My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/28/20

Welcome everyone!

It is hard to believe that 2020 is half over already! It sure was a "different" kind of year that is for sure and I am almost anxious to have the other half fly by as well. I just want to get through all of the craziness the world is going through.

Anyways ~ last week I was working on Dog Lessons for People and I finished up all the stitching on it earlier this week. I think I want to frame this one whenever I get back into a store.

Dog Lessons for People

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

First Stitch 01/22/20

Finished 06/23/20

Don't look to close because you might see an error or two but I love it! So now it is time for the next one so I went to the magically box that holds all my Masterpieces waiting to be stitched and reached in to see which one would come out! Please insert the drum roll here...

Nintendo

Designer - Armada Designs

this is where it was when it came out of the box

and here it is now

Progress 06/28/20

I would like to try and finish all the game borders before I put it back in the box so that means you will see it again next week.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

stay safe and keep stitching and I will

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/21/20

First of all I would like to say Happy Father's Day to all the Dads, Mom, Grandparents, Uncles, Brothers and anyone else who has stepped up and helped raise the children out there.

In our home my grandson Jacob's 'dad' didn't want to be involved so rather than no dad Matt (my son) stepped up and did stuff with Jacob. He can't do a lot because of his disability but likes to take him places like the movies and other fun spots. He has also shown him how to be a respectful young man. So in the place of Father's Day our family's tradition is to celebrate Uncle's Day to honor him for his role in Jacob's life. We have passed our holiday idea on to other families who now also celebrate Uncle's Day!

Now for the stitching...

As I mentioned in my last post my floss order came in! Yay I couldn't wait to finish up that moon.

Horrific Halloween

Moon and Stars

Section Six of Six

Designer - Stoney Creek

Mini Finish 06/15/20

and then what do you know... 

I FINISHED all the stitching on the Halloween Banner!! It felt so satisfying putting in the last stitch.

Here it is with all the stitching finished. It still needs to meet an iron, have the buttons attached and to be FFO'd but for now I am HAPPY.

Horrific Halloween

Designer - Stoney Creek

First Stitch 01/07/19

Finished  06/15/20

As you can see it took a bit of time because the frog seemed to visit this piece a lot but I love it.

After that I picked up another piece to stitch for the rest of the week; Dog Lessons for People. I worked on it and worked on it trying to finish it up this week but it didn't happen. I do think it will be finished in the next day or two though.

Dog Lessons for People

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

here is where I started

and here is where I am now! 

Progress 06/21/20

Hope to show it to you again next week!

Oh and here is a freebie I saw on Facebook for those of you who like Samplers...
it is appropriately named Pandemic and it is from Long Dog Samplers. It is only available for free until 08.59am BST (which I think will be 3:59am EST) June 26th 2020; so don't wait!!

Thanks so much for stopping by,

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 05/17/20

Dog Lessons for People

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

This was my progress last week on the 10th

and here it is today!

Progress as of 05/17/20

I made pretty good progress on it. It needs two more lines and one word and it will be finished. I don't want to jinx it but I think the next time it is out I can finish it up. 

Since we are talking dogs I thought that you guys

might want to see our collection of dogs.

They are ALL rescues. Bowser and Scruffy are the "old guys" at eight years old. Then we felt we needed another for some reason or another, so we looked online and saw Appa. When we went to see him we fell in love with him but he was so attached to Damian that they didn't want to be separated from each other so they came as a set. We jokingly call them The Twins and they are now four years old. Then my daughter  wanted a puppy for Christmas and she went to "look" around at the shelter and came home with Samson. They are a handful but how could we pass up those loveable faces?

Thanks so much for stopping by,
see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 05/10/20

Hi there friends!

First I want to say Happy Mother's Day to everyone in the States. I hope that you had an enjoyable day.

This week I started and finished the next section of A Year of Celebrations. I am still stitching this series with Mary over at Stitching Friends Forever.

A Year of Celebrations

June

Designer - Hands on Design

Mini Finish 05/08/20

Then I decided to pull out the piece that I will work on next week. So I reached in the box and this was the winner!

