4/26/24

 I've met my goal with M. Woods 1759 with 602 stitches. 

Even with all the color changes she stitches up quickly.

Next is Death By Cross Stitch 

4/25/24

 Goal met for Ann Roberts with 528 stitches.

M. Woods is back out now to complete her goal.

4/24/24

 Last night, I met my goal for Feathers in the Wind with 1202 tent/602 full x stitches.   She's  ow at 16.27% complete. 

Since I'm making my way through my goals so quickly, I'm hoping to be able to complete them and start making my way through them again.

Ann Roberts is next.

4/22/23

I've met my goal for Hawaiian Garden Mandala with 659 stitches

Feathers in the Wind is out now

4/20/24

 Sometimes I question my life choices.  Other times I put ony big girl pants, pour a cup of coffee and do the hard things.  Or at least the things I've made out to be harder than they need to be.

I met my goal for Loara Standish with that double ble border made up of reversible long arm cross, reversible diagonal cross stitch and a little double running stitch.

Next up is Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden Mandala 

4/17/24

 Goal met on The Forgotten with 1012 tent/506 full cross x, now at 13.31% complete

Leaning towards Loara Standish next

4/16/24

 Monthly goal met for The Loneliness of Autumn with 1098 tent/549 full x stitches and 23.8%

The Forgotten from Charting Creations is out now.

4/14/24

 I've had a good weekend and have met my goal on three more WIPs.

Alice Bierton got 552 stitches

Come Into My Garden got 580 stitches

And Sarah Braizear got 556 stitches.

Out now is The Loneliness of Autumn 

4/13/24

 April goal met on Sea Witch with 1210 tent/ 605 full x and 32.53% complete

Alice Bierton is up next.

4/11/24

 I finished my April goal on Warrior Alice this morning.  Actually I finished it last night but I wanted to finish the page since it only took another 212 tent stitches to do.

Page 14, 1404 tent stitches/702 full x and 34.94 % complete

I think Sea Witch is up next to see if I can finish the DMC 310 in the current page.

4/9/24

 Page 18 and 58.29% complete with 5378 tent stitches/ 2689 full x.

4/5/24

 Page 17, 55.13% complete

3/31/24

I met my goal on Sarah Redfearn with 617 stitches.  Sadly, I didn't complete the border but I did find a corner.

The with some time left in March, I started Ms Gothica II from Tilton Crafts 

And I've added 1232 tent stitches for 1.01% complete.

Now to decide which of my monthly goals will be stitched first.  It'll probably be He Came With the Rain but I'm going to sleep on it.

3/30/24

 I've struggled with pulling Nightshade out to finish this year.  So I thought I'd try something different, for me, and still be able to finish her.

I ordered this frame from Amazon and stuffed my WIP in it to see how she looked.  I'm pretty pleased.   I do need to add a little to the bottom right but I think this will work just fine.

I worked on Ann Tong Uffindell yesterday and met my goal with 621 stitches into the border.  I do plan to come back later this year and connect the border.

Next out is Sarah Redfearn from The Scarlett House.  I'm probably going to work on the border here too.

3/29/24

 Gotta live how much you can accomplish with three days PTO and no one else at home!

I added 763 stitches  to Elizabeth Hall and finished the top border and first row of alphabet. 

Then Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler came out and I met my goal with 292 additional stitches.

Ann Tong Uffiindell is out now.  I'm hoping to meet my goal for her today.

3/27/24

 Goal met on Airships and Floating Castle from Tilton Crafts with 1018 tent stitches =509 full x  = 3.97% complete

Next is Elizabeth Hall

3/26/24

 Goal met on Plague Doctor with 1150 tent stitches =575 full x.  It's now at 1.91% complete.

Airships and Floating Castle is next

3/24/24

 Her Private Garden was the lucky choice and I've met my goal!

I added 1198 tent stitches = 599 full x and it's now 2.83% complete.

I enjoyed working on this and added more stitches than I have in years.

3/22/24

 The Loneliness of Autumn seems to be clicking.   I've met my March Goal along with catching up my goals for January and February. 

Now to figure out what's up next.

3/20/24

 I've met my March goal for Warrior Alice.  

I was very tempted to continue and I may revisit her yet this month but there are other projects to spend some time with.

The Loneliness of Autumn is out now.  I'd like to meet my March goal and plug away at the goals from January and February.

