Cats.....Finished!!

I am really pleased with how it came out! 

This little guy is my favorite...look at his cute little face!!!

Well, next up is my HAED Flower Bride project. I'm on page 2, which is only a partial page, so I'm expecting it to go rather quickly. We'll see how it goes! 

Hope you're all having a great weekend!  It's rainy and cool here, so purrfect weather to finish this cat piece!  Haha! 

See yah in about 5 days with an update in Flower Bride.

Sooo close!!

Last time:

Today:

I have 5 days to reach my goal due date for this one. And I think it may happen!!Just got to finish that huge white cat! And I hate stitching white on white, so it's gonna be a stretch! But I'm just gonna get it done!! Push strong for the finish line!! 

I'll see yah in about 5 days! 

Thank you for stopping in, and for all your lovely comments! They mean the world to me! 

More kitty progress

Last time I posted:

Today:

So I got another cat finished I just need to back stitch and started the last cat, but just a tiny bit on him. I'm really hoping to have this piece completely finished on the 25th, and that gives me 10 days, which I'm pretty sure I can accomplish.

I am really enjoying this one SO much, and I'm excited to see a finish, because that means.............a new start to fill this spot in my rotation!!!! 

And I've been thinking about either: 1) starting another HAED (Forget me Not to be exact) or 2) let my daughter pick another piece she'd like me to do. And she's already looked through and found another one that really wouldn't take me long, but I just can't decide. 

What do you think, readers? Do I keep it simple with another small cat piece for my kid, or do I go the selfish and slightly crazy route (considering I've already got three BAPs going now) and start my next HAED? 

Let me know what you think, and thank you all for stopping by. See yah in 5 days! 

Cats!

Last time I posted:

Today:

And here's a close up of the area I worked on the past 5 days:

So not bad! And good news is, my stitchy bug has come back out of hiding and I absolutely loved working on this project. I think I just needed a change of scenery so to speak. I really do hope to finish this piece up this month. I've only got to finish back stitching the large light brown cat and the white kitten on top of him, and then stitch two more cats. Then it'll be done and I can get it framed up for my daughter. 

Thank you for stopping by! 

I did it!!

I finished the page!! Right now, at 10 pm the 10th of June! Cutting it close, but I did it!

You know what that means? It's time to pull out HAEDs "Flower Bride". Yippee!!! 

I wonder if I can get a page finish on it by months end? Hmm... We will see! Wish me luck! 

See yah in about 5 days with an update on Flower Bride!

Cats- progress

Last time I posted:

Today:

I've only got to finish back stitch and the black and white cat will be done.

Where my needle is parked marks the page end, so I really don't have much more to go.  This cold has just been kickin my butt so not getting as much stitching in as I would like.

So! I'm really going to try hard to have a page finish by the next time I share this, in 5 days. Wish me luck! 

Hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Cats- More Progress!

Last time I shared (on the 26th) it looked like this:

Now about 6 days later it looks like this:

I was able to finish cat (kitten) #2, and start #'s 3 and 4.  When I have large areas of color I will often stitch in the outline and then fill in later. So it's easier. I don't have to worry about counting so much, but just filling in. Some of those chunks of black seem as if they just go on and on and ON! 

I've been sick with a chest cold this past week, so have been resting quite a bit, and am pretty happy with my progress this go around. I obviously did not make my goal of a page finish by months end, but oh well. 

I hope you are all doing well and had a lovely weekend! Have a great week! And thank you so much for taking time out of your day to read and comment! 

Happy Stitching!!

Cats progress

Last time it looked like this:

Now it looks like this:

So there's been progress. I've almost got the first cat done. Just gotta finish the back stitch on it then can move onto cat #2, which I've already got a few stitches in on already. I've also started cat #3 as I only needed two stitches of black for the first cats eyes, so just decided to put the rest of the strand into the third cat, who is mostly black.

I am a little disappointed in how slowly this is going. But this past weekend one of my reading groups online was having a read-a-thon so I spent the majority of my time reading instead of stitching over the long holiday weekend.

But I'm hoping to get lots of work on it this week, but I seriously doubt I'll be seeing a finish on this page by months end.

Thank you for reading! 

A new start!

So! The majority vote was for me to make a new start. So! I did! This is one my daughter asked me for months ago. She LOVES cats, and I had this book of cat patterns out because I was going through my stash trying to find something, and she saw it and asked me if I'd do this one for her. When completed it will look like this:

It's a really cute pattern. It's only 2 pages long. So I thought "this won't take long at all! I can stitch a cat each day and then finish the bottom row "cats cats cats" and be done in about 10 days....riiiiight. Best laid plans and all that.... Here's where I am:

In all honesty I really haven't put that much time in on it. Life has just been busy lately. We've been having some bad storms that had knocked out power for long stretches of time, that totally flooded our backyard making us fear that the water may get into our house. And then the lack of sleep when a storm rolls through every hour or so and wakes you up. There's just been a whole bunch of life things that seemed to get in the way of getting some solid stitching time in this past week. I would really love to have a page finish on this by months end, so that I can pull out my HAED piece and work on it starting next month. So... Wish me luck. Today is the last day of school so my large chunks of stitchy time will go bye bye for a bit... But hoping to still be able to make some good progress on my projects despite that. 

Thank you for reading and for leaving comments!! Joyful stitching!