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 02/18/24

Happy Sunday everyone! I hope that you had a wonderful week. It seems to me that 2024 is going by pretty quickly and so I need to catch up with it! 

This week I stitched on a few pieces for my challenge. The first one up was The Enchanted Snowman. This piece is one that goes way back! It was a gift from Deb; a friend of mine who no longer blogs in 2018. I promptly started it but who know what happened. It got pushed to the back of the box to rarely be seen again. The last time I worked on it was in February of 2022.

The Enchanted Christmas Snowman

Artist - Dona Gelsinger

Heaven and Earth Designs

 

Progress 02/12/24

244 stitches for the 200 required.

The next thing I worked on was the Fun Every Day calendar tags. This is another oldie but definitely a goodie! I was also so gung ho when I first bought them. They were my 'waiting in the car project' for a while when I was picking up Jacob from school but now I don't really wait in the car! So I thought I should take them to my stitching group and do them there!! So... I was happily stitching away when I discovered a mistake on the one I was stitching! So I started looking at the rest of them because instead of following the chart each time I followed the one I stitched before it. It was only one line on each but wouldn't you know it; they were all wrong. I had to pick them all apart and do them over again. On perforated paper it isn't that much fun! 

Fun Every Day

Designer - SamSarah Design Studio

(no longer in business)

 

The left is some of the wrong ones and the one on the right is on it's way to be corrected!
I managed to get 214 stitches in correct this week

And the last one for the week is Valentine! I don't know why but then I look at one like this I always think 'No problem, this one will be quick!' but it never fails; it takes forever! 

🩷 Valentine 🩷

DailyCrossStitch.com

Finished 02/17/24

561 stitches this week for a total of 1,038 for the finish.

And that is my stitching for the week!

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

Now I need to finish filling in my acrostic for March and see what I should stitch today!

Have an awesome week.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 01/28/24

Morning all! Can you believe January is over already? It seems to have gone by so fast. I don't mind though because we are that much closer to spring and then my favorite... SUMMER! I enjoy the summer's warmer weather. When it is cold the arthritis dos not agree with the weather and I end up having quite a bit of pain and nobody likes that! What season is your favorite and why? 

This week I made some good stitching progress, so let me show you!

The first WIP up is

Shades of Gold

Designer - Nicole Dostal

Northern Expressions Needlework

Progress 01/20/24
I added 205 stitches this week

Next project I worked on was a new one

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie
Rhona Norrie Designs

Progress 01/2/24
I got 205 stitches in this one.

Then I worked on one more which I also finished!

Gobble On

Hands On Design

Finish 01/26/24
It took 291 stitches to finish this up.

Once I find some turkey fabric this will be made into a little pillow.

This is a free design. If you are interested it can be found here.

Well that is all that I accomplished this week! I need to finish gathering up my February stitching so I will be ready to go. There are two pretty long acrostics for February, so you can just imagine how many projects there are! I guess that will just make the month more interesting, 

Enjoy your week and I hope to see

you next Sunday for another update. 

My Sunday Stitchy Update 12/10/23

Good Afternoon Friends! I hope everyone is doing well today and staying healthy. 

A couple of my local friends have come down with COVID so please stay safe out there because I am sure it is just as deadly as it was when it started. 

On to the stitching!
As you probably guessed I have continued on the same piece, Marmalade. I have moved on from the square I was working on to the next one which I am almost finished with. 

Marmalade

Designer - Carolyn Manning

CM Designs

Progress 12/09/23

On this square I just have to finish the background stitches.

Well that is about it on the stitching front at my place. I am trying to catch
up on blog reading so hopefully this will be the week for that to happen.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching
see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/22/23

Hello!! Our weather is still hot and breaking records here.  We have had a couple 100 degree days here this past week which is the latest date we have ever had them here. First we set the record on Tuesday and then again on Wednesday. Tuesday's record was probably the shortest record we ever held. How is your weather? Are you having cold or rainy days?

Today I have a happy dance to share! I FINISHED Boo Banner! I love how it turned out. Unfortunately I don't remember where I put the hanger for it so I will have to do a crafty area search for it and hope it turns up, though when I do this type of search I generally have a lot of distractions and so that takes me forever!

Boo Banner

Designer - Stoney Creek

FINISHED 10/19/23

I also had another day of working on the borders for Fun Every Day.

Fun Every Day

Designer - SamSarah Design Studio
(no longer in business)

Progress 10/20/23

Then I spun the wheel and I ended up with my Nintendo SAL! This one has a long way to go so I am kind of happy to work on it. 

Nintendo

Mike Tyson's Punch Out

Armada Designs

Progress 10/21/23

So that's it for the week!

Thanks again for stopping by,

hope to see you again next week!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/15/23

Hello fellow stitchers! I hope you had a great week. I had a pretty good week but it was another was another busy one. I am hoping this week will slow down a little around here. 

I stitched on both of the same pieces again this week and one is getting close to a finish!! 