3/19/24

 Last night, I met my March goal on Sea Witch with 1160 tent stitches and 32.11% complete.  

Looking at my WIP makes me want to push my progress a little faster but at the same time I really don't want to burn out which I'm struggling with a little.  For now, I'm going to keep hitting my goals since they aren't huge and rotating to keep my interest.

I met with a couple of local stitchers Saturday and one from the PA.  Instead of bringing Sea Witch, I brought Elizabeth Hall.  I didn't have a lot of progress for about 3 hours of stitching but I think we all had a good time.

Warrior Alice is out now.  I'm curious if my 1000 tent stitches will get me close to another page finish.

3/15/24

 Last night, I met my March goal on He Came With the Rain with 4674 tent stitches = 2337 full cross.  It's now 51.73% complete.

Sea Witch is up next.

3/13/24

 Page 18 of He Came With the Rain from Unconventional XStitch,  now 50.8% complete

3/11/24

 I've got He Came With the Rain out for it's March stitches and I finished page 15 last night.

I didn't make a huge amount of progress after that since apparently I can't count but I did add a few more stitches.  I'm now 49.45% complete.

3/5/24

 After I put Daybreak away, I pulled Loneliness of Autumn back out to plug away at my monthly stitches.  It's been slow since I didn't want to frog where I went wrong in January.

Then I went on a work trip for a week.  I did bring a new start of Elizabeth Hall 1809 from The Wishing Thorn.  

Sadly though, I only managed 11 stitches while we were there because working 90 hours in a week doesn't leave much time for anything but sleep.

I did manage a few more at the airport on the way home

Loneliness of Autumn got another day's progress since it was still on my stand.  I've now met my January goal on it!  Yay!

Then I put it away.  He Came With the Rain is out for it's March progress.

2/23/24

Another goal met with SS Daybreak.  1098 tent stitches = 549 full x

 

2/21/24

 I met my 2024 goal with Anna Sophia Bircham 2/19 with 509 stitches.

Then, M. Woods came out for 232 stitches.  Only half way to my goal but I'll be back.

SS Daybreak is out now to hopefully meet my goal in the next day or so.

2/19/24

 February Goal met on Sea Witch with 1158 tent stitches = 579 full cross - 31.71% complete

2/18/24

 February Goal met 2/18/24

1040 tent stitches = 520 full cross - 33.25 % complete

Now, onto Sea Witch 

2/17/24

I finished page 13 of Warrior Alice last night.  She's now at 32.81% complete.

2/15/24

 February Goal met with Page 14

2705 full cross/5410 tent stitches = 46.03% complete

2/12/24

 Page 13 - 43.05% complete

2/10/24

 Page 12 of He Came With the Rain, now at 41.06% complete

2/6/24

 I've picked up a couple of WIPs recently.   Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler got some stitches.  I havent mey my goal yet but I'll pull it out again and finish my stitches. 

Louisa Coulimore came out next and I've met my goal.

Louisa may come out again this year.  I'd like to finish the top half.

2/2/24

I've added 765 stitches to Matilda Isabella Creasy, all in the border.  Looking at her out of the q-snap, I may have gotten off somewhere.  But that is a problem for future me.  For now, her 2024 goal is met.

1/29/24

 I've been struggling this week.  I think pushing hard to finish Master and Mermaid of the Deep SK gave me mild delusions of being able to finish several full coverage WIPs and stitching on several more every month to finish in 2025.  In fact, I think I've almost managed to send my stitchy bug on vacation which it's not allowed to do until I travel for work next month.

Right now, I'm thinking of backing off most of my really big goals.  I'm going to keep He Came With the Rain as a finish this year.  But I think SK Rose on Fire and Nightshade's goals are going to come way down and may be just 500 full x every month or just 500 full x for the year.  It all depends on how I'm feeling about them.

I managed to add 684 tent stitches to The Loneliness of Autumn then found I was a stitch off from the first day or so I'd pulled the WIP out.  I'm debating whether to frog or fudge.  At this point, I'm thinking of making sure I'm correct vertically and adding new stitches where they're supposed to be and fudging the rest.

Here's where it is now.

While LoA is in time out, I pulled out Winter Rose Manor for a change of pace.  I didn't manage to add anywhere near what I wanted for a weekend, but I didn't do too bad Saturday.  Sunday was pretty much a bust.

I'd like to finish this page before I move on but we'll see how that works out.