Monday, February 17, 2025

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/16/25

New Week, New Stitches! YaY!

I hope everyone is doing great. I am doing pretty good; nothing exciting happening, thankfully. 

My needle had some busy times this week and I am happy with the progress that was made. The first thing I worked on was the 2024 Blackwork SAL and I can't wait to work on it again. I completed all of the January fills. 
 

Added in 319 (638) stitches.


After that, I found the Vase of Flowers that had been missing for a couple of months. It had been tucked away with another chart!  So I decided I needed to work on it! All most finished with the background then there is a little backstitch to do.

Added 141 blue stitches!


The next piece I worked on was The Flower A Day. This piece is so colorful that I can't help but smile when I am working on it!  I was wondering how many flowers are actually on this chart though I know I don't want to count them. 

So I added 92 stitches to this piece.


Then it was time for some more Blackwork with The Steady Thread's SAL. You can really see the design coming through now.. I think it must take a lot of patience to be a designer. 

  
Added in 91 (184) stitches.


Next up we have Faith Over Fear.  When I started it I changed the green to pink and forgot to write down which pink! I had to to thru a hand full of pinks to figure it out which one I used. I think I picked to correct one, at least it looks like it. I also made sure I wrote down the which number I used! 

Added 136, mostly white, stitches. Hope you can see them.


And finally, to wrap things up; I worked on My Enchanted Snowman! I can even see the progress made! I think I finally got the hang of this one or maybe because I didn't have so many color changes but I really enjoyed stitching on it this time. I guess we will see what happens next time. 

 
Added 227 stitches in.

Well it is LATE here and I need to go to sleep! So I guess I will close for now. Thank you once again for stopping by. I appreciate it. I am also making my way through my inbox and I am finally (hanging head in shame) answering emails. If I could only get two or three more hours in each day for a while I could easily catch up with everything I want to do.

Well friends, stay safe and I hope to see you next weekend!
Posted by at 4 comments:
Labels: , , , , , , ,

Sunday, February 09, 2025

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/09/25

Good Morning Everybody!  

How are you doing? Fine I hope. I had a pretty good week this week for a change.Our weather has been warm but that is subject to change next week for a couple of days. Let me show you what I stitched last week. 

First I worked on the Autumn Quilt. I think that this is pretty cute and I would like to stitch the entire series. 

Just Cross Stitch, Autumn 2024
 
Put in 246 stitches.


Then I decided to stitch a little on these flowers. I had to do a little frogging on them but they are all fixed up now.
 
January, Carnation
Managed to get in 113 stitches.


Oh the dog house piece. I feel like I will never finish him. The problem with this chart is all the black makes me tired of stitching it because it gets boring.

Put 148 stitches in.


This chart reminds me that I have to much stash! I am trying to stitch from that large stash pile only this year. I am only giving myself permission to buy my Christmas ornaments for this year and to order the free ornaments from Stoney Creek. I hope I can stick to this plan for 2025! 

Rhona Norrie
Rhona Norrie Designs

I added 147 stitches to this reminder.


Then I saw this chart in the Just Cross Stitch magazine an fell in love with it. The surprising thing is that this house it a dog house so I don't really know why I picked out the cat except for cuteness!

 
I put 200 stitches over two days on this piece.


And FINALLY I feel I have some time to work on my Blackwork SAL from 2024! I am anxiously waiting to stitch the 2025 version. Yesterday (Saturday) I put the fills in three of the 52 sections.

2024 Blackwork SAL
Peppermint Purple
Added 198 (396) stitches to this piece.


The flu is supposed to be moving across this country pretty fast so please watch out! 
Stay safe and healthy and I hope you have an awesome week.

I would like to say THANK YOU for stopping by!
I appreciate you for giving me some of your time. 

So until I see you again!
Posted by at 6 comments:
Labels: , , , , , , ,

Sunday, February 02, 2025

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/02/25

Welcome Back Everyone! I hope you had a great week and you were able to get in some stitching time. I had a pretty good week. One of the best parts of the week is being able to go to the Mall and stitch with my friends. I think I actually get less stitches in my piece because we are so busy talking and looking at everyone's work and wishes! But that is ok, I enjoy spending time with the other ladies.

So this week I worked on a couple of big projects that you can actually see the progress on. That encourages me to keep going! Sometimes you can't really see where you stitched but you know you did! So let me show you what I did! 

First up I stitched a little on The Enchanted Christmas Snowman. I can't believe I am still on page one of this chart though it does look like I am a little more than half way. If you look you can actually see the stitches I put in. Everything is so blue that it was nice to finally use a different color!

