My Sunday Stitchy Update 09/10/23

Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope that you are having a relaxing weekend! Our temperatures here in Arizona have spiked into the low 100s again. It feels like they will never end this year!

I finished stitching some ornaments this week.

Mini Christmas Ornaments

Shope By Maria

Bird                                                              Santa

   


Polar Bear

All the backstitch has been completed on these last three!
09/08/23

Then Tia put french knots in all their eyes for me (thanks)

and here is the whole bunch all together!

FINISHED 09/08/23

I still have to find some fabric/felt to back them with and finish them off completely so they will be ready for the Holiday. I have picked up another WIP to work on but I will post about that piece next week.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

see you next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/27/23

Welcome Friends!  This week has been a pretty quiet and lazy week so I am sure this will be a short but sweet post about my stitching. 

I was able to get in some stitching on the ornaments and I even finished the stitching on the Bird.

Mini Christmas Ornaments

Shope By Maria

Bird

Progress 08/24/23
Finished the stitching and
waiting for the backstitch.


Snowman

Progress 08/26/23

The Snowman is the last one of the set! Once this one is stitched I will backstitch all of them and get them ready to hang on the tree. I estimate another two weeks (I hope) to complete them fully.

I hope that you have a fabulous week!

Thanks so much for stopping by,

see you next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/20/23

Hi Everyone! 

I hope you have had a great week. I see many of you have said that your weather is cooling down so that is good! I think everyone needs some better temperatures and even our dogs are happy about that. I have been busy doing house stuff today (yuck) but we stopped for the day so I thought I would blog and get in my stitching afterwards! 

This week I finally finished the Bear I was working on last week and I was so never so happy to be finally finished with a piece!

Mini Christmas Ornaments

Shope By Maria

Bear

Finished 08/15/23

Then I started on the Bird right away!

Bird

Progress 08/19/23

So that is it for this week!

Time to go do some work on the bear.

Thanks for stopping by,

see ya next time!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/13/23

Happy Sunday Friends!  I hope you are enjoying a nice relaxing weekend. 

Well just like that the streak of 100 degree days is OVER! On Tuesday we experienced a few thunder storms which caused our high temperature to only reach 99 degrees. The streak lasted 53 days from June 16th to August 7th. The very next day we reached 100 once again but we are not staying at that temperature day after day.

This week I have been working on the bear ornament and he has been giving me lots of trouble for some reason! The culprit is that hat of his and this is my third time stitching it and I am DETERMINED to finish it so I can put it to the side. 

Here is my week's progress! 

Mini Christmas Ornaments

Shope By Maria

Bear

Progress 08/13/23

It was something with all the different red stitches that I kept miscounting and it was throwing things off! Then when I was doing the colors white and grey I noticed some more red squares that were wrong yesterday! I really want to finish it today so hopefully I won't find any more mistakes.

So that is it for me for this week. I hope you had a great week.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 09/19/21

Evening Everyone!

Well . . . I finally did it! The Christmas Characters are all stitched up, finally! YAY Now to put them in the "To Sew" pile for another day because I am kind of tired of looking at them right now. 

First here are the Polar Bear and the Elf.

Christmas Characters

Designer - Durene Jones

      

and here is the whole set.

First Stitch 07/01/21
Finished 09/17/21

Personally I think they turned out kinda nice as Durene Jones has some really cute designs. 

So now I am moving on to Halloween!! 

I have decided on a couple of charts from Barbara Ana Designs.  Here is the first one, 

Spooky Tree

Creative Poppy

Barbara Ana Designs

First Stitch 09/18/21

Progress 09/19/21

It is kind of hard to see the white on this fabric and I hope it shows up better

once I get stuff stitched around it. This is how the entire design looks.

Well as always, THANK YOU for taking the time to stop by!
I hope to see you next week with another faithful update.

Until then...
take care, stay safe and keep on crafting!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 09/12/21

Hi Everyone! 

It is Sunday once again and while I have been stitching EVERY DAY I still have not finished the Polar Bear and Elf ornaments. It seems like it is taking millions of blue Xs to fill in the background and I feel that I will never run out of space to put them in!

Christmas Characters

Polar Bear & Elf

Designer - Durene Jones

Progress 09/12/21

If there is anything about these ornaments that I can say I am glad about it is that I started them so early in the year. If I had waited until December I would have been in big trouble! I think that I can say with confidence that I will have these all stitched up by next week F I N A L L Y !

Hope to see you again next week

with another faithful update!

Thanks once again for stopping by!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 09/05/21

Hi Everyone! Hope everything is good in your little corner of the world. 

Well I did not get the Polar Bear or Elf finished - SURPRISE! LOL I did finish filling each of them in but I still need to do the background. Hopefully that will be finished soon.

Christmas Characters

Polar Bear & Elf

Designer - Durene Jones

Progress 09/05/21

I really want to finish these soon because I am getting burnt out on them but I know that I can't put them down and take a break because I may not want to pick them back up!

Well we are having some serious storms so I am going to go now and maybe even get in a few more stitches before bed! Have a wonderful week.

Thanks so much for stopping by,

I really appreciate you looking at my projects.

Hope to see you again next week
with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/29/21

Wow, here it is the end of  August and the unofficial end of summer already. 2021 is really moving fast especially when you compare it to 2020. That year seemed to just drag on forever...

This past week I did have a finish with the Penguin. I am not exactly sure what this gold is suppose to be but it was charted so I stitched it. Someone said it is tinsel, someone else said streamers and someone else suggested a scarf made with that fuzzy yarn so I guess it can be most anything.

Christmas Characters

Penguin

Designer - Durene Jones

Finished 08/23/21

Well then I decided to take the plunge and and start not one but two new ornaments. They are the last two in this chart. I really liked the Elf but figured why not add the Polar Bear too instead of leaving one empty spot on the fabric. I decided to tackle them both at the same time. I thought it may be confusing but it is working out pretty good.

Christmas Characters
Polar Bear (top) & Elf (bottom)
Designer - Durene Jones

Progress 08/29/21

Well short and sweet
about wraps up this week.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!