Jan 8th Monday Update

 Hello readers. Welcome to 2024 and a Monday update. Let's see what I've been working on this last week.

Monday was the 1st and I had a New Year New Start...

Halloween Potions by Les Petites Croix de Lucie (This is going to get annoying to type haha) I'm using 32ct Light Mint Lugana. 

Tuesday I worked on it as well. Ended the two days with 514 which met my monthly goal on this piece...

The designer has a lot of color changes in a small area and definitely a lot of backstitching but I love the way it looks after it's stitched. So I'll just backstitch as I go along. I started at the bottom left in case you couldn't tell. 

Wednesday I worked on Winter Line Up by Trilogy. I'm doing 100 stitches a week for January to hit my goal of 400. I added my 100...

After that was done I pulled out my pick for my Mixed up Monthly. Jeremiah picked this one for January. He loves our Irish heritage. I worked on it Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday was able to finish it up...

(1) January 6th

Wee Bit Irish

from Erin Elizabeth Designs

Stitched on 32ct Vintage Country Mocha

Using DMC Threads

Started Jan 3rd. Took 4 Days.

1,443 Stitches 

 

Wohoo my first finish for 2024!! It was a fun fast stitch really. I was sad to finish it though. It was definitely one I was excited to stitch up. Sunday I was pouting about what to stitch now and Jeremiah had to pick a number for me haha. 

 

So I worked on Simple Treasures for my monthly goal of 100 stitches...

I ended up with 187 before it was time for bed. 

My step mom is still in the hospital. Been a month now. My dad took me up two times last week. We found out she had a cluster of a dozen strokes. So that explained why she hadn't woke up or communicated for a week and a half. Luckily she woke up and was finally communicating. It seems to have affected her sight but my Uncle had a stroke bother his vision and he has regained his sight now. So the neurologist said sometimes the brain can rewire itself to be able to work around the damage. The brain is an amazing thing that's for sure. Now they are started rehab so she can get her strength back. They are also doing a bone marrow test and hopefully that shows her numbers have drastically improved. That will be the next hurdle to cross. We went up yesterday Fred, Jeremiah, and me and it was adorable how happy she was to see Jeremiah. So we are sure happy to have her awake and talking at least now. 

Well I'm off to read blogs and then stitch. We have several rounds of snow coming this week and brutal cold end of the week. So perfect stitching weather. Love yourself. Enjoy stitching all the things. I sure will. See ya next Monday for another update.