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Today (Wednesday) was stitching day with my friend. I enjoy these days so much! When we first started getting together, we started at 10 and stitched til 4 p.m. Lately, we’ve decided we needed more time and started meeting at 9 and stitching til 4. Some days, we hardly get any stitching done but we...

This is the recipe for hot cocoa mix that I’ve used for several years. We like it. I do use whole milk powder that I get from Azure but the brand that is linked in the recipe is good too. If using whole milk powder, make sure it has a long “best by” date. I...

You know I love to keep journals. Today, the Black Needle Society‘s Stitching Journal & Planner arrived. Vince said “How many journals do you need?” I probably need more than I have!

This was actually a new start and a finish! I started it late Saturday night and finished it last night! The reason I started a new project is that I wanted to finish using the space on the linen below Red Bird Sampler. Do I really believe every time I see a cardinal that I’m...

This finish was not without issues. When I shared this photo on Friday, a reader left a comment telling me that there was an error in the chart and one of the flowers in the arbor had been left off. She was absolutely correct. If you look on the arbor over the buildings, the second...

The next WIP I’ll work on is For the Love of Nature by Teresa Kogut. This is an older photo I found on the blog. The house has all the red stitched but nothing else has changed. I started this one in December, 2021 so it’s time this one got finished. There’s the cover so...

Last night when I stopped working on Red Bird Sampler, the only things I had left to do (as far as I know) are to finish the three green rows at the very bottom. Two of those rows are almost finished and the third one has to be stitched. It’s so pretty. I have no...

I’m still trying to figure out a plan for stitching that works for me. Maybe I need someone telling me what to do and I shouldn’t be left to make my own decisions.

Yesterday I spent some time measuring a few pieces (six) that need to be framed and got the frames ordered. There are pages added to my planner each year so I can list the frames I order and which projects they go with because I often order several frames at once and there’s no way...

It’s time to grab another project and get it finished. Am I doing good or not?? There’s no way I’ll finish ALL the projects I have started before I stop and start something else but I’m on a roll and I’m loving it. I pulled out the project I wanted to work on but the...

Yesterday I said I was going to finish Love is the Key. I’m sure we all had a busy day yesterday (Thanksgiving) and we were all tired! I sat down to start cross stitching about 10 p.m. and fell asleep with my needle in my hand. I can never sleep on the sofa or in...

Last night I finished MH 1860 by Needlework Press. This project was done on Vikki Clayton’s new linen, which I love. It was so easy to stitch and I really like the way it feels. The color is Yamp Up and the floss is Vikki Clayton’s silks. This was started on November 9 and finished...

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...