My October 2026 Stitchy Update

I hope you had a great October. On Halloween it rained most of the day here, unfortunately. The Trick or Treaters were still plentiful though which means, there was not a lot of left over Halloween candy. What there is, I will put it in a Ziploc bag and stick it in the freezer to help avoid temptation. 

So I would like to share with you what I stitched in October. I ended September with

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

 
October's Starting Point and ending for the month

This finished off page 4, only 5 more to go!

Nintendo

Armada Designs

After that I spun the Tiny Decisions wheel and it selected Nintendo for me. I stitched two sections on this piece. I am also showing you the entire piece and as you see, I have plenty more to go.

  

10 Games out of 24 stitched.

The Flower A Day

CM Designs (Carolyn Manning)

Since I seem to be on a roll of stitching LARGER pieces right now, I decided what's one more?! 

October's Starting Point and  ending for the month

I can't believe I am ONLY on page 2 on this piece.

I think I have a problem with picking out
larger pieces and then they take forever to complete!

During October I listened to Stephen King's Drunken Fireworks I really was not very impressed with this book. It was definitely a SHORT story as it just took a couple of hours to read.

Then I reread a Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, which is The Shining part two. I really enjoyed this one and that is why I read it again and again and have also seen the movie a couple of times. 

I am currently listening to Jodi Picoult's newest book, Hollow Bones. I am about 2/3 of the way through the book and am enjoying it very much.  I think if you are a fan of hers you will love this one  too, 

I hope everyone enjoyed their extra hour of sleep even though it never seems to make a difference to me when I was able to get that hour. Here in Arizona we don't change our clocks with DST, which I prefer. Congress keeps threatening they will make this the rule for the entire country but they have been saying this for years now. 

So that is it for the month of October!

Thanks for stopping by to see what I have been up to.

Hope you will join me again in November
but until then please stay safe and keep stitching.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 09/27/26

Hello friends! I know I have been AWOL for a while. I think I was just depressed and posting was not high on the priority list. Sorry!! However, I have stitched each and every single day so I am going to try to catch you up! As of yesterday, I am up to 1,729 days without a missed stitching day!

Christmas Tree

CrossStitchWorldUA

So it looks like I stopped with the monochrome Christmas Trees. I actually stitched one more after that. I am planning on keeping this one for myself! It is the first time I have made myself an ornament for the tree!

The white floss is blended with White Rainbow Blending

Thread which of course doesn't show up in the picture.

Shades of Gold
Northern Expressions

While I was waiting on an order of floss I stitched some of the Shades of Gold

Starting point 07/23/26

Finished that section
on 08/15/26

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

Next I jumped right into this one and have stayed here.

       Where I started on 08/27/26

Finished the top floor on 09/13/26

Finished this room of the Shining on 09/26/26

As you might remember, I listen to lots of audio books.

After I finished The Long Walk I read or rather heard a dozen other books! I won't bore you with listing them all here but if you are interested you can see them all here on Goodreads. If you a have an account there please feel free to follow me. 

I am currently reading His Perfect Crime by Alex Sigmore. I am enjoying this book and it is first in the series but I have since found out it it the ONLY book in a series of 10 that my library has. I am going to see if any of the other libraries in our surrounding area has any.

I am sure I have mentioned this before but I have chronic pain. A couple of months ago I had a stimulator implanted in my back that helps control the pain.  It seems to be helping, thankfully but I am always tired now and I don't understand why. Hopefully the doctor will have some answers when I see him next. 

So anyways, that is pretty much all I have been up to.

Not that much but it seems like it has been a very long time.

Thank you, Catherine for all your kind words.

Hope to be back soon, probably at the end of October.
Thanks for not forgetting about me!

June 2026 Stitchy Update

 

Hello Friends and Happy July!  I hope you had a great June full of summer fun, family and stitching. We have been having a lot of HOT weather here! Heat advisories and weather warnings, one after the other. In June we had a handful of days that were 99 and the rest were over 100.  It looks like July is lining up to follow suit. But now on with the stitchy news!

Christmas Tree

CrossStitchWorldUA

In June I continued stitching the Christmas tree ornaments. I am a little unhappy with their size since I did them on 14 count but I am sure they will be fine in the long run. Here are the trees that have been stitched up already. 

My children and grandson each picked their own colors. I am stitching up one for my niece right now. I didn't ask her about a color, I just picked green. I would also like to stitch on for myself so I will see how I feel once I finish this one. I am kind of tired of stitching this tree but I know if I take a break, I won't get back to them in time to finish them without rushing. 

And that was all the stitching I did for the month!

This month I got in three different titles. The first was by Wally Lamb. If you have never read one of his books I highly recommend that you check them out. The one I read was The River Is Waiting. The next book I finished was Joanne Fluke's The Other Child. If you are familiar with her books or movies in the Hannah Swensen Mystery series then you know that they are cozy mysteries which are are bit funny. This book was NOTHING other books. I was so disappointed but I managed to finish it. After that the next book was Stephen King's The Long Walk. This book was written under his pen name Richard Bachman. It was a very good book and I enjoyed it ! 

And that wraps up June for me!

Thanks for stopping by to see my June stitching and what I read during the month!

Hope to see you again next month.
Take care and be safe!

My May 2026 Stitchy Update

Good Morning Stitchy Friends, I hope everyone is well! 

During the month of May I was pretty busy with my stitching amongst other things. 

Gnome Place Like Home
Rhona Norrie Designs

I worked a little more on my Gnome Place Like Home piece. I have made a little progress and there is still a long way to go! I think that they are cuties though! 

