The Gaze progress in January

I was able to get my first page finish on this piece, and I got down to the wolf, so I can work on another color other than orange! Yippie!!  

I worked on this for the “By the Numbers 2400 stitches” SAL in the Full Coverage Fanatics Facebook group. I got exactly 2400 stitches in on it! I’m really pleased with this progress. 

Thank you for stopping in, I hope you all have a wonderful week, and those in North America are staying warm! Be careful out there!! And as always, Joyful Stitching!!

Emerald Forest update as of the first of February



Here is where I was at with Emerald Forest, after working on it in the month of January.
I really enjoy working on this piece. I hope to get 1200 stitches in on it this month.

Thank you for reading!

(Sorry if this post looks a little wonky. I’m posting from my phone and I’ve never done it before, so I hope it all comes out ok. )

First finish of the year!!

As promised here is the ornament I was working on the first half of the month, I was able to get it finished!  So, now since it is the second half of the month, I will be working on Flower Bride for the four days of the week that I was working on my ornament. 

Thank you so much for stopping by! Happy stitching!!

January WIP list

Here are the projects I'll be working on this month:

 "Flower Bride"

"The Gaze"

Here's where I am on this one:

"Wish You Were Here"

Here's where I'm at with this one:

I'm also working on an ornament, which I will share in my next post.  Thank you for reading! I'll be back soon for an update! 

Joyful stitching!

A HUGE finish!!

"Day Surrendering to Night"

By: Kustom Krafts

Total of 44,522 stitches

Stitched on 18 count aida

started Feb. 1st 2014 Finished Dec. 6th 2018

Took approximately 500 hours to complete

Happy New Year!! 

I am really hoping to get back into this blogging thing seriously again this year. (I don't set resolutions, but I do set goals, and this is one of my goals for the year.) 

Just wanted to share this. I finished this on December 6th. It was one of my yearly goals for last year, to finish this, as I'd started it almost 5 years ago! But it kept getting pushed aside for other projects. But 2018 was the year I really wanted to have it done! And I made that goal! 

2019 will not be a "huge project" finishing year, as I started way too many new pieces last year for that to happen. I am shooting for one BIG finish, (Flower Bride, by HAED) as I am almost half way finished with it, so think I may see a finish on it. Though I am counting on a lot of page finishes, which, to anyone who is a full coverage stitcher, each page finish feels like a mini finish. 

I am also going to be working on my Christmas smalls again this year. I had taken a long break from them, but decided that with all these huge projects in the works, I wanted to try to get some smalls in here and there, just to break it up a bit. 

I thank you for dropping in, if you have stuck in there with me even with my huge break from blogging last year. It was completely unintentional, just life gets in the way sometimes. But I am really going to try to get back into it, full throttle again this year. I find that I tend to post at FB a lot more, simply because it's so much easier. But, I do love writing, so am going to try to get back into this. 

There is just one snafu that may lead to my having to stop working on this blog, and that is in August, my husband will be retiring, and we will be moving to Alaska, so things are gonna change ALOT, and so I'm not sure how consistently I'll be able to keep up posting here once that happens, but we will see. I'll give it my best shot! 

Thank you all for stopping in, and reading, I hope you have a great week, and I will see you again very soon! Until then...Joyful Stitching!! 

 

Progress on Emerald Forest

This is my progress at the end of October. I started this on March 1st for a SAL at the Full Coverage Fanatics group on FB. I really enjoy working on this piece. I love tigers. I just think this is so beautiful! 

“Emerald Forest “

By Kustom Krafts 

Hope you are having a great week! And happy stitching!! Thank you for dropping in!

November ALREADY?!?!

Well, this year is quickly coming to a close, and I have blogged all of 9 times so far this year! What is wrong with me?! I’m still stitching like crazy, just never quite feel like signing in and updating the ole blog.

This year has been a year of crazy starts. For me, at least, because I’m a full coverage stitcher, so all my projects are VERY big, and take a VERY long time to finish!  (2+ years a piece) so I normally just have three pieces going at a time in a rotation that allows me to see pretty good progress. However, this year I joined a wonderful Facebook Group called “Full Coverage Fanatics”... Where they have challenges and SALs galore!! And not wanting to miss out on all the variously themed SALs, I found myself with a BUNCH of new starts this year! (What’s a girl to do?!)

So, here are some of the beautiful pieces I started this year. Mind you, this is what they’ll look like completed. So, here we go: