is really cute and I am anxious to finish it. I also managed to find a snowman and Santa but no luck on a penguin yet.  The only one I did find would be $40 some odd dollars to get and that is more than I am willing to pay so I am still on the hunt for one if you happen to know of one or see one somewhere! Thanks 

Well that is it for the week!

I want to finish the stitching on the reindeer by next week. I hope you enjoyed your visit and you will be back again next week to see if I have made any progress or not. 

Hope to see you again next week!

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Until then don't forget to

keep that needle moving!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/15/25

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a wonderful week. I had a pretty great week that included a bunch of stitching.  

It feels like it is summer here though we still have about six weeks of spring to get through. We are in the 100s every day now. We are going into monsoon season as well!  I just wish monsoon season meant that we would get a good old fashion thunderstorm like we used to get in Chicago. I certainly miss those. Here in Tucson it seems like a bunch of rain will fall quickly, then it will just stop. It doesn't really cool anything off since the rain is so quick.

So this week I worked a few days on the Winter SAL, Dark Nights. I am on last two lines of text but I need to go back and do some more back stitching. Not sure what I will do with this piece but I am leaning towards a pillow for the couch or a chair during the holiday season.

Winter SAL, Dark Nights

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa
 Added 276 stitches

After that I thought that my 2024 Blackwork SAL could use a little love on it so I pulled it out and got busy. I got in quite a few stitches on it ~ yay!

Annual Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

I added 416 (832) stitches to this one.

Well, I found three out of the four Christmas ornaments I need for this year. Unfortunately there were not in a set but they all came from the World of Cross Stitching magazine. I am going to try to sketch the fourth one out on my own. It doesn't seem like what I need will be to hard; we will see how I do.  Anyways, I may start those tomorrow so I can get them out of the way and not franticly trying to finish them 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 06/08/25

Good Evening, Friends! I hope you had a wonderful week and got in lots of stitches. I enjoyed a nice and relaxing week! YAY!

So anyways... I stitched on my Halloween piece, Spooky & Sweet this week. Hopefully, I will have it finished by Halloween this time! LOL

Spooky & Sweet

Fat Quarter Shop

Added 325 stitches

After I finished with that one for the week I decided to move to the Autumn Seasonal Quilt. The little quilt squares are so easy to stitch since it’s the same pattern for each one, but they are also very time consuming since they are so tiny.

Seasonal Quilts - Autumn

Susan Powell of Laurel Susan Studio

I added 452 stitches to this.

So that is all I stitched for the week, just two pieces. All I could think was how nice to not change pieces each day. Nice and relaxing and no pressure to move on to another piece! 

Thanks for stopping to check out my stitching.

I appreciate you looking and leaving comments.

So have an awesome week

and keep those needles smoking!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/01/25

Welcome! It looks as though today is going to be a quick post. 

We have been having temperatures in the high 90s and are in serious need of RAIN! They keep saying it is coming but I don't see any. 😕 Nothing worth talking about has really been going on here, except some stitching! 

We played a game during one of our stitching get-togethers and it was fun! Even more fun because I won! LOL We played the game called Stitch-opoly. It is a game based on Embroidery and Cross Stitching based on the ever-popular game of Monopoly. I don't think they make this game anymore based on the eBay prices but one of the ladies in our group got it locally for pretty cheap. Plus, since it was local there were no postage prices tacked on. So anyways, we had a fun time playing and I am sure we will play again and I am looking forward to it.

This week I stitched on the Mason Jar Lineup from Dimensions. I have not taken this out of the WIP Box since 2024 and before that it was 2022. So, I think it was time! LOL

Mason Jar Lineup

Dimensions

Designer - Barb Tourtillotte

Added 240 stitches to the mason jars

 

After I finished working on the jars, I pulled out the Penguin Ice Slide. I think that once I finish this, I will make it into a birthday card for Jacob and he can add the penguin to his collection.

Penguin Ice Slide

Daily Cross Stitch

I added 297 stitches to the ice.


And that is that on the stitching front! 

I enjoyed only stitching on a few pieces. I felt that I was able to really get in some stitches for a change. So, I can feel another change coming on as to what to stitch. No more acrostics or lists; just

ENJOYMENT!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a wonderful week and 

please stay well and safe and don't

forget to take some time for yourself!