5/2/26

 I pulled out Alice Bierton late last month to work on it's goal stitches and finished them up this morning and met my goal with 552 stitches.

HAED's SS Daybreak is out next.

5/1/26

 Happy May Day!

I've met my goal for Sarah Elizabeth Brooke from The Scarlet House with 670 stitches and am starting to finish the over 1 verse at the top of the sampler.

Alice Bierton from Samplers Remembered is out next.

4/28/26

Goal met for Ann Roberts with 508 stitches.

Sarah Elizabeth Brooke is next.

4/27/26

 Goal met for Theresa Wentzler's The Castle with 552 stitches

Ann Roberts from HATS is out.

4/25/26

I've met two more of my 2026 goals

Margret Croft from Needlework Press with 558 stitches

and Airships and Floating Castle from Tilton Crafts with 1120 tent stitches/560 full x stitches and 4.6% complete.

Theresa Wentzel's Castle is out next.

4/24/26

 I've completed the April stitches for Sea Witch with 2094 tent/1047 full x stitches and 43.18% complete.

All the stitches were DMC 310 over two pages but those stitches will give me a place to count from and to start/stop all the colors of the bubbles and the witch's hair.

Margret Croft from Needlework Press is out next.

4/19/26

 I've met my April goal for Hawaiian Garden with 1334 stitches.

I thought about keeping this out to finish part 5 but this was far enough for now.

Sea Witch is out for her April stitches.

4/16/26

 I've completed this month's stitches for Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler with 564 stitches.

I'm not feeling how "May" came out 100% but the letters are from the provided letters but they're stitched and not coming back out.

Hawaii is out next for some easy over 2 stitching.

4/14/26

 I've reached my stitch goal for Warrior Alice with 4064 tent/2032 full x stitches, 79.49% complete and page 33 complete.

Heritaage Sampler is out next.

4/10/26

 I've met my April stitch goal for SS Daybreak with 2146 tent/1073 full x stitches and 4.73% complete

Warrior Alice is out next for her stitches.  Sadly, I don't know how many I'll be able to manage this weekend since I need to work Saturday to meet a deadline so I can be out next week for a funeral.

She'll get there though.

4/6/26

I've met a my April stitch goals for a couple of WIPs.

Harriet Godhard from HATS with 521 stitches

and Her Private Garden with 2092 tent/1046 full x stitches and 9.15% complete.

SS Daybreak is next.

4/5/26

 I finally finished page 4 of Her Private Garden.  She's now 8.75% complete

I'm glad I didn't try to finish the page last month since it took an additional 500-ish stitches. 

This one is staying out to finish its April stitches.

4/1/26

 Sadly, PTO is over so what feels like massive progress is over too.

I've completed my goal for Come Into My Garden from Blackbird Designs with 509 stitches

my goal for Sarah Redfearn from The Scarlett House with 508 stitches

and Ann Tong Uffindel with 546 stitches

I also reached my minimum goal for a new start for Pledge of Allegiance with 554 stitches

Today, I'll start April with Harriet Godhard.

3/29/26

 It's been a busy couple of days.

Friday, I met my goal for Ann Bowers from The Examplary with 535 stitches

Saturday Morning, I met my goal on Anna Sophia Bircham from HATS with 521 stitches

They're kind of hard to see, but they are there, I promise!

Then I met up with The Cornhusker State Stitchers and we started Pledge of Allegiance from Plum Street Samplers

I'm stitching mine on 40 ct Prehistoric from Fox & Rabbit with the HDF conversion with a couple of tweaks to one of the greens and the blue.  Here's where I left off yesterday.

Today, I've met my goal for Cider Dragon with 1078 tent/539 full x stitches and 12.39% complete

Now, I'm working on Come Into My Garden from Blackbird Designs with hopes that I'll be able to meet my goal for that one tonight which leaves time for at least one more tomorrow.

3/26/26

I've met three more goals in the last day or so. 

Sarah Breazier's goal was met with 542 stitches

Jane Fiddes' goal was met with 514 stitches

and I've met my goal on Growth Rings with 690 stitches.

Ann Bowers is out next for her stitches.

 

3/25/26

 I've met my goal for M. Woods 1759 from Milady's Needle with 578 stitches.

I'm off work for a few days with nothing planned beyond some house work so I'm hoping to meet several more of my 2026 goals so I have the opportunity to come revisit some of them again this year.

Sarah Breazier from HATS is out next.

3/24/26

 I've met my goal for Autumn Quaker from Rosewood Manor with 510 stitches.  The color changes are a challenge with this one.

