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 07/06/25

Welcome Everyone! 

I hope you are doing well! Where you able to get in any stitching time? I hope you were.

This week I tried to keep busy working on three different pieces. But I found that I had this problem while stitching and it is called... watching TV shows and documentaries! I was concentrating on them and neglected my stitching; among other things!  I always watch TV while stitching but I guess this week the television was more interesting than the needle. So I didn't get in a lot of stitches this week.

First, I worked on the Quilt Blocks. I was hoping to finish this last block but unfortunately I didn't quite get there! I am not going to say this is the week because that always seem to jinx my plans. So maybe you can just come back next week to see where I get to. 

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

Put in 141 this week.

Then one of the ladies in our stitching group wanted us to stitch something patriotic on the Fourth of July,  So I dug through my WIPs and came up with this piece featuring a flag. I changed the wording from "Long May You Stitch" to "Long May You Wave" because it just seemed like the right thing to stitch. I noticed I still have some of the white stripes to stitch and I have to finish the pole. I did finish the stars on the top but I guess I put the wording over it.

Long May You Stitch

Lucy Beam

Love In Stitches

Added 111 stitches this week.

And last but not least... I worked on the Reindeer Ornament. This piece suffered the most because of watching the TV but I am getting him finished. I think he is looking pretty good and he will look awesome when he is assembled!

Reindeer Bauble Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

I added 174 stitches this week.

Well that is it for the week, we have been around 100° each day but we finally got a little rain. We are suppose to get some more this week and I hope we do. It helps cool things down a little

Thank you so much for stopping by to see me!

I hope to see you back here again next week.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/23/25

The weather has been nice this week. Mostly we have been in the 80s, which I love! Well, nothing exciting is going on here, which I also love! I like it when it is nice and quiet. That gives me plenty of stitching time. 

But I don't feel like I got in many Xs for the week. I did stitch a few different projects, so let me show them to you. 

The first one was Long May You Stitch. While I was stitching, I was also watching the news and listening to if helped me decide to change this piece from STITCH to WAVE. With all the turmoil here in the US I thought this was much more appropriate. 

Long May You Stitch

Lucy Beam

Love In Stitches

I put 254 stitches in this one

After that I worked on the snowman for a couple of days. I am starting to really see a difference in this one when I stitch it! That is so encouraging to me. Before when I didn't notice a difference, it was discouraging so I would skip over it and leave it in the WIP Box.

The Enchanted Christmas Snowman

Artist - Dona Gelsinger

Heaven and Earth Designs

I added 159 stitches this time 

Then since I was already stitching winter, I decided to just keep the theme going and I pulled out the Winter SAL for a day. I am getting close to the bottom on it but I will need to go back and put in all the stars, snowflakes and a little back stitch. 

Winter SAL

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa

 

144 stitches were added here

And then to wrap up the week I worked on Stephen King's House. Soooo many black stitches on this piece! I feel like I may NEVER finish it but I am making some progress. I was trying to finish all the black first but I think I may put some color in it next time.

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

Ended up with 238 stitches

Well that is it for the week, only four pieces but a little under 800 stitches for the week. I hope next week will be better for me. 

So THANKS for stopping by. I may be slow in answering your emails but I do appreciate them and I am answering them slowly. So until the next time; please stay safe and keep that needle moving.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/15/24

I can't believe it is only ten little days until Christmas and then 17 until the New Year arrives. I hope everyone is ready for the holidays. I am and was even finished early this year! I only have to make a cheeseball to serve with crackers for the Mall Stitchers holiday get together. We will be doing a White Elephant Gift Exchange also so we should have a good time. 

I do miss not having a little one in the house because they would always be so excited; 19 year olds - not so much! I am proud of him though, when I asked him what he wanted for Christmas he said he would like some tuition money to take a couple of college classes. I will gladly provide that for him but boy oh boy have the rates gone up a LOT since my kids went. Due to the cost he will only be taking a couple of classes here and there so we will have to wait and see what his next decision will be. 💖

So I guess we should get on with some stitching. This week I stitched on three different projects and stitched on each for two days. It was one of those weeks unfortunately but I think I may be a on the mend (shhh, when  I say that I start feeling like I an going down again). No fever but my eyes feel like that are very hot, I have a headache that comes and goes and so many other things I'm sure you don't want to hear about.

So first I will show you the 2024 Peppermint Purple Blackwork SAL. "The prompt was Stitch on a project that takes courage, explain your reasoning." Since I had so many visits from Mr & Mrs Frog on this piece I wanted to see if I could actually manage to do it correctly. Trying it again was courage! I contemplated ripping everything out and starting it from the beginning again. I think that this time having the chart all on one page has really helped me. Maybe I can actually finish it soon. 

2024 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Added 123 stitches over the two day period!

Clare has released the 2025 SAL borders and I have been going back and forth over which one I would like to do and I think I have it narrowed down to two. I know I will be using black aida and now to pick a color, I am considering a green color. Hopefully you will see it soon! 

Next I needed to "Stitch on a project with a star." There are plenty of "stars" in the upper left field of blue on this piece it more than qualifies for this prompt.

Long May You Stitch

Lucy Beam
Love In Stitches

I did get in 129 stitches, all on the wording.

My final prompt for this week was "Stitch on a project you dreamed of before finally starting." My daughter, Tia asked me to stitch this for her and secretly I was happy to do so. I saw it and thought that I really wanted to stitch it but knew I already own to many charts and I really shouldn't buy another. But since it was for Tia... well who am I to deny her of something! LOL

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

  
Only added 113 stitches so I hope she is not in a hurry for it!


Well that is all I have for today.

I wish you a wonderful week and I will see you on Sunday.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/20/24

Hello and Happy Sunday. We made it through another week and that is a blessing. Our temperatures are FINALLY going down and we had a few days under 90° and even had a day in the 70s! What a difference the temperatures make. 

I haven't really been doing anything else except trying to slowly clean out and straighten my stitching cabinets. It can be pretty tiring and time consuming but I haven't done this in quite a while so it is long overdue. I will take some of the stuff to my stitching group to see if anyone wants it. If not I will call around for a donation place that might be interested. Last resort will be the Goodwill or some place like that because I would rather give it to someone that needs and will use it.

But anyways, I would like to show you this week's stitching! 

Last Sunday I worked on the Vase of Flowers. I was caught up in a movie and didn't get very many stitches put in but some are better than none. I did not have a prompt so I was just stitching.

Vase of Flowers

Durene Jones

Progress 10/13/24

I only managed to get in 71 stitches!

Then on Monday the prompt I had was "Stitch on a project that reminds you or makes you think of someone who has been a father figure in your life." That piece would have had to have been something with American Indians or Indigenous Americans on it but I have nothing like that in my stash. Once my Dad passed I stopped buying those types of charts since he was the only one who appreciated those types of scenes. So I stitched this piece instead and took the penalty.

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie

Rhona Norrie Designs 

 

Progress 10/14/24
I put in 214 stitches on this.

The prompt on Tuesday was to "Stitch on a project that contains a gem or a Phoenix." I consider the Stars are gems that light up the sky so I stitched on the piece with the American Flag. 

 Long May You Stitch

Lucy Beam from

Love In Stitches

Added 104 stitches on 10/15/24

Nintendo

Contra

Armada Designs
I stitched on Nintendo for three days so I am posting them all together for you.

Wednesday's prompt was "Stitch on a project you have adapted to make it your own."

The layout is the change I made to the design. The one on the left is the designer's layout and the other one is mine. You would have to look at the names to see how I am arranging them. They will be in order of their original release date. 

 

On Thursday I needed to Stitch on something that includes an item you would find at a carnival and Friday I needed to Stitch on something that contains a tree.

  

On the entire chart I saw some cartoon characters the kids used to play with like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Disney characters to name a couple and said you would find them at the carnival as stuffies. On Friday I had to stitch some trees which this block is full of!

Progress on 10/18/24

I added 102 stitches on Wednesday and 100 on each of the other days.

Then over the weekend I needed to "Stitch on something that you’re so excited to work on that's distracting you from other projects or tasks you need to do." Well the Christmas ornaments definitely fit that prompt because I just keep thinking that Christmas is creeping up pretty fast! So I started the Elf ornament which is the fifth one out of the six.

Small Christmas Ornaments

Durene Jones

Progress 10/19 & 10/20
Put in a total of 256 stitches.

And there you have it,
a wide variety of projects!

Thanks for stopping by to see what keeps me busy in the evenings.

When do you stitch? In the mornings? Evenings? All Day? I mainly stitch in the evening after dinner. Sometimes I get in more time on the weekends because I don't usually have to cook dinner.

Well thanks again and I hope you will come back soon.
😊
Enjoy your week.