Dog Lessons for People

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

This is where it was when I pulled it out

and here it is now

Progress as of 05/10/20

I am hoping to make good progress on it this week but I just checked the calendar and I have something to do everyday! 😞 

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching! 

Stay home if you can, stay safe and I'll

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 01/26/20

Hi everybody!

This week I felt the need to break out one of my new starts and this one looked fun.

I started it on Wednesday and when it is all letters it seems to go pretty quickly so this is what I had stitched up by Saturday evening. This was gifted to a friend of mine along with the fabric and she passed it along to me since she knows Tia and her dog obsession. I love the dog paw prints on the fabric, they are a nice little touch.

Dog Lessons for People

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

First Stitch 01/22/20

Progress as of  01/26/20

I enjoyed working on a new start so I think tomorrow calls for another!

Enjoy your week everyone and

thanks so much for stopping by,

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/01/19

Hip hip hooray! I have a finish!

I put in the last stitch on Jingles this afternoon!!

Jingles

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

First Stitch 01/21/19

Finished 12/01/19

It took me all year to do it but I am happy with it. I still have to attach the buttons but I want to iron it first.  Also I know I bought a hanger for it but I will be darned if I know where I put it off hand. I will have to look for it tomorrow (hopefully) so that I can get proper measurements for this.

I am so excited to have this stitched up!!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 11/24/19

Well first I would like to thank all those who encouraged me to keep stitching Full Bloom (though it didn't take much to put me on that path) because it is now a FINISH!

I started this piece just short of 8 years ago for the Cross Stitch Crazy 2012 Challenge. It had sat in the UFO pile for a very long time and like many of us stitchers we have times when we can barely get motivated to put the floss into the eye of the needle but I am so happy now that I finally finished the stitching!

Full Bloom

Designer - Cross-Stitch-Art

First Stitch 01/03/12

Finished 11/19/19

I have finished all but three of the pieces started for that challenge. The first one is Rose of Sharon which is close to a finish, the second is Flowers of the Month which I am not sure if I want to finish it or not and the last has been discarded for change or lack of interest.

So now I picked up Jingles and did not quite finish it up.

Jingles

Let It Snow

Chart Twelve of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

Progress as of 11/24/19

So now I need to finish up this section and add the bottom border and I will be finished with the stitching! 

I saw a new freebie post on Facebook from Jardin Prive if you are interested.

*photo taken from Jardin Prive page.

It is the redwork in this picture.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

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My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/20/19

Hello Friends! I hope you are all having a wonderful week. I know many of you were tired of the heat (I am NOT among that group!) so I hope that autumn has arrived in your neighborhood. Some places in the USA have skipped autumn and seem to have gone straight into winter! I feel bad for them!!

This week because I still had out Jingles from last week (due to laziness?) I worked on the next section and part of the border design on it.

Jingles

Joy

Chart Eleven of Twelve
Designer - Lizzie*Kate

Mini Finish 10/14/19

When that was finished I went to "The Box" and picked out the first piece I came to that I haven't seen for a while and it was...

Rose of Sharon

Design Connection

First Stitch 01/10/12

Progress as of 10/20/19

As I was putting it on the q-snap I noticed a bunch of stitches I missed on the first page. WHAT!!  How did that happen???  So I went back and started working on that page filling in the missing stitches.

I will be keeping this piece out for the next week because I am enjoying it and I want to see if I missed anything else. I am afraid that if I put it away I may forget to look for those mistakes next time.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

Happy Stitching Everyone

My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/13/19

Hello Friends!

This week I managed to squeeze in two stitchy finishes! They are small but they still count ;)

They are my monthly stitches and first up is

Mini Bunnies

Monthly Series, October

Handblessings

Designer - Eileen Gurak

Mini Finish 10/10/19

I added in the two of the hanging spiders on the outsides because the space looked to empty without anything there.

After I stitched that one I had time to stitch up

Jingles

Love

Chart Ten of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

Mini Finish 10/12/19

This was a quick one! Two more sections and this piece will be finished.