The Enchanted Christmas Snowman
On 01/26 I added 115 stitches


After that I worked on these teeny tiny squares. It is kind of hard to put the fill in these tiny boxes and I often have to take out what I stitched and do it again and again! 

One Hundred Days of Tiny
The Steady Thread
I added 252 stitches on 01/27.


Then it was Tuesday... that is the evening we stitch at the Mall. I gathered up my stuff, grabbed a Diet Pepsi and off I went. When I got to the mall I took my stuff out and I noticed I grabbed the wrong box of floss; darn it! Luckily the box I did have had black and white in it so I was still able to stitch the border! 

I Stitch Sampler
Rhona Norrie Designs
On 1/28 I added 107 black or white stitches.


Then on Wednesday I looked through the WIP Box and saw this one so I took it out and looked it over and thought that I could at least finish this one block! It took me four evenings to do it, but it is finished!! Now I am down to one more block. 

Quilt Block Sampler
Artist - Loretta Oliver
Designer - Stitching the Night Away

Yesterday, 02/01 I finished adding in 489 Xs.

Now I will have to look and see what I will do this week. I am still doing the stitching acrostics so I will look over the list I wrote down and see what I feel like stitching. And luckily I can use the same piece on more than one acrostic if it fits! YaY 

Also, Tuesday is World Cancer Day. I would like to send prayers and good wishes to everyone who has or had cancer or been touched by cancer in one way or another. Cancer is not only tough on the person that has cancer but the people surrounding and supporting them. I am proud to say that this week I will celebrate being a ten year survivor of ovarian cancer.

Be kind to one another. 

Well thanks again for stopping by!
I appreciate your time and interest.

Have a great week.
Stay Safe and Healthy
💜💜💜     ðŸ’œ   ðŸ’œ   ðŸ’œ     ðŸ’œðŸ’œðŸ’œ
Posted by at 6 comments:
Labels: , , , , ,

Sunday, January 26, 2025

My Sunday Stitchy Update 01/26/25

Happy Sunday Everyone! 

I hope that you had a wonderful week and it was full of stitches!  We are still having some cold days here and I don't like it very much! By the end of the week we were back to the 70s but I think next week will be bringing some more chilly days. Everyone in my area has been getting sick since the temps have been fluctuating so much but hopefully winter will be over soon with any luck.

If you are in the area of the California wildfires I am still praying they will be over soon. I think that they have some of the smaller fires under control but there is always a chance that they will spark into another large one again. They need lots of rain and water to fight those fires so please, if you pray ask for those fires to finally be put to rest. 

Well I had another pretty busy week full of stitches, so let me show you what I did!

The first prompt called was #5 "Stitch something from a magazine." This piece came out of the Winter 2024 edition of the Just Cross Stitch magazine so it definitely qualified!


I added 214 stitches this time.


The next number called was 20! It said to "Stitch something inspired by your pet or someone else’s pet". Well we have five dogs so this was the ONLY logical piece! 

Home is Where the Dog Is
Daily Cross Stitch
 
91 stitches were added this time.


11 Stitch something you would take on vacation

Dinosaurs
Flumpkins X Stitchers
Artist - Stephen Michael Gardner
 
Put in 47 stitches


After that the caller called number 21. That prompt said to "Stitch something that is part of a series." I have a few pieces that can be considered a series but I think this may be my oldest one. I would REALLY like to finish it someday.

Nintendo
Contra
Armada Designs
Started adding the greenery on the trees which was 110 stitches!


Well here we are, coming up to the end of Brringo! Only TWO prompts left. The first one called was 24. Again I need to "Stitch something inspired by your zodiac sign!"  I'm not really into the zodiac or horoscopes but here is my sign, Virgo.  This piece was pretty easy but I would like to stitch the Virgo symbol on it because it looks so bare. I'll have to go over to Etsy and see if I can find one.

Virgo Constellation
DailyCrossStitch.com
115 stitches finished this piece!!


And last but not list the very last number called was 1! It stated "Stitch something that is a fantasy theme (ex: fancy ladies, mermaids, etc)." I think that Stitchie Witchie is pretty fancy looking, just look at that hat for starters! Her outfit will look great too once you get to see all of her. 

Stitchie Witchie
Brooke's Books
 
I added 150 stitches.

This was my Brringo card.

And that is it for now. We play another version in September and I am already looking forward to it. But for now, I can stitch whatever I feel like doing so I planned out the last week of January to do one project a day. 

Well I hope you all have a great week coming up.

So until I "see" you again
stay positive, happy, safe
and keep stitching!
Posted by at 8 comments:
Labels: , , , , , , , ,
Subscribe to: Posts (Atom)