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 07/06/25

Welcome Everyone! 

I hope you are doing well! Where you able to get in any stitching time? I hope you were.

This week I tried to keep busy working on three different pieces. But I found that I had this problem while stitching and it is called... watching TV shows and documentaries! I was concentrating on them and neglected my stitching; among other things!  I always watch TV while stitching but I guess this week the television was more interesting than the needle. So I didn't get in a lot of stitches this week.

First, I worked on the Quilt Blocks. I was hoping to finish this last block but unfortunately I didn't quite get there! I am not going to say this is the week because that always seem to jinx my plans. So maybe you can just come back next week to see where I get to. 

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

Put in 141 this week.

Then one of the ladies in our stitching group wanted us to stitch something patriotic on the Fourth of July,  So I dug through my WIPs and came up with this piece featuring a flag. I changed the wording from "Long May You Stitch" to "Long May You Wave" because it just seemed like the right thing to stitch. I noticed I still have some of the white stripes to stitch and I have to finish the pole. I did finish the stars on the top but I guess I put the wording over it.

Long May You Stitch

Lucy Beam

Love In Stitches

Added 111 stitches this week.

And last but not least... I worked on the Reindeer Ornament. This piece suffered the most because of watching the TV but I am getting him finished. I think he is looking pretty good and he will look awesome when he is assembled!

Reindeer Bauble Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

I added 174 stitches this week.

Well that is it for the week, we have been around 100° each day but we finally got a little rain. We are suppose to get some more this week and I hope we do. It helps cool things down a little

Thank you so much for stopping by to see me!

I hope to see you back here again next week.

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 06/22/25

Hello Everyone, I hope you are having a great week. We have been in the 100s for a few days now and despite having A/C it is HOT everywhere; so much for the beginning of summer!  

This week I stitched on two pieces so this will be a quick post.

I took the Quilt Block Sampler design to the our stitchy group and stitched it there this week and I think I will do the same next week. It is kinda easy to stitch even with distractions!  

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

           

Put in 274 stitches this week.

Then I decided to start working on my Christmas Ornaments for this year. I have been wanting to try doing some 3D ornaments and I decided that this would be the year! Yay me

Reindeer Bauble Ornament

The World of Cross Stitching

  

This was a new start and I put in 412 stitches

This was one of the kits that was a freebie with The World of Cross Stitching magazine that I bought off of eBay. It is really cute and I am anxious to finish it. I also managed to find a snowman and Santa but no luck on a penguin yet.  The only one I did find would be $40 some odd dollars to get and that is more than I am willing to pay so I am still on the hunt for one if you happen to know of one or see one somewhere! Thanks 

Well that is it for the week!

I want to finish the stitching on the reindeer by next week. I hope you enjoyed your visit and you will be back again next week to see if I have made any progress or not. 

Hope to see you again next week!

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Until then don't forget to

keep that needle moving!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 04/13/25

Welcome Everyone!  I hope your week has been awesome! We are having a great week here in Tucson, especially if you like warm weather. We had a temperature of 100𝇇 F on Friday and broke two records that day. The first record was because we had a record high temperature (the previous was 99𝇇 F) and the other was that it was the earliest date in the year for triple digit temperatures. Though it was 100 it really didn't feel very hot so the weather was nice. 

I am still playing SPRINGO this week and the following is what I stitched for it. 

First up with the number 18 was the penguin piece, I had also worked on it the day before (first picture here). He seems to be going pretty slow for such a small piece.

Penguin Ice Slide

Daily Cross Stitch

I put in 107 stitches

Next was number 21 which was for the letter R! That means I was able to pull out the Twisted Rainbow Sampler to work on for a bit. It looks like next time it is out I may be moving to the next page! 

Twisted Rainbow Sampler

Northern Expressions Needlework

103 stitches went in this time.

After that the caller announced the number 12 which for me is the letter P for the designer Peppermint Purple and the the Annual Blackwork SAL. I am currently on the April 2024 installment of the fills. I would like to be able to do a couple of months at a time so I can finish it before the end of this year and get a start on the 2025 version because you know, there is always room for one more piece! 

2024 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple
 

This time I was able to add 109 (218) stitches.

Then the number called was 26 which is in column G. This means the Shade of Gold piece is up! After I stitched it the first time the next number was also in the same column which is super convenient for me. This piece has some interesting designs in it. At one time I wanted to do all twelve of these charts but I don't think I would ever make it. This is the second one and I'm sure you guys see how long that is taking me! LOL

Shades of Gold

Northern Expressions Needlework

Designer - Nicole Dostal
  

210 stitched were added to this one.

Then I have this one next which is sooo close to being done! The number was 11 and the letter was O for Oliver. 

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

 

Added 102 stitches this time.

And last but not least for the week I worked on the Nintendo piece Contra. There are so many trees and leaves in this square that it is driving me a little crazy! 

Nintendo

Contra

Armada Designs

Added 100 stitches for the dark green leaves.


Well that is it for this week.

I hope you have a wonderful week coming up.

Take care and stay safe and I

will see you again next week!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/02/25

Welcome Back Everyone! I hope you had a great week and you were able to get in some stitching time. I had a pretty good week. One of the best parts of the week is being able to go to the Mall and stitch with my friends. I think I actually get less stitches in my piece because we are so busy talking and looking at everyone's work and wishes! But that is ok, I enjoy spending time with the other ladies.

So this week I worked on a couple of big projects that you can actually see the progress on. That encourages me to keep going! Sometimes you can't really see where you stitched but you know you did! So let me show you what I did! 

First up I stitched a little on The Enchanted Christmas Snowman. I can't believe I am still on page one of this chart though it does look like I am a little more than half way. If you look you can actually see the stitches I put in. Everything is so blue that it was nice to finally use a different color!

The Enchanted Christmas Snowman

Artist - Dona Gelsinger

Heaven and Earth Designs

On 01/26 I added 115 stitches

After that I worked on these teeny tiny squares. It is kind of hard to put the fill in these tiny boxes and I often have to take out what I stitched and do it again and again! 

One Hundred Days of Tiny

The Steady Thread

I added 252 stitches on 01/27.

Then it was Tuesday... that is the evening we stitch at the Mall. I gathered up my stuff, grabbed a Diet Pepsi and off I went. When I got to the mall I took my stuff out and I noticed I grabbed the wrong box of floss; darn it! Luckily the box I did have had black and white in it so I was still able to stitch the border! 

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie Designs

On 1/28 I added 107 black or white stitches.

Then on Wednesday I looked through the WIP Box and saw this one so I took it out and looked it over and thought that I could at least finish this one block! It took me four evenings to do it, but it is finished!! Now I am down to one more block. 

Quilt Block Sampler

Artist - Loretta Oliver

Designer - Stitching the Night Away

Yesterday, 02/01 I finished adding in 489 Xs.

Now I will have to look and see what I will do this week. I am still doing the stitching acrostics so I will look over the list I wrote down and see what I feel like stitching. And luckily I can use the same piece on more than one acrostic if it fits! YaY 

Also, Tuesday is World Cancer Day. I would like to send prayers and good wishes to everyone who has or had cancer or been touched by cancer in one way or another. Cancer is not only tough on the person that has cancer but the people surrounding and supporting them. I am proud to say that this week I will celebrate being a ten year survivor of ovarian cancer.

Be kind to one another. 

Well thanks again for stopping by!

I appreciate your time and interest.

Have a great week.

Stay Safe and Healthy

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