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.

1/24/26

 

Yesterday, I pulled out the personalization id started for Heritage Sampler and added it to my WIP.  I also started charting the next rows but didn't have it in me to start stitching them.  There's seven rows, room for a couple of lines at the bottom and beads to go.  I don't think I need to push to finish, so I'll probably just work one line per month for now.

I added a couple hundred stitches to Mirabilia's Snow Queen buy its all still just one color in her dress so not really worth showing.

Today, I've met my goal for Feathers in the Wind with 1048 tent/524 full x stirches and 18.93% complete.  It would only take another 200-ish stitches to finish the page, but I was ready to move on.  This one will probably become a monthly stitch next year so it'll get more progress.

3/26/25

 I've spent the last day or so working on Feathers in the Wind from Tilton Crafts.  This is one of my annual goals so it doesn't appear to be a lot of stitching but I added 1162 tent/581 full x stitches and it is now 18.11% complete

Sea Witch is out now to see how many stitches I can get towards three months worth of monthly goals.

8/28/24

 I've added 1186 tent / 593 full x stitches to my original goal this year.  This is now 17.2% complete.

Hawaiian Garden Mandala is up next.

4/24/24

 Last night, I met my goal for Feathers in the Wind with 1202 tent/602 full x stitches.   She's  ow at 16.27% complete. 

Since I'm making my way through my goals so quickly, I'm hoping to be able to complete them and start making my way through them again.

Ann Roberts is next.

4/22/23

I've met my goal for Hawaiian Garden Mandala with 659 stitches

Feathers in the Wind is out now

6/28/23

 Feathers in the Wind (OOP) from Tilton Crafts was out and got about 1000 tent stitches.  I'm looking forward to getting back to the girl and her cello.

Then instead of pulling out another WIP I haven't touched yet this year, Playing With Jax is back.  It was just whispering and isn't too far off from a finish.  As of today, I've almost finished pumpkin 4/5 and hope to get most of #5 done tonight.  I would love to be able to clear off another WIP from my list.  Fingers crossed!

6/25/22

 I finished page 3 of Feathers in the Wind from Tilton Crafts after about four years of struggling with the white at the top. 

Love how the hair turned out!

6/22/22

I finished page 8 of He Came With the Rain 6/17/22

 Feathers in the Wind from Tilton Crafts came out Friday for an event with Full Coverage Fanatics on Facebook.   I've struggled with the big area of white on the white fabric for the last couple of years.  This year, I've managed to power through it and start hair.

My goal for this year was just to add stitches.  I'm now hoping to finish the page by this weekend so I have a couple of days for another WIP before a new start on 7/1.

8/12/19

Feathers in the Wind from Tilton Crafts got some love this week.  Not much, but a couple of strands of 3865 across the top of page 3.

And there was a page finish!!

Page 11 of Earth Song

and my son's stocking got some love.

7/29/19

I pulled Convent Garden back out for a quick picture.  

Saturday, I pulled my son's stocking back out and added 1500 stitches to it over two days.  This is the last overall picture.  You can almost see the outline of the stocking in Sulky metallic. 

And here is my progress when I put it back in my bag to take to work. 

I'm still making progress on Earth Song too.  I'm moving faster on it since I've moved out of the wolves. 

Yesterday, I started thinking about my goals for this year and the WIPs that haven't been touched.  So I pulled one that I just wanted to add some stitches to and will probably do just that one night this week.

Here's my starting point on Tilton's Feathers in the Wind

Two more goals met!

I hope all my readers had a great weekend!  Mine was a little busy with a birthday but I still managed to meet two more of my goals.

This WIP turned 15 Saturday

Love that kid!

Saturday, I finished page 2 of Tilton's Feathers in the Wind.

It then went back in with all the other WIPs and Loara Standish came back out.  Sunday, I finished band 3.  And since I'm a little crazy and stitching this pretty girl reversibly on 50ct Kingston, here are the 

front

and back

Loara is still out and I'm working on band 4 which is all double running stitch.

Progress

Did anyone get a good view of the eclipse yesterday?  We live in the area of totality and the sky ended up being very cloudy so we couldn't see the eclipse itself but the 360 degree sunset was interesting.  I'm very glad I took yesterday off from work too since we live in a little village in the country and the highway was packed.  The interstate to the north was a madhouse.  No thank you!

Instead, I got to do way more cooking than I generally do since my in-laws came up for the eclipse.  I did get some stitching done though.  This is page one of He Came With the Rain from UnconventionalXS.  That bottom right corner starts to see the girl's headwear and was all confetti.  The rest of it wasn't too bad though.

Saturday morning, I pulled out Feathers in the Wind from Tilton Crafts.  I think I made some huge progress!  Here's before

And here's my progress as of last night

I LOVE tent with large blocks of color!

Feathers

Feathers in the Wind is still out and I have almost finished page 1!

I'm hoping to get this done tonight so I can get away from the greys and purples for a bit.  I'm planning on pulling out SS Daybreak, Her Private Garden or even Lust to work one annual goal or another.  I have poblano peppers that I need to do something with though.  I made pepper relish with the fooled you jalapeno peppers I picked Tuesday. I may just end up making a spicier version over the next couple of nights.

Monday, Monday

It's another dreary, rainy Monday here.  Hopefully that quits soon since DS#1 has his last football game of the season tonight.  My in-laws have come up for this one and since they're here, my DH is actually going to go.  Gotta act like a parent sometimes!  Since they came up yesterday, a lot of my stitchy time last week and definitely last weekend were sucked up by house projects and cleaning.  Progress on Feathers in the Wind was made though.

Hopefully, I'll be able to pull off another page finish and rotate to something with more color than greys and purple.

It's supposed to freeze this week so we're probably going to have to pick the garden one last time.  I have bell peppers to cut and freeze, fooled you jalapenos to make into something, serranos that I won't touch and a couple others to figure out.  We might just pick them all and spread them out on the kitchen table so I can get an idea of whats there.  I might make cowboy candy out of the jalapenos.  I hear great things about it.  So, maybe.

Page 3 finish and a new start

First,  thank you for your comments.  Alicia, The Crafty Princess, you made my morning.  Thank you!  The Tilton new start SAL was an event with the Facebook group Cross Stitch and Discuss.

During the last week, I made pretty good progress.  I finished page three of The Master.

I debated about sticking with him since there is only about a page and a half left in this row.  In the end, I went ahead with my plans to join the Tilton new start SAL.  I chose Feathers in the Wind

This weekend was busy so I didn't make a lot of progress.  I wasn't really feeling her either.  I may just put her away for now and pull out another WIP so I can work on one of my 2016 goals.  I'll probably be debating that until I get a chance to stitch tonight.  I've got a short to do list when we get home tonight that will probably take a couple of hours so I've got some time to think about it.

Here's my current progress on her.

I've almost made it across page one and am about 20 stitches down the page.

Update on Tilton's The Master

Last night saw me creeping up on a page finish on Tilton's The Master.

I'm hoping another evening or two will get me there.

Yesterday, I pulled and zigzagged fabric for a new start SAL in the Facebook group Cross Stitch and Discuss.  It's for a new Tilton start on September 30.  I have all the floss already.  It's not bobbined yet, but I may just bobbin what I need as I need it.  I haven't really felt like bobbining thread.  I chose to do Feathers in the Wind since I already had the chart.

While I had the sewing machine out, I also zig zagged fabric for Charting Creations The Forgotten since I think it will be my New Years start for 2017.

Is it wrong to be thinking about a New Year's start already??