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 05/04/25

Well it looks like I forgot to hit POST again! So sorry
I'll post this one from last week and then I will start on this weeks.


Here it is; May already! I can't believe it arrived all ready.

There is a lot happening at our home in May so hopefully we get through all of it without any serious issues. Unfortunately, April was that great either so I am hoping that May will end out run of bad luck because we just need a break. 

But enough of the doom and gloom, I did get in some great stitching time! 

This first one is the cutest snowman I have in my pile. I will be extremely happy to finish it but I have a lot more to go to even be close to a finish. I am anxious to get to the red scarf though! 

The Enchanted Christmas Snowman

Artist - Dona Gelsinger

Heaven and Earth Designs

I worked on this one for a couple of days and added 204 stitches.

After that I thought I should stitch on my fun witch for at least one floss length but I ended up doing two lengths instead. I just love her because she is so colorful and looks like she is full of fun!

Stitchie Witchie

Brooke's Books

 

Worked on her on the 30th and added 59 Xs.

After that one I had decided to add a few more books to the bookshelf! This is one I am very excited to work on because I want to see how the colors work themselves out! 

Temperature Library

Kristi’s Corner Needlework

Added 204 stitches in two days.

Then I finally finished the stitching on this bookmark! I bought my daughter two books for Mother's Day and I will stick the bookmark in one of them. Since I stitched this on plastic it was very hard if not impossible to get the letters like they were on the chart but I figured as long as they were close it was good enough! Now I will add a sticky board and maybe punch a hole in the top and it will be a finish!

Vase of Flowers

Durene Jones

Added 254 stitches.

And last but not least for the week, I worked on this Flower Sampler. I swear I didn't know there were so many pink shades until I was working on these flowers!

Flowers of the Month

January, Carnation

Ellen Maurer-Stroh

  
Added 221 in two days.

All in all I happy with this week's stiches!

Have a wonderful week!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/09/25

Happy Sunday Everyone.  I hope that you had a great week and were able to get in lots of crafting time. I didn't do anything very exciting this week so on with the stitching! 

It is the start of a new month so I have lots of acrostics and things to work with! 😄 The first prompt I decided to work with on Sunday was the letter E. So I picked out the Flowers of the Month because it is by Ellen Maurer-Stroh.

Flowers of the Month
January, Carnation
Ellen Maurer-Stroh

 

Added 160 stitches

After that I thought I should stitch on some more flowers! So I picked up my other flowery piece, The Flower A Day. This one satisfied two different prompts; the first was "Something spring-like" which is what flowers are and the second was the letter S which I also used the word spring for. 

The Flower A Day

Carolyn Manning

Managed to plant 119 stitches this week.

After that I was flowered out so I decided to move on to something else. We had a couple of pretty chilly days here so I moved on to three prompts that reflected colder weather. They were for the Winter SAL piece I have. I would need to do these over two days because two of the prompts were on the same list. 

The first day I worked on the prompts A for the designer Alyssa of Stitchonomy and "Something that isn't water but is the color of water" which is the color of the fabric.  On the second day the prompt was "Something that represents time". I didn't have anything like watches or clocks but I think that this will fit in! 

Winter 2024 SAL

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa

Added 217 and 230 stitches respectfully 

Then I closed up the week on Saturday with two prompts. The first was the letter N which I applied to the designer Northern Expressions Needlework. The second prompt is "Something that's a golden color." Well I only have one piece that can apply to both of these and here it is...

Shades of Gold

Designer - Nicole Dostal

Northern Expressions Needlework

Added 204 stitches to this one.

And that wraps up the stitching for the week!

I have been looking for and finding floss all throughout the house and I don't understand how it gets here and there and everywhere! So this week I have been TRYING to dedicate my time to cleaning up my floss stash and putting everything where it belongs. It has not been an easy task which is probably why it is in all the wrong places. I still have more to do but I hope to be finished with it this week! 

And no, I haven't found any ornaments for this year so I will still have to look for some; but I have to FOCUS on looking for them.

Have a wonderful week friends!

Thank you very much for stopping by!

I am going to go find something to stitch now

and I hope you stay safe and keep stitching.

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. 

Seasonal Quilts - Autumn

Susan Powell of Laurel Susan Studio

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.

 

Flowers of the Month

January, Carnation

Ellen Maurer-Stroh

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.

Home is Where the Dog is

Daily Cross Stitch

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! 

I Stitch Sampler

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!

Love is Patient

Dirty Annie's

Just Cross Stitch Magazine, Autumn 2024

 

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!