4/28/26

Goal met for Ann Roberts with 508 stitches.

Sarah Elizabeth Brooke is 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.

12/31/24

One last post for 2024.  

I added 1086 tent/ 543 full x stitches to No Place Like Home for 0.94% complete

Then, I picked up Ann Roberts from Hands Across the Sea and added 516 stitches.  I also frogged the light blue from the tulip and restitched it with a HDF Nightsmoke 5301.

My 2024 recap and 2025 plans posts will be coming soon. 

4/25/24

 Goal met for Ann Roberts with 528 stitches.

M. Woods is back out now to complete her goal.

5/3/23

 Ann Roberts from Hands Across the Sea came out after I met my goal on Mermaid of the Deep.  I was making really nice progress until I realized what appears to be white on the cover of the chart is actually a light blue.  Since it's used as the breast of a bird, a church and other places, I decided I need to stir my stash and come up with a replacement for that particular color which I didn't really want to do at that time.  So she got put away.  Here's my progress.

I'm hoping the next time she comes out, I'll be able to finish page 1 and meet my goal on her this year.

Sea Witch came out next to finish page 12 which is mostly black.  I've met that goal and it's now at 30.91% complete.

Master is back out for another 9000 or so tent stitches and it celebrates it's 10th birthday on 5/5.

3/13/23

 I didn't realize it has almost been a month.

So last post,  Ann Tobers was out for some love, resulting in 546 stitches.  Not a lot, but better than nothing.

Then, I took a trip to Orlando for work and needed something small.  If we hadn't worked so much, I would have gotten a lot more stitches but there were several days of no stitching.

Current progress

Now the Master is out for its monthly dose of love 

9/9/22

 Along with a lot of other stitchers, I've been thinking about 2023.  Since I use this blog as kind of a diary to see how far I've come on any particular project during the course of a year or since I started it, it's not hard to look back and think about what I want to accomplish in the coming year.

Right now, I'm thinking of pulling some of my oldest WIPs to focus on.  Loara Standish was started in 2013 as was The Master.  So, that's a sampler and a full coverage piece.  The Heritage Sampler is my oldest Chatelaine and I'm starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  If I leave the rest of my WIPs goals as just to be touched, I may be able to finish or make some very big progress.

I've joined the 2023 Focus on a Finish event with Full Coverage Fanatics on Facebook with The Master.  It's currently at 22.17% with 107170 stitches to complete.  This means, I would have to add at least 8931 stitches per month.  Since I'm stitching this one tent, that means only about 4466 stitches.  Totally doable, right?  That would leave me time to work on the other three WIPs.

Loara was started as a reversible sampler.  I've gotten hung up on trying to keep my pin stitches invisible on 56ct fabric.  I think I've decided to keep the front neat but not worry so much about the back since I don't even know how I'd frame it to show off the reversible stitching.  I think finished and on the wall is a better goal.

Right now, I'm still working on meeting my 2022 goals.  Will I meet them?  I think most of them.  I want to add 2 pages to Sea Witch and have only managed 21 stitches on it this year.  So that one is a maybe.  The rest of them are mostly to at least touch the WIP and add some stitches which is totally doable.  I have 9 WIPs that have that goal.  Wolf Totem has a goal of 500 stitches which is at worst just a few night's work.

I'm currently working on the last page of my goal on He Came With the Rain.  Hopefully, I can manage that in the next week or so.  Here's where I am now.

On 8/5, I started Ann Roberts from Hands Across the Sea.  She'd been whispering to me for a while so I'm not sure why we stalled out but here's my start

I'm working backwards here, but on 9/1 I started Playing With Jax by The Cricket Collection.  I had most of the DMC and borrowed a few I was missing from some other kits.  I'm still missing a couple even after a trip to Michaels.  Once I got to one of those colors, I kind of stalled on Jax too.  One of the colors, I substituted with one of the other called for DMCs.

Jane Fiddes has been out for a little love recently.

I have a few more starts planned for September.  And They Sinned by The Samplar Dames is kitted and ready along with The Smith Sampler, Sarah Elizabeth Brook and Jane Charlottle Wynn all by the Scarlett House.  Pour La Fete by Lindsay Lane Designs, MH 1656 by HATS and Alice Bierton by Samplers Remembered are in the same pile along with Promise To Heart from Tilton Crafts.  Best Friends from HAED is out too but that is slated for a December start.  I don't know what will or won't be started or worked on right now since making plans is a good way to not want to work on a particular project.  We'll have to play it by ear.