My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/22/26

Good Morning Stitchers! I hope you had a great week and that your weather has warmed up. Our weather has warmed up so much that we broke some records this week. Starting on the 18th thru today we have had record highs. I really don't mind but I do wonder what summer will have in store for us. 

Seasonal Quilts - Autumn

Susan Powell of Laurel Susan Studio

Just Cross Stitch Magazine, Autumn 2024

This week I continued stitching on the seasonal quilt and I finally finished the quilt!! I was so happy that the quilt was finished, at least until I looked at the next section! LOL  It is full of leaves that have fallen to the ground so that means a bunch of confetti. Luckily for me, it was not as bad as I thought it would be. 

I put in 819 stitches this week. 

Now this piece will be going away for a bit since it is time for me to work on a Peppermint Purple SAL. I swear I need more hours in a day along with more days in a week so I can get in more stitching!

I am STILL listening to The Drawing of the Three by Stephen King and now that it is almost finished, I am starting to get in to it! Story of my life, I guess. 

It was a pretty nice relaxing week and that is it for me!


I hope you have a beautiful week full of stitching.


Please Stay Safe

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/15/26

Morning Everyone! I hope you are having a great weekend. We are having terrific weather here. When I was young I thought this was normal for Arizona since they said it is "always hot in Arizona" and when you are young you take everything as literal. We have been between the 70s and 90s all March! It is even  supposed to be over 100 later this week! I must admit, it is even to hot for me this early in the year. Sorry if you were some of the people who had one summer day and then snow the next day. That was pretty crazy!

This week when I spun the wheel, I landed on The Autumn Seasonal Quilt and all week I have been trying to finish this darn quilt! I think that tomorrow it will finally be done and I can move on to other parts of this project; and to think that I have three more seasons to get through! 

So let's see what kind of progress I made...

Seasonal Quilts - Autumn

Susan Powell of Laurel Susan Studio

Just Cross Stitch Magazine, Autumn 2024

Added 874 stitches this week.

So that is it for the stitching this week!

As for the books I didn't do that good this week. I couldn't concentrate on listening or reading so I did neither. I did start the second book in the Dark Tower series; The Drawing of the Three. In my opinion. for what that's worth - it is just a little better than the first in terms of the back and forth, past, present and future. People keep telling me to hang in there, they get better... oh goodness; I certainly hope so!

Moving on to my head injury, it is still looking pretty ugly. I think I will call and see if I can get some antibiotics for the big bump on my forehead because it is looking pretty bad and I can't really tell if the swelling is going down or not. It is funny how people will avoid looking at or talking to you when you look like this!

Anyways. I think that is it from me for now. 

Have a wonderful stitch filled week!

Stay safe.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/01/26

Well, what a temperature change we had here; we were in the high 80s and low 90s this week! I think Tucson even set some records for high temperatures this past week. I enjoyed the heat very much!! I hope it wasn't just a sneak peek but I think it was. 

Shades of Gold

Northern Expressions Needlework

Designer - Nicole Dostal

Last Sunday I spun the wheel and it landed on a piece I haven't stitched on for a long time, Shades of Gold. The last time I stitched on the piece was in April 2025! 

I was very happy to pick it up again and once I figured out where I was I got right to stitching! 

 

I put in 874 stitches this week.

And that is it for the stitchy part of my week.

I finally finished The Gunslinger by Stephen King. It took me a bit but I did it, I am going to try the second book in series soon. Right now I am listening to 107 Days by Kamala Harris. I haven't listened to much yet but I will get back to it this week. Then a stitcher in our group brought me a Mary Higgins Clark book (I forgot the title) that I will probably read next. 

Thank you so much for being here. I caught up on a bunch of emails last week and am hoping to do the same again this week. One problem is I feel I get so much junk mail and I am trying to unsubscribe from a lot of it.  I guess it may be due to being election year here and all of a sudden I have lots of politicians who care about me or rather my vote! LOL 

Well, I think I am going to skip spinning the wheel this week and stitch some more of The Shades of Gold.  See you around the web somewhere or back here next week. 