Now to figure out what I should stitch next.  I have a few pieces that are close to being finished with the stitching so I need to look at them all and see which one speaks to me first or  maybe the loudest? Next year I think I am going to have to get back on my rotation instead of just picking out whatever. I feel much more organized when I knew what was coming up.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 09/22/19

Evening Friends! I hope everyone is doing great.

Not to much to say this week. My son finally got the information off that crazy computer and we decided to trash it. We removed the hard drive and destroyed it and will donate the hardware to one of the organizations in our area that recycles them.

This week I worked on the next section of the Christmas banner.

Jingles

Silent Night

Chart Nine of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

Mini Finish 09/22/19

 Only three more sections to do and it will be finished and I can't wait! 

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/25/19

This week I have been busy stitching on my monthly pieces.

First up we have

Mini Bunnies

Monthly Series, August

Handblessings

Designer - Eileen Gurak

Mini Finish 08/20/19

then I worked on my Christmas banner

Jingles

Joy to the World

Chart Eight of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

Mini Finish 08/25/19

and here it is

in its entirety!

Now to see what I should work on next!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/14/19

Welcome Friends! 

This week has been a good stitchy week for me! I guess it really does help when you stay off the internet. I'll have to keep that in mind... LOL (note to self).

First up this week is the Christmas banner.

Jingles

Fa La La La La

Chart Seven of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

and how it looks now 

 First Stitch 01/21/19

Progress as of 07/11/19

I love how it is turning out and that I took the chance with dying the fabric.

And since I finished that piece up and still had some week leftover I decided to start my July Mini Bunny! I started it Saturday after grocery shopping and here it is now hot off the q-snap!

Mini Bunnies

Monthly Series, July

Handblessings

Designer - Eileen Gurak

Mini Finish 07/14/19

It is the first bunny that has two colors in it, and I love how it looks. Though I did have to do a reverse image on the bunny walking with the flag because the blue field of stars is always supposed to be on the left of the flag and knowing me, it would have bugged me every time I looked at it. I know, I know...I am strange; but I think it is a good strange! 

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/16/19

Hi there everyone!

This week I got in another section of the Christmas banner called Merry.  I am now halfway finished with the stitching part.

Jingles

Merry

Chart Six of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

and here it the whole thing.

First Stitch 01/21/19

Progress as of 06/16/19

Now hopping off to stitch the bunny!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 05/19/19

Well Hello Everyone!

I do hope everyone is doing great today! I think that I am starting to feel better. So I wanted to say thank you to everyone who sent me emails hoping I would feel better soon. I went and had something like a nerve block this week and I think that may have really done the trick! I even stayed awake long enough to get some stitching in and finish the next section on my Christmas banner.

Jingles

Wait 'til Dec 25th

Chart Five of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

and here is how the banner looks so far 

Progress as of 05/18/19

Now I need to try to get caught up with my projects to where I had planned to be by now but first I have a special request from my daughter. She wants me to chart and stitch a small saying for her. I already charted it a couple of days ago so now it is off to the q-snaps! 

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching.

I hope you all have a great week and I will

see ya next week with another faithful update!

ps - Sorry, I am still catching up with some blog posts!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 05/12/19

Hello Everyone!

Happy Mother's Day to all who are celebrating it here in the States.

Last week I was working on my May monthly bunny and here it is all finished!

Mini Bunnies

Monthly Series, May

Handblessings
Designer - Eileen Gurak

Mini Finish 05/09/19

Then I started on the next section of the Jingles banner.

Jingles

Wait 'til Dec 25th

Chart Five of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

Progress as of 05/12/19

Well as you can see I didn't finish it! I need to finish it up and then move on to the next thing! Seems like I have been going slow with the stitching right now so I really need to step it up because I have a long list of things to complete. So I am off to thread my needle...

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 04/28/19

Hi Everyone!

I hope you have been stitching away and that you don't live in the part of the US that got slammed with snow the last couple of days. I can't believe that is it snowing this late in April but I am sure it is not the first time that it is has happened but I am pretty sure it won't be the last.

Here in my area we already reached 100𐩑 this year! YIKES... but then I am one of the weird ones who enjoys the hotter weather.

Anyways the frog has finally left my house and I finished stitching this section of my Halloween banner.

