My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/13/25

Hi there! I hope everyone had a great week. It is pretty good here. We are still in the 100s with very small amounts of rain here and there. This will be a very quick post, even though I have really been stitching and I have a finish to show for it, finally! 

The first stitch I have for you is the Quilt Block Sampler! I am so happy to finally have it finished and I love how the variegated floss turned out on it. Thank you to everyone for all your comments on this piece over the time I have been stitching it, I think looking at those comments helped me finally get to the end.

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

Added the last 185 stitches on 07/11/25.

I also worked on the Reindeer Ornament this week. I did manage to put in all the cross stitches and some of the back stitches but last night my eyes were to tired to continue. I do hope to have all the stitching finished on this one this week, so I can start the next ornament. I won't FFO them until closer to Christmas so I can mail this one right out. I tried to draw my own penguin for the missing ornament I need but I see that I am not really very good at drawing! 

Reindeer Bauble Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

This week I added 430 stitches.

Thank you for stopping by!
I appreciate it and hope to see you next week.

Stay safe and keep on stithcing!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/29/25

Welcome Everyone! I hope that you are doing well! Everything is great here in Arizona. The weather forecasters are still promising rain, though I have not seen any yet. Hopefully it will be soon because the birds do not want to eat their food in the heat. We (and most neighbors) have NO shade around our homes. A lot of homes have cacti growing in their front yard since this is the desert; but that does not provide any shade either; putting out water during the summer is not really a good idea either as the sun heats it up. It is not easy being a bird here in the summer months.

So on to my stitching! This week was a repeat of the last where I only stitched on the quilt blocks and the reindeer. I made good progress with them so let me show you!

First up, I'll show you the quilt blocks. I am still working on the last block and it looks like it should be finished this week. Then I have a fill in a few places I missed when I originally stitched those blocks.

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

I worked on this on Tuesday and Friday during our
weekly get togethers and I put in 158 stitches this week.

Next up is my first Christmas ornament of the year, the Reindeer Bauble. I am getting kind of excited because I am about two thirds of the way finished, and you can really see the reindeer. I think the scary part of this will be cutting it out because that always makes me nervous! 

Reindeer Bauble Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

 

I put in 413 stitches on this piece.

I have still been looking for a penguin ornament like these, but I haven't had much success. I have thought about trying to make it on my own, but I am not an artist! 

So, I think that is it for the week.

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Thank you very much for stopping by!

Hope that I see you next week.

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 07/30/23

Welcome Friends! I hope that you are having a wonderful week! 

First up, a reminder of what today is! 

Make sure you get in a few stitches for the celebration.

Now on to my stitching. This week I have been stitching away on the following Christmas Ornaments. 

Mini Christmas Ornaments
Shope By Maria

Reindeer

Finished 07/27/23

Penguin

Finished 07/28/23

Santa

Progress 07/29/23

I hope I can get another one finished and a good start on another next week. 

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/23/23

Afternoon All, I think this will be a quick post because I have only been stitching on one project for a change! It has been slow stitching but I am getting there. I always forget how much stitching goes into full coverage pieces even when they are small ones! 

Anyways; here they are.

Mini Christmas Ornaments

Shope By Maria

First up is the

Penguin

Progress 07/19/23

This guy still needs his backstitch.

Then I started the

Reindeer

Progress 07/23/23
So far he only has a big old nose!

Well that is it for this week's stitching!

Next week I have to finish this guy and start on another.

So that's all I have for now!

Hope to see you again next week.

Have a great week everyone!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/18/21

Hello everyone. I hope you are having a good week. We are still having some rain but it seems to mostly come in the evenings or over night. Some of our dogs (one in particular) is very scared of the storms and will wake up everyone in the house with his barking and howling at the thunder. It can make for a long night but we love him so we comfort him until it is over.

This week I did the backstitch and finished up the Reindeer and I think I love him! 

Christmas Characters

Reindeer

Designer - Durene Jones

Finish 07/12/21

Once he was finished I started on the next ornament; Santa! 

Santa

New Start 07/13/21

#2021ChristmasInJulySAL

I would like to say he is a little under halfway stitched but it maybe wishful thinking on my part!

I am stitching Christmas ornaments in July because
I joined this SAL that is very kindly being run by
Rachel, The Ten Hour Stitcher!

CHRISTMAS IN JULY SAL!

Thanks Rachel!

Please go on over to her page to see the others that are
participating in the SAL and what they have stitched!

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

My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/11/21

We FINALLY got rain last night and it was crazy! It was proceeded by a hoboob (which is a fancy word for a dust storm) with winds over 50 miles per hour. The street was full of garbage cans (luckily the garbage was picked up that morning) and yard decorations. Then the rain poured down for what seems like forever. There were downed power lines on the next block and our lights were out for hours. Thankfully today is a new day and it doesn't even look like the storm passed thru. 

But now to move on to the important stuff...

CHRISTMAS IN JULY!

I see that last week I forgot to link up to this event... sorry!

Well if you remember last week I said I picked out some smaller and easier ornaments to stitch up this year and I had settled on a set from Durene Jones. Well... I guess I fooled myself because there seems to be a million Xs to each one!

Christmas Characters

Reindeer

Designer - Durene Jones

Progress 07/11/21

#2021ChristmasInJulySAL

This week I have been working on this Reindeer and I just finished the cross stitching on it and will do (and hopefully finish) the backstitching on it tomorrow so I can move on to another.

Well off to start some backstitching! 

Thanks so much for stopping by,

see you next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 07/04/21

Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope that you are enjoying your weekend! We are now in monsoon season and I am (impatiently) waiting for the rain to come. I hope it comes soon because we are in a drought and can really use it. 

This week I continued to work on the Quilt Squares through the end of the month and I made it to the seventh square. That square is not complete but hopefully it will be complete soon!

Quilt Block Sampler

Artist - Loretta Oliver

Designer - Stitching the Night Away

Progress 06/30/21

And now it is Christmas in July! 

If you are a long time follower of mine than you probably remember that I stitch each person in my family the same character every year for Christmas. This year I looked for some that were much smaller than last year's ornaments (they took me forever!). Durene Jones has quite a few designs which contain each of the four characters I need and so I decided to stitch up one of the sets. 

This is the one I settled on.

I will need to stitch the reindeer,
Santa, snowman and the penguin.

If time permits I will stitch the other two (LOL).

Anyways I started them:

Christmas Characters

Reindeer

Designer - Durene Jones

First Stitch 07/01/21

Progress 07/04/21

#2021ChristmasInJulySAL

Her charts are definitely cute and I love the drawings she does!

Thanks so much for stopping by,

see you next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update

Well I had another good week with the plastic canvas ornaments and I am FINISHED! I am so thru with ornaments for 2016!  LOL

Here they all are!

Initial Ornaments

Faithfully Stitching Designs

Finished 12/13/16

for a friend's kids

Reindeer

Designer - Lesley Teare

Finished 12/15/16

for my niece

Here they all are 

mounted on felt with red and

white twine for the hangers!

I then took the rest of the week off from stitching and just

vegged out while binging old seasons of Top Chef on Hulu.

I would like to take this opportunity to wish everyone

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

May Santa bring you everything you could ever want!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!