May 22nd Monday Update

Hello Friends. I am behind on blog reading again haha. No surprise there. I hope to catch up soon.

Let's see what fun I had stitching last week...

Monday is the new release of the Blackwork SAL. Only 7 more *pout pout*...

Tuesday and Wednesday I worked on a finally finished the May Year of Celebrations Season 2 piece...

 (6) May 17th

May - A Year of Celebrations Season 2
from Hands on Design
Stitched on 32ct Dark Cobblestone Lugana
Using Suggested Classic Colorworks Threads
Started May 10th. Took 6 Days 

 

 I really really wanted to finish it so I could start one of my new kits from vacation...

Simple Treasures a Dimensions Kit

Like I said in one of my vacation posts. I found this at a tiny yarn shop in OBX North Carolina. I had wanted this one for years. Then with losing mom honestly I took it off my wishlist on 123stitch. I haven't worked on a beach themed one since losing her. But....seeing this in the store. After the sweet lady said I was the first customer of the day at 1:30 in the afternoon. I paid double the price from 123stitch. I had to have it. We do take time to enjoy life's simple treasures. We loved our trip. So I will stitch this in honor of all those wonderful times at the wonderful ocean. Thursday I got started. This weekend was IHSW so I made every excuse I could to stitch haha. Even after a busy busy day Saturday getting the campground ready for the season.

I had this piece of 36ct Fabric Flair Bahama Blue fabric in my stash. I love it. The 3rd photo shows a bit better how dark it is. I love it! It's a typical Dimensions kit. 1 strand here. 2 strands here. Half stitch. Cross Stitch. But when I look at it I love the way it looks. 

I'm off. Lots to do for this weekend's holiday time. We have several friends coming to enjoy our beautiful campground. Have a wonderful week. Love yourself. Smile. Enjoy the simple treasures.

Feb 20th Monday Update

 Let's see what I was up to last week.

Monday I stitched up Part 7 of the Blackwork SAL...

Tuesday I just worked on the Paw Print. Jeremiah had his new doctor here in Wabash. We love her. She really took time and showed she cared. She did blood work and tested for everything. Jeremiah is all clear and looking great. Finally weighs 128 pounds. We've worked hard for him to gain weight so we were happy. He doesn't go back for a year.

Wednesday I worked on Paw Print again. Then got busy on Season 2 February and finished it off...

 (2) February 15th

February - A Year of Celebrations Season 2
from Hands on Design
Stitched on 32ct Dark Cobblestone Lugana
Using Suggested Classic Colorworks Threads
Started Feb 1st. Took 7 Days. 

Thursday I got no stitching time (last missed allowed day for the stitching challenge). I had my doctor appointment. I talked to her a lot about being frustrated with my weight. I'm moving my bum off but the scale refuses to move. So we are going to focus on my food intake....hopefully. I go back in 6 weeks to see what happens. My blood pressure was high but all my blood work was great compared to last time so my new life is helping just sure not moving that darn scale. I know though the scale isn't the most important but seriously! I am trying hard here. We ended up going out for a cheat meal haha which celebrated me trying to lose weight right?!?! Haha. Then groceries for more healthy stuff. Make up for the meal out haha. 

Friday I got my half hour into the Paw Print. Here is the progress for the week...

Then I happily pulled out Rainbow Dragon for IHSW. Saturday and Sunday I got 200 stitches both days added...

I forgot to share with you guys. I might be forced to buy a new Paine Free Crafts pattern. I fell in love with it. Then I showed the boys and they both want me to stitch it...

He looks so spooky and just awesome. Sure not the bright colors from Rainbow Dragon haha. Since there isn't a background I need to think of a neat fabric to stitch him on. A stormy kind of fabric. Even though a lot of it is covered. Still be fun to stitch on haha.

Have a wonderful week. Love yourself. Find a reason to smile.

Monday after IHSW Update

So it was IHSW (International Hermit Stitch Weekend) I took the weekend off everything. Even being healthy. No walking for me. Well unless I was going to the bathroom. The boys had two nights of their gaming marathon. So I had lots and lots of stitching time. First up I really wanted to finish my September Fairy. Guess what happened Saturday...

(Finish 2) January 16th

September from Lili of the Valley Calendar

From 2016 Cross Stitcher Magazine

Stitched on 32ct Lambswool Evenweave

Threads are Suggested DMC

Started Dec 30th. Took 8 Days.

Total Time 17 Hours and 26 Minutes 

Then I decided to pull out New York Dreamer Winter Time again. Hadn't worked on it since April 30th...

I didn't realize how close I was to finished. Luckily the boys stayed up till 3am so I got to work and 3 hours and 22 minutes later...

(Finish 3) January 16th

Winter Time

from New York Dreamer

Stitched on 32ct Vintage Country Mocha Lugana

Using Suggested GAST, CCC and DMC threads

Started Dec 28th, 2019. Took 10 Days.

Total Time 24 Hours and 20 Minutes

 

Sunday I got a little over 600 stitches added to Bloody Mary Dragon...

 Yep still a mostly black blob. I'm trying haha. So it was very worth the break days. I got just a little over 2k steps each day Saturday and Sunday. It was very needed though. I had hit over 10k every day since January 2nd. I'm back at it today. Hit 12k steps. I hope you all have a great week. Smile. Love yourself. Love each other. Good luck finding time for thing that make you happy.

Monday Update

 Nothing like squeezing in an update as I'm trying to head to bed haha. It's been a Monday. But I'm here. I took the weekend off. I was able to finish all the Christmas wrapping on Friday....boy that hurt my back and body. Jeremiah is so spoiled....of course that's my fault but I'll blame Santa haha. Saturday Fred was at a radio event all day so I curled up with my TV and stitching. Decided to get a start on the August fairy for IHSW (International Hermit Stitch Weekend). Got a tiny start Wednesday and a little bit more added Thursday. Here she was for the weekend...

Jeremiah had a gaming marathon Saturday night and ended up staying up till 3am. Which meant I did too. So I got a whopping 8 hour 50 minute day of stitching!!!! I barely moved all day. Only got 2.5k steps haha. Was able to get another 2 hours and 13 minutes Sunday. So here she was at bedtime...

I know!!! Just another hour and she might be finished. But I was TIRED haha. Wonder why? LOL Of course today I was non stop busy so hopefully tomorrow. 

4 sleepies till Santa is finally here!!! We can't wait. Have a great week. Love yourself. Love your family. Smile. Hope we all get some stitching goodies delivered. We've all been good haven't we??

Monday After IHSW Update

Lots of stitching to share. It's been a great progress filled week and weekend. First let's take a look back at last week.

Monday I started a new piece...

Autumn Blessing from Waxing Moon. I got the Weeks Dye Works threads to do this one in. Those leaves I just thought would be beautiful that way. Monday I got started on it and got one leaf done in the upper left corner...

I'm absolutely in love with the fabric too. 28ct Crystal Mello Lugana. This photo kind of shows the sparkle so you can imagine it in person I hope. Plus I love the variegation in the thread. Tuesday I got some more time with this one...

Added 2 more leaves as you can see. For some reason this one seems to go a little slow. It's a fun piece to work on though so that's okay.

Wednesday I picked up Christmas Jars again. I hadn't worked on it since Dec 9th 2017. Remember this one?

I have two of the jars finished. I wanted to get started on the red jar next. I have the two on the right finished up...

Here is my progress on the red jar now...

I took the day off Thursday to do a bunch of computer work.

Friday was the start of IHSW and my family did fantastic leaving me alone to stitch and watch TV. I got 7 Hours and 7 Minutes of stitching added to Beer Dragon. Here he was before and after Friday...

Saturday I added 200 more stitches and got to here...

Saturday I got a later start and didn't focus as hard. Maybe I was tired from the Friday push haha. I got 5 Hours 37 Minutes in still though. After getting the 200 more in on Beer Dragon I felt like moving on. So I stuck with the beer theme and picked up 99 Bottles. I got 2 more bottles added...