Horrific Halloween

Designer - Stoney Creek

Progress as of 04/24/19

Then I moved on to my Christmas banner and stitched up that section with no problems!

Jingles

Cheer

Chart Four of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

and here is how the piece looks now.

Progress as of 04/28/19

I know I am behind in blog reading but I plan on trying to get caught up this week.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/10/19

Evening Friends...

Last week I told you I had started the March Mini Bunny and here it is!

Mini Bunnies

Monthly Series, March

Handblessings

Designer - Eileen Gurak

Progress as of 03/03/19

So to finish out the week I started working on my Christmas piece.

Jingles

Noel

Chart Three of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

and here is the entire piece as it looks now. 

First Stitch 01/21/19

Progress as of 03/10/19

Now to decide on what's next for this week.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/10/19

Happy Sunday Everybody!

I hope everyone had a great and hopefully snow free week! Though I do hear that snow is in the forecast again but I guess it is winter.

So last week I started working on a Lizzie*Kate Snippet that was only supposed to take a couple of days. Well that plan didn't work out but it is finished now! Yay!!

Good Things

Snippet

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

First Stitch 02/02/19

Finished 02/06/19

So next comes the dreaded question... "what should I do with it now?" Well I thought maybe I should make it into a pillow ornament and hang it from my shelf of 'things' in my room. Hmmm...Good idea I tell myself!

Now the hunt is on! I need some fabric for the back. I was thinking something flowery but I don't have any in my stash. I am trying NOT to spend money on XS stuff this year (though I did buy an Etsy chart for $1.50, thanks Rachel!) So I decided to use some scrap aida I have. Then another thought pops in my head. Whenever someone read what I was stitching I would tell them 'and that's me!' so I decided to stitch that on some aida and use it for the back! 

I used the same border from the L*K design and looked through the letters to see what I could use. Most of them where there already; thank goodness, but I had to design a couple to fit in with the other lettering. 

 Me!

Designer - Faithfully Stitching Designs

First Stitch 02/07/19

Finished 02/09/19

That brings me to the next step with this finish and a new SAL!

Rachel over at Ten Hour Stitcher has started a new SAL. It is called the Fully-Finished Gallery SAL. It is designed to encourage us to move things from our Finished Pile to our Fully Finished Pile. It will also be a place for us to display our finishes and drool over other people's finishes that have been completed during the last month. So I just HAD to finish this today so I could participate in the SAL!

And now presenting my fully finished

Good Things

Pillow Ornament

 

Finished 02/10/19

I would like to encourage you to check out the Fully-Finished Gallery SAL; even of you don't have one to share this month. I think there will be lots of gorgeous pieces for you to enjoy.

Sorry I didn't mean to talk so much! LOL 

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/03/19

Evening friends!

I hope if you live where the polar vortex hit that your temperatures are starting to warm up again! Where I used to live in Chicago the highs for a few days were below zero! It closed down the city along with most of the midwest; no school, no mail, no flights in or out and all the while the snow kept coming. I must say I have not seen snow in five years and looking at it on TV doesn't make me miss it one bit! So thankful to live where we have warm weather all year round!

Last week I finished stitching the first chart for Jingles and since I had it out I decided to do February's Christmas Ornie SAL section. So far it is stitching up quickly and I love how it looks on this fabric.

Jingles

Ho Ho Ho Holiday

Chart Two of Twelve

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

and here is how the piece looks so far

First Stitch 01/21/19

Progress as of 02/01/19

I am stitching this series as part of

Kaye's Christmas Ornie SAL

There is lots of great Christmas stitching there 

so please click the badge to go over and take a peek!

So since I finished on Friday and usually switch projects on Monday I remembered that a friend loaned me a LK chart that I should probably try to get back to her! So I decided to try to stitch it up over the weekend. As you can see, I didn't make it but hopefully I can get it finished by tomorrow? 

Good Things

Designer - Lizzie*Kate

 First Stitch 02/02/19

Progress as of 02/03/19

Hope I can do it but you know how plans go. I do need to get out the next project on the list though so I need to make some quick Xs (and stay off the internet)!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!