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 09/03/23

Hello There! I hope that you are having an awesome weekend! This weekend in the States we have the labor day holiday on Monday so it is a long weekend for us. It also marks the unofficial end to summer, unfortunately! When I was younger it also signaled the start of the new school year. I liked going back to school for the most part. New clothes, new school supplies, new classroom, new teacher, and new things to learn ~ what's not to like! How about you? How did you like the start of a new school year? 

Well on to the stitching part of the week... 

This week I was able to finish putting all the stitches in the Snowman so now all of them have been stitched and are in need of their backstitch. Then I will almost be finished with the ornaments for this year, finally. 

Mini Christmas Ornaments

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Snowman

Progress 09/01/23

All stitched up! 09/02/23

I hope to get the backstitch finished on the others this week!

Next year I plan on finding another way to get the family ornaments stitched up. I think if I do them gradually through the year it might work out better for me. They will probably take just as long but I am hoping it won't seem as long and overwhelming if I break them down in smaller blocks of time. I don't know if that is true, but I will see. That means I have to start hunting down some ornaments soon!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya 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 08/06/23

I hope that all of you had a wonderful week! It is still very hot here in Tucson. Including today we have has a streak of 52 days of 100 degrees or more and they don't see a change for the next ten days unless we get a good storm. We will see what Mother Nature has in store for us! 

Well I feel like this has been a kinda slow stitching week for me. It has taken me the entire week to stitch Santa even though his hat was already stitched and he is a small guy (ornament wise). So I don't know why it took so long.

Mini Christmas Ornaments

Shope By Maria

Santa

Progress 08/06/23

This guy seriously needs some back stitch, you can't really see his features without it but I think that I need a little break from him before I work on him some again.

It looks like the next one up will be the bear and hopefully he will go quicker!

Well thank you for stopping by and

I hope to see you again next week!

Have a great day!

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
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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 07/116/23

Hello, hello, hello! Here we are at Sunday once again. I hope that you have had a wonderful week. It has been pretty quiet around here which is perfect for me! 

This week I FINALLY finished the SAL! 

The Blackwork Stitch Along

Designers - Rhona and Eirinn Norrie

Tangled Threads and Things

First Stitch 01/19/23

Last Stitch 07/11/23

 

I had decided to stitch one of the borders that they provided but after I stitched two sides of this one I just couldn't get passed how the corners looked. Each corner is designed like this and I felt that the corners do not end in a "perfect" rounding so I ripped it out and made this simple border based on their border which I like much better. Now I need to find some fabric to make this into a pillow, so I will have to find some time to go thru my fabric stash to see what I have and get to the sewing machine.

Once I finished that it was time for my Christmas In July stitching. So I searched for a chart I liked and one that looked kind of simple. So over to Etsy I shall go! LOL  I found a bunch of ornaments but decided I wanted it to be all whole stitches so I could work them on plastic canvas - that makes for easy stitching and easier finishing! 

This is the design I decided on in the end.

Christmas Mini Ornaments

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I think they are both cute and whimsical!

So this is my start on the Penguin, my first ornament.

Progress 07/15/23

So that is all for the week; one finish and one new start.

Thanks so much for stopping by to see what I am up to,

see you next week with another faithful update!