I have 51 bottles added now. I've also decided this one will be finished in 2020! I'm thinking about how I want to plan that. I might plan on at least 1 bottle a week until it's finished. We'll see. I'm not done making my 2020 stitching plans yet.

Sunday I only got 3 Hours and 2 Minutes but that was just fine after my fantastic two days of stitching. I started Tree Shopping another Mill Hill Kit. (Yes I really have been enjoying them lately as you can tell.) Here is what it will look like...

 Here is where I got after the first day of stitching...

I'm going to stick with this one till it's finished.

I updated my #24HOCS acrostic list on the right side. I have 3 without any progress. There is still time left for the month. Honestly though I'm happy with my progress again. Especially after this weekend of stitching. So we'll see what happens the rest of the month. I hope everyone has a great week. Mom has a doctor appointment tomorrow and we have some shopping plans. Have to start the Christmas shopping. Doesn't seem like it's that time already does it?

IHSW

It's the 3rd weekend of the month which means it's IHSW (International Hermit Stitch Weekend). Hubby is helping with the Ham Radio Fest all weekend. Food has been planned for carryout all weekend. DVR is full of TV shows demanding to be watched. Let's do this!!!

Beer Dragon is coming out for sure. We'll see if he stays out all weekend or not. See ya Monday. Hope you join in too!

It's IHSW

This weekend is the 3rd full weekend of the month which means it's time for

I'm hoping to squeeze in some time today on Beer Dragon and then I'm taking 99 Bottles of Beer with me to work on this weekend at the cabin. Hopefully I'll find some time to put some X's in. So grab your stitching and join in. See ya Monday. I've been making a lot of progress this week on a few different pieces. I can't wait to share it with ya. Marking things off my September acrostic list.

Day 3 of Longest Hermit Weekend Marathon

Here is the wrap up post for my last day of the Longest Hermit Weekend Marathon.

Progress is progress but I definitely slowed down Sunday. I also got a late start since I made a yummy breakfast real fast Sunday morning and spent some time chatting with Mom about my weekend of stitching. So let's see what I worked on...

Mom picked Cabin Fever a Mill Hill Kit. I was hoping this one would be picked because I need to finish it so I can display it in my cabin. Beginning Photo...

My goal for today was the fish section in the top left corner. I started on it at 11:30am. Stopped at 12:50 after realizing something was wrong...

At the very beginning I did the brown square outline. Guess what? It's wrong. So the whole inside of the section is wrong too. No fudging it since it will affect the way it fits in the frame I have plus it will throw off the lower sections. Very frustrated with myself. I don't normally make mistakes but boy I sure did this time. Over an hour of time wasted! So instead of continuing to work on it I put it away. I will fix it later and hopefully make some actual progress. Grrrr.

We had lunch real fast. Then next up Jeremiah picked a paper that said New Start. I had 5 new starts picked out that I would like to do soon. (From the million haha). I laid them out on the couch and let Jeremiah and Mom both fight over which one I should start haha. I already knew which one mom would pick. She'd been eyeing it since Friday morning. So finally I got started on this one...

Beach Ball another Mill Hill Kit. I was nervous honestly I had just screwed up with a Mill Hill kit. What if I did the same thing with this one. My goal was to work on it for an hour since mom loves it so much. Here is where I got...

I counted, counted, and counted it again. It was right haha. Finally. Started at 2:00pm ended at 3:00.

Mom picked next and it was another Mill Hill. How funny to have so many picked in a row...

 

The above photo is where I was at the start. Goal for this one today was to finish the sailboat square on the top right......hopefully counted correctly. Started 3:30pm Ended 5:00pm after a lot of counting to make sure I was right haha...

 

 After this I took a dinner break. Plus hubby got home and I wanted to hear about his weekend. They really had a great time and a nice turnout. He was happy but tired and stinky since the shower wasn't working. So he happily took a shower and I got back to stitching.

