My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/15/25

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a wonderful week. I had a pretty great week that included a bunch of stitching.  

It feels like it is summer here though we still have about six weeks of spring to get through. We are in the 100s every day now. We are going into monsoon season as well!  I just wish monsoon season meant that we would get a good old fashion thunderstorm like we used to get in Chicago. I certainly miss those. Here in Tucson it seems like a bunch of rain will fall quickly, then it will just stop. It doesn't really cool anything off since the rain is so quick.

So this week I worked a few days on the Winter SAL, Dark Nights. I am on last two lines of text but I need to go back and do some more back stitching. Not sure what I will do with this piece but I am leaning towards a pillow for the couch or a chair during the holiday season.

Winter SAL, Dark Nights

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa
 Added 276 stitches

After that I thought that my 2024 Blackwork SAL could use a little love on it so I pulled it out and got busy. I got in quite a few stitches on it ~ yay!

Annual Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

I added 416 (832) stitches to this one.

Well, I found three out of the four Christmas ornaments I need for this year. Unfortunately there were not in a set but they all came from the World of Cross Stitching magazine. I am going to try to sketch the fourth one out on my own. It doesn't seem like what I need will be to hard; we will see how I do.  Anyways, I may start those tomorrow so I can get them out of the way and not franticly trying to finish them at the last minute! 

So that is all for this week. 

Thanks, as always, for stopping by to see what I am up to. 

Hope to see you again next week!

Until then don't forget to

stitch, stitch, stitch!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/30/25

Hello Everyone.  I hope that you are doing well.  This has been a pretty good week for me except my back and legs are pretty painful. So, I am going to make this a quick post today so I can go put my legs up. 

The first one I am showing here is the Temperature Library! I have FINALLY shelved some books!! This makes me very happy and that means I am making progress. 

Temperature Library

Kristi’s Corner Needlework

I put in 232 stitches.

I also worked a little on Shades of Gold. I've moved to a new page but I still have a way to go!

Shades of Gold

Northern Expressions Needlework

Designer - Nicole Dostal

200 more stitches were added to this piece.

After that it was time to work on Stitchonomy's Winter SAL. This is a fun one and easy to work on when I am stitching with my group of friends since there are not a lot of color changes so talking doesn't distract me. 

Winter 2024 SAL

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa

I got in 114 stitches this week

And last but not least I worked a couple of days on the Blackwork SAL from last year. One of these days I hope to get to this years, I just hope that will be before 2026! 

2024 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Added in 139 (278) Stitches on this piece.

And that my friends, is that!

Thank you for stopping by and checking out what I have been up to.

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 11/24/24

Hey everyone! Hope life is treating you well. 

This week a bunch of friends and I went to see Wicked and in my opinion it was fantastic! If you have seen the other productions of this series then this one is a must. I hope you have a chance to enjoy it as well.

Believe it or not we have still been in the 80s this week! We did drop down to the 60s for a couple of days and then jumped right back to the 80s. I am not complaining though, I love the heat!

In the upcoming week here in the US we will be celebrating Thanksgiving on Thursday. Most people will watch football and cook a turkey with tons of sides. My family will be making homemade pizzas for dinner that day and I of course will be stitching and watching movies. 

I think I have answered all the comments for last week and I am trying to remember to change the email address so they don't go to "No Reply". If I didn't answer your comment it is probably because I forgot to change the email address... sorry!

Now for the stitching I squeezed in this week! 

First one stitched was perfect for the prompt "Stitch on something you’re reluctant to stitch on." After another frogging session with this piece (I think it is my third or maybe the fourth?) I was brave enough to stitch on it again. This time I worked on the upper right instead of the lower left amd so far, so good! The real test will be when I start adding the lines inside the border. 

2024 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

138 stitches added on 11/18

Next up I worked on the Quilt Block Sampler, since the prompt was made for this one; "Stitch with blue floss, or on something with a moon." As you know I have been working on this for years and years, four to be exact and I hope to have these last two blocks stitched up soon so I can mark this one finished!

Quilt Block Sampler

Artist - Loretta Oliver

Stitching the Night Away

 
Progress 11/19 when I added 164 stitches.

This time the prompt was to "Stitch on something that is small, or fairy sized." I figured the title says they are tiny boxes so this should be fine! I definitely don't have anything fairy sized because I think that would be extra small. It almost looks like someone dumped out a bunch of die and this is how they landed. 

One Hundred Days of Tiny 

The Steady Thread

I added 240 stitches which counts for 120 between the days of 11/20 and 11/22.

Now for one of my current favorites; Stephen King's House! I can't wait to get to the different books and movies that are featured here. This prompt said to "Stitch on something you would find at a tea party." Well what would a tea party be without the guests? After all someone has to drink all that tea and eat the cookies!! So all the people in this piece will be invited once they are visible.

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher
 
Added 218 stitches to the house on 11/21

The last prompt is asking about the season of weather that I really don't like though I do like it a bit better now that I don't have to be bothered with it! They asked me to "Stitch on something that makes you think of winter." Well this one obviously has everything to do with winter even though I prefer summer!  

Winter 2024 SAL

Dark Nights

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa

On 11/23 I added 212 stitches

This week it seemed as though the prompts were made after someone looked in my WIP box. I often wonder who thinks of these prompts. I am sure it is a lot of work to think of six for each week. 

