My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/27/20

 Hello Everyone! 

I hope that you had the most wonderful Christmas this year and that Santa brought you just what you wanted. And now we can move forward to the New Year and hopefully it will a better year than our current one but still with plenty of stitching time for all!

This past week I worked frantically, staying up late to stitch in bed until I dozed off to finish the Snowman Bauble ornament for Christmas morning and I DID IT!! Finished it on the 23rd and FFO'd everything on the 24th. I was so happy. 

Snowman Bauble
Designer - Daily Cross Stitch Designs

First Stitch 12/17/20
Finished 12/23/20

Christmas Eve was finishing day!


and since I had the machine out I FFO'd this one too

So then I decided to stitch up my niece's ornament. At first it was a much bigger ornament but instead I (very smartly) picked a much smaller one. That way I can get it out in the mail and it won't be to to late since it should have been there before Christmas. This is a freebie from her Facebook page.

Merry Christ-Moose

Designer - Durene Jones

First Stitch 12/25/20
Finished 12/27/20

and he is ready for the mail!

To end 2020 here is my ORTament for this year.

If you don't have enough to stitch in 2021 and for those of you who do not follow Loretta at Stitching the Night Away she has published her list of Big List of Cross Stitch SALs to Join in 2021 that she has found in the XS community for you to see. Some are free, some cost something but I am sure they will all be fun and bound to keep you busy!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching!

I hope to see all of you next year
with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/29/19

on Monday 12/30!

I was going to post last night but when I took the picture of my 'finish' I realized I did not finish the back stitch! So - back on to the q-snaps it went and I finished it up today.

So without further ado; here is my last finish for 2019!

You Are Loved

Charmed Sampler

Designer - Hinzeit

First Stitch 07/01/19

Finished 12/30/19

And finally here is my 2019 ORTament

I hope that everyone had a great Christmas and Santa was good to you. I did not ask for any XS this year from Santa but I still received some DMC and this DMC Reindeer kit from Jacob.

I did ask Santa for this pill organizer though after

I saw it on FaceBook and he brought it to me!

and I converted it to a Needle Organizer!

I have packs of needles all over the place and I hope that this will help me get them gathered all in one place and sorted by their sizes. The needles actually fit pretty good in here!

This time of the year is always so exciting because I get to plan the new things to stitch for the next year! I have been planning and replanning and then adjusting the projects time and again on my 2020 list of things I must put some stitches in. I THINK I finally have it finished (especially now that 2020 is days away) and am almost ready to reveal it.

If you have not planned your list yet or are still looking for things to add to your list Loretta had this list of 2020 SALs on her site and maybe you will find something there? I love to look at all the SALs and some I think ooohhhhh I want to do that and others I think well who in the world wants to stitch that! hahaha Anyways you can find the list here and I hope you enjoy browsing it!

Well if I don't talk to YOU again before the end of the year I want to wish you a very safe, happy and healthy New Year full of plenty of time for you and whatever is important to you and also time to do all you love; especially cross stitching ;)

Thank you all for another year of friendship, comments, suggestions and encouragement and I am looking forward to doing it all again next year!

Thanks for stopping by,

see ya next time!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/30/18

Hello Friends!

I do hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and got to do exactly what you wanted to do whatever that consisted of! We had a great day at home eating to much food while watching Christmas movies and playing with our new things.

Ever since the big rush to finish the ornaments I have not felt much like stitching so I worked on a piece that required no concentration at all. This is also my car project, the borders for the calendar.

Fun Every Day

Designer - SamSarah Design Studio

I have also been bobbinating and going thru my stash to clean it up and reorganize it. Success!! It is all neat and tidy once again.

My WIP Box

of 19 projects

So anyways, a while ago Tia saw this saying on FaceBook and told me she would love to hang this in her new office. I said 'Oh, that is nice and it would probably look great in your office' and didn't say anything else about it.  Instead I got to work charting it out and adding a few elements to it. Once I was satisfied with it; I stitched it up for her! I decided to name it Power as I think we all need the power to help us thru situations and take control of them. She was totally surprised when I gave it to her for Christmas and I was only to happy to surprise her!