Take care and stay safe!

Look at there... another quick and short post! I kind of like that. 

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/15/26

Welcome to my place! This week it was cold and rainy here in Tucson but it is supposed to warm up for a couple of days next week, thank goodness.

Love is Patient

Dirty Annie's

Just CrossStitch Magazine

I only have one piece to show you this week because I spent all my stitching time this week working on it only! And guess what, I finished it!  

Added 865 stitches for the week

This week I listened to another Stephen King book called "The Life of Chuck." It is a pretty short story, so it didn't take any time at all. After that I debated with myself on starting an SK series called "The Dark Tower" because taking a look at the first book title and picture, I convinced myself it would be a western. So I talked to a couple of friends who are also fans of his and they convinced me to try it out and so I did! The first book is called "The Gunslinger" and I am enjoying it so far! I guess it may technically be a western but King describes it as a post-apocalyptic end of the world type book. 

So that was my week.
Now I need to go spin the wheel to see what is next to be stitched.

Thanks for stopping by.

I hope you have a wonderful week!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/08/26

Hello Stitchers, glad you could stop by. This week I have a finish to show you! So I am going to hop right in and get started. I think it will be a quick one today. 

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie Designs

Rhona Norrie

First up this week was the I Stitch Sampler. I managed to finished all the stitching on it, finally! I did not add the beads, mainly because I didn't buy any since I am NOT a big bead person and I think that makes me like it like it is, beadless! 

Finished with 264 stitches this week. 

Love is Patient

Dirty Annie's

Just Cross Stitch Magazine

So after I finished that I continued to work on the Love is Patient piece. All those stitches I need to put in the cat are taking quite a while, but I think I am almost halfway finished with the cat. 

Finished with 592 stitches this week. 
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And that is all the stitching for the week!

As far as books, this week I re-read Carrie by Stephen King. This was actually my introduction to Stephen King and his books. I read this when it first came out in 1974! It has a new introduction read by another great author, Margret Atwood for the 50th anniversary of Carrie. Also the great Sissy Spacek narrated the book which was a bonus surprise for me.

Thank you once again for stopping by! 

Have an awesome week.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/01/26

Hey Everyone! How is it going today? I am still hoping that you have not gotten any big snow falls and that your weather has warmed up some! When I watch the news I see so many places that are snowed in and then I start remembering those days and then I get cold immediately! I guess memories are hard to forget sometimes. 

So now it is time for the stitching! 

Nintendo

Contra

Armada Designs

First up I have the Nintendo game Contra for you. I am so happy to announce that this block is FINISHED! I was so tired of stitching those trees and the grass and am MORE than happy to have finished it. 

Last week I added 213 stitches to finish this block.

Nintendo will get put away until it comes up on the wheel again.

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie Designs

Rhona Norrie

Now I have the I Stitch Sampler to show you! It is thisclose to being finished. I think that all it needs is the backstitching on the flowers and I will probably stitch those today. 

I put in 376 stitches this week and not many more to go!

Love is Patient

Dirty Annie's

Just Cross Stitch Magazine

When this came up on the wheel I was happy! I think it is a cute one. So I got out the chart and stitching and I couldn't find the stinkin' floss. So I searched and searched for it and finally found it. Evidentially I moved it to another box and forgot to move the label! But by the time I found it I wasn't able to get much stitching (better than no stitching) done but there is always this week! yay 

Put in 45 stitches.

I also read Stephen King's book, Salem's Lot and it was a long one. I "plan" to read (or re-read) some of his books this year. I usually read books via audiobook now while I do other things, like stitching and stuff around the house and yes, they count the same as reading a book! 😊 There are just not enough hours per day. 

So, that is it for me this week.

Thanks for stopping by!

Stay safe and keep on stitching.