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Last Thursday I had gone to my friend’s town to meet her to stitch for the day. We alternate – she comes here one week and I go there one week and we’re a little over an hour apart. When I got home last week, it was about 4 p.m. and Vince wanted to run...

I think I already said that my plan when I started this was just to try Vickie Clayton’s linen, stitch a bit, then go back to Love is the Key and finish it but once I got started with MH 1860, I decided . . why leave another WIP not finished so I stuck with...

This is the photo taken last night . . This is how much stitching I got done today. Does that look like a day’s worth of stitching? No! It looks like a day of talking, watching some clips from floss tubes, looking at charts we need; looking at charts we have and need to stitch,...

I had a debate with myself about whether to finish MH 1860 or finish Love is the Key. I decided that if I put MH 1860 away, it would become another WIP/UFO so I would stick with it and finish it, then finish Love is the Key. By starting MH 1860, which you may remember...

This may not seem funny to you but things like this happen to me all the time. I’m stitching MH 1860 by Needlework Press on Vikki Clayton’s new linen. I have had her silk conversion for a while. The third row of letters calls for Wisconsin Woods by Classic Colorworks and the DMC conversion is...

Even if you aren’t a cross stitcher, you probably know how much I love Vikki Clayton’s silk floss. Love it!! She’s now dying linen! Once upon a time, she dyed linen . . way before I was back to stitching. This linen is different. She has the linen made to her specifications and my understanding...

There are advantages to feeling bad. I would prefer NOT to feel bad but I’ve slept and cross stitched and that’s really about all I’ve done for a while. Love is the Key by Teresa Kogut is a project I think I started in January, 2022. It was the project I brought to the basement...

There was a little break from stitching this weekend – a break from everything really – I think it was Thursday I started feeling like I might have a kidney stone. My plans for Thursday – Saturday involved cooking about a dozen freezer meals. The food was prepped and needed to be cooked so there...

Yes, I know that my friend, Denise, just finished her 34th piece! That girl is a stitching machine and her work is always so pretty! I’m just happy to have finished something . . anything! This is Miss Isabelle Black by Scattered Seed Samplers. My cornstalk isn’t really leaning, it’s just the angle at which...

These two were shown recently but I had a few things left to do on Stitchy Witches. Yesterday I painted the box and did a small bit of distressing, glued an extra layer of chenille trim and now these are finished. The two little scarecrows from the greenhouse came out to get in on the...

I’m so glad I started over with Farmhouse Christmas. I would never have gotten it done with the first one I started. When I started it (February 1, 2021), I was such a beginner! It had been close to 40 years since I had cross stitched and then it was on 14 count Aida. It...

I’m making some changes from the September plan and from what I said I was going to do in October. Me? Change my plans? Who would have guessed?

First, let me just get this off my chest. I am NOT going to spend every day stitching on Farmhouse Christmas. I just don’t want to do it. I’m going to start over on 40 count linen with Vikki Clayton silks. There are problems that I’ve mentioned before. First, I really dislike using two strands...

The not so great part is that the dachshunds had me up at 4 a.m., which seems to becoming a habit with them. But, make lemonade with those lemons! I was going to leave the house little before 9 to go stitch with a friend so I thought about trying to go back to bed...

One is almost finished and one is finished! These aren’t perfect but they’re done . . well one is and one is almost done. The first one is Harvest Tina from Teresa Kogut. It’s in her Hello Autumn book. I can’t wait to stitch Harvest Ted and have them hanging side by side. The next...

Almost . . like so close . . waiting for glue to dry. This could be fully finished tonight. So, why didn’t I wait until it was fully finished before blabbing about it? Because I am so darned excited. When was the last time I fully finished anything? I cannot remember! Today Vince and I...

The end of July I wrote this post about my stitching plans. I had planned to work on Friends & Family from August 1 – 15 and I did. On August 11 I reached my goal on that one and started Rejoice Evermore on August 12. This is where I was when I started back...

Dogs are funny (or NOT). Oscar was a destructive little chewer/shredder from the day we got him til he was a bit over two years old. He still cannot be trusted but he no longer goes after something and shreds it into a million pieces before I can get it away from him.Oscar would chew...

I added a few neutrals this morning. A few of you found them and got some great fabrics but there are a few remaining. Fabric for Sale

For the past three days, I’ve reached the 300+ goal for stitching. This picture was taken late last night and you know how bad my basement lighting is but these colors are so pretty! There are six days remaining in August. I’m still optimistic I can reach my stitching goal.