Added 402 stitches
05/09/26
 

2025 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

Then I put the gnomes down and when I spun the wheel it had me pick up the 2025 Blackwork SAL.  I worked on it for a week and I really need to get back to it soon! 

 

I added 418 stitches
05/16/26

Christmas Tree
CrossStitchWorldUA

Then I decided that there would be no wheel this week and I should get started with this year's Christmas Ornaments. This year I am going to do it differently and stitch everyone the same ornament in different colors. I browsed Etsy and found a Quaker Christmas Tree that I liked and asked the family to pick the color they wanted their ornament stitched with. 

The first on I stitched was for my grandson! He picked DMC827 and we selected a piece of fabric that everyone's will be stitched on. I thought the floss would be to light but I think they look good together. 

 
Finished on 06/01/26

And that is all I did on the stitchy front for the past month.

I did get in a couple of books though.  I listened to the 3rd book in the Housemaid series, The Housemaid is Watching by Freida McFadden. Right now it is the last book in the series but I think it is supposed to be turned in to either a movie or a TV series. 

The other book I listened to was Confessions of a Murder Suspect by James Patterson. It was a short book and it might have been a YA book. It was an ok book and I will continue on with the rest of the series. 

And that my friends, is that!

I hope to see you at the end of June with another update.

In the meantime, stay safe and keep on stitching.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 05/03/26

Hi Everyone! I hope you have been doing well. I have been enjoying the weather and doing lots of stitching! I have a lot of old projects and that is exactly what the wheel has been landing on lately. The benefit is that I can get some work in on my old pieces and maybe even get some of those WIPs finished off eventually!

We have been having a lot of crazy weather; hot days followed by chilly days and then more warm days. I figure as long as there are NO freezing days I am coming out ahead!

So here are the pieces I have been working on. 

04/19

Long May You Stitch

Lucy Beam

Love In Stitches

This chart originally said "Long May You Stitch" but I changed Stitch to Wave. I liked that saying better and I think it has more meaning for everyone involved. 

 
Finished this piece with 384 stitches!

04/25

Flowers of the Month

January, Carnation

Ellen Maurer-Stroh

After that I spun the wheel again and it landed on one VERY old WIP! I said to the wheel 'What is wrong with you! Can't you see I have been avoiding this one for YEARS!' LOL But I pulled it out of  the WIP Box anyway because that was the deal I made with myself. Whatever it lands on, that is what I stitch! Once I started it I decided that I will work on it until I finish the January flower, Carnation. 

The Carnations needed 1,186 stitches to finish them!

So that is five flowers down and seven to go.

05/02

Gnome Place Like Home

Rhona Norrie Designs

So I still had some time to spin the wheel again, so I spun it and I landed on Gnome Place Like Home. I was surprised to see that I had only completed half of a hat. Then I started stitching the rest of the hat and I remember that there are a lot of half stitches that I am not crazy about! Anyways, I finished the other half of the hat and plan on continuing on this chart later today. 
 

I put in 94 stitches today.

And that is all of the stitching I did this week!

I also listened to some books! 

Well like I predicted, Run on Red by Noelle Ihli was NOT very suspenseful to me but I finished it anyways. It was just ok on my scale, but I am sure others loved it. When I finished that, the next book was The Housemaid's Wedding by Freida McFadden. This is the third book in a series of four about the housemaid and how she protects abused women. I would probably rate this series a six out of ten. I then listened to a Stephen King book called The Body. If you have ever seen the movie The Stand that movie came from that book. The next one which I am listening to now is called The First Time I Saw Him by Laura Dave. The jury is still out since I just started it. Goodreads says I read the first book in the series but I don't remember it and I am hoping this book will jog my memory but I guess that is to be expected when there are five years between books. 

Well that is all my adventures since my last post! I hope you also had a great adventure or two.

Have a wonderful week

and

Please Stay Safe and Take Care.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 04/19/26

Hello Everyone!

I hope that you are/were safe from the storms and tornados that have been going on. I know that they can be very unpredictable and scary! Here, our weather still consist of a lot of hot days! Makes me worry about what the summer will bring! 

I didn't post last week because I thought that maybe I would have more to talk about every two weeks. I don't know if that worked or not but I think I may do it like this for a while. After all, if you want to see some progress pictures in between blog posts, I am on Instagram too.

Nintendo

Mickey Mousecapade

Armada Designs

Over the two weeks I put in 1,719 stitches and this square is finished!
Also there are eight squares out of the 24 complete.

So I just spun the wheel to see what I should stitch next and the lucky piece is..

If I remember correctly, this one is just about finished.
I will pull it out this morning and see how much I have left.

I finished the book Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. It was a very sad book to think of all the people who failed her through out her life, starting with her own father. When I finished that book I read the book Elevation by Stephen King. After that was finished I found that there was a bonus book on the same audiobook called Laurie. It was a super short story and I started and finished it while I cooked dinner! Now I am reading Run on Red by Noelle Ihli. It is supposed to be suspenseful but so far, it doesn't seem very suspenseful to me! Maybe the other half of the book will do it for me?

And that is it for me,

Thanks a bunch for stopping by!

Stay Safe and Take Care.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 04/05/26

Morning Stitchers,

I hope everyone has had a wonderful week full of Xs. Nothing much is going on here; just enjoying the warm weather, stitching and waiting for the Easter Bunny. 

This week I continued to stitch on the 2025 Blackwork SAL and made some pretty good progress. 

2025 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

This week I put in 980 stitches!

As for reading I am still slowly reading Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. It is pretty slow going but I think I will get through it. 

And that is about it for the week. Pretty boring, I know; but boring is ok for me.

I hope you have a wonderful week and a Happy Easter!