My October 2026 Stitchy Update

I hope you had a great October. On Halloween it rained most of the day here, unfortunately. The Trick or Treaters were still plentiful though which means, there was not a lot of left over Halloween candy. What there is, I will put it in a Ziploc bag and stick it in the freezer to help avoid temptation. 

So I would like to share with you what I stitched in October. I ended September with

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

 
October's Starting Point and ending for the month

This finished off page 4, only 5 more to go!

Nintendo

Armada Designs

After that I spun the Tiny Decisions wheel and it selected Nintendo for me. I stitched two sections on this piece. I am also showing you the entire piece and as you see, I have plenty more to go.

  

10 Games out of 24 stitched.

The Flower A Day

CM Designs (Carolyn Manning)

Since I seem to be on a roll of stitching LARGER pieces right now, I decided what's one more?! 

October's Starting Point and  ending for the month

I can't believe I am ONLY on page 2 on this piece.

I think I have a problem with picking out
larger pieces and then they take forever to complete!

During October I listened to Stephen King's Drunken Fireworks I really was not very impressed with this book. It was definitely a SHORT story as it just took a couple of hours to read.

Then I reread a Stephen King's Doctor Sleep, which is The Shining part two. I really enjoyed this one and that is why I read it again and again and have also seen the movie a couple of times. 

I am currently listening to Jodi Picoult's newest book, Hollow Bones. I am about 2/3 of the way through the book and am enjoying it very much.  I think if you are a fan of hers you will love this one  too, 

I hope everyone enjoyed their extra hour of sleep even though it never seems to make a difference to me when I was able to get that hour. Here in Arizona we don't change our clocks with DST, which I prefer. Congress keeps threatening they will make this the rule for the entire country but they have been saying this for years now. 

So that is it for the month of October!

Thanks for stopping by to see what I have been up to.

Hope you will join me again in November
but until then please stay safe and keep stitching.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 05/18/25

Hello Everyone!

I hope you are having a wonderful week.  The weather here is absolutely gorgeous, it feels like summer already. I had another week of stitching this and that so let me show you what it amounted to! 

First up was Faith Over Fear. It is kind of hard to see because of the light colors I am using on white fabric. I know, it's really not a good color combo but I didn't give it a thought when I picked the colors.

Faith Over Fear

Daily Cross Stitch .com

Added 120 stitches on the 12th

Then late afternoon on Tuesday I met a friend at the mall for some stitching and decided that I would take the I Stitch Sampler with me. I wanted to get some of those flowers in the bottom corner added. 

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie Designs

Rhona Norrie

Put in 102 stitches on 05/13/25

Next up is one that can be a little difficult sometimes, One Hundred Days of Tiny. The squares are pretty tiny and sometimes the more intricate designs are hard to get it all in that square in a nice and neat way. I often complete the square, then take it out, then do it over again; sometimes more than once!

One Hundred Days of Tiny

The Steady Thread

I ended up with 128 stitches after all that.

Then to wrap up the week of stitching I decided to work on a cheerful piece, The Flower A Day. I always think of this piece as a beautiful explosion of flowers and colors. 

The Flower A Day

Carolyn Manning

I added 115 stitches to this piece.

And that was all I stitched for the week. Not many stitches, only 500 but I am happy for those. It was a rough week but now we are moving in to a new week, so hopefully it will be a much better one. 

Thank you everyone for stopping by to see what's going on here.

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I really appreciate all of you.

Have a wonderful week and 

please stay well and safe and don't

forget to take some time for yourself!

So until next week
keep that needle moving!

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My Sunday Stitchy Update 03/09/25

Happy Sunday Everyone.  I hope that you had a great week and were able to get in lots of crafting time. I didn't do anything very exciting this week so on with the stitching! 

It is the start of a new month so I have lots of acrostics and things to work with! 😄 The first prompt I decided to work with on Sunday was the letter E. So I picked out the Flowers of the Month because it is by Ellen Maurer-Stroh.

