My Sunday Stitchy Update

Happy New Year and Welcome to 2016!

I hope you all had a great New Year celebration!  My family spent the evening in our pjs, playing board games, watching movies and eating junk.  I fell asleep around 11:20 and woke up in time to see the ball drop with everyone else.  As soon as that happened though we were all off to bed to dream of all the wonderful things that await us in the new year.

Well now for the stitching!

I am proud and happy to say that I have my first finish for 2016!

Introducing...

Wizard of Oz

Designer - Lesley Teare

Finished 01/03/16

I really wanted to finish that one in 2015 but I just couldn't get it in. So I am extra happy that it is finally finished now!  Now to find the perfect frame and mat for it so I can give it to Tia.

That is one UFO off my UFO challenge!  I wish I could knock them all off that fast this year - haha!  Only 5 more to go on my personal challenge. 

I also started two new pieces on New Year's day for a Stitching Challenge I am in with a Yahoo group.

Twisted Rainbow Sampler

Designer - Northern Expressions Needlework

Progress as of 01/01/16

Fun Every Day

Designer - SamSarah Design Studio

Progress as of 01/01/16

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My Sunday Stitchy Update

Hello everyone!

I hope that each of you had a beautiful Christmas surrounded by those you love. We had a nice quiet day at home which stretched out to a long weekend. Lots of Christmas movies, game playing, watching Jacob play with his electronics, laying around and eating! I love those kinds of weekends and look forward to another one coming up this weekend.

I did get in some stitching and made some noticeable progress!  YAY

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 12/27/15

I have finished filling in the Scarecrow - yay - and now to do the background and back stitch! Can I finish it by New Year's Eve??  I am not sure but I am going to give it all I got! I am so excited to be sooooo close. 

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

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My Sunday Stitchy Update, on Tuesday?

Well I missed Sunday by a few days but wanted to share my updates

I worked a little bit on my main piece

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 12/20/15

and I stitched this one up over the weekend. My daughter is giving it to my son for Christmas.

Definition Of A Brother

And Sew We Craft

Finished 12/21/15

I also want to wish everyone a

VERY MERRY CHRISTMAS!

I hope Santa is good to you and your families this year.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update

There simply are NOT enough hours anywhere for anything!  LOL

I promise myself "This week I will read every blog on my blog list" or "I will read blogs for an hour every night" but...well you probably know the rest of the story - THESE THINGS NEVER HAPPEN! I have such good intentions but instead I am falling farther and farther behind.  So this week I have been diligently signing up for "Follow By Email" on blogs if it is available and what a difference it is making!!  I can keep up with everyone's updates simply by reading my emails - yay!! I love it.  Hopefully I will do better now on keeping up with the stitchy updates for all of you! If you don't have this feature please consider it as it is the best thing ever.

Last week I worked on my Monthly SAL on the Palko Blog.

Months SAL - December

Designer - Palko

Finished 12/06/15

I am going to miss doing these little monthly designs; they were a fun and quick stitches.  She is having a new SAL for 2016 but I am not sure if I am going to participate or not because I have a LONG LIST of charts that I want to get to.

I suppose it will depend on the size of the monthly charts and if I have fabric handy, usually her chart sections just require a day or two of stitching.

This week I stitched a day on Dorothy and her friends

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 12/09/15

then I started this cute ornament over the weekend

Heart Snowman

Kit - Needlemagic

Finished 12/13/15

I need to really get going on the Wizard of Oz this week so that will be my goal!  Hope I have some progress to show you next Sunday!!

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My Sunday Stitchy Update

√		Dorothy
√		Toto
√		Wicked Witch
√		Tin Man
√		Cowardly Lion
√		Glinda
√		Farm House
		Scarecrow - soon!!

I am so excited, progress has been made and the end is in sight!! Hopefully I will have a great stitching week and have lots of the Scarecrow finished by next week. 

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 11/22/15

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My Sunday Stitchy Update

Just a quick update tonight!