First up is one that is pretty boring right now since I am only slowly adding the borders to the pieces that will become the calendar tags. These designs are all stitched on perforated paper so I really have to be careful when handling and stitching it so that I don't rip it. 

Fun Every Day

Designer - SamSarah Design Studio

Progress 10/13/23

Of course I only have this out for stitching for about three hours a week and I estimate that for over two of those hours we are running out mouths talking about any and everything so that I may never get it finished! 

Now last week (see post below this one) I put out a question asking for any SamSarah information and sadly I have found out that they closed up shop. Luckily for me I had purchased all twelve months when they were available and now just need to purchase the calendar holder from Ackfeld. If you have never visited their site you may want to take a peek because they have many cute holders and stands.

Next we have one that will soon be off the q-snap! 

Boo Banner

Stoney Creek

Progress 10/14/23

I am currently doing the backstitch on the section you see here. I am amazed at how much backstitching there is on this piece, thankfully I already completed it on the top. I still haven't looked for any fabric for the backing so maybe I can get that in this week, but either way the stitching will be finished before Halloween! YAY

So that pretty much wraps up my stitching week. I KNOW I am way behind on blog and email reading so please accept my apology but I really hope to get caught up this week. 

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update
and I hope you have time to stitch everyday until then!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/08/23

Hello Stitchers! Here we are at Sunday once again. I have had a full week; I won't bore you with the details but rest assured I have been very busy and I exhausted myself! Not so much that I couldn't stitch but busy enough to not want to do extra stuff. 

Anyways I belong to a local cross stitching group and they decided to have a stitchy meet up on Fridays at our local mall. I have gone to the first two gatherings and I tell you I have really missed stitching with others. It was fun getting to know and meet them in person and I look forward to the next get together. I looked through my WIPs/WFOs for something easy to take back and forth and start stitching on and I found this! 

Fun Every Day

Designer - SamSarah Design Studio

  
               Progress  12/30/18                                          Progress  10/06/23

As you can see I haven't worked on it in forever!

Now I have a question for all of you... Does anyone know if SamSarah still exists and if so do they have a website somewhere out there in the world? I couldn't find anything on them when I did a search and I would really like to find it.  Thanks a bunch!

 
Now for my main stitching focus

Boo Banner

Stoney Creek

Progress 10/07/23

I am making pretty good progress with this one and still trying to finish it by the end of the month. Yesterday I was having a little trouble with the blending threads but i finally sorted that out. I am afraid that the purple one must have gotten cut somehome (maybe when they opened the boxes?) and it is coming off in small pieces. I finally managed to get enough to stitch what I needed to and after I am finished I will decide what to do with the rest of the bobbin.

Well I do think I have talked more than I thought I would, sorry. 

I hope you have a wonderful week

and that I will see  you next Sunday!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 10/01/23

Well we made it to October! This year seems to be flying by. This is the time of year I start bugging my family for their Christmas wishlist and I start my shopping. I don't like waiting until the last minute to try and get everything finished. My family thinks I am crazy but they should be used to it by now!

And now for the stitching! I continued to work on Boo Banner and I made some pretty good progress but still have quite a bit to finish. I had some kind of crazy week here and because it exhausted me this will just be a quick post. 

Boo Banner

Stoney Creek

Progress 10/01/23

I am going to try to get some more in on this during the next week because I am close to finishing the cross stitching! FINALLY!!

Well how was that for a quick post? 😊 

Thanks a bunch for stopping by,

Don't forget to stop by again next week.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 09/24/23

Happy Fall Everyone! 

I hope that everybody that likes cooler weather is excited for the change of seasons. I really love summer but I think my favorite season is really spring. It is the time that the weather starts to warm up again but we don't have extreme heat. What is your favorite season? 

This week I continued to stitch Boo Banner. I would love for it to be ready for Halloween and I think if I only concentrate on this one then I can finish it. This piece called for Rainbow Blending thread and I haven't really used them before. They took a little getting used to but they do add a pretty little sparkle to the piece. I don't know if you can see the sparkles or not but they are the green and purple stitches on the sleeve and hat of the witches outfit. 

Boo Banner

Stoney Creek

Progress 09/23/23

So because I am hoping to finish it by Halloween it will of course be staying out again and probably until I finish it. Wish me luck!! 

I hope you have a great week and

thanks so much for stopping by,

see you next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 09/17/23

Hi Everyone! I hope that everyone is doing well and getting in lots of stitches! 

Well last week I had finally finished the stitching on THE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS that I thought I would NEVER finish!They still need to be finished off but I had to set them aside to get a little break from them!! 

So I then went to look in the infamous WIP Box but I just had no desire to look through it or spin the wheel so I just picked the piece in the front of the box and since they are in alphabetical order (I know I have issues) I pulled out the Halloween piece I had there!!

Boo Banner

Stoney Creek

This is my progress from 07/02/23
and this week's starting point!

It looks like I put this down right before I started the ornaments!

