I took advantage of some PTO to finish the bottom border of Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler and added 3214 stitches.
Now, I need to start adding some personalization and beads to get it finished.
Thursday, January 1, 2026
2025 Review
2025 had a slow start since my stitchy bug seemed to not be as interested for a couple of months but then my stitching picked up with 36 full coverage page finishes, 47438 full x stitches and 158376 tent stitches in 66 projects.
I started out 2025 with 59 projects, found 1 old project, started 6 projects and finished 3. This means I'll carry 63 projects into 2026.
Fall Pumpkin Patch started around 2008 on cream aida with called for DMC. At this point, I'm not sure if it was included in the kit but since I'm using bobbins, I would guess not.
Starting point
2025 goal: finish
10/1/25 - September progress
10/14/25 - finished with 1724 stitches
Loara Standish started 1/1/13 stitched 1x3 56 ct Kingston with a HDF silk conversion
2025 goal: 500 stitches per month
9/5/25 - added 352 stitches
9/21/25 - added 504 stitches
9/30/25 - Loara saw a total of 1272 stitches in September, completing her January and February goal.
10/11/25 - Another 335 stitches to meet her March goal.
10/15/25 - Band 8 is done!
front
back
Love Thy Thread's Loneliness of Autumn started 9/6/14
2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco
67962 stitches to finish
2025 goal: finish
2/2/24 Page 13 and January goal met - 47.54% complete
2/9/25 page 14 and 50.76% complete
2/13/25 Jan/Feb goals met with 11348 tent/5674 full x stitches and 52.26% complete
3/17/25 - page 15 is complete and 54.91%
3/23/25 - page 16 and my March goal are complete with 7176 tent/3588 full x stitches and 58.3 % complete
4/22/25 - pages 17/18 and 61.81% complete
4/25/25 - April goal met with 5840 tent/2920 full x stitches and 63.23% complete.
5/26/25 - page 19 and 66.31% complete
5/28/25 - May goal met with 5688 tent/2844 full x stitches and 68.01% complete
6/15/25 - page 20 and 70.03%
6/22/25 - June goal met with 5932 tent/2966 full x stitches and 73%
7/5/25 - Page 21 and 74.04% complete
7/12/25 - page 22 and 77.8% complete
7/13/25 - July goal met with 5840 tent/2920 full x stitches and 77.91% complete
8/10/25 - Pages 23 and 24 and 81.28% complete
August goal met 8/12/25 with 5698 tent/2849 full x stitches and 82.71% complete.
9/17/25 - pages 25 and 31 and 85.81% complete
9/20/25 - I've adjust my goal a bit and decided it's met for September with 5394 tent/2697 full x stitches and 87.25% complete.
10/10/25 - pages 26 and 32 complete at 89.24%
10/12/25 - October goal met with 5180 tent/2590 full x stitches and 91.61% complete
11/3/25 - pages 27 and 33, 93.35% complete
11/8/25 - November goal met with 5128 tent/2564 full x stitches and 95.92% complete
12/3/25 - Pages 28 and 34, 97.02% complete
12/7/25 - Finished with a final 4844 tent/2422 full x stitches
Eclectic Bloke Designs Warrior Alice started 5/10/15
2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco
74346 stitches to finish
2025 goal: finish
1/9/25 amended goal: 2000 tent stitches per month
2/16/25 - page 21 and 51.74% complete
2/20/25 - January/February goal met with4024 tent/2012 full x stitches and 52.79% complete
3/8/25 - March goal met
3/9/25 - Page 22 completed with 3020 tent/1510 full x stitches and 54.82% complete
4/11/24 Page 23 and April goal met with 2684 tent/1342 full x stitches and 56.62% complete.
5/11/25 May goal met with 2062 tent/1031 full x stitches
5/12/25 Page 24 complete with 3072 tent/1536 full x stitches and 56.68% complete
6/6/25 - June goal complete with 2050 tent/1025 full x stitches and 60.06% complete
7/16/25 - Page 25 and July goal complete with 2648 tent/1324 full x stitches and 61.84% complete.
