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Happy WIP Wednesday! Time for an update on my current stitching project. This week I have been continuing my stitching on Pumpkinville.

This is my third year long stitch along with The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery and the second time it has spilled over into January. Obviously I understand there is no pressure to keep up with the monthly pattern releases, however I enjoy having a fully stitched piece to represent the year. Pumpkinville will still be my 2019 hallmark project, it just may take me the rest of January to finish stitching.

I hope this finds you well and enjoying life.
Thanks for checking in & happy stitching!

I’m hoping that 2020 will be a calmer and less emotionally draining year than 2019. With that hope in mind, I am making my plans for what I’d like to stitch in the coming year. This year should, hopefully, be a nice balance between active WIPs and new starts. I also have plans for getting some completed projects fully finished as well as some backend organization of projects, floss, patterns, etc.

2020 Stitching Plans

Active WIPS

Pumpkinville – 2019 Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery SAL, only 2 blocks to go!

Nutcracker Parade – 2019 Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery SAL

Year of Celebrations – 12 month series with four months left to stitch.

Thai Elephant

Spring Quilts

Moonstruck – Mill Hill kit with only the beading left

Bubba’s Memorial – a piece I designed to help process the grief of losing my beloved cat

New Starts

Teacup Banner – Small piece requested by Mom

Mighty Oak Quartet – Mill Hill series

Animal Almanac – 2020 Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery SAL

Midnight Owl – Mill Hill kit; challenged by my husband to complete before October

There will most likely be a sprinkling of small projects throughout the year as well, but I don’t plan those out.

Happy Stitching!

To say that I am glad 2019 is over would be an understatement. It was one of the most difficult years we (hubby & I) have faced together since the first year we were married. Thankfully, I had my stitching as therapy and hubby has his model trains. Unfortunately, illnesses and other tragedies created obstacles to my stitching, so I did not get as much stitching done as I had planned. However, I did have a few small finishes and many enjoyable hours stabbing fabric repeatedly with my needle 😂 Here’s an overview of the pieces I worked on in 2019:

Happy WIP Wednesday! Today I have a brief stitching update to share because in the last week and a half I haven’t stitched much of anything! Saturday before last I actually ended up having my husband take me to Urgent Care because of a very severe flare-up of my chronic back pain. Now I use the term flare-up frequently when referring to days when I have more stiffness, soreness, muscle spasms, and nerve pain than usual. This time the flare-up was more than what was bearable.

In any case, Urgent Care treated me excellently and gave me wonderful anti-inflammatories as well as a very short course of painkillers. While those medicines did help lower my pain level, they also lowered my consciousness level, as in I slept a lot. I did try periodically try to do some stitching, however, I was moving so slow and also making a lot of mistakes because of the brain fog.

Also, I wasn’t able to read any of my books or work on blog posts so it was a very frustrating week and a half. Yet not all things last forever and Monday morning arrived with me feeling better than I had in a while. So Monday I was able to get some housework done that had gotten laid to the wayside and that left room for me to pick up my stitching on Monday night and I have been working on Into The Jungle since then. I don’t have too many progress pictures to show but I have finished the rest of the block borders and have started on the June block.

My rotation for this month, just like last month, is going to be completely off. So I’m just gonna work on Into The Jungle until I feel like stopping and then move on to something else.

Well, that’s my stitching this week, thanks for checking in & happy stitching!

Happy Wednesday and welcome to another weekly update on my cross stitching. I hope this finds you well and enjoying life. This week I have been working diligently on Fabulous Women in History. This was the 2017 SAL from Cloudsfactory, but due to stash and monetary restraints, I had to wait until this year to get started. (more…)

Welcome back to another episode of Sunday’s Stitches & Stuff, a weekly chat about stitching and, well, other stuff. As I’m sure you are aware, based on the predominant content on this blog, cross stitching is my number one past time and there are three things I enjoy doing while I am cross stitching.

1. Enjoy the sounds of nature from my porch
2. Listen to music or audiobooks
3. Binge watch TV Shows.

It is the last item that I thought I would talk about today. (more…)