Here is my current progress

Progress 09/16/23

I am enjoying this piece so it will be staying out for at least another week. I am also participating in the International Hermit & Stitch Weekend (IHSW) on Facebook thinking it would give me lots of stitching time over the weekend but I didn't get in as much as I wanted to this weekend. I will need to plan my weekend a little bit better when it is time for next months!! 

Well that seems to be it for today, 

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/18/23

Happy Sunday Everyone!

This week I have a quick post for you showing the two pieces I worked on.

So first I want to show you the SAL. 

The Blackwork Stitch Along

Artists - Rhona and Eirinn Norrie

Tangled Threads and Things

Week 24
Progress 06/12/23
@Tangled.Threads.And.Things

And then I also worked on this older WIP

Shades of Gold

Designer - Nicole Dostal

Northern Expressions Needlework

Progress 06/18/23

Nothing else is happening around here so that is it for the week! 

Thanks so much for stopping by,

see you next week with another faithful update!

Now I'm off to spin the wheel to see what I
should take out of the WIP Box for next week.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 05/07/23

Evening Everyone! I hope that you had a wonderful week. 

We have been enjoying warmer days full of sunshine here in Arizona, just the way I like it! I have been busy stitching away so let's get to it.

Dinosaur week was supposed to start on Monday of this week but I pushed it back a few days so that I could finish up Batman.

Batman

Tango Stitch

I decided to stitch part of it in DMC's Glow in the Dark
floss and now it looks like he is shining his Bat Signal!


Finished 05/02/23

I think I will see about making it into a pillow for his chair.

Then on Wednesday I finally got to Dinosaurs. There was not much progress put in on it this week because it had a short week of four days instead of six; but progress is progress. 

Dinosaurs

Artist - Stephen Michael Gardner

Flumpkins X Stitchers

Progress 05/07/23

Saturdays are for blackwork stitching. 

The Blackwork Stitch Along

Tangled Threads and Things

Progress 05/06/23

Week 18

 #TheBlackworkStitchAlong


And that is it for this week's stitching!

Now before I started Batman I had spun the project wheel to decide on the next piece and it landed on Nintendo. So tomorrow that is the piece I will pick up for the week. 

Sorry this turned out to be so long!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 04/30/23

Well here we are... another Sunday post and it is also the end of the month. 

Just a quick post today so I can get back to my Batman stitching and the new episodes they recently added of Firefly Lane. I loved the book by Kristin Hannah and the series isn't bad either. 

I am still stitching The Blackwork SAL and I just love it! There are ten weeks left on this piece and then I think I may have to find another blackwork piece to take it's place. I have many in my 'collection' so I will just need to narrow it down to one; which may be hard!

The Blackwork Stitch Along

Tangled Threads and Things

Progress 04/29/23

Week 17

#TheBlackworkStitchAlong

Next up is Batman. I really wanted it finished by the end of April but I missed that deadline. It looks like it can be finished before the end of the week, but I am always optimistic about finishing my stitching. Though this is not to bad for three weeks. 

Batman

Tango Stitch

Progress 04/30/23

Well thanks a bunch for stopping by,
I always appreciate it and your comments.
I hope to see you next week for another update.

My Sunday Stitchy Update 04/23/23

Hello Everyone! 

I hope you are enjoying your weekend. We are having beautiful weather here in my part of Arizona. I know that some of the northern and eastern states are still having horrible weather. My friends in Illinois had snow and tornados this past week. Seems like winter should be long gone but I feel that Mother Nature has lost her way this year. I hope the snow will stop soon for all who are still getting dumped on. 

Well, this week I stitched up the next section of the blackwork piece.

The Blackwork Stitch Along

Tangled Threads and Things

Progress 04/22/23

Week 16

#TheBlackworkStitchAlong

It is coming along nicely and I love it!

I am also continuing with the stitch on Batman. I finally got all the outlines finished and now I just have to fill in the areas. I like how they put a bat into his cape.

Batman

Tango Stitch

Progress 04/23/23

I think I should be finished with Batman soon so I can frame it up for Matt.

Well that is it for this week!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 04/16/23

Happy Sunday Everyone!

I know I made some stitching plans last week but I am sad to say... I already deviated from the plan! I spun the wheel and it landed on Nintendo so I gathered all my supplies and sat in my stitching space to read my email first. As I was going through my email I saw this new to me designer, Tango Stitch mentioned so I had to go look. While I was there I spotted a Batman piece and while I am trying to watch my budget, I seen that it is a freebie! A freebie, how can I say no? Matt (my son) collects Batman memorabilia so I knew I just had to do it for his birthday next month. So I moved Nintendo to the side and started Batman.

Batman

Tango Stitch

This is how it will look.

and this is how it looks now!
Progress 04/16/23

So after I finish Batman I plan to go back to Nintendo. I also worked on my blackwork piece this week.

The Blackwork Stitch Along

Tangled Threads and Things

Progress 04/15/23

Week 15

#TheBlackworkStitchAlong

Well that wraps up this week so I am going to get back to my stitching now!

Thanks so much for stopping by and

I hope you'll stop by again next week.