My Sunday Stitchy Update 01/22/23

Good Afternoon Everyone! I hope that you are having a great day. 

This week we are having a horrible cold snap here in the desert. The morning have been in the 20s or 30s! Brrr I know it is colder in other parts of the country but I think that in the desert it should always be hot or at the very least warm.

This week in my stitching department I finished up one piece and started more!  So let's get to it. The first one up is the finish. I finished stitching this on Tuesday. 

The Meditative Mandala

(Circle)

DMC

Finished 01/17/23

The Mandalas use DMC thread and I did NOT mark up the charts so if you would like them send me a message and if you are the first one then I will mail them out to you. I just want to start cleaning things out of my stitching pile that I won't be using anymore!! 

Then I thought I would start something else new and I wanted to get this Christmas SAL stitched up and it looks like wouldn't take to long so it seemed like it was meant to be. I had a piece of blue fabric I wanted to use for it so I went into my stash to get it and I can't find it anywhere! I had a pile of colored fabric along with some black but I don't know where I put it!!  So I looked for some other color fabric because I didn't want to use white and I wasn't really in the mood to dye any. All the fabric I found was to short or just not the right color for me. Out of desperation I found a piece of fabric I thought might work even though I don't like it because the fabric is very stiff. Luckily or unluckily (depends on how you look at it) the floss colors didn't work with this fabric! 

The Christmas Banner

Designer - Alyssa

Stitchonomy

Stitched and stopped on 01/18/23

Once I find my blue piece of fabric I plan on starting again!

Just an FYI ~ Alyssa usually has two or three free SALs a year so if you are interested you can sign up for her newsletter. She mentions them in her newsletter and reminds you to go sign up for the SAL. Once she has distributed all the parts she removes the free files and puts them up for sale. 

So now the dilemma of finding a new piece to stitch. So I looked around and decided to start The Blackwork SAL! I found a piece of fabric that I was satisfied with and looked through my floss cabinet for some floss. I decided to do it all in one color and the color is orange. Why orange? I don't know except that I don't really have anything stitched in orange so I thought why not, I think it would be a good choice! 

The Blackwork Stitch Along

Rhona and Eirinn Norrie

Tangled Threads and Things

First Stitch 01/19/23
Progress 01/22/23
 

Another FYI ~ This is another designer who offers many free charts through out the year. One year she had a cute Christmas ornament each month. Just sign up for their newsletter so you know when they are posted to their page!

Well I think I have given you guys was to much
to read for today so I am going to wrap this up now!

Thanks so much for stopping by,

see you next week with another faithful update!