8/20/25 - page 26 and August goal met with 2296 tent/1148 full x stitches and 63.38% complete.
9/7/25 - 1146 tent/573 full x stitches and 64.15% complete
9/23/25 September goal met with an additional 1014 tent/507 full x stitches and 64.83% complete
10/5/25 - October goal met with 2080 tent/1040 full x stitches, page 27 and 66.22% complete. This month I also met my 2025 stitch goal.
11/15/25 - November goal met with 2340 tent/1170 tent stitches, page 28 and 67.79% complete.
12/16/25 - December goal met with 1230 tent/615 full x stitches and 68.62% complete
Started 6/1/15
HAED's Her Private Garden
2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco
362561 stitches to finish
2025 goal: 1000 tent stitches per month
3/1/25 - January goal met with 1052 tent/ 526 full x stitches and 3.42% complete
3/2/25 - February goal met with 1042 tent/521 full x stitches and 3.7% complete
3/3/25 March goal met with 1012 tent/506 full x stitches and 3.97% complete.
4/12/25 Page 2 complete and April goal met with 1500 tent/751 full x stitches and 4.37% complete.
5/18/25 May goal met with 1122 tent/561 full x stitches and 4.67% complete
6/27/25 - June goal met with 1282 tent/641 full x stitches and 5.02% complete.
7/17/25 - July goal met with 1074 tent/537 full x stitches and 5.3% complete
8/21/25 - August goal met with 1346 tent/673 full x stitches and 5.66% complete
9/6/25 - September goal met with 1060 tent/530 full x stitches and 5.95% complete
10/3/25 - October goal met with 1058 tent/529 full x stitches and 6.23% complete
11/16/25 - November goal met and page 3 complete with 1248 tent/624 full x stitch and 6.56% complete
12/17/25 - December goal met with 1178 tent/589 full x stitches and 6.87% complete.
Chatelaine's The Heritage Sampler
started 7/25/15
2x2 28 ct Monaco
2025 goal: finish
3/30/25 - March update - 524 stitches added
4/6/25 April update - 1573 stitches added
5-15-25 - May update - 799 stitches added
6/12/25 - June update - 2921 stitches added
7/20/25 - July update - 1715 stitches added and the outer border completed.
8/3/25 - August update - 2043 stitches added
9/2/25 - September Update - 2340 stitches added
10/27/25 - October update 1788 stitches added
11/29/25 - November update with 2151 stitches added
12/31/25 - bottom border complete
HAED's SS Daybreak
started 10/31/15
2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco
734228 stitches to finish
2025 goal: 1000 tent stitches per month
5/6/25 - January goal met with 1156 tent/578 full x stitches and 2.03% complete
6/24/25 - February goal met with 1026 tent/513 full x stitch and 2.17% complete
7/27/25 - March goal met with 1006 tent/503 full x stitches and 2.3% complete
8/15/25 - page 2 complete. Now 2.48% complete
April/May goal complete 8/16/25 with 2068 tent/1034 full cross stitches and 2.58% complete
9/12/25 - June/July goal complete with 2216 tent/1108 full x stitches and 2.87% complete
10/17/25 - August goal completed with 1036 tent/518 full x stitches and 3.01% complete
10/21/25 - September goal completed with 1054 tent/527 full x and 3.15% complete
11/10/25 - page three complete at 3.38%
11/11/25 October/November goal complete with 2026 tent/1013 full x stitches and 3.42% complete
12/11/25 December goal met with 1104 tent/552 full x stitch and 3.57% complete
Sea Witch by HAED
started 1/1/16
2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco
185468 stitches to finish
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches per month
3/27/25 - January goal met with 1096 tent/548 full x stitches and 35.98% complete
3/30/25 February goal met with 1030 tent/515 full x stitches and 36.34% complete
3/31/25 March goal met with page 14 complete, 1270 tent/635 full x stitches and 36.78% complete
4/3/25 April goal met with 1098 tent/549 full x stitches and 37.16% complete
5/13/25 May goal met with 1126 tent/563 full x stitches and 37.55% complete
6/7/25 June goal met with 1042 tent/ 521 full x stitches and 37.91% complete
7/2/25 July goal met with 1136 tent/568 full x stitches and 38.31% complete
8/23/25 - August goal met with 1204 tent/602 full x stitches and 38.73% complete
9/9/25 - September goal met with 1080 tent/540 full x stitches and 39.10% complete.
