4/1/26

 Sadly, PTO is over so what feels like massive progress is over too.

I've completed my goal for Come Into My Garden from Blackbird Designs with 509 stitches

my goal for Sarah Redfearn from The Scarlett House with 508 stitches

and Ann Tong Uffindel with 546 stitches

I also reached my minimum goal for a new start for Pledge of Allegiance with 554 stitches

Today, I'll start April with Harriet Godhard.

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.

3/31/24

I met my goal on Sarah Redfearn with 617 stitches.  Sadly, I didn't complete the border but I did find a corner.

The with some time left in March, I started Ms Gothica II from Tilton Crafts 

And I've added 1232 tent stitches for 1.01% complete.

Now to decide which of my monthly goals will be stitched first.  It'll probably be He Came With the Rain but I'm going to sleep on it.

8/16/23

On 8/11/23 for World Cross Stitch Day, I started Serenity Harbor from By The Bay Needlearts.  It's stitched on 40ct HDF linen with DMC

I probably would have made it further, but I needed to move it on the qsnaps to center it but then it just came off to rotate to Sarah Redfearn from The Scarlett House.

I didn't make a huge amount of progress, but the flowers in the border are finished for the first page so the next time it's out, I should be able to finish it.

I've added 716 stitches to Mermaid of the Deep SK to complete my monthly stitching goal.  She's now 76.1% complete.

Now, Polar Mandala from Chatelaine is out.  I'm still working on that over one center and am considering adding part 1 to my planned 2024 finishes.

 

9/20/22

 Progress on Sarah Redfearn

I also have He Came With the Rain out, adding stitches here and there, as I still want to finish the page to meet my goal this year.

And Alice Bierton 1885, started 9/17/22.

This is as far I as I got on Alice since she's on 56ct.

Autumn Quakers is out now for some stitches.  

I don't know how long Autumn Quakers is out or what is next.  It will be a surprise. 

9/14/22

 I started Sarah Elizabeth Brooke 1842 from The Scarlett House on 9/10/22.  Those over one stitches got me.  I was making awesome progress then ran into the verse.  If most of page 1 was house or something other than verse, she'd probably still be out. 

For now, she's started and could come out for some love any time.

Sarah Redfearn, also from The Scarlett House came out next.  I wasn't sure how much progress I would make before I moved on, but she's still out and I'm enjoying working on her.

Progress to last night.

I would like to finish the flowers I've started in the border and the vase of flowers.  For now, though, I'm playing it by ear.

I have chosen my next start though.  Alice Bierton from Samplers Remembered is ready to go when I'm ready to rotate.  I made a working copy of the chart this morning.

11/7/21

 Oops!  It's been a minute.

Here's where I ended #outofthestashatlast2021 with Sarah Redfearn 

After I put Sarah away, I went back to Eva

To take a short break from Eva I picked up Hawaii.  I've finished the third volcano and started on the 4th and I'm hoping to finish it in the next week or so.  

Then Eva will come back and will hopefully be finished by the end of the month.

10/21/21

 

For week 2 of #outofthestashatlast2021 I pulled out a kit I picked up at an estate sale a few years ago.  This is A Rosey Garden by The Shepherd's Bush.   I stitched it with the kits silks and fabric.  She was a start and a finish on 9/16/21.

Since I finished A Rosey Garden so quickly, I went back to Eva from Nora Corbett for more progress.

For week 4, I pulled out the chart and called for silks for Sarah Redfearn 1826 from The Scarlett House