My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/15/25

Good Morning Everyone! I hope you had a wonderful week. I had a pretty great week that included a bunch of stitching.  

It feels like it is summer here though we still have about six weeks of spring to get through. We are in the 100s every day now. We are going into monsoon season as well!  I just wish monsoon season meant that we would get a good old fashion thunderstorm like we used to get in Chicago. I certainly miss those. Here in Tucson it seems like a bunch of rain will fall quickly, then it will just stop. It doesn't really cool anything off since the rain is so quick.

So this week I worked a few days on the Winter SAL, Dark Nights. I am on last two lines of text but I need to go back and do some more back stitching. Not sure what I will do with this piece but I am leaning towards a pillow for the couch or a chair during the holiday season.

Winter SAL, Dark Nights

Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa
 Added 276 stitches

After that I thought that my 2024 Blackwork SAL could use a little love on it so I pulled it out and got busy. I got in quite a few stitches on it ~ yay!

Annual Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple

Designer - Clare

I added 416 (832) stitches to this one.

Well, I found three out of the four Christmas ornaments I need for this year. Unfortunately there were not in a set but they all came from the World of Cross Stitching magazine. I am going to try to sketch the fourth one out on my own. It doesn't seem like what I need will be to hard; we will see how I do.  Anyways, I may start those tomorrow so I can get them out of the way and not franticly trying to finish them at the last minute! 

So that is all for this week. 

Thanks, as always, for stopping by to see what I am up to. 

Hope to see you again next week!

Until then don't forget to

stitch, stitch, stitch!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/08/25

Good Evening, Friends! I hope you had a wonderful week and got in lots of stitches. I enjoyed a nice and relaxing week! YAY!

So anyways... I stitched on my Halloween piece, Spooky & Sweet this week. Hopefully, I will have it finished by Halloween this time! LOL

Spooky & Sweet

Fat Quarter Shop

Added 325 stitches

After I finished with that one for the week I decided to move to the Autumn Seasonal Quilt. The little quilt squares are so easy to stitch since it’s the same pattern for each one, but they are also very time consuming since they are so tiny.

Seasonal Quilts - Autumn

Susan Powell of Laurel Susan Studio

I added 452 stitches to this.

So that is all I stitched for the week, just two pieces. All I could think was how nice to not change pieces each day. Nice and relaxing and no pressure to move on to another piece! 

Thanks for stopping to check out my stitching.

I appreciate you looking and leaving comments.

So have an awesome week

and keep those needles smoking!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 06/01/25

Welcome! It looks as though today is going to be a quick post. 

We have been having temperatures in the high 90s and are in serious need of RAIN! They keep saying it is coming but I don't see any. 😕 Nothing worth talking about has really been going on here, except some stitching! 

We played a game during one of our stitching get-togethers and it was fun! Even more fun because I won! LOL We played the game called Stitch-opoly. It is a game based on Embroidery and Cross Stitching based on the ever-popular game of Monopoly. I don't think they make this game anymore based on the eBay prices but one of the ladies in our group got it locally for pretty cheap. Plus, since it was local there were no postage prices tacked on. So anyways, we had a fun time playing and I am sure we will play again and I am looking forward to it.

This week I stitched on the Mason Jar Lineup from Dimensions. I have not taken this out of the WIP Box since 2024 and before that it was 2022. So, I think it was time! LOL

Mason Jar Lineup

Dimensions

Designer - Barb Tourtillotte

Added 240 stitches to the mason jars

 

After I finished working on the jars, I pulled out the Penguin Ice Slide. I think that once I finish this, I will make it into a birthday card for Jacob and he can add the penguin to his collection.

Penguin Ice Slide

Daily Cross Stitch

I added 297 stitches to the ice.


And that is that on the stitching front! 

I enjoyed only stitching on a few pieces. I felt that I was able to really get in some stitches for a change. So, I can feel another change coming on as to what to stitch. No more acrostics or lists; just

ENJOYMENT!

Thank you so much for stopping by!

Have a wonderful week and 

please stay well and safe and don't

forget to take some time for yourself!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 05/25/25

Afternoon Everyone! I hope you are doing great! We have busy here at my house; doing house stuff...yuck!  It is a pain but it has to be done; day after day; month after month and year after year. The temps here are very warm and being that this is only May I think the heat is a little early this year, though I am not complaining about it! 😎 Looks like it will be a hot summer!

Anyways I did get some stitching in. First I continued working on The Flower A Day on Sunday. I didn't get in to many stitches but I did get in a few.

The Flower A Day
Carolyn Manning

added another 34 stitches

Then I planned on working on the Gnome's Hat. Let's just say it was an adventure from the start but I finally got the stitches where they were supposed to go and the hat is almost ready!

Gnome Place Like Home

Rhona Norrie Designs

Rhona Norrie

put in 104 stitches for his hat

Then it was time for the Quilt Block Sampler. I am really trying to get this piece finished. I am trying to get it in whenever I can so I can add more stitches to it. I have been working on this piece for a very long time and it is time to hang it on the wall. 

Quilt Block Sampler

Stitching the Night Away

Loretta Oliver

  added in 184 stitches!

And that was all the stitches I put in this week between house stuff, a birthday celebration and everyday stuff. Now I am going to go work on some Dinosaurs for a bit before dinner.

Thanks for stopping by and until we meet again, stay safe and out of trouble!

My Sunday Stitchy Update 05/18/25

Hello Everyone!

I hope you are having a wonderful week.  The weather here is absolutely gorgeous, it feels like summer already. I had another week of stitching this and that so let me show you what it amounted to! 

