My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/08/24

Morning Everyone!

I hope that you had a great week and that you are catching up with your Christmas stitching. There is really nothing exciting happening here, just stitching and watching Christmas movies. I finished all my Christmas shopping a few weeks ago so I have been wrapping things when nobody else is home. 

I think Christmas is my favorite holiday because I like gifting my family with things they "want or need" and seeing their reactions when they open their gifts even though they are grown up now. I feel the same with their birthdays.

This week I only worked on two pieces and only worked on one prompt so this should be a fast and short stitching post. Then I will get back to work on those prompts next week. 

So the prompt I worked on was "Stitch on a WIP that has letters." So I pulled out the I Stitch Sampler and put in a few stitches. 

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie

Rhona Norrie Designs

I was trying to fill in the blue background on the letter I but there seems to be lot of stitches in that small square! I only put 130 stitches in it on 12/03/24 before it was time to go home.

Then I worked on the "Small Christmas Ornaments" piece. I really wanted to get it finished this week so I can decide how to finish them off and I managed to do it! YAY!

Small Christmas Ornaments

Durene Jones

  

I put in 915 stitches during the week, mostly backstitch. I finally finished them just yesterday (Saturday, 12/07) and now I have a little time to decide on the finishing so a couple of them can be mailed out and arrive before Christmas.

And so believe it or not, that is it for the week!

Thanks so much for stopping by to see what I have been doing.

I hope to see you again next week so until then
take care and stay safe but make lots of Xs!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/01/24

WOW, December already! Eek, that means it is crunchtime for Christmas stitching! I still need to finish the stitching on one ornament plus the back stitch on a couple. Then get them ready for the tree. I ALWAYS plan to get them done earlier than December but you know how plans go! I will have to work on them soon! 

This week I am just jumping right into the prompts because I have lots to do around the house.

This was the left over one that didn't get on last weeks post. The prompt was "Stitch on something that can fly." So I don't think I have ever seen a ghost but in any movie you watch the ghosts fly everywhere they go, even right through walls. 

Sweet and Spooky

Fat Quarter Shop

  

Added 204 stitches on 11/24

Now onto this week and my next stitch was "Home is Where the Dog Is." We can finally see the dog's outline against his house! Yay that means progress was made though there are still lots of stitches to stitch! Oh, the prompt was "Stitch a WIP with a frog, dog, bear or chicken" so this definitely qualifies.

Home is Where the Dog Is

Daily Cross Stitch

  

216 stitches were stitched on 11/25

The next prompt to be stitched was "Stitch on a WIP which has a dangerous creature in it." I don't know about you but I think a dinosaur is is pretty dangerous. I know I wouldn't want to be around one and I will NEVER go to Jurassic Park! 

Dinosaurs

Flumpkins X Stitchers

Artist - Stephen Michael Gardner

  
I added 100 stitches to the dinosaurs on 11/26

I have never used one of these floss organizers before but since I seem to spend most of my time threading my needle when working on Dinosaurs I thought this might help speed things up.

 Have you ever used one? If so, do you have any tips about using this feel free to let me know! Thanks

Next I needed to "Stitch on a WIP you would consider an experiment." Well with as many times as I had to frog this one I felt it was an experiment; after all aren't frogs used in experiments? Well I feel like I have had more than my fair share of them on the Blackwork SAL!

2024 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple
 
147 stitches were added (successfully I hope) on 11/27

The next prompt was to "Stitch on a WIP that contains 2 of their powers (water, something fast, light, garden, animal or a tool)." Well all of these thing are featured in Nintendo games so it was a logical choice. The people are always fast and they need tools to do whatever they are attempting and the animals, I think they are in every game!

Nintendo

Contra

Armada Designs

Contra received 123 stitched on 11/28

The next stitching prompt is very fitting for this next stitch. "Stitch on a WIP that you had forgotten about or wish you could forget about." I always forget to stitch it or I push the Christmas pieces to the bottom of my stitching pile because in my mind I have plenty of time to get to it later and then the next thing you know, it is December!

Small Christmas Ornaments

Durene Jones

  

I managed to add 125 stitched on 11/29

The last one for this week is "Stitch on a WIP that needs a 1000 year hibernation (e.g. a  project that has been naughty and needs a time out or one you are bored of and needs to put away for a bit)." This piece is a VERY boring stitch. All you do is stitch the same color in a row all the way down to the end and then move on to the next color and do it again. I do love this piece but boring is the word of the day.

Twisted Rainbow Sampler

Northern Expressions Needlework

 
I stitched 111 coral stitches on 11/30.

Well that was the stitching for the week. I do hope that you guys are enjoying the pieces I stitched 

and how I decided on those pieces. I hope that they will do this same event in 2025. I like trying to pick out a piece for each prompt. Some of them take all week to figure out a reason! LOL 

If anyone feels like they might want to try this challenge come on over and join in on Facebook. The group is called Fandom Stitching Central. They do have other challenges to but this one is MY favorite. It is not required to stitch all the prompts because after all it is just for FUN! 

If you are going Christmas shopping please be vigilant and safe. Everywhere is bound to be crowded which makes it easier for thieves.

I hope you have an excellent week and I will see you right here next Sunday!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 11/17/24

Afternoon Fellow Stitchers!  I hope everyone had a great week full of many stitches.