Flowers of the Month
January, Carnation
Ellen Maurer-Stroh

 

Added 160 stitches

After that I thought I should stitch on some more flowers! So I picked up my other flowery piece, The Flower A Day. This one satisfied two different prompts; the first was "Something spring-like" which is what flowers are and the second was the letter S which I also used the word spring for. 

The Flower A Day

Carolyn Manning

Managed to plant 119 stitches this week.

After that I was flowered out so I decided to move on to something else. We had a couple of pretty chilly days here so I moved on to three prompts that reflected colder weather. They were for the Winter SAL piece I have. I would need to do these over two days because two of the prompts were on the same list. 

The first day I worked on the prompts A for the designer Alyssa of Stitchonomy and "Something that isn't water but is the color of water" which is the color of the fabric.  On the second day the prompt was "Something that represents time". I didn't have anything like watches or clocks but I think that this will fit in! 

Winter 2024 SAL

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa

Added 217 and 230 stitches respectfully 

Then I closed up the week on Saturday with two prompts. The first was the letter N which I applied to the designer Northern Expressions Needlework. The second prompt is "Something that's a golden color." Well I only have one piece that can apply to both of these and here it is...

Shades of Gold

Designer - Nicole Dostal

Northern Expressions Needlework

Added 204 stitches to this one.

And that wraps up the stitching for the week!

I have been looking for and finding floss all throughout the house and I don't understand how it gets here and there and everywhere! So this week I have been TRYING to dedicate my time to cleaning up my floss stash and putting everything where it belongs. It has not been an easy task which is probably why it is in all the wrong places. I still have more to do but I hope to be finished with it this week! 

And no, I haven't found any ornaments for this year so I will still have to look for some; but I have to FOCUS on looking for them.

Have a wonderful week friends!

Thank you very much for stopping by!

I am going to go find something to stitch now

and I hope you stay safe and keep stitching.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 02/16/25

New Week, New Stitches! YaY!

I hope everyone is doing great. I am doing pretty good; nothing exciting happening, thankfully. 

My needle had some busy times this week and I am happy with the progress that was made. The first thing I worked on was the 2024 Blackwork SAL and I can't wait to work on it again. I completed all of the January fills. 
 

2024 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Added in 319 (638) stitches.

After that, I found the Vase of Flowers that had been missing for a couple of months. It had been tucked away with another chart!  So I decided I needed to work on it! All most finished with the background then there is a little backstitch to do.

Vase of Flowers

Durene Jones

Added 141 blue stitches!

The next piece I worked on was The Flower A Day. This piece is so colorful that I can't help but smile when I am working on it!  I was wondering how many flowers are actually on this chart though I know I don't want to count them. 

The Flower A Day
Carolyn Manning

So I added 92 stitches to this piece.

Then it was time for some more Blackwork with The Steady Thread's SAL. You can really see the design coming through now.. I think it must take a lot of patience to be a designer. 

One Hundred Days of Tiny 

The Steady Thread

  

Added in 91 (184) stitches.

Next up we have Faith Over Fear.  When I started it I changed the green to pink and forgot to write down which pink! I had to to thru a hand full of pinks to figure it out which one I used. I think I picked to correct one, at least it looks like it. I also made sure I wrote down the which number I used! 

Faith Over Fear

Daily Cross Stitch .com
 

Added 136, mostly white, stitches. Hope you can see them.

And finally, to wrap things up; I worked on My Enchanted Snowman! I can even see the progress made! I think I finally got the hang of this one or maybe because I didn't have so many color changes but I really enjoyed stitching on it this time. I guess we will see what happens next time. 

The Enchanted Christmas Snowman

Artist - Dona Gelsinger

Heaven and Earth Designs

 

Added 227 stitches in.

Well it is LATE here and I need to go to sleep! So I guess I will close for now. Thank you once again for stopping by. I appreciate it. I am also making my way through my inbox and I am finally (hanging head in shame) answering emails. If I could only get two or three more hours in each day for a while I could easily catch up with everything I want to do.

Well friends, stay safe and I hope to see you next weekend!