Another Catch Up Post

 Yep still behind. I'm doing great. Just busy moving and making myself healthy. I had a lot more time when I was fat and lazy haha. 

First Up March Smalls was the last Friday of the month. Head over here to the check in post to see what others have stitched up this month. Remember the purpose of this SAL is to finish up something small each month. I've joined in a few years and I pick a monthly piece to stitch all year.

I finished up March for the Year of Celebrations project...

March WIPocalypse was the last Sunday of the month. Head over here to the check in post for this SAL. The idea of this SAL is to stitch all our WIPs before the end of the world. Can we do it? Not if we continue starting new pieces haha. I like to look back and see what I've accomplished during the time and how many days on each piece.

I've had a horrible stitching month. I've added 4 days since the last time. Here it was last time...

I finished off those last two bottles...

Then I was able to get a tiny bit added to the last shelf...

I only worked on one another piece and that was the 3 days on the March piece above. I've had a whopping 19 non stitching days already. 

We did have a fantastic weekend away this past weekend. We went down to our cabin Friday. The drove up to a big casino we have enjoyed visiting. We met up with several friends and had a fantastic night Saturday. Jeremiah and I came home ahead. Fred said we evened out with his losses haha. It was a wonderful weekend away but of course didn't help with the no stitching going on. We are going down to our cabin this coming weekend for Easter and who knows if I'll find time down there during that. Oh well. I still love my stitching and love my blog friends. Just need to find more time for everything I am doing. 

I'm so far behind on blog reading too. I really hope to catch up soon. See ya later this week for an Easter blog hop.

February Smalls

 The last Friday of everything month....or yeah as soon as you remember and time allows we in the blogging world are to post a fun blog post. The idea of this SAL is to stitch something small each month. I joined several years ago and use it as an excuse to stitch up a fun monthly piece each month. 

This year I'm stitching the Year of Celebrations from Hands on Design...

Hoping to finish them in the month we are in. So far so good. Here is February...

Head over to the check in post here to see what others have posted. Pretty soon I'll get to stitch up the March cutie.

January Smalls SAL

 

Mary is hosting the Smalls SAL again this year. This is a great excuse to make sure you stitch up something small each month. So you will at least have 12 finishes by the end of the year. I started this SAL several years ago and used it as an excuse to stitch up a small piece each month that celebrates the month all year long. 

Head over to the check in post for this month to see what others have stitched up this time. We are to make a post on the last Friday of the month to share what we've done for the SAL.

This year I'm stitching Hands on Design's A Year of Celebrations. Here is what the chart looks like...

I'm stitching them on 32ct lambswool evenweave using the suggested DMC threads. Here is my finished January piece...

So far so good. It was a lot of fun to stitch and took less than half the time of last year's monthly set so that's nice. 

See ya Sunday for a WIPocalypse update. Have a great weekend!