Mes: junio 2021

So I have a finish! More like an FFO. June Sampler by Country Cottage Needleworks. Stitched on 16 ct beautiful beige Aida by Witchelt and using Classic Colorworks threads. Well, this is my 3rd finish this month. But this one is for July’s #crossstitchcamp and I’m loving it there! Thank you @coloradocrossstitcher for organizing this 🤗 By the way, the only change I made was that I added beads for the ants, the watermelons and the strawberries. I don’t get along with french knots very much.

May Finish

Pumpkin Passport by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery

  • Fabric: 28 count Jobelan in Caribbean Blue by Fabrics by Stephanie
  • Threads: All DMC threads (as called for) except the lettering which I used DMC color variations 4240
  • Days stitched: about 50 days

I originally had used Irish Linen fabric by DMC but hated it. So I restarted it on 01/04/2020 and just finished it today.

May Wrap up, StitchMaynia 2021 and June Plans

Stitch Maynia:

I went crazy this month. All for Stichmaynia: a group that will close its doors today. I participated on Stitchmaynia in 2016 with 15 new starts (from the 1st to the 15th). After this year, I didn’t participate because I was busy with other things and followed a strict rotation. I am grateful to this group because I learned so much about things I didn’t know about in cross stitch. I think it was fair for me to participate on its last month. However, I did it from the 15th to the 31st instead and only started 5 during those weekend days. So, this month, I started:

  1. 05/16/2021 Needleworker by Little House Needleworks
  2. 05/22/2021 Sky Blue Street by Soda Stitch
  3. 05/23/2021 Home of a Needleworker Too! by Little House Needleworks
  4. 05/30/2021 The Time for Myself by Soda Stitch
  5. 05/31/2021 99 by Ink Circles

These are all projects that I’ve always wanted to start for a long time. Now I can say that they are part of my WIPs. As it stands, my list has grown to be 28 and have already plans to make it up to 32.

May Wrap up:

I have mentioned that I was planning on doing no new starts in 2022. Therefore, I’m starting almost all of my favorite projects that are kitted up. Some of these will probably be finished this year as I still have some goals to finish some old WIPs.  

I also had a finish which was a start on Stitchmaynia 2016:

  • Pumpkin Passport by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery
  • Fabric: 28 count Jobelan in Caribbean Blue by Fabrics by Stephanie
  • All DMC threads (as called for) except the lettering which I used DMC color variations 4240

I originally had used Irish Linen fabric by DMC but hated it. So I restarted it on 01/04/2020 and just finished it today.


June Plans:

June will be a busy month for me stitch wise. I will be participating on the Cross Stitch Camp in Facebook. This is a virtual camp where we are given a challenge monthly. These challenges have the objectives of doing new things, starting new things and finish them in a month. This camp is a summer camp which will run from June to August. I thought it was interesting and loved the idea. I will be starting the June Sampler of the Month which I made a post about it. 
In addition to this, I went back to my previous rotation. Changing rotation every so often is my way of keeping my stitching bug busy and not give it the opportunity to even think about leaving. So, I will be stitching on 9 projects through out the month. My focus piece to finish out of my old WIPs is Picnic Ants Coaster by Sharon Pope which I started on 06/10/2017. I will be stitching on this piece (and finish it) for 6 days. Along with this, I will have the June Sampler of the month as another project to finish in June. The other pieces are: