A Christmas small finish!

In March I totally dropped the ball when it came to blogging, and for most of April too. So I still have to catch up on March updates. 

In March I was able to finish stitching this cute little Christmas ornament.  I’m now working on the next piece in the series, which are two raccoons decorating a Christmas tree. I’ll share progress on it in a few days. 

Thank you for reading! And happy Stitching! 

“The Gaze” progress

Here’s my progress on The Gaze for this month. 

You can see where I’d started at the beginning of the month here:

I used this piece for the By the Numbers SAL 2400 stitches for the month of April. Wow! 2400 stitches really amps up the progress. You can see the wolf’s first ear all finished. I really enjoy working on this project so much. 

Thank you for reading! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend filled with stitches!! 

April progress on Flower Bride

Here’s my progress on Flower Bride for the month of April. I used it as my  1200 By the Numbers SAL piece in the Full Coverage Fanatics group on Facebook. I was able to finish page 3 and get almost half way finished with page 4!  I’m pretty happy with that progress! 

Happy Stitching and thank you for reading!

Progress on Flower Bride

Emerald Forest February progress

I am really happy with the amount of progress I was able to get done on this in February. I worked on this for the 1200 By the Numbers Challenge for the Full Coverage Fanatics group on FB. I got the entire eye done!! I really enjoy working on this one! 

Thank you for reading, and hope you have a wonderful stitch filled day!

A Sneak Peek into my March rotation

Because I work on so many HUGE pieces, I enjoy working with a rotation.  Since I have joined the "Full Coverage fanatics' group on FB I find that I have to change things up every month, in order to meet the criteria for various themed SALs, which is fine. Variety is the spice of life....or something like that, right?

So, for this month my rotation looks like this:

1st-24th Mermaid's Tale (goal is 2400 stitches, to meet the Large By The numbers challenge for FCF group)
1st-12th Winter Rose (goal is 1200 stitches, to meet the small By the Numbers challenge for FCF group)

13th-14th- Ornament (Just to get a tiny break from working on the Big projects)
15th-31st Flower Bride (goal is 1000 stitches to meet the "Vintage themed SAL for FCF group)
24th-31st- Ornament (Hope to finish this. It's about half way finished thus far)

So, the idea is to work everyday on my Challenge pieces the first part of the month, 100 stitches on each a day, until I've reached the goal. Then I switch and work on my ornament or my themed SAL piece at the end of the month.

I'm hoping this works better for me and helps me not end up cramming like crazy to get the challenge pieces done by months end. So, even if I run a little over on my "deadline date" I still have some wiggle room to keep working on them before the end of the month.

Now I need to work out a posting schedule for this blog. I used to try to post on the 5's of the month, but somehow things just kinda fell apart....ugh...anyway. or maybe just post when I finish my goal for each piece for the month? I don't know... I would do "WIP Wednesday", and post progress on all of them on Weds. I don't know....we'll have to see.

I hope whatever your goals may be for the month (if you set them) that you are able to reach them, and enjoy the feeling of reaching goals that you set. If you're not all crazy OCD like me, and just enjoy stitching whatever, whenever, with no set goals I hope you enjoy every stitch you put in and you enjoy your progress.

And let me know in the comments....are you a goal setter? Or are you a fly by the seat of your pants kinda stitcher?
Have a wonderful stitch filled week!

WIP line up for March

Flower Bride 

Winter Rose 

Mermaids Tale 

Here’s my progress on Winter Rose

I will also be trying to finish an ornament. I’m about halfway done with it, and I shouldn’t take very long to finish it up. 

So we will see how much progress I get done on these this month. Wish me luck!