M Woods 1759 from MiLady's Needle is out now.

3/23/25

 I've met a couple more goals this month.

I've added 665 stitches to Convent's Herbal Garden

and 686 stitches to Heritage Sampler to complete another line of personalization.

Autumn Quaker from Rosewood Manor is out now.

3/19/26

 I've met my goal for Celtic Snow from Northern Expressions Needlework with 680 stitches.  I've finished the top border less the corners.

Chatelaine's Convent Herbal Garden is out next.

3/17/26

 March goal met for Her Private Garden with 2144 tent/ 1072 full x stitches and 8.59% complete.

3/15/26

 March's goal met for Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden with 1259 stitches.  I've also completed the bottom quarter of part 5.

While I realize it's probably going to take the at least another month to two month to get the last quarter of part 5 done, I'm starting to get excited to start the landscape panels.

Her Private Garden is out next.  I should be able to see another page finish with this month's stitching on it.

3/14/26

 March's goal is met for Sea Witch with 2184 tent/1092 full x stitches and 42.46% complete 

Hawaii is going to come back out to meet the remaining 500 stitches of its goal. 

3/11/26

 I've met my March goal for SS Daybreak with 2074 tent/1037 full x stitches.  It's now 4.44% complete.

Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden Mandala is out next.

3/9/26

 And here's another page finish.  This time its page 4 of SS Daybreak.   Its now 4.33% complete.

I need to add another 800-ish stitches into page 5 to meet my March goal.

3/8/26

 I've met my March goal and completed 4038 tent/2019 full x stitches for Warrior Alice which brings her to 76.77% complete.

SS Daybreak is out next.

3/6/26

Monday, I met my March goal for Harriett Godhard from HATS with 683 stitches

Today, I've completed page 31 of Warrior Alice with 74.31% complete.

3/1/26

 Yesterday was a very productive day.  I met up with the Cornhusker State Stitchers for some stitchy fun.  We've made plans for some new starts with the upcoming Nashville releases.  I think we're planning to start Plum Street Samplers Pledge of Allegiance first and I've asked Vicki at Hand-Dyed Fibers if she would convert everything to silk.  Now I just need to go pull some fabric.

Yesterday, I've also met my goals for Louisa Coulimore from Hands Across the Sea with 507 stitches.  I've officially finished the alphabets and have started the second half the sampler.

Today, I've met my goal for Death By Cross Stitch with 597 stitches and Patter Keeper tells me it is now 8.97% complete.  500 stitch goals just doesn't make a huge amount of progress.  This is probably something I should revisit again this year.

Harriet Godhard 1817 from Hands Across the Sea is out now for it's March progress stitches.

2/28/26

 I've met my 2026 goal for Game of Swannes from Ling Dog with 587 stitches and 16.99% complete

Louisa Coulimore from Hands Across the Sea is out next.

2/27/26

 Tonight, I've met my goal for Chatelaine's Evening in the Park with 711 stitches.

Game of Swannes from Long Dog is out now.

2/25/26

I've met my goal for Il Bosco di Bengtsson with 1050 stitches

Chatelaine's Evening in the Park is out next.

 

2/22/26

March's Window view in Stitches from Stitches and Cutz is finished!

I'm so glad to have this one finished.

Up next is Il Bosco di Bengtsson.

  

2/21/26

Last night I finished the remaining stitches to meet my February goal with 2110 tent/1055 full x stitches and 41.7% complete 

This morning, I've picked up March's Window View in Stitches from Stitches and Cutz that I'm stitching for a shop model for Heartland Quilting and Stitching.  We've decided to meet next Saturday so I decided this must be done so I can hand it off to them.

This is what it looked like when I picked it up this morning

I've already added a couple of clouds so I can be sure of the placement of the rainbow and finished off all the hanging threads.  Yay!  With any luck, I'll have this finished this weekend so I can pick up some of my other WIPs and meet some more of my 2026 goals.

2/20/06

 I've finished page 16 of Sea Witch and it's now 41.48% complete.

I love how the dragon is turning out!  The Witch looks dark IRL but in the photo all the colors look great.  I didn't realize she had a nose until I pulled it off the q-snap to take a picture.

2/16/26

 I've met my February goal for Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden with 1005 stitches.

Sea Witch is out next for it's February stitches.

2/15/26

 I had an awesome stitchy day yesterday.  I added 2440 tent stitches which meant I completed my February goal for Warrior Alice with 4100 tent/2050 full x stitches and 74.06% complete.

Could I have finished page 31?  Yes, I probably could have but it was late and I was ready to rotate to Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden.