11/29/25

 I've been remiss is keeping up with my progress for the last couple of weeks.

I've met my goal for Voodoo in Violet with 1138 tent/569 full x stitches and 2.6% complete

US Quaker Flag from the Vivster got 761 stitches and is now 6.6% complete

And I've been working on Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler for about the last week trying to get the central garden at the bottom of the sampler complete.  It took 2151 stitches but it is done.

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.

7/21/25

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.

 

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.

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.

4/7/25

 I got to spend lots of time this weekend with Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler and added 1573 stitches.

I'd planned on trying to finish this row but hit a wall and couldn't.  It will come out again in May.

Warrior Alice came out for her April progress.  I added 216 tent/108 full x stitches so far.

8/31/24

 It looks like I didn't update IL Bosco di Bengtsson.   I've added 587 stitches

Then I pulled out Loara Standish for 537 stitches.  I really wasn't looking forward to those flowers so I moved to the next band.   I'll come back to them next year.

Then I pulled out Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler and added 501 stitches.

Since September is also known as Sampler September,  I'm starting a few Samplers or sampler-ish pieces with a friend, so there will be some new starts.  I'm hoping September is also when I see the first of several 2024 finishes.

2/6/24

 I've picked up a couple of WIPs recently.   Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler got some stitches.  I havent mey my goal yet but I'll pull it out again and finish my stitches. 

Louisa Coulimore came out next and I've met my goal.

Louisa may come out again this year.  I'd like to finish the top half.

10/25/23

 My focus on finishing Master and Mermaid of the Deep SK seems to be tight enough that I'm struggling to focus on anything else.

I've met my goal on Celtic Snow

And I've picked Heritage Sampler back up for a little progress

Next was Plague Doctor

And today was Game of Swannes

At least I'm almost through all of WIPs so they're not hanging over my head.

1/31/23

 Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler has been out for progress towards my 2023 goal to finish.  I completed two more bands in the central part.

1/31/22

 

I got about halfway through the nest horizontal band and had enough for now.

Next up is Death By Cross Stitch by Long Dog Samplers. 

I reached my goal tonight with 1133 stitches added.  For now it will stay out while I work on finding the unicorn. 

1/25/22

 Goal met on Heritagr Sampler!  I'm going to continue on for now on the center charted bands.  Still working out the personalization.

 

1/17/21

 Heritage Sampler has been out for about the last week and last night I moved the qsnaps.

Right now, my plan is to continue down the right side to at last finish the alphabet and the borders around it.  From there, we'll see.

 

8/2/21

 I met my goal on Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler last night and was sad to put it away to work on some other goals. 

Sea Witch will be out for at last the next 100 days as I'm participating in the 2nd round of 100 days of HAED with the Stitchtalk HAED Challenges group on Facebook.   This is my starting point.

This is day 1 which was only 24 stitches since we had a family dinner and I wanted to finish my goal on Heritage Sampler.  But I made stitches!

3/3/2020

I think my stitchy bug has decided I've abandoned it since work has been crazy with a couple 80+ hour weeks at the end of February.  Such is the life in an accounting firm during tax season.

The little bit of stitching I've been doing has been hit and miss.  I have had trouble settling on any one piece of stitching to make any real progress on it.

I made some really nice progress on Cherry Hollow Farm Sampler by Stacy Nash, then got over the berries.

Then, I pulled out Celtic Snow from Norther Expressions and finished this corner.  Then didn't want to stitch on it any more.

Heritage Sampler from Chatelaine was up next.  I added a little then couldn't handle color changes.
Before:

After:

Then I pulled out Louisa Coulimore last night and added 60 stitches and felt pretty good about it so maybe there will be more tonight.

Page 25

I did manage to finish page 25 of Lust last week.  I put in a few stitches on Lust Sunday, but I decided to pull Polar out to be my focus for a few days.  I'm thinking about putting Polar away at the end of the month and working on He Came With the Rain from Unconventional XS.  The pages are small and I'm tenting so it would be a nice change from teeny tiny full x. Chatelaine's Heritage Sampler is also upstairs and may see some progress.  Someone on the Chatelaine Support group recently finished theirs and it's gorgeous!

7/23

 7/24

 7/25

7/26

7/27

7/28 - page 25 is finished!! 

7/29 

He Came With the Rain

Heritage Sampler

Decisions...

Since Photobucket is being a pain and wants to charge a lot of money to be able to use their photo sharing ability with blogger, I need to look for a new photo hosting service.  Does anyone have any suggestions?

Anyway,  I finally made it to the end of the row I was working on in Heritage Sampler.

At that point, I needed a change  of scenery so I pulled out Star Spangled Banner from Northern Expressions Needlework.  I finished the stripe I had been working on last time it was out and started the next white stripe.  I was having problems with stitch placement so I started the next red stripe.  At that point, I decided I'd had enough of all specialty stitches.

Yesterday, I'd also worked on finishing kitting up Chatelaine's Blue Moroccan Lace Mandala.

Here's what I've got.  My helper approved!

I hope to get a start on this tonight but there's baseball, so maybe.

One last bit...

Heritage Sampler is still out.  

Sunday, it was time to move the qsnaps.  I'm pretty sure what I'm adding to those blank rows, but have yet to work it all out and get it charted.

I'm ready to rotate, but I'm going to finish the two stitched rows, the vertical leaves and grapes and the column of alphabet, just like the other side, since that will meet my goal for this piece this year.