11/1/26

 Since I have to go back to work tomorrow, progress will be slower.

but I've made more progress

I added 529 stitches to Come Into My Garden from Blackbird Designs

509 stitches went into Sarah Redfearn from The Scarlett House

656 stitches into Ann Tong Uffidel from Hands Across the Sea Samplers

And as of this morning, I added 221 stitches to Hagatha's Orange Hat.  All of those stitches went into the brim of her hat.

I think there's mostly backstitch to go on the cone of her hat so maybe November will see this finished.

Harriet Godhard is out for it's November progress.

10/29/26

 I've made lots of progress over the last few days.

I've added 526 stitches to Jane Fiddes from Hands Across the Sea

Loara Standish from The Examplary got another 232 stitches and I'm almost done with band 11

Growth Rings from Ink Circles got 579 stitches

Ann Bowers from the Examplary got 538 stitches

Anna Sophia Bircham from Hands Across the Sea got 568 stitches

and Cider Dragon got a page finish and 1146 tent/573 full x stitches and is now 13.6% complete

Come Into My Garden from Blackbird Design is out now.

10/26/26

 I've worked four more WIPs.

Autumn Quaker has gotten another 544 stitches.

M. Woods got 584 stitches

Sarah Breazier got 575 stitches

Jane Fiddes got 526 stitches

Loara Standish is out to make progress on band 11.

10/23/26

 I've met my stretch goal for Chatelaine's Convent Herbal Garden with another 532 stitches.  I added the blackwork around the center and some more of the very center.

Rosewood Manor's Autumn Quaker is out next.

10/22/26

 I've been able to pick up and add stitches to multiple WIPs this week, which is awesome.  Next week I'm off work to burn PTO so I should be able to touch a bunch of them.

I've added 522 stitches to Celtic Snow from Northern Expressions Needlework

and I've picked up Chatelaine's Convent Garden to work out from the central garden.

10/21/26

 Last night, I completed an additional 524 stitches on Louisa Coulimore from HATS.

Then Death By Cross Stitch from Long Dog Samplers came out for another 520 stitches.

Celtic Snow from Northern Expressions Needlework is next.

10/20/26

 Last night, I met my October goal for Hawaii with 2095 stitches which is a little over half of the stitches in part 8.

10/19/26

I finished my October for Harriet Godhard Friday night which resulted in another 697 stitches.  So close!

Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden is out to complete about 2000 stitches, about half way through part 8. 

10/16/26

 I've finished two more pages in my push to finish Warrior Alice by the end of the year.

Pages 40/46 with 3824 tent/1912 full x stitches and 95.61% complete.  This also leaves just 6532 tent/3266 full x stitches and four pages to finish (two full, two partial)

Harriet Godhard has come out next and I'm almost through her October stitching.

10/9/26

 I've met my October goal for Her Private Garden from HAED with 2064 tent/1032 full x stitches and 10.69% complete.

Warrior Alice is out next for another full and partial page.

10/7/26

 I've met my October goal for Sea Witch this morning with 1998 tent/999 full x stitches and 47.37% complete.

I'm hoping to get another page finish on this before year end.

10/4/26

 I've made some very nice progress on two WIPs so far this month.

I've added 1431 stitches to Pledge of Allegiance from Plum Street Samplers, setting it up for what should be a December finish.

Yesterday, I finished page 6 of SS Daybreak from HAED, bringing it to 6.38% complete.  I doubt you can see where, white on white does that.

Today, I've met my October goal with 2144 tent/1072 full x stitches and 6.57% complete.

Sea Witch is next for it's October stitches.

9/30/26

 I've had a good end of September.  

I've added 1003 stitches to Il Bosco di Bengsston

I've added 527 stitches to Chatelaine's Evening in the Park

and 523 stitches to Long Dog's Game of Swannes

Now, I'm headed back to my monthly stitches.  First up is Pledge of Allegiance from Plum Street.

9/29/26

I've met my additional goal for Blue Moroccan lace and added another 605 stitches that were all border.  I discovered I'm missing another gold color so I need to find it in another kit or order some which could be a challenge.

Then Polar Mandala came out.  I added another 1070 stitches.

I really need to decide to switch from 1x1 full x to 2x1 tent or pull it out a whole lot more to get part 1 finished.

Il bosco di Bengtsson is next.

9/27/26

 Friday, I completed page 4 of Feathers in the Wind and also reached 19.34% complete

Saturday, I met my next goal for her with 1034 tent/517 full x stitches and 19.74% complete.

The Forgotten from Charting Creations, was out next and I've met my goal for it with 1146 tent/573 full x and 16.89% complete.

I have Chatelaine's Blue Moroccan Lace ready to go now.  I think I'm going to work on adding some of the metallic border to get a better idea how big this one is and to be able to work on different sections.

9/25/26

 I've added stitches to Orange Hagatha's Hat.  But there are so many color changes and it's on Weeks original fabric base so it's a challenge.

I added 230 stitches to the cone of the hat with more to come.

Then, I pulled out Mirabilia's Snow Queen and added 390 stitches.

Now, I've started back on my oldest WIP outside of the ones that I work on every month, Feathers in the Wind from Tilton Crafts.  I should have a page finish in the next day or so since I'm within a couple of hundred stitches of it.

9/23/26

 I'm starting to get excited about starting with my oldest WIPs again and seeing how far I can get through them again this year.

But first, I need to finish meeting my last couple of goals on the WIPs I haven't touched yet.

I met my goal for Away We Ride yesterday.  I'm still second guessing myself on converage, but I think it will be ok the way it is.

I met this goal with 520 stitches.

Hagatha's Orange Hat from Just Nan is out next.  I'm getting very close to finishing the cone of the hat so I can move over to the brim.

Here's where I started

I've already made some pretty good progress this morning so lets see where it takes us.

9/22/26

I met my Spyember goal for Sea Witch with 2140 tent/1070 full x stirches which brought her to 46.68% complete.

Away We Ride from Autumn Lane is out next.

9/19/26

 I've completed pages 39/45 of Warrior Alice and she's now 93.05% complete.

Since this leaves three full and 3 partial pages, my plan is to complete a full and a partial page every month which still gives me a finish in December.  This month, I added 3872 tent/1936 full stitches.

Then, I pulled out Harriet Godhard for her September stitches and completed 669 stitches to meet her goal.

Sea Witch is my final monthly goal let to meet this month and she is out now.

9/16/26

Its been a productive September so far.

I've completed part 7 of Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden

and I've completed pages 38/44 and Alice is now 90.73% complete.

Alice remains out to continue with her monthly stitch goals.

9/12/26

 I've met my September goal for SS Daybreak and almost got another page finish but I was done stitching white on white.  It'll be first next month.

I added 2246 tent/1123 full x stitches which brought it to 6.28% complete.

9/9/26

 September goal met for Her Private Garden with 2118 tent/1059 full x stitches and 12.13% complete.

SS Daybreak is out next.

9/7/26

 Heritage Sampler is officially moving off my WIP list.

It's finally done after 11 years.

Some close ups

I've added more beads than were charted and a cube in the middle of the bottom garden.  I may end up adding some bicones that appear to have been charted but weren't included in the materials list.