10/2/25 Page 15 and October goal met with 1118 tent/559 full x stitches and 39.49% complete
11/19/25 - November goal met with 1054 tent/527 full x stitches and 39.86% complete
12/19/25 - December goal met 1166 tent/583 full x stitches and 40.26% complete.
Chatelaine's Hawaiian Garden Mandala
stitched on 28ct black Monaco with my HDF conversion
started 7/31/16
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
Goal met 3/11/25 with 580 stitches
Tilton's Feathers in the Wind
started 10/1/16 on 28ct white monaco
105782 stitches to finish
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches
Goal met 3/25/25 with 1162 tent/581 full cross stitches and 18.11% complete.
The Forgotten by Charting Creations
Started 1/1/17, 2x1 tent 28 ct Monaco
103006 stitches to finish
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches
4/28/25 - goal met with 1050 tent/525 full x stitches and 15.04% complete
Chatelaine's Blue Moroccan Lace Mandala
stitched on 28 ct monaco in Raspberry Beret from Colour Cascades with my HDF conversion
Started 7/5/17
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
5/1/25 - Goal met with 504 stitches
Chatelaine's Polar Mandala
started 1/1/18 with my HDF conversion for the silks
28 ct white monaco
2025 Goal: 1000 stitches
4/27/25 - goal met with 1044 stitches
Renato Parolin's The Bengtsson forest
Started 9/1/18
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
5/2/25 - goal met and page 2 finished with 530 stitches
Chatelaine's Evening in the Park
started 1/1/19
32ct Belfast in Cobblestone in called for fibers
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
5/3/25 goal met with 529 stitches
Game of Swannes - Long Dog Samplers
2x1 on 36 ct Putty from Silkweavers with a conversion from my stash
started 7/7/19
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
Goal met 5/16/25 with 555 stitches.
Louisa Coulimore from Hands Across the Sea
1x2 on 46ct Egyptian Sand from Silkweavers
HDF superfine OMOT Heart
started 7/15/19
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
Goal met 5/20/25 with 827 stitches and the top row of pages complete.
Death By Cross Stitch by Long Dog Samplers
1x2 on 36ct Legacy Linen in Examplar in HDF Besmurfed with more blues to be added
started 7/17/19
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
2/23/25 - goal met with 594 stitches, now 8.24% complete
Celtic Snow from Northern Expressions Needlework
2x1 on 36ct Midnight Sky from XJuDesign with charted silks
started 7/18/19
2025 Goal 500 stitches
5/29/25 Goal met with 590 stitches and approximately 26.07% complete
Chatelaine's Convent Herbal Garden
on 28 ct Monaco I dyed
started 7/20/19
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
5/30/25 - goal met with 520 stitches
Autumn Quakers from Rosewood Manor
on 40ct Toffee from Silkweavers
started 8/17/19
Goal met 6/1/25 with 520 stitches
M. Woods 1759 from Milady's Needle
on 46ct from xJuDesign with a custom HDF conversion
started 10/6/19
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
6/3/25 - goal met with 535 stitches
Sarah Brezier - Hands Across the Sea
2x1 with DMC on 46ct custom dyed fabric from xJuDesign
started 1/1/2020
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
6/28/25 - goal met 568 stitches
Jane Fiddes 1835
stitched on 46 ct Lambswool from xJudesign with called for 100.3 silks
started 7/4/2020
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
6/29/25 - goal met with 615 stitches
Growth Rings from Ink Circles
started 10/15/20 with called for HDF silk on Silkweaver's 40 ct French Vanilla Swirl
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
7/1/25 goal met with 586 stitches
Ann Bowers from The Examplarery
stitched using the cotton kit on 35ct
Started 10/27/20
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
7/1/25 - goal met with 523 stitches
Anna Sophia Bircham 1871 from Hands Across the Sea on Silkweaver's 46ct Solo with HDF conversion
Started 12/31/20
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
Goal met 7/22/25 with 638 stitches and 17.51% complete
Cider Dragon from Paine Free Crafts
stitched on 28ct Monaco dyed by me
Started 1/9/21
85012 stitches to finish
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches
Goal met 7/24/25 with 1138 tent/569 full x stitches for 11.24% complete
Come into my Garden by Blackbird Designs
40ct Grandpa's Sleeve by xJuDesigns with charted cotton
started 5/23/21
