Showing posts with label Winter 2024 SAL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Winter 2024 SAL. Show all posts

Sunday, March 09, 2025

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.

 

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. 
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! 

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...

Designer - Nicole Dostal
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.

Sunday, January 12, 2025

My Sunday Stitchy Update 01/12/25

Welcome Friends! I hope you are having a great week. I am good and thankful. I had a crazy week but I came out of it on a positive note. 

If you are in the LA area I do hope you are in a safe space and I am definitely praying for you. Seeing all the devastation is truly heartbreaking and unbelievable. Please stay safe! 

So now let's move on to some happy news... the stitching! 

So the first thing I stitched was a new start! Because that was just what I needed, one more thing to stitch. I actually have a couple of other new small pieces lined up for January and then I want to concentrate on the pieces I have in the pile already before anything else gets started. I hope I can stick to that promise to  myself. 

So I found this piece in the Winter 2024 edition of the Just CrossStitch magazine and thought it fit my current mood so I added it to my stitching list. It also fit into my BBRINGO prompt called for the day which was number 14 "Stitch something with a bird." I think this bird is so cute! 

Love is Patient
Dirty Annie's
Just Cross Stitch Magazine
 
So I got a start of 102 stitches.


So the next BRRINGO number called was 16 and that prompt was "Stitch something that intimidates you." So I moved over to the rainbow because sometimes doing the line on the diagonal gets me confused so I need to stitch a little slower so I can make sure I am stitching in the right place. I do love this piece though with the vibrant colors and how she switched from one color to another. 

Added 150 twisted stitches


So on Wednesday the BRRINGO number caller called number 18. That prompt was "Stitch something that makes you want to bundle up", which is something I never want to have to do again but stitching it is ok! So this Winter SAL was the perfect fit for this one.

Designer - Alyssa
  
I drew some arrows to the area I stitched because it is hard to see.
I added 146 stitches to this one.


The next day the number 9 was called and it was an easy decision for me because I have been wanting to work on this one! The prompt was 'Stitch something that has a border' which led me to the Blackwork SAL!


 
I did manage to get in 100 stitches.


So after working on one of my favorites, I ended up moving to the one I dreaded. The number called was number 25 which was 'Stitch something with more than ten colors.' I had assigned the Dinosaurs to that number but with all the confetti I dread doing this one. 

 
I only managed 30 stitches in over two hours but 30 is 30 more than before.


Then for the last one of the week she called number 15. This number called for me to "Stitch something that you were inspired to start by someone else (tell us who inspired you!)" so it was another easy pick!  Tia, my daughter inspired me to do this one for her because she loves the Stephen King movies. She found it online and sent it to me asking could I do it for her and who am I to say I wouldn't stitch it for her!? 

It received 120 stitches.

So that is it for the week. Lots of little additions to many different pieces, but progress is progress. I hope to make some good progress next week. 

I am STILL cleaning up my stitchy stash which seems to take a long time but it took an even longer time to accumulate all this stuff. I guess trying to be realistic about what you will stitch in the future is time consuming, I hope to get through some more stuff again this week but will I ever be happy when I am finished. 

I hope you have a great week and don't forget to make some time for yourself!
Stay safe!!

See you next Sunday!