My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/22/24

Hello Everyone! I hope you are all ready for the holidays. If not, you don't have very much time to get ready! I was finishing my ornaments this week but ran into a few problems so I can't show them yet. I will explain the problems next week when I have them ready; I just don't know what I was thinking. 

I have decided to drop two of the groups I am in, the one with the prompts in and another similar group for 2025. I will finish out the year then that is it. I think I will only do the two groups with the acrostics instead. The groups I am leaving seem to be taking up a lot of my time because I feel I have to get all the prompts or other activities complete and lately it is making me not want to stitch or do anything else. There are more things than just that swaying my decision but they are not that important to anyone but me. So anyways ~ let's get down to the important business!

I did get in some stitching this week so let me show you what I managed to accomplish!

Nintendo

Contra

Armada Designs

   

I added 103 stitches

The Flower A Day

CM Designs

 

100 stitches added to this one

Temperature Library

Kristi’s Corner Needlework (Etsy)

 

Stitched an additional 103 stitches

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher
  

Put in an additional 201 stitches

And that was it for the week!

Thanks so much for stopping by and I hope that everyone
has a blessed Christmas and that Santa brings you the gift of your dreams.

Love to all

My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/15/24

I can't believe it is only ten little days until Christmas and then 17 until the New Year arrives. I hope everyone is ready for the holidays. I am and was even finished early this year! I only have to make a cheeseball to serve with crackers for the Mall Stitchers holiday get together. We will be doing a White Elephant Gift Exchange also so we should have a good time. 

I do miss not having a little one in the house because they would always be so excited; 19 year olds - not so much! I am proud of him though, when I asked him what he wanted for Christmas he said he would like some tuition money to take a couple of college classes. I will gladly provide that for him but boy oh boy have the rates gone up a LOT since my kids went. Due to the cost he will only be taking a couple of classes here and there so we will have to wait and see what his next decision will be. 💖

So I guess we should get on with some stitching. This week I stitched on three different projects and stitched on each for two days. It was one of those weeks unfortunately but I think I may be a on the mend (shhh, when  I say that I start feeling like I an going down again). No fever but my eyes feel like that are very hot, I have a headache that comes and goes and so many other things I'm sure you don't want to hear about.

So first I will show you the 2024 Peppermint Purple Blackwork SAL. "The prompt was Stitch on a project that takes courage, explain your reasoning." Since I had so many visits from Mr & Mrs Frog on this piece I wanted to see if I could actually manage to do it correctly. Trying it again was courage! I contemplated ripping everything out and starting it from the beginning again. I think that this time having the chart all on one page has really helped me. Maybe I can actually finish it soon. 

2024 Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Added 123 stitches over the two day period!

Clare has released the 2025 SAL borders and I have been going back and forth over which one I would like to do and I think I have it narrowed down to two. I know I will be using black aida and now to pick a color, I am considering a green color. Hopefully you will see it soon! 

Next I needed to "Stitch on a project with a star." There are plenty of "stars" in the upper left field of blue on this piece it more than qualifies for this prompt.

Long May You Stitch

Lucy Beam
Love In Stitches

I did get in 129 stitches, all on the wording.

My final prompt for this week was "Stitch on a project you dreamed of before finally starting." My daughter, Tia asked me to stitch this for her and secretly I was happy to do so. I saw it and thought that I really wanted to stitch it but knew I already own to many charts and I really shouldn't buy another. But since it was for Tia... well who am I to deny her of something! LOL

Stephen King House

The Witchy Stitcher

  
Only added 113 stitches so I hope she is not in a hurry for it!


Well that is all I have for today.

I wish you a wonderful week and I will see you on Sunday.

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 11/10/24

Happy Sunday Everyone! I hope you had a great week. The Summer weather lasted forever and now the Fall weather has come in strong to announce it's arrival. I wish it would have crept in slowly so I could get used to the chilly air gradually! But you guys know Mother Nature, she does things her way and we just have to adjust. 

Oh yeah, when I was answering posts this week I noticed that EVERYONE was set to No Reply. They must have had some kind of update or something that changed everyone's post settings. The sad part is I can't see how to change mine back. I looked through the settings but couldn't find the one needed to change it. If you know how to do it, can you please please please let me know too. Thanks.  

Well I have stitched the week away to the prompts and while I missed one (laziness) I still got stuff accomplished. So here are this weeks prompts and the pieces I thought fit in with them. 

The first prompt I worked on was to "Stitch away on my oldest WIP it to grant it some new life." I started this piece in 2011. I do have one older than this but it must be packed somewhere secret because I can't find it! This is the fourth flower of the twelve for this piece.

Flowers of the Month

January, Carnation

Ellen Maurer-Stroh

Worked on on 11/04/24 and added 102 stitches.

The next prompt was to "Stitch on an item with a dog" which I was more than happy to do because I would like to move this one to the completed pile! 

Home is Where the Dog Is

Daily Cross Stitch
 

I added 139 stitches on 11/05/24.

Another prompt they listed was "Stitch in one of these colours; Orange, Teal, Pink or Indigo." Well I just so happened to have something in Orange to stitch so here it goes; a pumpkin used by the trick or treaters to collect their candy stash!

Spooky & Sweet
Fat Quarter Shop

That was 241 pumpkin stitches on 11/06/24.

Just an FYI in case you don't already know; the Fat Quarter Shop often offers

FREE cross stitch charts. They also have some FREE quilting charts for you.
 

Now they would like it if I stitched in another color. "Let’s bring a little more Joy to our lives by stitching in yellow!" At first I couldn't find anything after but looking through all the WIPs I lucked out! I found something with some yellow. 

Santa Fe Christmas

Jeanette Crews Designs, Inc.

I put 246 stitches into the moon on 11/08/24 and it's not finished!

The last prompt I worked on this week was "Stitch on a project with a book." I am nor sure this will qualify or not since you can't see the actual books yet! If it doesn't count I have asked for it to be a penalty stitch instead. I was going to stitch a couple of books on to it but I can't make up my mind as to which color pallet I want to follow. More on that at a later date. 😉

Temperature Library

Kristi’s Corner Needlework (Etsy)

Kristi DiClemente

I also put in 323 stitches to add on the bottom shelf of this piece between
11/07/24 & 11/09/24. I am getting closer and closer to adding the books!

So that was 1,051 for the week which is not to bad for me.

So that about wraps up my week of stitching.

Thanks for stopping by!
Have a great week and stay safe no matter what you are doing.