June 23rd Monday Update

 Hello everyone who is still here reading. Last week was a crazy busy week. I only worked on 2 WIPs. But I got a PILE of haul. Please pop over to my flosstube to see everything I was lucky enough to grab.

My two WIPs...

First up Monday I worked on Fred's spin from last week's video. Unicorn Biscornu from Tiny Modernist. I was sad to see it get spun but guess what I actually enjoyed the 240 stitches. So evidently putting a piece away for awhile really helps. It's still slow but I got progress...

I added the top part to the side border. This is the bottom panel for this biscornu.

Tuesday and Wednesday I worked on Jeremiah's spin The Pirate by Cottage Garden Samplings. I love this one. Added 425 total over the two days...

Thursday we took the day to run some fun errands including a great stop at Always in Stitches in Noblesville, Indiana...

We also found a fantastic brewery/restaurant that was dog friendly and it was delicious. We will definitely be going back.

Saturday 35 Trax a family cover band performed again here at our campground. We love them. It was crazy hot. We had an excessive heat warning but staying in the shade helped a lot. We had a lot of people show up and it ended up being a great time. Now I'm in stitching withdrawal haha. So trying to finish here and go stitch.

Thanks for reading. Love yourself. Go stitch all the things!
 

Feb 24th Monday Update

Let's see what I worked on last week. I was working on finishing up my February Plans...

Monday - Beer Dragon by Paine Free Crafts. Monday is always my busy catch up computer work day and now with Flosstube filming and editing. So 63 added to Beer Dragon was good enough...

Tuesday - The Pirate by Cottage Garden. Added 500 to this fun piece...

Wednesday - Mason Jar Lineup a Dimensions Kit. Working on the 3rd jar now. Added 400 to finish off a monthly goal...

Thursday worked on two pieces. Peppermint Purple SAL for 2025 I added week 7 and 8...

Then Enchanted Pumpkin a Mill Hill kit. 200 added...

 Friday - Heart & Compass by Erica Michaels. 650 added. Finished the motifs and started the filling in the background...

Saturday was time for a new start. I finally found the fabric at Always in Stitches in Noblesville Indiana. We ran down Saturday. Fred helped me pick out the fabric which was a gorgeous 40ct Prairie Land from Atomic Ranch it's a linen. I think the goose will really pop. So when I got home I got started on this beauty. 300 added Saturday and then Sunday was lovely and lazy so 700 added. So here is my first 1k in Trust the Universe by The Sunflower Diairies...

This beautiful Mill Hill kit followed me out of the store as well...

 It's called Honey Bee. So cute. 

Flosstube #5 is being loaded now, if you subscribe to the channel you will know when it loads. 

Have a wonderful new week. I'm trying to finish those last few February goals and finish making March plans.

Dec 2nd Monday Update

 Well Hello December. I knew you were coming but you still surprised me! I guess we just can't figure out how to slow down time and life can we? No matter how hard we all try. Actually I did have a really nice long week which was needed. So let's look back and see what I worked on.

Monday and Tuesday I kept working on The Pirate by Cottage Garden that I worked on Sunday. I added 200 both days so 600 total. I enjoyed making progress on this one...

Just love that 36ct Mirage Edinburgh Linen I'm stitching it on. Really helps the design pop.

Wednesday I pulled out Lady Liberty by Keslyn's which hadn't been out in awhile. Added 400...

Thursday I marked off my last acrostic goal for the month with Enchanted Pumpkin Mill Hill kit...

400 more orange background stitches done. Slowly but surely the background is getting filled in. I will be glad to more to the next symbol haha.

Friday and Saturday I pulled out the Stitchonomy Winter 2024 SAL. Added 800...

Getting closer every stitch. Just one more section that says Fuzzy Sweaters.

Sunday I pulled out Yggdrasil after Jeremiah did a spin of my December acrostic picks. I added 200...

So talking about November. I stitched 14 different projects. 11,055 total stitches. 3 Starts. 4 Finishes. Completed my goals and had a lot of fun. Found more groups and more challenges haha. I'm insane. Now my 2025 plans are flying and I'm joining all the things so I can STITCH all the things. I will go over my planned starts for 2025 sometime soon I promise. December plans. Play all the games haha. Semi Sane is doing one with the Twas the Night Before Christmas poem. We get a prompt each day from the poem so yesterday we could stitch night, a house, or a creature. So Yggdrasil worked for creatures and the house on the design. Today the prompt is stockings/socks, something hanging, or a chimney, and of course Santa Claus. I think I have my pick ready to go. 200 for something with at least 1 item and 300 on something without as a penalty. Fun challenge. I also have two new acrostic lists...