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
Goal met 7/25/25 with 610 stitches
Sarah Redfearn 1826 from The Scarlett House started 10/24/21
stitched on 46ct Little Dove by xJudesigns with called for Belle Soie and Gloriana silks
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
Goal met 7/26/25 with 578 stitches
Ann Tong Uffindell 1835 from Hands Across the Sea. I'm stitching on 46 Vintage Sampler from Victorian Motto with HDF silk conversion started 1/1/22
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
Goal met 7/29/25 with 776 stitches
Margret Croft from Needlework Press on 40ct Weeks Corn Silk with charted overdyed cottons started 5/8/22
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
Goal met 7/30/25 with 519 stitches
Airships and Floating Castle from Tilton Crafts 2x1 tent on 28ct rose monaco
Started 6/30/22
336104 stitches to finish
2025 Goal 1000 tent stitches
Goal met 7/31/25 with 1076 tent/538 full x stirches and 4.28% complete
The Castle by Teresa Wentzler
Started 7/18/22
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
8/24/25 - Goal met with 522 stitches
Ann Roberts from Hands Across the Seas
46ct with called for 100.3
Started 9/5/22
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
8/25/25 - goal met with 544 stitches
Sarah Elizabeth Brooke 1842 by The Scarlett House on 40 ct Dusty Road by Seraphim with called for Belle Soie
Started 9/10/22
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
8/27/25 - goal met with 579 stitches
Alice Bierton 1885 from Samplers Remembered
stitched on 56 ct Weeks Parchment with AVAS Soie Surfine
started 9/17/22
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
8/29/25 - goal met with 522 stitches
Pour La Fete by Lindsay Lane Designs on Legacy 53/60 in Sycamore Seed Pod with the Attic conversion to Avas Soie Surfine.
Started 9/28/22
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
8/30/25 - goal met with 525 stitches
Plague Doctor from Unconventional XStitch on 28 ct monaco I dyed.
Started 10/1/22
353620 stitches to finish
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches
9/24/25 - goal met with 1040 tent/520 full x stitches and 2.2% complete
Dragon Lord from Paine Free Crafts on 28 ct monaco I dyed.
Started 10/9/22
117422 stitches to finish
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches
9/26/25 - Goal met with 1104 tent/552 full x stitches
Trick or Treat from Paine Free Crafts on 28 ct Monaco I dyed
Started 10/25/22
117068 stitches to finish
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches
9/24/25 - Goal met with 1064 tent/532 full x stitches and 8.22% complete
Ann Grimshaw 1818 from The Scarlett Letter on 46ct Up In the Attic from Fox and Rabbit with HDF OMOT Night
Started 11/8/22
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
9/27/25 - goal met with 656 stitches
Matilda Isabella Creasy from Whilst Iris Naps on 46ct Mushroom from Silkweavers with called for Weeks Dye Works
Started 11/13/22
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
9/28/25 - goal met with 522 stitches
Best Friends Max Color from HAED started 12/17/22, 2x1 tent on 28ct Monaco
299089 stitches to finish
2025 Goal: 2000 tent stitches
10/23/25 goal met with 2028 tent/1014 tent stitches and 1.74 % complete
Winter Rose Manor by Brenda Gervais started 12/31/22 on 46 ct Weeks Confederate Gray with the HDF conversion
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
2/20/25 goal met with 549 stitches
Jane Charlotte Wynn by The Scarlett House on Weeks 40ct Straw with the called for Weeks overdyed cotton
Started 12/31/22
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
10/28/25 Goal met with 547 stitches
Steamy Blue from Crossstitch4everyone on Etsy
stitched 2x1 tent on 28 ct I dyed
Started 12/31/22
116190 stitches to finish
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches
10/30/25 - Goal met with 1106 tent/553 full x stitches and 3.78% complete
Lady of the Flag by Mirabilia
Started 7/4/23 with called for fibers on 30ct Constitution fabric from The Primitive Hare
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
10/19/25 Goal met with 718 stitches
Serenity Harbor from by The Bay Needleart
Started 8/11/23 for World Cross Stitch Day
Stitched on 40 ct HDF linen in Pearled Barley
2025 Goal: 500 stitches
Goal met 10/31/25 with 540 stitches
No Place Like Home from Unconventional XStitch
Stitched 2x1 tent on 28ct monaco I dyed
Started 11/1/23
735300 stitches remaining.
