Hello My Stitchy Friends! I am looking forward to sharing this week’s progress on all things cross stitch. As usual I think I am going to do more than I actually have time for 😂. Let’s take a look!
New Starts & Finishes
I had TWO finishes this week.
Monthly Square Dance by Heart in Hand
Woohoo! I finally finished the entire Monthly Square Dance Series with the finish of December. I feel like this is something I should be able to display all year long and I am thinking I will finish it either as a wallhanging, a picture frame, or maybe a display board. Looking at the finished stitching, I am pleased with my 3×4 decision. Yay!
Oakly Acorn by Robin Pickens
I tried to finish this up on Tuesday night. I had only 50 stitches left. I literally kept falling asleep while stitching so I decided it would have to wait until Wednesday. Love the color choices. Really gives a great fall vibe. Not sure how I will finish this one yet. I am going to try and final finish this month and get it up on the wall.
WIP Updates
I have a few to share for this week even with a couple of no stitch days.
Fox Trot by Fat Quarter Shop (It’s Sew Emma)
Some great progress this week. Still need to do something about that disappearing tail I think. Just not today. I stitched up the flowers and leaves this week.
Pumpkin Pals by Fat Quarter Shop (It’s Sew Emma)
Oh my gosh! That little hedge hog turned out so darn cute! As you can see I finished up the pumpkins on the ground and the hedge hog and started on the leafy border.
Harvest Tiny Town by Heart in Hand
I have to laugh because I started to pick this up last week and was thinking I started in the wrong place. I didn’t want to unstitch so I just skipped it last week when I did my fall-athon stitch. This week when I picked it up, I realized I didn’t have the fabric turned correctly since I never marked the TOP of my fabric. Once I got this oriented correctly, it wet well. I have finished my first house and almost the owl on top plus I started the tree.
Snowman Collector: The Scarecrow by Cottage Garden Samplings
I got impatient with the wheat and jumped to starting the scarecrow. I needed to have more color. The last couple of these felt so much faster than this one. The scarecrow seems to be taking foreverrr.
Plans & Reflections
That wraps up this week’s progress. The only other things I have been doing is sorting through the WIPS in the closet looking for this month’s WIPGO projects. I found them plus one more fall stitch to work on.
The Plan Part
The plan for next week is:
- Corny Cruiser
- Start 30 Acorns pincushion
- WIPGO: Winter Camper
- WIPGO: Summer Stitching Season
- FFO: Sweets for Santa
- November Month 2 Month mini chart
- Fruit of Plenty
The Reflection Part
I am finally letting go of my compulsive need to do at least 400 stitches before letting go. Hopefully this allows me to actually make it through my active WIPs this month. It has been a few months since that has happened.
I am also hoping to get a few FFOs done. I would love to get my first HOD christmas ornament done, my Frosty Tiny Town turned into a drum, and my Oakly Acorn up on the wall or displayed. I am feeling optomistic today.
You may have noticed that this post actually went up on Saturday (night late) because I did not go to the coffee shop on Friday because I quilted from 10a to 7p on Friday and then was too tired to do anything else but have some dinner and do a little stitching. Then most of today was doing all the things I was supposed to do on Friday! Chores do not seem to care if we have other plans. No food in the house was something that I just had to address ASAP! Plus I needed to sneak in some exercise between the rain drops.
Have a great weekend! Thank you for stopping in and allowing me to share. Come back on Tuesday to see my quilty stuff otherwise, I will see you next Friday!
Peggy Stockwell in Vancouver, Washington