Update on The Gaze

 

Here’s where I am on my 20 in 20 Challenge piece. I love how his face is really taking shape. 

So far, this month I’ve put in 1525 stitches (my goal is 1860) 

As far as yearly, I have put in 13,178 stitches so far.  So I think I’m on track for reaching this goal on time so far. 

This is my favorite piece to reach for right now. I just love how it’s stitching up, the colors, my fabric is perfect, there’s a perfect blend of large chunks of color vs. confetti to keep it just interesting enough without being overwhelming. I just LOVE this project SO much! 

Hope you’re all having a great week, thank you for stopping by, and I’ll be back again soon with another update. 

Happy stitching everyone! 

Ornament update

 

This one is working up pretty quickly. It’s a cat, wearing a Santa hat, with a blackbird on its tail. I have about 83 more stitches to go before reaching my goal on this piece for this month. (Goal is 600 stitches)

Well my kid started back to school yesterday. She’s doing homeschooling in the mornings and goes in to school in the afternoon for science and arts, so she has less exposure to the outside world than if she went to school 40 hours a week, she’s only there 15 hours a week. So that’s a good thing. 

I hope you are all having a good week and happy stitching!!

Update on “Wish You were Here

 

Wow! That photo is huge...anyway, I’ve gotten just a little over 1000 stitches in for this National Park Challenge piece. So less than 3000 to go! 

Have a great weekend! Thank you for stopping by! Happy stitching!

Spring quilts update

 

Here’s how it looks now:

Here’s how it looked the last time I shared this here, on May 8th:

It’s really coming along. This months goal of 600 stitches on this is almost done! I have about 85 more stitches to hit that goal. Then I’ll focus my time on my ornament. 

Next up I’ll be sharing progress on Wish You Were Here which is my last National Park Challenge piece for the year. 

Thank you for stopping by, and for leaving comments. I love them so much! 

Hope you have a great week!

Happy stitching!!

August Goals

I did Amazing with my monthly goals for July! I did everything on my list!! That has not happened in a VERY long time!! 

Do we will see if I can do it again this month! 

So! For stitching goals I’d like to: 

- put 1860 stitches into The Gaze (my 20 in 20 challenge piece)

- put 1860 stitches into Wish You Were Here (my 5th and final National Parks Challenge piece)

- put 600 stitches into my Ornament 

- put 600 stitches into Spring Quilts

- Put 1200 stitches into Mermaids Tale for the Monthly Around the World SAL in the Full Coverage Fanatics group. (Every month they give us a country and we put in as much progress as we’d like on a piece that goes with that country, somehow.)

So we shall see how this goes. It’s the 5th of the month and so far I’m on Track on all those goals. 

Well I’m off to clean up after dinner and then settle in with a book.  It’s rainy here so ...I love curling up with a good book when it’s dark and rainy out. 

Thank you for stopping by! Hope you have a wonderful week! And I will see you soon! 

The Gaze update

Yes!!! Another page finish!! So exciting! I’m still on track to get 20,000 stitches in on this by years end. This has been a great stitchy month!! 

Thank you for stopping by!! Happy stitching everyone!!

I have a finish!!

I finished my ornament this morning! I’m really happy to have this one done. And super excited to start the next one in the series: it’s a cat wearing a Santa hat, and it’s really cute!! 

I started this one on March 8th and finished it today- July 21st. Which I was hoping to finish it by the end of April, but oh well. My last one took over 6 months to complete, I believe, but who’s counting? 

I think a few posts ago I explained that I was cutting back in my challenge pieces, allowing me more time to work on my non challenge pieces as well as work on some other hobbies that I enjoy. And it really seems to be working out well. I’m putting a lot more time into my ornament and my Quilt piece. I have not met my monthly goal on either of these pieces until now. So, I think I was just stressing too much over meeting challenge goals, and while trying to reach goals is fun (for me) when it comes to hobbies sometimes yah just have to not be so hard on yourself. 

I hope you are all staying healthy and safe and getting lots of stitches in! Thank you for stopping by and I’ll see yah next time!