Well it is time for me to go to bed and TRY to get some sleep. It is 2:45am right now, way past my bedtime but the insomnia says no, you should stay awake... all night! 

Well thank you once again for stopping by to see what I am doing.
I appreciate all of you and your comments.

So until next week 

stay safe and keep stitching!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/11/24

Hi Stitchers! Glad to see you made your way over to my place.  We have been having lots of monsoon showers here which help cool off our area.

Once again I did stitching on a lot of different pieces this week! I never dreamed I would start stitching something different each day. But... my friend Katie introduced me to a group where you stitch different pieces throughout the week. It is sort of like an acrostic but they give you six different themes or suggestions and you pick out charts that can fit into those ideas. I find it interesting.

Anyways that means lots weekly of updating! I hope you don't mind! 😎 So here we go!! 

The week we started off with the Stephen King House. As you can see I am still "building" the structure and I think I may have to go out and buy lots more black floss!!  I will be happy to get this floor finished so I can move on. 

This piece was easy for Olympic day 10! We had to stitch something with a house or building so what better than Stephen King's House. 

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

Progress 08/04/24

88 stitches

 

The next thing I stitched was The Flower A Day but only managed 65 stitches! I guess some days you just don't have the Xs in you!

For this piece we had to stitch something choreographed by our favorite designer. This one is probably a stretch but I thought that the flowers are beautifully arranged together which I counted that as choreography. 

The Flower a Day

CM Designs
 

Progress 08/05/24

65 stitches

After that I moved to a piece that doesn't really require a lot of concentration! YAY but I would love it finished. 

On the twelfth day of the Olympics we had to stitch something with an animal, Hopefully I will get to stitch the dog one day soon!

Home is Where the Dog Is

Daily Cross Stitch

 

Progress 08/06/24

211 stitches added this week

Then I worked on the Winter SAL piece, It is kind of a fun piece maybe it is because of the color of the fabric. It is cheery maybe because it is a bright color! 

I worked on this piece for two days. On the first day I had to stitch something that is part of a SAL. On day two it was stitch towards your goal on any piece.  This is part of an SAL and I wanted to finish stitching the section I was working on so I continued on this piece. 

Winter 2024 SAL

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa

Progress 08/09/24

366 stitches total

After that I worked on a game from my past, NINTENDO! I am currently working on Metroid. This is not my favorite game but hopefully this one will be finished next time I take it out. 

For this piece we had to stitch something you can’t “weight” you can’t  wait to work on. So basically you could just stitch on whatever piece you wanted to. 

Nintendo

Metroid

Armada Designs
 

Progress 08/08/24

222 stitches total

And that finally brings us to Spooky & Sweet. This is a cute one, if I can ever ever get it going!

On 08/11 We had to stitch something that is part of a series. This came in four separate sections.

Sweet and Spooky

Fat Quarter Shop

 

Progress 08/10/24

Added 210 stitches

Well I want to say that once again, 

Thanks so much for stopping by,

see you next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 08/04/24

Happy Sunday Everyone!  We have been having storms and power surges on and off all week so I will try to make this a quick post even if I do have about what seems like a million photos for this post! 

I stitched a different project each day because of the Stitching Olympics over on Instagram. So here we go!

Day 3, Stitch something related to summer

So even though I LOVE summer I found myself lacking any summer charts! Since we are encouraged to get creative with our selections this was what I came up with! I will be recording the summer temperature eventually! 

Temperature Library

Kristi’s Corner Needlework (Etsy)

Designer - Kristi DiClemente

 

Progress 07/28/24

Added 204 stitches

Day 4, Stitch with a floss or on a fabric in a color from the Olympic rings; blue, yellow, black, green or red. 

My fabric is blue.

Winter 2024 SAL

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa

 

Progress 07/29/24

Added 168 stitches

Day 5, Stitch something with water.

This is the only thing I had even resembling water, if you use your imagination! There is a vase with water in it for the flowers. 

Vase of Flowers

Durene Jones

  

Progress 07/30/24

Added 106 stitches

Day 6, Stitch something that contains something round.

There will be lollipops which will be round!

Sweet and Spooky

Fat Quarter Shop

Progress 07/31/24

Added 115 stitches

Day 7, Stitch on one of your oldest WIPs.

Well I  I had one in 2004 but I couldn't find it so this piece had to fill in for it because is the oldest one I could find. I started this one in 2011. I finished the June Flower last month and now moved on to the February one. 

Flowers of the Month

February, Violets

Designer - Ellen Maurer-Stroh
  

Progress 08/01/24

Added 208 stitches

Day 8, Stitch something with more than one person.

I took out the Stephen King House for this one. It will have a whole cast of characters from his movies! 

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

 

Progress 08/02/24

210 stitches

Day 9, Stitch something with a row of something or a border.

All of these little ornaments will have borders around them when they are finished. 

Small Christmas Ornaments

Durene Jones

  

Progress 08/03/24

127 stitches

And that is all the stitching! Thank goodness.

I hope you enjoyed seeing my weekly recap and thanks for hanging in there until the end.

Have a great week and I hope you get in lots of Xs.

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