I know I really want to work on Creepy Christmas Village but I might have to wait till after this weekend trip to make sure I have the right amount of fabric for it. Then it will be started. I have my monthly planned start another Erica Michael's...

Liberty Squared is what this one is called. 

Fred's week off went nice. Actually slow and we got everything done we wanted done which is surprising haha. He got his deer on the coldest day of the year of course haha. We have 4 processed in the freezer now. We went to a new to us grocery store. It was nice. Higher price than Walmart but a lot of different variety then Walmart. We got everything done at the laundry that could be washed haha. We even relaxed and watched some shows/movies we were wanting to have time for. Thanksgiving at Grandma's was lovely. It was great to see my cousins and family. Now we are getting excited about Christmas. Have the stuff ready to put out tomorrow. A fun trip planned this weekend with lots of shopping stops we look forward to this time of year. 

Have a great week. Happy December. Love yourself. Find all the reasons to smile. Stitch all the things!

Nov 25th Monday Update

 I know I did my WIPocalypse post yesterday but it's Monday so let's talk a little more details about my week last week.

Monday was a no stitching day. Computer work and groceries stole the day.

Tuesday I started my monthly picked new start. Love USA from Hinzeit. Wednesday it was finished. Took 1,073 stitches and just two days to do up.

Thursday I pulled out another new start but it was supposed to be started in October. Another Erica Michael's adorable silk gauze piece called Heart & Compass. I worked on it Thursday and Friday. Added 644 total game stitches. 1,288 little / stitches...

Reminder of what it will look like...

Saturday I got the ick that is going around. Coughs from my toes and slept pretty much all day. Sunday I was still pretty icky but at least got a little bit of stitching added to The Pirate by Cottage Garden...

Just 200 added but better than nothing. Fred has this week off to deer hunt. We have two in the freezer now. My dad and Uncle have got one each. Hopefully Fred can get one this week. Helps 3 families to have delicious meat in the freezer. So kind of a short update for today. 

Happy Turkey Day week for all those who celebrate. We are going over to my Grandma's Friday afternoon. Hopefully we are all healthy by then. Have a great week. Love yourself. Smile as much as possible.

Jul 1st Monday Update

Here it is the first Monday of July. How? 7 months into 2024 already. I just wish the rest would SLOW down. Let's see what I was up to last week.

Monday I started another new piece. I mean I haven't started anything else lately right? Shush haha. The Pirate from Cottage Garden Samplings just had to be mine. I mean pirate! Hello? I worked on it Monday Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm using 36ct Mirage Edinburgh Linen. I loved how it was a dark and I hoped the snowman white would pop better. I love it so far...

1,274 stitches so far. Thursday I got to working on Thanks to the Brave by Erica Michaels. Worked on it Thursday, Friday, and Sunday. Sunday I put the last stitches in. 

I found a little frame while shopping at Hobby Lobby Saturday so I tried it...

Love it!!! Oops forgot to give info on the piece...

Finish #19

Thanks to the Brave by Erica Michaels

Fabric 40ct Silk Gauze

Threads GAST Black Crow, Roasted Marshmellow, and Weathered Barn

Started March 1, 2024. Took 10 Days.

7,065 Total Stitches

A friend of mine got me interested in a new hobby...

It's a felt kit from Merry Stockings. From a mantel series so it makes a little shelf display. I've always been intrigued by felt kits. So I figured why not. I received it Saturday morning. Of course I needed some supplies so off to Hobby Lobby I went...

Some batting, sorting containers from the sequins, new scissors, some of the clips everyone is using, and I needed some floss of course. I will hopefully start it soon. My left wrist is hurting really bad probably tendonitis and I want that to heal up before I even try twisting and holding that felt. Luckily it doesn't hurt too bad to hold my Q-Snap. Not that I would let that slow me down haha.

I have 3 new starts planned for July...

I have this one planned for today. I would think it will be pretty fast so hopefully I'll finish it this month. I'm using 28ct New Khaki Lugana and Weeks Dye Works threads Liberty and Americana. I also have one like this that says Freedom. A LNS posted them on their Facebook page in April 2020 and I just knew my little patriotic kiddo would like them. 

Two Mill Hill kits will be started this month. Pisces which is Fred's Zodiac. The other is another Jim Shore gnome this one is called Mushroom Gnome.

Life update. Our little garden is doing fantastic...

Zucchini and Cucumber galore. I see a lot of baby tomatoes growing as well. Any time now. Yummy!! We like having the zucchini on our grill. So delicious.