This week I had some stitches and while I kept up my stitching each day I didn't have a lot of stitches. SO anyways... let's jump right in and see what I did do. 

First up this week was my ornaments! I finished the Elf last time and now I started the Bird which is the last one! I hope to get it finished soon so I can FFO them and get them in the mail. 

Small Christmas Ornaments

Durene Jones

Only 91 stitched on 11/10/24.

Now for the first prompt of the week, Stitch on something with gems or gold. Well with this one has Gold in the title so it was a given. 

Shades of Gold

Designer - Nicole Dostal

Northern Expressions Needlework

I added 109 stitches on 11/12.
It is hard to see where but they are in the border on the right.

The next prompt was Stitch on something that needs to be fixed up. Well the bookshelf is still missing a few shelves on the bottom so it definitely needs to be fixed up. Then I kept it put for the next prompt as well since it was to Stitch on something with a skull. On the October shelf there is a skull to be added so I outlined it so it could be seen. 

Temperature Library

Kristi’s Corner Needlework (Etsy)

Kristi DiClemente

I stitched 211 stitches during the two day period.

After that I just felt like stitching on this one so I pulled it out of it's hiding place and added to it. 

Winter 2024 SAL

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa

I added 118 stitches to this one on the 14th.

The next prompt asked me to Stitch on something you’d find at a school. This was a tough one because I don't ever remember stitching anything to do with a school, so then I came up with this idea! There are often flowers at school. Every school dance has flowers given as gift for your date, or people give them just because and students also give them to their teachers.  

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie

Rhona Norrie Designs

On the 15th I added 228 stitches.

Then an easy one finally! They wanted me to Stitch on my most wanted project! Well right now my Son is looking for this piece but it is gonna take forever and a day! 

Nintendo

Contra

Armada Designs

On the square I am stitching, Contra, I added 125 stitches on 11/16.
Actually when you look at this part it looks like a bunch of scrabbling.

Well thanks for making it to the end! 

Keep in mind that Christmas is only about six weeks away so you should be getting those pieces finished unless you are one of those people who are finished already!  Every year I say I am going to be one of those who finishes everything early but I just never manage to get it accomplished! But I do manage to get them done in the nick of time. 

I hope you have a wonderful week, take care 
and I look forward to seeing what you are doing. 

My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/20/24

Hello and Happy Sunday. We made it through another week and that is a blessing. Our temperatures are FINALLY going down and we had a few days under 90° and even had a day in the 70s! What a difference the temperatures make. 

I haven't really been doing anything else except trying to slowly clean out and straighten my stitching cabinets. It can be pretty tiring and time consuming but I haven't done this in quite a while so it is long overdue. I will take some of the stuff to my stitching group to see if anyone wants it. If not I will call around for a donation place that might be interested. Last resort will be the Goodwill or some place like that because I would rather give it to someone that needs and will use it.

But anyways, I would like to show you this week's stitching! 

Last Sunday I worked on the Vase of Flowers. I was caught up in a movie and didn't get very many stitches put in but some are better than none. I did not have a prompt so I was just stitching.

Vase of Flowers

Durene Jones

Progress 10/13/24

I only managed to get in 71 stitches!

Then on Monday the prompt I had was "Stitch on a project that reminds you or makes you think of someone who has been a father figure in your life." That piece would have had to have been something with American Indians or Indigenous Americans on it but I have nothing like that in my stash. Once my Dad passed I stopped buying those types of charts since he was the only one who appreciated those types of scenes. So I stitched this piece instead and took the penalty.

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie

Rhona Norrie Designs 

 

Progress 10/14/24
I put in 214 stitches on this.

The prompt on Tuesday was to "Stitch on a project that contains a gem or a Phoenix." I consider the Stars are gems that light up the sky so I stitched on the piece with the American Flag. 

 Long May You Stitch

Lucy Beam from

Love In Stitches

Added 104 stitches on 10/15/24

Nintendo

Contra

Armada Designs
I stitched on Nintendo for three days so I am posting them all together for you.

Wednesday's prompt was "Stitch on a project you have adapted to make it your own."

The layout is the change I made to the design. The one on the left is the designer's layout and the other one is mine. You would have to look at the names to see how I am arranging them. They will be in order of their original release date. 

 

On Thursday I needed to Stitch on something that includes an item you would find at a carnival and Friday I needed to Stitch on something that contains a tree.

  

On the entire chart I saw some cartoon characters the kids used to play with like the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Disney characters to name a couple and said you would find them at the carnival as stuffies. On Friday I had to stitch some trees which this block is full of!

Progress on 10/18/24

I added 102 stitches on Wednesday and 100 on each of the other days.

Then over the weekend I needed to "Stitch on something that you’re so excited to work on that's distracting you from other projects or tasks you need to do." Well the Christmas ornaments definitely fit that prompt because I just keep thinking that Christmas is creeping up pretty fast! So I started the Elf ornament which is the fifth one out of the six.

Small Christmas Ornaments

Durene Jones

Progress 10/19 & 10/20
Put in a total of 256 stitches.

And there you have it,
a wide variety of projects!

Thanks for stopping by to see what keeps me busy in the evenings.

When do you stitch? In the mornings? Evenings? All Day? I mainly stitch in the evening after dinner. Sometimes I get in more time on the weekends because I don't usually have to cook dinner.

Well thanks again and I hope you will come back soon.
😊
Enjoy your week.