My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/22/26

Hello everyone, 

Nothing to exciting except it was very chilly and rainy here this week but it is suppose to warm up again next week, thankfully. I only had stitched on one project this week so today will be a shorter post. 

2025 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

I always knew I would eventually stitch the Peppermint Purple SALs that I missed along the way, so I have saved them until I had time and energy. I have decided that it is now time to start work on the 2025 version this year and maybe, just maybe the 2026 version also. I will have to see how it is going before I commit to two of them, because believe me; I have a stack of projects I want to work on or start new! The good thing is that the 2025 version is completely released already and so I don't have to wait for a new file each week. 

So I started the 2025 version this week. It is supposed to look like a doily and when I think of a doily, I think of it being all in one color. So I will be stitching it all in white floss on this reddish fabric. 

Started off with 1,024 stitches this week.

I will have to spin the wheel to see what is next on the q-snaps.

As for the the audiobook I did start "The Gunslinger" and I will admit that to me it was a little confusing at first. Then I finally figured out that they are going back and forth in time! I do have a hard time with those kind of books and movies but once I figured out that was how the book was going I listened to it over and I understand it now! 

So that was my week in a nutshell.

Thank you for stopping by!

Have a great week.

 💜   💜   💜

My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/21/25

Evening Everyone

Uh oh, Christmas is really sneaking up all of a sudden! I have to hurry up and get finished. The ornaments always seem to take me so long or maybe it is because it doesn't get cold where I live and so I don't realize that Christmas is here!  Trust me, I don't miss the cold but it does help move you along once you realize it is winter. 


So this week I FINISHED stitching the Santa chart, thank goodness. 

Santa 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

Personally, I think he turned out pretty cute! 

This week I put in the last 239 stitches.

So I still need one more ornament for my grandson. So I was flipping through some old Just Cross Stitch magazines and found Santa's Apron. I showed my daughter and we decided would be perfect for him since he is always cooking and baking.

 Santa's Apron
(picture from Just CrossStitch)

Always Time To Stitch
 

Only got in one day on this new start but added 145 stitches.

Then on Saturday I assembled the 3D ornaments! They were pretty easy to do and I LOVE them! I like them so much, I may look for more to do! LOL

And that is that for the week.

This week I need to get Santa's Apron finished and I will be ready for Christmas. Are you all ready? 

I hope you enjoyed seeing my work for the week. 

Have a safe and wonderful week and I hope to see you next Sunday!

Merry Christmas Everyone!
I hope you are on Santa's good list.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/26/25

Well Hello Friends! Nothing new and exciting here except the heat came back and we are in the 80s again! Doesn't bother me since I love the heat which is why we moved to the desert. LOL This week though I especially welcome the heat with NO RAIN so the kiddos can Trick or Treat.  I love seeing the little ones all dressed up as their favorite Disney Princess, Super Hero or whatever they are. 

So let's move on to the stitching! Last week I forgot to show you my grandson's Chicago Blackhawk logo that I FFO'd. He loves it and it is hanging on his wall all ready. 😊

Chicago Blackhawk's Logo

This week I also worked a little more on the snowman. Then since I had used all of the white floss they sent with the kit I picked up a skein of it out of my stash and continued stitching away. Then I looked at it in the light and I saw that the snowman had stripes (circled in the middle picture)! I ended up frogging it a bit and picked out another white which matched better. Who knew the whites would vary so much!

Snowman 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

Added 198 chilly stitches this week.

So the plastic aida vinyl arrived late last week and I got to start on the Santa ornament. So far he only has shoes and the fur around the bottom of his coat but he has to start somewhere! 

Santa 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

His start consists of 481 stitches.

Sometimes I look at a piece like this and wonder how in the world is that 500 stitches since it looks so small. LOL

Well friends, at 2:00 am I think I am finally sleepy. I have had a weird sleep schedule for as long as I remember. I can be so tired but as soon as I lay down I am wide awake. It is not ideal but I am used to it and when everyone is asleep the house is very quiet because even the dogs and the cockatiel are quiet and I enjoy the quietness. 

I will continue on the ornaments next week, since I still have two, well one for certain and the second if I can squeeze it in, that I would like to finish before the holiday.

Thanks for stopping by and looking at my stitching for the week.

Stay safe out there in the world and I hope you will stop by again next Sunday.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/10/25

Welcome Welcome Welcome! 

Glad to see you here today. It has been a rough week in my personal life and this week my stitching and friends have been the biggest escape I had. Thank goodness for fabric and floss. 

So, I think I will just jump right in! You may not know or remember that I stitch two days at the Mall with some friends and the rest of the week I stitch another project at home. I normally spin the Tiny Decision wheel to help me decide what to stitch unless something is on a deadline. Well, that was a failure this week! I spun the wheel and it came up to the Temperature Library. I was happy and packed up my supplies. When I tried to stitch at the Mall it required me to turn to a certain page to get the temps and another page for the color and finally another page to get to the chart. Aye yi yi! I felt like I spent all my time looking for stuff! LOL so now I know everything can't leave home and get stitched. 

Temperature Library

Kristi’s Corner Needlework

I put in 61 stitches this week.

So, I spun the wheel AGAIN! This time I landed on another big one; the Stephen King House! I wish it was a real house so we could get a glimpse of all the movies and their stars in one place. I got a good start on this Friday and I will continue it for the next two weeks. 

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

 

I added 127 stitches to the house on Friday.

I also went to work on on my ornaments, with one little change. Since I was having so much trouble with the Snowman ornament I looked around the site for another and lo and behold there was another! I decided to give it a try and so far so good! I hope my luck holds out until he is finished. 

Snowman 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

I put in 510 stitches on this new start Snowman

And that is about it for the week!

I have answered quite a few of the comments I had sitting in my inbox and I hope to be able to answer more this week along with leaving some comments for you guys! 

I hope that you have a great week coming up and you are able to get in lots of stitches. 

Before I sign off for today I would like to ask that if you are a praying person to please say a prayer for my family. I can't say what it is as it is not my need, but I do appreciate it. THANK YOU

Love you guys!

Stay safe and out of trouble, but stitch a lot!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/27/25

Hello Everyone! This week I have a new start to show you, another ornament! 

This week I started on the Snowman 3D Ornament. I was having a hard time with it because they released it as a very small freebie chart! It makes it hard to see the squares and the symbols for the colors. I kept trying to enlarge the picture which only made it blurry. Then I decided to take photos with my phone of smaller sections of the chart and that worked! YAY I am still copying it over to a blank piece of paper though, so I don't have to strain to see what color I need next. 

Snowman 3D Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

I put in 148 stitches this week.

Sorry,  I could not find a finished picture of the snowman.

At the Mall this week, I am stitching the 2024 Blackwork SAL. I hope to fill in the row I am working on and maybe start the one on top of this one. If not, I guess it will have to wait until next time so I can spin the wheel and pull something else out of the WIP Box.

Annual Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

This week I added 301 stitches.

I think it is about halfway finished.

So that is it for the week, next week I plan on stitching the same two pieces; with hopes of getting in lots of Xs.  This week I would also like to say THANK YOU, KAREN! (no blog). She sent me a few more of the 3D Christmas ornaments and some other charts that she had doubles of. I love them, the gnome and elf are adorable and I appreciate them!! 

So, believe it or not, I am out of words to say! LOL ~ that hardly ever happens. Maybe, I am just tired. The days of 100+ degrees makes me sleepy. But trust me, it is still better than the cold weather, 

Well thanks a bunch for stopping by my space.

I do hope you will come back soon.

Take care and please stay safe!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 01/05/25

Happy New Year everyone! I hope that you are having a great 2025 so far and it will continue on that path. Everything is going well here. We have had another warm week though this week we will going down to the fifties for our high temperatures, I guess that means that our winter is finally creeping in. 

This week I worked a couple of days stitching on the Penguin but I changed fabrics before I continued so I could actually see what I was doing! 

Penguin Ice Slide

Daily Cross Stitch 

Progress 12/31/24

This ended up with 333 stitches

Then on the first BRRINGO started in one of my groups. No, I don't know why it is called or spelled that way but it is a cute word. But anyways it is like bingo but instead of numbers you have 25 prompts that are cross stitch related. You arrange them on your bingo card however you want to. Then the caller calls out a prompt number so you know where to stitch. Then you stitch whatever that prompt was an you mark it off. The only thing is we have to have full coverage and then she draws the winners name from all the full coverage cards. I just like the fun of it though and seeing what everyone else is stitching.

So the first number called was 14 and the prompt said "Stitch something that reminds you of a family picnic". I looked through my magazines and found a set of seasonal quilts. I decided to stitch one of them because whenever we went on a picnic my Mom would always bring an old quilt for us to sit on. 

Seasonal Quilts - Autumn

Susan Powell of Laurel Susan Studio.

JCS Autumn 2024, p29

This one received 275 stitches

The next day the prompt called was 22 and it said "Stitch something of your choice" and I think that is my favorite prompt since I can just stitch on anything! So I pulled out the Stephen King House so I  could get in some stitches on it. I really want to finish the house so I can get started on the characters! 

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

   

Put in 185 stitches while it was out.

On Friday the 3rd they wanted us to "stitch something that reminds you of growth." Well I couldn't think of anything when I was filling out the sheet showing what I would stitch. But when I woke up the next day I thought why can't I use one of the flower designs. I picked one and said something like the flowers are always blooming which means they are always growing.

The Flower A Day
Carolyn Manning

 

Managed to get in 185 stitches in the garden.

Then came Saturday! The prompt said the I should "Stitch something from my favorite designer!" So today my favorite designer is Peppermint Purple! I have noticed that the trouble with picking my favorite cross stitch anything is that my favorite keeps changing constantly! That is probably why I have so much stash. Oh well. you only live once. 

2024 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

 

I stitched 90 (180) stitches. 

I swear one day this border will be finished

Which brings us to today! YaY!! Today is another flower day. Prompt 10 said to "Stitch something with flowers" and I just so happen to have a piece with flowers! Imagine that! So I pulled out Flowers of the Month by EMS Designs. I am still working on the carnation and it is certainly trying to be difficult! 

 

Flowers of the Month

January, Carnation

Ellen Maurer-Stroh

  

I only got in 77 stitches today but progress is progress no matter how much I stitch.

Well that is that! This post turned out to be way longer than I thought it would be.

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope you will do it again next Sunday!!

Enjoy your week.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/29/24

Well hello everyone. Welcome to the last Sunday of 2024! Sometimes it seemed as though the days just went by so slowly I had to push them to get them over the hump to the next one and other times they went by so quickly I don't even remember seeing them come or go!

I hope 2025 brings a lot of laughter and happiness to everyone's lives. I am look forward to seeing what everyone is doing and creating in this upcoming year. 

So this week in stitching, I had one new start and put in lots of of stitches on my blackwork piece. 

As many of you may already know, I stitch lots of penguins for my grandson. So I made a small start on a new one for him.  It will be something I can do at stitching because it won't take a lot of concentration. 

Penguin Ice Slide

Daily Cross Stitch
 
Progress 12/23/24

put in 182 stitches

Then I decided to add some more to the 2024 PP Blackwork SAL. I am still trying to finish the border since I had so many problem with it, I am being extra careful stitching it this time. 

2024 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

 
Added 182 stitches this time

Then I didn't know what I wanted to stitch so I just reached in the box and pulled out something which ended up being a Halloween piece. I did some work on the Witch's Hat.

Spooky & Sweet

Fat Quarter Shop

I have it 129 stitches.

Then for the end of the week I thought some flowers might brighten things up. Unfortunately the only parts I got to were leaves, leaves and more leaves! It looks like I have to wait for the other carnation before I get any color here so all I need is patience! 

Flowers of the Month

January, Carnation

Ellen Maurer-Stroh

Added 103 stitches to the carnation.

So that is what I did this week. This week I did not work on any prompts and I think I feel better and more relaxed already! Now if the rest of life would just fall in line too then everything could be perfect!

So as always I would like to thank everyone who stopped by!

I love that you come by to see what I am up to. I hope to see you again next week!

Have a safe and happy new year and I will see you in 2025!