Jeremiah picked out Polar Bear Ornament. This is another 3D Durene Jones Ornament. I have finished one before if you remember. Here is what this one will look like...

Goal was to do the middle red part. Started 7:00 and finished 8:15pm...

After that one Fred was finally joining us and we were settled in for the WWE pay per view. I let him make the last pick. He picked out Hinzeit Love 2 Stitch which he said was obvious after my stitching filled weekend. Here is what it will look like...

My goal was to finish the outline of the design. Started 8:25pm and stopped 9:15pm...

I decided to wrap it up after this one. I was honestly tired and just ready to watch the rest of the show. So overall Sunday I worked on 5 more projects for a total of 17 for the weekend! What a blast. I loved each one. The torture now is deciding which one I want to work on again first. So many of them are screaming for attention now that I teased them.

I've discovered a few things. I don't like keeping track of time. I feel pressured. I like to look away. Check Facebook. It takes forever to load things and get the piece ready to be worked on. Sometimes I would think I'll be ready in two minutes and 15 minutes later I was still getting the piece in my QSnap, the chart on my chart holder, and the threads ready to go. I like the just relax and stitch. It was so hard to put some of these down when I met my goal. I really wanted to just say screw it and keep working on it. I loved the whole thing though. What a blast. How fun to push myself and work on so many different things. It was a fantastic weekend for both hubby and me definitely. Now we are really looking forward to this coming weekend because we both missed our cabin time. I even got a message from my Step Mom and Dad on how much they missed us haha.

Day 2 of Longest Hermit Weekend Marathon

Another wonderful day full of stitching yesterday. I did some other things mixed in so I noticed a little less time spent but that's okay. Let's see what I worked on...

Mom was first to pick and she picked Wish Upon a Starfish. I started working on it at 10:30am. Goal was to work on it for 1 hour. Finished 11:30...

2nd Jeremiah picked 99 Bottles of Beer. Fred will be happy to see this one out again. Looks like it hasn't been out since 2015! I had 45 bottles stitched...

Told Jeremiah to pick a number 1 to 4. He picked 4 since he's a slave driver. Started at 1:15pm since we stopped for a lunch break. 2:35pm I finished the first bottle and admitted my first fail. I wasn't going to stick with it to do all 4. It would have took way too long from my marathon. So we all agreed I could stop after finished up the first one...

Even though those bottles are little there are a lot of color changes. I forgot that.

3rd Mom picked 4 Seasons by Erica Michaels...

Goal for this one was pretty easy to pick out. Finish filling in the background of Winter. Started 2:50pm finished 3:35pm...

Next Jeremiah's pick was Merry Noel by Hinzeit a new start. I set the goal of finishing Merry and the background behind it...

I was really excited to start this one. But I noticed I was getting a little sidetracked. Fred talked to me for a bit. He's having a really great time at his radio event. I started this one at 3:50pm. I think I stopped at 4:30pm to get dinner started and do some other stuff. Got back to it 6:35. Finished my goal 8:05. Another one that was hard to put down. Won't take much at all to finish this one quickly. It's so small...

Mom picked Park it Here a cute beach chair from Noteworthy Needle...

Goal was to finish the shell stitch along the right side of the design. Then I just need to do a nun stitch around the edge and put it together. Love this thread. It's called Confetti. Started 8:30 Finished 8:55...

Last one for the day was picked by Jeremiah Salt Water Taffy. A piece I just LOVE working on. Love the bright colors. Here it was before...

Goal was to finish the mast and the small section to the left of the mast. This goal was hard to set. I wanted to do a lot lot more haha. Started 9:20pm Finished 10:45pm...

Another one I really wanted to just keep going on haha.

So 6 more projects for a total of 12 now. Love it!!! Mom keeps trying to cheat because there are a few she really wants me to work on haha.

 

I watched 11 shows today. Finished Riverdale on CW and started SWAT on CBS.

Back at it today. Fred will be home sometime this afternoon. We have a wrestling pay per view to watch tonight. So should be another great stitching day. See ya tomorrow with my wrap up post.