8/30/25

 While stitching with friends last night, I met my goal for Pour Ta Fete from Lindsay Lane Designs with 525 stitches.

Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler came out next and we talked about the personalization im planning and what stitch I should use for the berries in the bottom right corner.  Here's the result.

The color called for to backstitch the berries didn't look good so I pulled three possibilities.  I planning on the one on the right.

8/29/25

 I've met my goal for Alice Bierton by Samplers Remembered with 522 stitches.

The 56 ct linen is a challenge but I enjoyed those stitches.

Pour Ta Fete from Lindsay Lane Designs is out next.

8/27/25

 I've met my goal for Sarah Elizabeth Brooke with 579 stitches.

I almost kept going with the border of this one but there are other WIPs to visit.  Maybe I'll make it back to visit this one again this year.

Alice Bierton from Samplers Remembered is out next.

8/25/25

 I've met my goal for Ann Roberts with 544 stitches.

She's a much smaller sampler than I thought she was, or, she appears that way since she's on 46 count linen.

Sarah Elizabeth Brook from The Scarlett House is up next.

8/24/25

 I added more stitches to Steampunk Portal yesterday, then had to switch to another project.  Here's where it currently sits with 408 tent/204 full x stitches than it had last time it was out.

It looks awesome in the photo.  I just wish I was more inclined to stitch on it.

The Castle from Teresa Wentzler came out next and I've met my goal for it with 522 stitches.  

It was kind of iffy there for a while too.  But I think adding some of the greens instead of more wall colors helped move things along.  I'd like to revisit this one again this year to move it along.  It's been over 20 years since Mother Nature decided I didn't need the first one I stitched.  I'd like to get this one complete.

Ann Roberts from HATS is out next.  I think I've decided to add some border which is just two colors.

8/23/25

 I didn't reach my August goal for Sea Witch last night as I'd hoped but I did meet it this morning.

Here she is with an additional 1204 tent stitches/602 full x stitches and 38.73% complete.

I'm hoping to have page 15 finished in September but it may be October.  Page 16 may yet be this year as well since a good bit of the black that I'm stitching on page 15 is on page 16 up to the dragon's jaw so it's being stitched at the same time.

I've pulled out Steampunk Portal, HAED's 2025 SAL to make some progress andI'm not really feeling all the confetti.  I'm going to pull another color or two and see if that changes, but that may be coming off the qsnaps in favor of another WIP.

8/22/25

 I completed August's goal for Her Private Garden last night with 1346 tent/673 full x stitches and 5.66% complete.

Sea Witch is out now and may see her August goal met tonight.

8/20/25

 I've met my August goal for Warrior Alice with page 26 and 2296 tent/1148 full x stitches.

Her Private Garden is out next.

8/16/25

 I've met my goal for this month on SS Daybreak and am slowly catching back up for this year.  

I've added 2068 tent/1034 full cross stitches bringing me up to 2.58% complete.

There's still some tree in page 3 but I'm hoping it stitches up much faster since most of the page is sky.

Warrior Alice is out next.  The White Rabbit's head will be finished this month!

8/15/25

 Last night, I finished page 2 of SS Daybreak.  It's  now 2.48% complete.

It's been a long time coming.  I went back through this blog and checked.  I finished page 1 on 12/20/2015.  So not quite 10 years for page 2.  I'm hoping to pick up the pace just a bit.

SS Daybreak is staying out just a little longer.  I've finished the goal for one month, but I'm still behind so I'm hoping to finish the goal for a second month tonight or tomorrow.

8/12/25

 August's goal is met for The Loneliness of Autumn with 5698 tent/2849 full x stitches and 82.71% complete.

I'm so close to the lower left corner but still not quite there.  The stitches that were left to meet my monthly goal went super quick with lots of block stitching which are uncommon in this WIP.

SS Daybreak is up next.  I would love to see a page finish this month.

8/11/25

Sunday, I finished pages 24 and 25 of Loneliness of Autumn which made it 81.28% complete.

By the end of the night, I'd added a bunch more stitches and got to 81.67%

Does anyone else ever decide they don't want to watch anything new to them?  So you pull up a movie you've watched a bunch of times so you can just listen while you stitch?

 

8/4/25

 On August 1, I pulled out Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler and added 2043 stitches.  

I would have added more, but I got hung up on what stitch the grapes in the lower right are supposed to be.  Martina didn't spell that out.  The pattern looks like it could be an eyelet which may be what I add.  Other stitchers, from the pictures on the Chatelaine Gallery and from the Chatelaine Support Group on Facebook stitched the same jessica stitches that were used in the upper left.  Once I figure it out, I may come back to this project this month.  Or it may just marinate until September.

Loneliness of Autumn is out next.

7/31/25

 Goal for Airships and Floating Castle met with 1076 tent/ 538 full x stitches and 4.28% complete.