Mermaid Tale and monthly wrap up

 Here is the piece I worked on for the “Around the World” monthly SAL for the Full Coverage Fanatics group at Facebook. Our country this month was Japan. How I tied this in to meet that prompt was that my daughter was born in Japan while we were stationed there with the military. She was born in February, and so her birth stone is Amethyst which is a purple stone....and as you can see there is purple for daaaays in this one! 

Starting point:

I was able to get 1202 stitches in on this piece for this SAL. So I met my goal of 1200 on this one.

Speaking of goals, I hit every goal I set for this month AGAIN! 2nd month in a row!! 

Here are the numbers:

The Gaze: goal 1860, I stitched 1894

Wish You Were Here: Goal 1860, I stitched 1862

Mermaids Tale: Goal 1200, stitched 1202

Ornament: goal 600 ✔️

Spring Quilts: goal 600✔️

I also just today joined the Full Coverage Fanatics Tour de France event. So started working on Moonlight Bay for that and put 254 stitches into it this morning. 

So! Definitely had a GREAT stitchy month! 

I hope you had a great stitchy month in August and good luck on any goals you may have for September. 

Thank you for stopping by, and happy stitching!! 

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!