Power

Designer - Faithfully Stitching Designs

Author - Unknown

First Stitch 09/25/18

Finished 09/28/18

And now I am happy to present
my 2018 ORTament!


Thanks for all your comments and
support during this past year,
I truly appreciate them all!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/31/17

I hope everyone had a beautiful Christmas and that Santa brought you all you wanted, provided you were on the "good" list!

Our Christmas was wonderful. Jacob was a very happy and surprised little boy and he must have been really good because he received tons of good stuff.

These are of Jacob and I even managed to sneak in one of Matt and Tia

Seems I was pretty good too!

I received new Eeyores, stitchy stuff,

puzzle stuff and new bedding!

 This is Jacob making us an

apple pie on Christmas Eve

Jacob took some of his Christmas money and bought

himself a ukulele and is teaching himself to play.

In other news... there has not been much stitching going on here. I was busy going through my fabric stash and made sure I had some pieces in the sizes I need to get a "few" more starts into the WIP pile.  I joined Stitch from Stash 2018 (Jan-June) on Facebook and wanted to see what pieces I could plan without buying any new fabric! I will have a budget of $20 per month which shouldn't be hard for me to accomplish since I have LOTS of stash! Hopefully I won't buy to many minders! LOL

I did manage to get the Xs all stitched on Day 12 except for the number 12. So tomorrow will be spent doing the stitching on the number and the back stitch on this piece and I guess it will be my first finish for 2018!

12 Days of Christmas

Day 12

Twelve Drummers Drumming

Designer - Margaret Sherry

First Stitch 11/27/17

Progress as of 12/31/17

I made my 2017 ORTament!

If you would like to see all my finishes

for the year you can do that here, 

2017 finishes. 

In closing I would like to wish you all a very

HAPPY AND BLESSED NEW YEAR!

May 2018 see all your dreams come true.

I would also like to thank you all for taking the time to read about my adventures and family and I hope to see you all again next year!

Thanks for stopping by,

see ya next time!

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas to everyone who celebrates Christmas and to my friends of other denominations and beliefs I hope you have a Happy Holiday however you celebrate! 

This was a non-stitchy week for me...I think I wore myself out with all those ornaments!! LOL I did however assemble my Ortament for 2016!

Thanks for stopping by,

see ya next time!

My Sunday Stitchy Update

Welcome and Happy New Year!

This year I decided that I am NOT joining a bunch of different groups and starting lots of new things. I have done that for the last couple of years and the only thing that did was add to my UFO / WIP pile and my stress level!  LOL I already have lots of pieces to finish (I hope) and LOTS more to add into the rotation.

I did rejoin the Stitch From Stash group though because I feel it made me really think about any purchases I wanted to make instead of just throwing it in my cart and hitting the BUY button!

Since this is my first post of 2015 I

must show you my new Ortament. 

This was made with my

orts from my 2014 stitching.

And this is what I have been working on so far this year...

Shades of Blue

Northern Expressions Needlework

Progress as of 01/11/15

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

Sunday Stitching Update...

...another one that is a day late ~ sorry about that but it has been a marvelous week full of fun, food, surprises and great family time! Both my daughter and grandson had off for the entire week and don't go back to school and work until after the new years!

I did stitch on Dinosaurs during the

 IHSW and here is how it looks today.

I will get a better picture of it next time I do an update.

Also I cleaned out my TUSAL jar and

now have a new ORTament for my tree. 

Here is my grandson posing with it,

he is such a ham  ;)

This week I worked on the latest installment of the

Positive Thoughts SAL from the website

Les Marrottes de Nathalie

(please excuse the wrinkles)

Can't wait for the next section to be released!

Yesterday I worked on putting my
Christmas present on bobbins

I made some labels for the bobbins

and I got all the floss on them! 

they always look so pretty in the case!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

2012 TUSAL

Today Tia (my daughter) and Jacob went to Joann's and bought me an ornament for my 2012 ORTS collected during the year for the TUSAL. 

 I squished them all in there and this is how it looks!

Can't wait to hang it on my tree!

Now to start collecting for 2013 =D