fruit of plenty – Quilts & Adventures

Floss Friday #184

Welcome back Stitchy Friends! Excited to watch the USA play Paraguay in the World Cup tonight. It will be a weekend full of World Cup games and time for stitching. Love it!

Starts & Finishes

Just in case you were wondering. For me a start is when I start a new CHART. Some projects have multiple charts and I consider them a seperate project because I don’t have to stitch all of them. I am doing quite a few series and each is a seperate chart so seperate project even if I decide to do them as one larger project. This thought process evolved to help keep me motivated and keep up momentum.

On the other hand, when I finish stitching a CHART, I am calling it a finish. This is not to be confused with FFO (Final Finished Object) which when they happen for me end up in its own category. I am just horrible about that final step so you don’t see that here often.

With that said, I had a couple of starts this week.

Floss Friday #183

Welcome back my stitchy friends! How is the last day of spring been for you? We have overall had a very mild spring with days in the 50s and days in the 80s. Some rain and some sunshine. Perfect spring weather. Right now we are in a rainy phase. This morning when I got up it was pouring cats and dogs. This afternoon I see peeks of blue skies between the white fluffy clouds and the grey stormy clouds. Wait five minutes and it could change!

May WIPGO Results

I am happy to say I finished both of my May WIPGO goals and made some progress on those old April and January goals.

Floss Friday #182

Welcome back my stitchy friends! Wow! It has been an eventful two weeks. I had the cross stitch retreat hosted by 141 Design Company and travel home. I would love to tell you that I got a ton of stitching. Well… I talked more than I stitched. LOL! Of course isn’t that what retreats are for. Let’s take a look at my weeks.

Starts & Finishes

No finishes this last two weeks but I do have to new starts. I hope to finish one more project and start another. Keep your fingers crossed.

Floss Friday #179

Welcome back to Floss Friday where I share my cross stitch projects. It has been another busy week with life happening left and right. I ended up missing getting any quilting done (until today) as well as missing my To Do Tuesday blog. #sigh. I had nothing to share. Days went fast and before I knew it, it was evening. Still needed to cook and eat dinner, so even my stitching time was abbreviated. I did work on projects.

Let’s start with a WIPGO update.

Results of April WIPGO

April was a WIPGO heavy month but short on time to complete those goals.

Floss Friday #177

It has been two weeks since I posted. Check out my quilting post for all the fun I had at the quilt retreat here.

I was very optomistic about how much cross stitching I would get done. Surprise! Yet I still managed to get a wee bit of stitching from time to time. I did take one of my WIPGO projects.

Starts & Finishes

There were a lot of down days this past two weeks. I would like to say they were all while I was at the quilt retreat but that would be a fib. Yet I was able to finish one of my projects.

Floss Friday #176

After days of rain while the sun is shinng, today is all sunshine! It is nice so see such blue skies. Loving this spring weather. Busy day today so getting this one posted late. Let’s hope to it!

March WIPGO Results

Floss Friday #174

Hello Stitchy Friends! It has been another busy week. How about you? Lots of appointments and I have two online classes that are keeping me busy! I was thrilled to almost finish my to do list for this week! Let’s check out the cross stitch projects for the past week.

Starts & Finishes

No new starts or finishes this week.

Floss Friday #170

Hello my stitchy friends! It has been a wet and busy week. It was nice to find some time to stitch and unwind. I can not believe how fast February is flying by!

Starts & Finishes

No new starts or finishes for this week.

WIP Updates

Made some great progress this week. Let’s take a look.

Floss Friday #166

Hello my Stitchy Friends! Welcome back to this week’s update. We have a little more variety this week so it should be fun!

Starts & Finishes

No new finishes this week but I do have one new start which I was excited to work on.

Floss Friday #163

Welcome to 2026! I finished off December 31st trying to make it through my December goal list. Unfortunately, while I worked on EVERY project left, I did NOT make my goals. So I focused on my December WIPGO projects as that is the whole reason to have WIPGO projects. Total win there!

2025 Project Recap

WIPs as of January 1st = 21
Starts = 52
Finishes = 39
WIPs as of December 31st = 34
View WIP list/gallery here
Zero Final Finishes (FFO)

I thought about doing a post for 2025 ending / 2026 beginning WIPs but decided that instead I would create a page for it instead. You can visit the page anytime view the top menu. I did mention I was going to shake things up this year right?