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!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/29/26

Hello, I hope you are doing well. I see a lot of places still have cold and snowy weather, I hope that you are not one of them. There is not a lot going on here, just stitching and that is ok with me. I have an extra short post for you today!

2025 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

This week I went back to my 2025 Blackwork SAL. On Friday, I kept stitching a little section over and over again and it kept coming out to short for the border I was putting it in, so I gave up frustrated. When I woke up Saturday morning it dawned on me that I should check the length of the rectangle and voilà, that was the problem, I stitched the border to long. So all those times I ripped it out, I am sure it was correct! So needless to say, I didn't make much progress on it but some in better than none. 

Stitched 624 stitches this week

I started a new book today, Nobody's Girl by Virginia Roberts Giuffre. I know it is going to be a sad book but I also think it will be an important and powerful book to read. 

And that is it for the week!

Thanks for stopping by and I hope that you will join me again next week.

Take care and stay safe!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/22/26

Good Morning Stitchers! I hope you had a great week and that your weather has warmed up. Our weather has warmed up so much that we broke some records this week. Starting on the 18th thru today we have had record highs. I really don't mind but I do wonder what summer will have in store for us. 

Seasonal Quilts - Autumn

Susan Powell of Laurel Susan Studio

Just Cross Stitch Magazine, Autumn 2024

This week I continued stitching on the seasonal quilt and I finally finished the quilt!! I was so happy that the quilt was finished, at least until I looked at the next section! LOL  It is full of leaves that have fallen to the ground so that means a bunch of confetti. Luckily for me, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. 

I put in 819 stitches this week. 

Now this piece will be going away for a bit since it is time for me to work on a Peppermint Purple SAL. I swear I need more hours in a day along with more days in a week so I can get in more stitching!

I am STILL listening to The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King and now that it is almost finished, I am starting to get in to it! Story of my life, I guess. 

It was a pretty nice relaxing week and that is it for me!


I hope you have a beautiful week full of stitching.


Please Stay Safe

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/15/26

Morning Everyone! I hope you are having a great weekend. We are having terrific weather here. When I was young I thought this was normal for Arizona since they said it is "always hot in Arizona" and when you are young you take everything as literal. We have been between the 70s and 90s all March! It is even  supposed to be over 100 later this week! I must admit, it is even to hot for me this early in the year. Sorry if you were some of the people who had one summer day and then snow the next day. That was pretty crazy!

This week when I spun the wheel, I landed on The Autumn Seasonal Quilt and all week I have been trying to finish this darn quilt! I think that tomorrow it will finally be done and I can move on to other parts of this project; and to think that I have three more seasons to get through! 

So let's see what kind of progress I made...

Seasonal Quilts - Autumn

Susan Powell of Laurel Susan Studio

Just Cross Stitch Magazine, Autumn 2024

Added 874 stitches this week.

So that is it for the stitching this week!

As for the books I didn't do that good this week. I couldn't concentrate on listening or reading so I did neither. I did start the second book in the Dark Tower series; The Drawing of the Three. In my opinion. for what that's worth - it is just a little better than the first in terms of the back and forth, past, present and future. People keep telling me to hang in there, they get better... oh goodness; I certainly hope so!

Moving on to my head injury, it is still looking pretty ugly. I think I will call and see if I can get some antibiotics for the big bump on my forehead because it is looking pretty bad and I can't really tell if the swelling is going down or not. It is funny how people will avoid looking at or talking to you when you look like this!

Anyways. I think that is it from me for now. 

Have a wonderful stitch filled week!

Stay safe.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/08/26

Morning! I hope that everyone got enough sleep last night since the clocks had to move ahead!! I am glad that I don't have to deal with that anymore; all that moving the clock forward and backward can be annoying! 

This week I had a bit of an accident! We only have ONE step in front of our home and I managed to fall right off it and spend hours in the emergency room! I was holding on to my walker and somehow the walker took off before I was ready to go. I was holding on to my walker pretty tightly and so I managed to fall on top of it while hitting the driveway. 

This is how I looked! 

It is still pretty painful and I hope it is finished looking worse before it gets better! My daughter showed the Doctors the Ring video and they said I was lucky there was no concussion or breaks because I hit the ground so hard. I can finally hold my eye open most of the way now so I hope I can drive. 

Shades of Gold

Northern Expressions Needlework

Designer - Nicole Dostal

I still managed to stitch though! I would stitch a little, rest my eyes with the compress on them and then stitch again. I was even able to get in a page finish! 

  

I put in 735 stitches this week.

That is five finished pages and seven to go!

As for books, I didn't get much reading or listening in this week. I am only half way finished with Kamala Harris' book 107 Days. I plan (I hope) on finishing it this week. 

Thanks a bunch for stopping by!

Stay safe out there in the world.

Love to you all!