Bev update. She was released from the hospital. They think the antibiotics treated whatever the infection was and her numbers are slowly building back up. They also did a bone marrow test because they wanted to check her overall cancer. Right now she still shows as cancer free. So last discussed they want to do one last round of chemo just to keep it gone. Then we don't know other than to switch to watching and maintaining. Still more to learn. She seems to be doing okay. She is sick of not being able to see. I sure wish that could come back. She does beautiful embroidery and she misses it badly. I simply can't imagine. Thanks for all the extra prayers and thoughts sent for her. I appreciate them a lot.

I'm off to stitch. I love the beginning of a month. I get all excited about my stitching plans. Let's do it. Have a great week. Happy 4th of July to my US readers. We are going to be a little laid back. Supposed to be HOT and stormy. My BFF is busy doing some things with his new love haha. So he won't be here. So should be hopefully laid back. Maybe I'll even get to stitch! That would be lovely. I have a challenge to stitch 1776 on a Patriotic piece. I would love to get that done.

Love yourself. Find reasons to smile. Stay safe in the weather.

May 20th Monday Update

Howdy all. It's hot out today. So AC running and all chores done as soon as possible. Let's see what I stitched on last week...

Monday was my 45th birthday. So I decided to spin a new start. Jeremiah spun Luck of the Irish by Primrose Cottage Stitches on the Tiny Decision wheel. I added 327 on Monday and 667 on Tuesday so a total of 994 this time...

I'm using 32ct Platinum Lugana and the suggested DMC which is only 3 colors. Another chart I got when I was at Always in Stitches before retreat this year. My needles were flying. Do you think it's the Irish in me? Haha.

Wednesday was time for another new start. This time the wheel picked Lady Liberty by Keslyn's. I added 476 stitches...

I'm using 32ct White Jobelan and Gloriana Silks Crimson and Pacific Dark Blue. I was getting ready to start and thought wow this fabric is HUGE. I realized that I forgot to tell the lady when I ordered the fabric I was planning on stitching it over one. Oops but I'll cut it and use the fabric for something else. No crisis with being too big now being too small would have been a different story all together haha. So here are my little tiny stitches...

If you can't tell I started on the upper left wing. This will help the thread last longer as well since I can use just one thread. 

Wednesday and Thursday I spun Halloween Potions by Les Petites Croix De Lucie. I wanted to add 500 to it this month. Ended with 513...

This one seems to go really slow because a lot of color changes. But it sure looks cute when stitched. Reminder I'm stitching it on 32ct Light Mint Lugana with suggested DMC.

Friday after I finished up my stitches on Halloween Potions I switched to another acrostic spin. Taurus Mill Hill kit came up. The prompt for this one was To the Party and since Taurus is my birthday zodiac I thought it was a good fit...

I had started this one Sept 26th, 2023 for a stitching challenge. So I had one day into it...

I added 159 Friday, 341 Saturday and 144 Sunday. I finished the main dark green symbol finally haha...

It was a great one to work on in between projects this weekend since it was IHSW but we had a lot of outdoor stuff to get done.

Sunday after I finished up the symbol I got back out Thanks to the Brave by Erica Michaels. I wanted to add 200 this month for the acrostic Letter E...

 

Added 243 stitches to the background fill in. That part definitely takes the longest. But helps the letters POP. So it's worth it. 

So I happily got a lot of stitching done all week. I have two new starts left on the two Wednesday's left in May. Irish Blessing Bell Pull and The Mandalorian. Can't wait to see what he spins first. Both I'm excited to work on so not really a bad choice between them.

I have to share the lovely Faith a dear blog friend of mine gifted me a GC to 123stitch for my birthday. So I happily went shopping. I got fabric for a project that I will probably be starting next month...

I think this will look like a stormy night and really help the snowman pop bright. I also got a big piece of 32ct Vintage Country Mocha and some replacement Q-Snap snaps. I had one break on me the other day. It's barely sticking together. Thanks Faith!!!

I also got a beautiful Petunia from Campground family. Then Fred brought me a few Spider plant babies from work...

So evidently 45 let me reach the I want a plant phase of my life haha. We are looking forward to Memorial Day and then Bev and Dad have decided to take Jeremiah to a casino for the night. He hasn't had a night with them since last August so he is very excited to take a trip with them again. Bev sure deserves it. They have 4 friends meeting them and staying too so it will be a lot of laughs. They are going on my Dad's Birthday the 29th. Okay I'm off to read some email and get off this computer so I can stitch. 

Have a lovely week. Stay safe in the weather. Smile. Love yourself.