First up was Faith Over Fear. It is kind of hard to see because of the light colors I am using on white fabric. I know, it's really not a good color combo but I didn't give it a thought when I picked the colors.

Faith Over Fear

Daily Cross Stitch .com

Added 120 stitches on the 12th

Then late afternoon on Tuesday I met a friend at the mall for some stitching and decided that I would take the I Stitch Sampler with me. I wanted to get some of those flowers in the bottom corner added. 

I Stitch Sampler

Rhona Norrie Designs

Rhona Norrie

Put in 102 stitches on 05/13/25

Next up is one that can be a little difficult sometimes, One Hundred Days of Tiny. The squares are pretty tiny and sometimes the more intricate designs are hard to get it all in that square in a nice and neat way. I often complete the square, then take it out, then do it over again; sometimes more than once!

One Hundred Days of Tiny

The Steady Thread

I ended up with 128 stitches after all that.

Then to wrap up the week of stitching I decided to work on a cheerful piece, The Flower A Day. I always think of this piece as a beautiful explosion of flowers and colors. 

The Flower A Day

Carolyn Manning

I added 115 stitches to this piece.

And that was all I stitched for the week. Not many stitches, only 500 but I am happy for those. It was a rough week but now we are moving in to a new week, so hopefully it will be a much better one. 

Thank you everyone for stopping by to see what's going on here.

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I really appreciate all of you.

Have a wonderful week and 

please stay well and safe and don't

forget to take some time for yourself!

So until next week
keep that needle moving!

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My Sunday Stitchy Update 05/11/25

I am so sorry about the mix up with the posting. Seems like I have been a little forgetful lately. I will post this on Monday so there is a little separation between the posts.


So this week I got in a bunch of stitching and I hope you will enjoy the pictures.

I started this week off with Nintendo. All I can say about this one is so much green and trees, Trees, TREES! I have a long way to go before they are finished!

Nintendo

Contra

Armada Designs

145 stitched added to the trees!

The next thing I worked on was the Winter SAL, Dark Nights. I did a lot of outlining/backstitching on it this time. I don't like the backstitch on the last line I was working on that says Warm Mittens, so I will be taking that out and finding a different color. 

Winter SAL, Dark Nights
Stitchonomy

Designer - Alyssa

Added 183 stitches

After that I pulled out my Blackwork SAL. Right now I am working on the corners on this piece. 

Annual Blackwork SAL

Peppermint Purple
Designer - Clare
 
Added 201 stitches in the corners.

That brings us to Friday, finally! The day I get together with my stitching friends to do some talking and stitching; though usually more of the talking part. But what a great time we have even if we don't put in a single stitch! I decided to take my Autumn Seasonal Quilt with me because it doesn't take to much concentration, yet. If you are interested, these charts are available in the Just Cross Stitch magazines if you read it. 

Seasonal Quilts - Autumn

Susan Powell of Laurel Susan Studio

Just Cross Stitch Autumn 2024

 

The quilt is taking forever and ever to finish!

Put in 152 stitches to the quilt.

Now I decided to see what I could do with The Enchanted Christmas Snowman. It needs lots and lots of stitches and I will get there eventually! I need to live in a world where I have all the time in the world to stitch! Maybe one day... in the meantime I will start with these 65 stitches for today. 

The Enchanted Christmas Snowman

Heaven and Earth Designs

Artist - Dona Gelsinger

And that finished up the stitching for the week! 

I did give my daughter her bookmark today for
Mother's Day along with a couple of books she wanted.

For Mother's Day a friend of mine, Margie (no blog) painted something for all the ladies in our stitching group. Everyone received a picture of the mountains surrounding Tucson. They all looked magnificent. 

This picture is the one I received. Tucson is surrounded by mountains, which actually makes us a Valley. This is a section of the mountains called Sentinel Peak. 

*This is a historic site below this 2,900-foot peak, the Santa Cruz valley was farmed by the Hohokam Indians as early as 800 AD. When the Spaniards arrived in the 17th century, the Hohokam had vanished and settlements of Piman (this section of Tucson is now called Pima County) people dotted the valley. One settlement called "Schuk-Shon," meaning "at the foot of the black mountain," was pronounced "Tuk-Son" by the Spaniards. The hill was a lookout for these early Indian and Spanish settlers, who lived in fear of hostile raiders. The white washed stone "A" was constructed by University of Arizona students in 1915.

**Sentinel Peak, also known as “A” Mountain, is a prominent landmark, hiking trail, park and sunset-watching destination in the Tucson Mountains on the west side of Downtown Tucson. Every day, hundreds of people walk, bike and drive on Sentinel Peak Road, which climbs and encircles Sentinel Peak Park. The 2,897-foot mountain is made up of several layers of igneous rock representing various types of volcanic activity, though the mountain itself is not a volcano. Sentinel Peak and the surrounding Santa Cruz Valley have a rich archaeological history dating back over 4,000 years. The area’s first inhabitants grew crops at the mountain's base along the Santa Cruz River, which is known as Tucson’s birthplace. Sentinel Peak was used as a lookout and for signal fires by native Americans prior to and since 1692 and later by early settlers as well as soldiers during the Civil War. The "A" was built by University of Arizona (UA) students in 1916. Every year, UA students and alumni kick off Homecoming festivities with a ceremonial lighting of the “A” on the mountain. 

*copied from the City of Tucson, Arizona, Sentinel Peak Park page. 

**copied from Visit Tucson.

Well I think that is enough for today! I hope that I didn't bore you to much! 

Thank you so much for stopping by

and I hope you will return next week!

I hope you have a enjoyable week.

Take care and stay safe.