Showing posts with label Christmas Banner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas Banner. Show all posts

Jan 27, 2020

#24HOCS January Marathon Day 2

This was the first time I participated in the #24 Hours of Cross Stitch 24 Hours Marathon.

To break up the photo loading time I'm going to break the posts down to each day. I had a great time and got a TON of stitching done.

My goal was to work on 12 projects for 2 hours each. Let's see what I worked on Saturday.

Saturday I got a total of 8 Hours and 52 Minutes.

Remember I had come down with a bit of a bug. Well Saturday I didn't wake up till 10am which for me is unheard of. Izzy our dog didn't wake us up either so evidently we all needed the rest. Not as good for marathon time but you know what sleep is very important so I'll take it when I get it. We had donuts for breakfast. Finished some things and was ready to get back to stitching.

11:32am Let's Go! I picked Best Friend Santa back up since I hadn't reached the two hour mark yet...
 12:33pm I reached 2 hours on the timer officially so time to move on...
Next up Evergreen Snowman another Jim Shore Mill Hill kit. Another one from the Longest Day SAL in June 2017 but I had worked on it for 30 minutes for another marathon in 2019. So here it was before...
2:20pm We took a lunch break for BBQ yummy food from a local place.
3:20pm Back to work
4:00pm Stop watch hits 2 hours. Here is where I made it...
4:15pm Ready for the next one. Christmas Banner from Stoney Creek. I haven't had this one out since December 8th of 2014!!!
6:50pm I reached 2 hours on my stop watch. This is definitely a typical Stoney Creek. It had a million color changes. Plus this one uses glisson gloss which is I swear worse than Kreinik to work with. Sure pretty though. The wings really sparkle because of it. Just time consuming. So my progress was smaller...
Next piece is Rules for Life. I started this one for Jeremiah in 2012. Looks like I might have made a few stitches in 2013 but I don't see anything since then. It was before I tagged photos on my blog. Then I noticed my photo in my saved photos wasn't even updated. So who knows what I last worked on this one. Anyway here is my before photo...
This piece is called Rule for Life by Kincavel Krosses. I'm using Lime colored Jobelan evenweave and 986 which is a beautiful green DMC. Green is Jeremiah's favorite color as you can probably tell. Here is where I got after 2 Hours and 1 Minute...
I really really want to get this one back out. I can't believe how long it's been. It deserves to be finished.

10pm Started working on the last one for the day. 4 Seasons Winter by Erica Michael's and remembered that I LOVE these tiny 40ct silk gauze pieces. Here it was before...
Reached 2 Hours on the stop watch. On the right it says Brr with some little white stitches under. You can see if a little better in person. She has explained on her chart she wanted it to appear soft and dainty.

Midnight it was time for bed.

Jan 23, 2020

#24HOCS January Marathon

This weekend is the first #24Hours of Cross Stitch Marathon of 2020 and the first one I've been able to participate in finally. I'm going to join in but I have come down with a bit of a bug so who knows how much I'll actually get done. She started this awhile ago with a 24 hour straight marathon. Since some people just can't stitch that long in a row she has now made it Friday through Sunday. The goal to stitch as much as you can in that span. I heard on her latest floss tube she is even going to have a few giveaways this time for if you participate for any length of time.

I wanted to come up with a fun plan for the marathon. I had Jeremiah and Mom pick 6 numbers each to come up with a list of 12 WIPs from my WIP list on my Goals and SALs tab above. I'm going to go down the list they picked and work on each project for 2 hours according to my stop watch. I might not get to them all but boy I'll sure try. I didn't let them pick a number for a new start or for a WIP I've already worked on this month. What they came up with was some really great older pieces. So let's see the list. I will show before and after pictures Monday with my wrap up post.

1) #20 Elegant Squid - Ink Circles
I haven't worked on since 2016.
2) #50 On Beach Time - Hands on Design
I haven't worked on since the Longest Day Marathon 2017.
3) #72 Wave Dancer - Dinky Dyes
I haven't worked on since 2015.
4) #9 Best Friend Santa - Mill Hill Jim Shore Kit
I haven't worked on since the Longest Day Marathon 2017.
5) #22 Evergreen Snowman - Mill Hill Jim Shore Kit
I haven't worked on since the another Longest Day Weekend Marathon 2019.
 6) #12 Christmas Banner - Stoney Creek
Wow I haven't worked on since 2014.
7) #55 Rules for Life - Kincavel Krosses Freebie
Even more Wow here. Haven't worked on since 2012. Before I even tagged my photos on my blog.
8) #1 4 Seasons - Erica Michaels
I worked on this one last July.
9) #41 Let's Get Spooky - Ursula Michael
I wanted to work on for October 2019 but didn't get a chance. So last time was for the January Challenge when I started it in 2016.
10) #27 Free to Be Me - Val's Stuff
I've worked on a few weekends at the cabin. July last year was the latest time.
11) #26 Flock Together - Hands on Designs
I haven't worked on since 2017.
12) #29 Grab Life - Hands on Design
I haven't worked on since the Longest Day SAL 2017.
I love how 3 of the Hands on Design set has been randomly picked. I swear they were randomly picked too. 8 numbers were picked that had to be skipped. 3 were WIPs I have worked on this month already. 5 were going to be new starts. How fun. So wonder how many I will actually be able to hit the 2 hours on. Luckily we don't have any plans and I've changed the menu around to be no cooking for me. We are going to binge watch The Mandalorian finally on Disney Plus. Sunday we also have a big WWE Pay Per View to watch. So should have lots of stitching time as long as this bug leaves me alone.

Grab your stitching and join in. See ya Monday with how I did.

Dec 8, 2014

Weekend Progress

Thursday I decided to change projects for the weekend. Here is where I left Seaside Stitches...
I really enjoy working on it but I needed a break for the weekend. So I picked up my Christmas Banner. Here is where I got with it...
I have a poor noseless snowman again. He gets a cute little carrot button so it has to wait till the end. Poor guy. I started this one in June. Here is my first post about starting the piece. I'm glad I got some more stitching done on it.

Saturday we went to the tree farm and got our Christmas tree...
This is a picture of Jeremiah putting the star on top with the help of Fred of course haha. After we did that decorating Fred and I ran out and did some Christmas shopping. It's going to come quick now! It was crazy busy so I'm glad we didn't have too much to do. We had another craft day last week and Jeremiah made 4 more sun catchers. Here they are...
You put these crystals in the forms and then bake them in the oven and they melt. Jeremiah had a lot of fun making them.

Oh hey by the way Measi has posted sign ups for the 2015 WIPocalypse. I'm so glad she decided to host it again for next year.  If you are interested please join in. It's a fun reason to blog.

Jun 30, 2014

Time for Christmas

I figured this weekend deserved a new start. Fred was gone for the weekend with his amateur radio club. They had a camping geek weekend haha. So I pulled out my Christmas Banner by Stoney Creek. What a fun piece to work on but it made me really wish for snowy winter weather haha. This is the first page complete. It was a short page. It was a lovely stitching DVR filled weekend. I got a TON of shows watched. Fred had a very nice weekend even though it was really hot and humid. They made a lot of over seas contacts and got a lot of points so he was happy. Well I got a lot to do this week cause we have company coming this weekend. Can't wait! Hope everyone has a great week.