My Sunday Stitchy Update and April IHSW

Hello Everyone - I hope that you had a wonderful Easter day. It was beautiful outside and we got to enjoy the day with the doors open and savor the sunshine!

This week I started physical therapy and let me tell you - it is not so much fun. It made me pretty exhausted and after I do those stinkin exercises I don't want to do anything else except sleep. The therapist is trying to strengthen my core; don't know if it is going to work or not but I am going to do what I can.

This was International Hermit and Stitch Weekend and I got in lots of stitching; so much that I even have a FINISH! yay

I finished Easter Eggs

Anna Waite Designs

Finished 04/19/14

I started this one in 2012,

so that is one more out of my WIP pile.

Did you manage to get in any stitching over the IHSW?

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update and IHSW

Hello from the STILL COLD and SNOWY Chicago!

I can't believe that winter is still hanging on! It is now officially the third snowiest winter for Chicago - EVER and the coldest March since the 1990s - oh joy. I will be so excited to see SPRING but it is not in the near forecast.

This weekend was IHSW 

I got in very little stitching because

we had FAMILY WEEKEND!

We went to see Muppets Most Wanted,

(cute but long) then went out to dinner,

then came home and watched Frozen (great, I

loved it) and Baggage Claim (good but typical).

In between all that I did manage a few stitches on

Easter Eggs

Anna Waite Designs

Progress as of 03/23/14

Next week the rotation returns to

Dinosaurs

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

Sunday's Stitchy Update...

It's Sunday again!

This week I stitched on and finished

Christmas in July from Sunshine Stitches

It was a cute and fun project to stitch

because they are my kind of snowflakes!

Warm and inviting =D

I also did some stitching on

Easter Eggs from Anne Waite Designs

Love this chart!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

See ya next week with another update!

Sunday's Stitchy Update...

Not much progress on the stitching front this week. It seems like every time I got a free minute; I went to sleep.  I stitched one day for about thirty minutes on the Easter Egg piece and this is how it looks now.

I am going to stay in my rotation though and this week I have pulled out the Janlynn chart Bathtime Rules.  Hopefully I will spend more time awake and stitching this week!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching,

see ya next week with another update!

Sunday's Stitchy Update...

It is the 15th! Yippee…
That means I have stitched on each of my 15 projects for the Cross Stitch Crazy 15 Facebook group and for the Yahoo Group Stitching Sisters! I already posted the first seven so here are the updates for the next eight…five are new starts, two are WIPs and one is a long abandoned UFO from 2005.

On Day 7 I started Lizzie*Kate’s ABCs of Parenting


On the 8th I started Lizzie*Kate’s ABCs of Aging

On the 9th I started stitching Easter Eggs by Anna Waite Designs ~ love this one!

The 10th brought me a bit of a challenge…I started stitching Rose of Sharon by Design Connection and I am NOT to sure I like it. It is supposed to be stitched over two but I decided to stitch it over one and that might be a mistake…I am going to try to stitch some more when I can and see how I feel about it. Maybe I can swap it out for some different fabric?

On the 11th I started stitching His Name is Jesus – didn’t get to far though

The 12th is another Lizzie*Kate design! Boys Will Be Boys from The It’s A Boy Thing Chartpak…love this one too! Seems I must really like L*K Designs

Then I picked up the UFO on the 13th and I so remember why I put it down! I am stitching it over 2 and I am not to good at that! Maybe if I had an evenweave fabric it would seem less stressful? To late now – I am about halfway finished.

On the 14th I continued with the EMS Flowers of the Month SAL I was doing with another group. I am almost finished with May. I already stitched March and April in 2011.

The last chart to round out the 15th is another WIP ~ Dinosaurs! I was terrified of this chart but with a lot of encouragement and direction of many online friends – I am doing it like I would any other project. I just know that this one will take WAY longer than any other I did cuz it is the biggest one I have ever attempted ~ 20 pages ~ YIKES! So far 331 stitches stitched and only 66,169 more to go!!

Thanks for looking at my 15 projects for 2012… come back next Sunday and see what kind of progress I made and leave a comment so I know you stopped by for a peek!