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.

7/29/25

 Goal met for Ann Tong Uffindell from Hands Across the Sea with 776 stitches and the main part of the border is done.  It was off a stitch somewhere, but I won't tell if you won't. 

Margret Croft from Needlework Press is next.

7/28/25

 I'm still behind on my goal for SS Daybreak but I've added another 1006 tent/503 full x stitches

I was hopeful I would be able to finish page two but it wasn't going to happen.  Maybe the next time I pull it out.

Ann Tong Uffindell is out next for at least 500 stitches

7/26/25

I've been working on more WIPs to meet my goal of at least 500 stitches for the bulk of them again this year.

Yesterday, I met that goal for Come Into My Garden by Blackbird Designs with 610 stitches

And today, I've met my goal for Sarah Redfearn with 578 stitches.

Now, I'm going to back track a little and go back to Day Break which is supposed to be a WIP that gets 500 stitches every month.

7/25/25

 I've met my 2025 goal for Cider Dragon with 1138 tent/569 full x stitches bringing it to 11.24% complete.

I enjoyed adding that pop of green yesterday.

Come Into My Garden by Blackbird Designs is out next.

7/23/25

 I've met my goal for Anna Sophia Bircham from Hands Across the Sea with 638 stitches.

I know it's not obvious what was added, but the border, excluding the flowers, is now done and I added a bit to the partial flower in the main field of the sampler to finish off some silk on my needle.

Cider Dragon from Paine Free Crafts is out next.

7/21/25

I made a lot of progress on Heritage Sampler this weekend.  There was some frogging of the outer border since there were changes to the pattern and since I can't count but I got those corrected and the border is complete, except for beads.  I also added most of the interior borders so I can pick a section to work on.

 

7/18/25

 I've met my July goal for Her Private Garden and even though I haven't stitched any sky, I know where it starts.  Yay for colors that aren't brown!

I added 1074 tent/537 full x stitches which brought the percentage complete to 5.3%

Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler is out next.

7/17/25

 Last night, I finished page 25 of Warrior Alice.  I could have stopped before the page finish, but you know, the page finish seemed important.

I met my July goal for Alice with 2648 tent/1324 full x stitches and 61.84% complete.

Her Private Garden is out now for 1000 tent stitches.

7/14/25

 If I'd only realized I met my goal with page 22, I would have rotated then.  Instead, I added another length of 939 and got started on page 23/24.

My June goal for Loneliness of Autumn was met with 5840 tent/2920 full x stitches and 77.91% complete.

Warrior Alice is out next for her June stitches

7/12/25

 Page 22 of Loneliness of Autumn and 77.8% complete

7/7/25

 I've met my June goal for Sea Witch with 1136 tent/568 full x stitches.  It is now 38.31% complete.

After Sea Witch, Loneliness of Autumn came out.  Saturday, I finished page 21 which saw 74.04% complete.

And last night saw me make it to 75.54% complete.

I'm almost hoping to finish page 22 with June stitches.

7/2/25

Ive met my goal on Ann Bowers from The Examplarery.  

I'm glad I decided to keep Ann last year.  Ive really started to enjoy working on her.

Sea Witch is out next.

 

7/1/25

 Growth Rings from Ink Circles has met its 2025 goal with 586 stitches.

Ann Bowers from The Examplarery is out next.

6/29/25

 Jane Fiddes' goal is met with 615 stitches.

I made it though all the colors in the top two rows of alphabets.  The next time this one comes out there's a border and the other I stills to go along with the big "F"

Growth Rings from Ink Circles is out next.

6/28/25

June goal met for Her Private Garden  with 1282 tent/641 full cross stitches and 5.02% complete.

And goal met for Sarah Braizear with 568 stitches.

Jane Fiddes is up next.

6/25/25

 Last night I completed February's goal for SS Daybreak with 1026 tent/513 full x stitches and reached 2.17% complete.

Her Private Garden is out next.

6/23/25

 Last night, I finally met my June goal for Loneliness of Autumn with 5932 tent/2966 full cross stitches and 73% complete

 I thought about just finishing the page but I couldn't bring myself to do it.  It was time to move on.  

SS Daybreak came out next.  I would love to be able to get more than my 1000 tent stitch goal since there were several months I didn't pick it up, but I would be happy with just the 1000 tent stitches since the trees are high confetti.

6/16/25

 Yesterday, I finished page 20 of Loneliness of Autumn and it is now 70.03% complete.

6/13/25

 I hoped to finish the middle of Heritage Sampler, without the personalization, in a couple of days.  Little did I know it would take 6 days and 2921 stitches.  I guess I did start working in the next section down too which is a few of those stitches.  I thought about taking the border all the way around but wanted to make sure I was going to be able to check it is in the right place before I got too far ahead of myself.

Loneliness of Autumn came out next for it's June stitches.

6/7/25

 Yesterday, I met my June goal for Warrior Alice with 2050 tent/1025 full x stitches and 60.06% complete

Sea Witch came out next and I've met my June goal with 1042 tent/521 full x stitches for 37.91% complete.

Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler is out next.

6/3/25

 Goal met for M. Woods 1759 from Milady's Needle  with 535 stitches. 

Warrior Alice is out next.

6/2/25

 Goal met for Autumn Quaker from Rosewood Manor with 520 stitches.

5/30/25

 I've added 520 stitches to Chatelaine's Convent Herbal Garden which met my 2025 goal.

Next up is Autumn Quakers from Rosewood Manor. 

5/29/25

 Goal met for Celtic Snow from Northern Expressions Needlework with 590 stitches and 26.07% complete 

Up next is Chatelaine's Convent Herbal Garden.

5/28/25

 I've met my May goal for Loneliness of Autumn with 5688 tent/2844 full x stitches and 68.01% complete

Next out is Celtic Snow from Northern Expressions Needlework 

5/26/25

I've finished page 19 of Loneliness of Autumn from Love Thy Thread.   It is now 66.31% complete.

5/21/25

 I've met my goal on Louisa Coulimore with 827 stitches and I've complete the top three pages

Loneliness of Autumn is out now for its May stitches.

5/18/25

 I've met my May goal for Her Private Garden with 1122 tent/ 561 full x stitches and 4.67% complete. 

Next out is Louisa Coulimore from Hands Across the Sea. 

5/17/25

 I met my annual goal for Game of Swannes last night with 555 stitches added.

Her Private Garden is out next for its monthly stitches. 

5/15/25

 I've met my May goal for Heritage sampler with 799 stitches.  I so close to having this center portion finished other than the personalization that I will be adding.

Game of Swannes from Long Dog is out next.

5/13/25

I've completed my May goal for Sea Witch with  1126 tent/563 full x stitches.  It is now 37.55% complete.

Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler is out next.

5/12/25

 I met my goal on Warrior Alice Saturday.

But, I thought I was so close to finishing page 24, I thought it would be quick to bang out those stitches and move to the next project.  Ha!  1010 tent stitches later, Page 24 is complete.

Alice is now 58.68% complete.

Sea Witch is out next and most of the 1000 tent stitches will probably be in the black background.

5/4/25

I've met my 2025 Goal for Evening in the Park with 529 stitches.

Next out is SS Daybreak from HAED.  This is supposed to be one of my monthly pieces but I haven't touched it yet this year.  I'm going to see if I can catch up a bit.