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches
11/19/25 - goal met with 1088 tent/544 full x stitches and 1.09% complete
2024 New Year, New Start
QS Voodoo in Violet from HAED, stitched 2x1 tent on 28 ct monaco dyed by me.
137582 stitches remaining
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches
11/21/25 - goal met with 1138 tent/569 full x stitches and 2.6% complete
Ms Gothica I from Tilton Crafts stitched 2x1 tent on 28ct Monaco, started 3/30/24
121268 stitches remaining
2025 Goal: 1000 tent stitches
11/30/25 Goal met with 1016 tent/518 full x stitches and 1.85% complete
Quaker Tiles Flag (USA) started 7/13/24 on unnamed 46ct Be Stitch Me linen with my conversion to change the red and blue.
31883 stitches remaining
11/22/25 goal met with 761 stitches and 6.6% complete
Together We Stand from HAED, started 8/1/24 on 28ct monaco I dyed.
208610 stitches remaining
Goal: 1000 tent stitches
12/27/25 goal met with 1076 tent/538 full x stitches and 3.14 % complete.
Sarah A Sanderson 1872 from The Scarlett House started 9/1/24 with everything called for on 46ct Valley Forge from Needle and Flax.
Goal: 500 stitches
11/30/25 - Goal met with 550 stitches
Mary Gypson 1828 from Whilst Iris Naps started 9/15/24 started on 46ct and all charted colors on 46ct Thornfield from Needle and Flax
Goal: 500 stitches
12/20/25 goal met with 517 stitches
Summer Moon from Plum Street Samplers started 9/18/24 on 40ct Prairie Grass from Seraphim fabric and all charted colors
Goal: 500 stitches
12/21/25 - Goal met with 506 stitches
Our Path of Light from Unconventional XStitch started 10/31/24 on 28ct Monaco I dyed.
84938 stitches remaining
Goal: 1000 tent stitches
Catfish Cthulhu from Unconventional XStitch started 11/3/24 on 28 ct Monaco I dyed.
Goal: 1000 tent stitches
12/26/25 goal met with 1030 tent/515 full x stitches and 1.82% complete.
Richard's Stocking from Shepherds Bush started 12/27/24 on 36ct platinum with #5 perle stash conversion
I added another row just to see how I felt about the stitches with the perle.
I think this will need to be a restart with regular DMC like I stitched my kids'1/1/25 New Year, New Start
HAED's 2025 SAL
Steampunk Portal on 28ct Monaco I dyed.
1/9/25 Amended goal: 1/2 page per month in order to reach 6 pages by the end of the year
January progress - 1/7/25 4424 tent stitches/2212 full cross, 5.19% complete
February progress - 2/25/25 - 590 tent stitches/295 full cross, 5.88% complete
August progress - 8/23/25 added 204 stitches, 6.52% complete with three parts released.
1/18/25 Started Tonight we Ride with the ladies of Cornhusker State Stitchers on 40ct Pumpkin Patch from BeStitchMe with called for DMC
1/19/25
Started Be Mine from the "Lovable Petites" from Little House Needleworks
Finished 1/22/25
10/17/25 started Hagatha's Orange Hat from Just Nan on 30 ct Pumpkin from Weeks with the called for DMC
130 stitches for snow on 11/28/25
12/31/25
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