I have been working on Dorothy and I finally have her all filled in! YAY  Now trying to get some of the background near her stitched up so I can back stitch the rest of the Tin Man and her so I can move on to the Scarecrow!

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 11/15/15

Hope I have some back stitch to

show you next Sunday so until then...

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

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My Sunday Stitchy Update

Welcome everyone! Hope you all had a wonderful week as we start a new month.  I can hardly believe it is November already as time is just flying by! I think one of the reasons I have a hard time remembering that it is November already is our weather! It is still in the mid 70s here in Arizona and we are not minding it one little bit! Don't get me wrong, in the morning when everyone is leaving for the day you may need a light jacket or sweater but that doesn't last for long like it would be if we were still in Chicago!

So I got in a bit of stitching this week...

New start and finish of

Months SAL - November

Designer - Palko

 

Finished 11/06/15

and I continued some stitching on

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012 

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 11/08/15

Thanks for stopping by and taking a peek at my stitching

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My Sunday Stitchy Update

Evening everyone!

Just a quick little update.

This week I have been working on Dorothy's dress and getting that section filled in. 

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

This was last week's

 progress as of 10/18/15

and here is this week's

progress as of 10/25/15

Next week I plan on working on the picnic basket

and maybe Dorothy will start on getting a leg or two!

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see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update

Well it has been two weeks since my last update and I have quite a bit to show you!

I have a page finish on this one!

Shades of Blue

Designer - Northern Expressions Needlework

Progress as of 10/13/15

That is 5 pages down and 7 to go ;)

and I completed this one

Months SAL - October

Designer - Palko

Finished 10/16/15

and this one I designed for Jacob

Stay Weird

Faithfully Stitching Designs

Finished 10/12/15

and I don't think I showed this one

SpiderMan

Designer - Stitch Bucket

Finished 09/27/15

and I have been working on Dorothy's dress

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012 

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 10/18/15

Well that is it for now!  Hope you enjoyed looking at my latest works.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update

Evening Folks!

I have been busy getting in quite a few stitches since my last update and here they are!

First up A PAGE FINISH...

Shades of Blue

Designer - Northern Expressions Needlework

 Progress as of 06/28/15

This piece is now officially a third of the way finished!

Now if the rest would just find a way into my rotation

so I can get this completed and on to another Shade of...

and now a finish...

Months SAL - July

Designer - Palko

Finished 07/05/15

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012 

Designer - Lesley Teare

 Progress as of 07/12/15

The family also went to see The Minions,

it was good but I liked Despicable Me better :)

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My Sunday Stitchy Update

Evening... It is late but I just wanted to post a quick update :)

Not much to report except that I worked on two pieces this week - a little bit on each.

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

 

Progress as of 06/24/15

Shades of Blue

Designer - Northern Expressions Needlework

Progress as of 06/28/15

I think SUMMER is really trying to make it's appearance and STAY! This week we are expecting some temps in the 80s - YAY for HOT WEATHER!

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

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My Sunday Stitchy Update

It has been a while since I posted a Sunday Stitchy Update but I have been busy! Also just haven't felt like blogging I guess or being a lazy butt!

Here are the things I have been working on since my last Sunday update...

Tia's Graduation Piece

Faithfully Stitching Designs

Finished 05/11/15

Months SAL - May

Designer - Palko

Finished 05/12/15

Snowman Tic Tac Toe

Designer - Ursula Michael

Finished 05/25/15

Wizard of Oz

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 05/31/15

So as you see I have been quite busy and even have some finishes to add to my list! YAY It feels great to have finishes!! 

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see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update

Hello friends -

Hope you have had a wonderful week and got in lots of stitchy time! I just have a quick update this week...

I continued working on The Wizard of Oz

this week and finished page 2! 

So now...on to the third page and the

Tin Man's right leg so he looks like this now! 

Now I will be putting these guys

away and breaking out the Dinosaurs! 

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update

Hello Everyone!

