Started: 11/15/2024
Finished: 1/12/2025
This is part of an Emma Congdon design of nine ugly sweaters and can be found in Cross Stitcher Magazine #377.
It's
stitched as charted with the called for DMC floss on white 14-count plastic canvas.
It's now an ornament that will be given to the local Ronald McDonald House this coming Christmas.
I have joined WIPGO for the first time this year. If you're not familiar with WIPGO, it's a Bingo Board with 25 squares, #13 is a free square. You fill each square with something you want to work on and the owner of the group calls two numbers each month.
My board has 25 Mill Hill Christmas ornaments. All are new starts and the goal for each is to fully finish as an ornament.
The numbers for January were 11 and 20. Number 11 is Gingerbread Lass:
And number 20 is Santa Paws.
Started: 1/3/2025
Finished: 1/9/2025
Gingerbread Lass is a Mill Hill Beaded Holiday Kit and is stitched entirely with beads.
It's
stitched as charted with the materials provided. I did run out of the thread, but I was able to match it to some in my stash. It took so long to stitch because I miscounted in the very first row and after 6 rows, found the mistake and had to start over. That was just too many beads to frog.
She's going to be made into an ornament and given to the local Ronald McDonald House this coming Christmas.
The Fully Finished Gallery SAL was created by Rachel at Ten Hour Stitcher to encourage us to fully finish our projects instead of just storing
them in a drawer or box rarely to be seen again. Click on the link to
see more details and what other stitchers have posted.
My first two fully finished objects are Santa Paws from the Mill Hill Holiday Collection and Gingerbread Lass from the Mill Hill Beaded Holiday Collection. I added a hanger of leftover beads and backed them with shades of green felt.
The third and fourth objects were from Cross Stitcher Magazine #377 and designed by Emma Congdon and were stitched in 2024. Today, I added ribbon hangers and coordinating felt backings.
Started: 12/31/2024
Finished: 1/2/2025
Total Time: 6 hours and 32 minutes
Santa Paws is a kit from the Mill Hill Winter Holiday Collection.
It's stitched as charted with the provided materials.
It's going to be made into an ornament and given to the local Ronald McDonald House this coming Christmas.
It's time for another fun blog hop from Jo at Serendipitous Stitching.
This time it's an Easter Egg Hunt where you hop among the
participating blogs and keep track of the letters, which together spell
an Easter/Spring related word.
We're also supposed to show an Easter or Spring related stitch. I have
two. The first is one I stitched back in 2017.
The second one is my April square for my Furry Tales through the Year project.
And, now what you've all been waiting for: my letter is Y
and you'll find the final letter on Jo's blog
This was a less busy week than usual. No meetings except for the Small Group Thursday night, grocery pickup on Friday and church and dinner on Saturday. This is our group at Panera Bread on Saturday night. I'm the second from the front on the left and my daughter is the first one on the right.
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| As of 2/25/2024 |
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| As of 2/27/2024 |
Then on the 28th, I started a much larger project. This is Loving Kittens, but I'm just doing the cats themselves. It's part of the Realistic Cats & Kittens SAL for Q4OC and is due May 1st.