I hope that you all have had a wonderful week - full of warmer weather and stitching. The weather here is warming up - slowly but slowly is better than not at all. It has been rainy this week but you know what they say "April showers brings May flowers" and I am more than ready for some bright splashes of color from flowers along with green grass.

I got in quite a bit of stitching this week! I started off the week with

The Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 04/12/15

Still have a bit of the background to do in the sky and then some back stitching, then I can go on to the next page. 

Then I ended the week by working on 

Snowman Tic Tac Toe

Designer - Ursula Michael

Progress as of 04/12/15

Finished the fourth snowman in 

the series of six so I am getting there! 

So did you get in some stitching this week? What are you working on?  I am currently looking for some fabric in my stash for Bunny and Buddy, the HaED I won from Megan at The Girl Who Stitches last week. I can't wait to start it :) 

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My Sunday Stitchy Update

Good Evening Friends!

It is STILL cold here in Chicago! We even had about four inches of snow early in the week. I am MORE than ready to start demanding some heat around here!! They "say" we will be warming up this week but we shall see if the weather man can be believed or not!

This week I pulled out the Wizard of Oz. I filled in the background on the bottom half and started the backstitch Here is where I am ending this week:

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 03/29/15

Hope all of you had a wonderful stitchy week! 

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update

Evening everyone...

Not much going on here; unfortunately not even much stitching.

I did get some work in on 

The Wizard of Oz

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 03/01/15

I was still having trouble with the darn Tin Man

but finally finished up this section of him!

Hopefully his legs won't give me

as many problems as his chest did!

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My Sunday Stitchy Update

Well...it is snowing here in the Chicago area!  It started yesterday in the early evening hours and it has been snowing ever since, that's over 24 hours so far!   This afternoon we were at 8 inches but it is still coming down and they predict it to go on until sometime Monday morning - yuck! Many schools and businesses in the area have already announced that they will be closed tomorrow. So it sounds like a pj day for this family!

Jacob and his mom went out to play in the snow and they built a snowman; and named him Sterling.

On the stitching front this week I worked on The Wizard of Oz and I think I did as much ripping out and as I did stitching! I just couldn't get the Tin Man to cooperate for some reason! Hopefully next time this comes up in rotation hopefully I will finish the second page! 

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 02/01/15

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My Sunday Stitchy Update

Just a quick update today -

I have been working on the Wizard of Oz piece; I really wanted to get it finished by Christmas but didn't even come close but I have made some good progress.

First I finished the first page.

Looks like a bunch of blobs!

But once you back stitch a page - 

viola' what a difference it makes!

Now I have started the second page

and will probably finish out the year with this one!

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see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update...

Not much going on here except that it is VERY COLD and it may be going down as one of the top 10 coldest Novembers in Illinois history. Not my idea of a record I thought it would be fun to break but what do I know.

We had a beautiful Thanksgiving - it is nice when the whole family is home spending a great day together with some fantastic food and enjoying each other's company.

This week I have been stitching on The Wizard of Oz.  I really wanted it finished by Christmas, realistically I don't think that is going to happen but I am going to give it my best shot!!

Here is how it looks today -

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 11/30/14

Let's see how it looks next Sunday...

hopefully I will get in lots of stitching time this week.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!

My Sunday Stitchy Update

The weather has been TERRIBLE this week and we even had some snow flurries mixed with rain on Saturday. Never do I remember snow of any kind coming this early in the year and I am just hoping that this doesn't mean that we are going to have a long and bitter winter!

I went over to my LNS over the weekend and spent my gift certificate my son gave me for my birthday and got some black fabric to do the Northern Expressions Twisted pieces on. Two Amy Bruecken Halloween charts also managed to find their way into my bag :)

This week I didn't get a lot of stitching in but I did manage to squeeze in a few stitches on and around the scarecrow. Here is the how it looks now

Wizard of Oz

Cross Stitch Gold Mag / July 2012

Designer - Lesley Teare

Progress as of 10/05/14

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another faithful update!