Category: starts

End of the Month Update and July’s Plan

 

June was a good month. In summary, I had 3 finishes:

June Sampler of the Month

Picnic Ants Coasters

A Year of Celebrations – July
But then, I started “Hello Summer” by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery. However, it’s a small project so it should be a finish soon. I also joined the Mill Hill Monday wagon and started Winged Monarch on the 7th. I have no hurry in finishing this one so every Monday I will put in a few stitches on it.
JULY’S PLANS
I couldn’t make up my mind about doing Joan Elliott July or Jolly July. So I’m doing both. The good thing is that I only have 2 Joan Elliott’s projects: Air Goddess and 12 Days of Christmas. I will put in a good hour on both of them. The not so good thing is that I have A LOT of new starts this month because I want to do a Christmas ornament from 2013 to 2020. So I chosen the designs out of the Just Cross Stitch magazine Christmas ornaments edition. I already had one finished for the year 2014 so I’ll just need to do the rest. I have a good reason for this but I’ll explain later. So, these are my new starts this month:
Ornaments:
Other new starts:
  • Stargazer by Mirabilia
  • Year of Celebrations – August
  • Snowman and Friends by Dimensions
  • Kringles by Little House Needleworks
  • Christmas Tree by Mirabilia

So, yes… A lot going on in July. But, I’m okay with it. I will be having some finishes as well. First, I’m planning to finish every ornament I start in July plus the Year of Celebration – August. I will be stitching each piece for 4 days. If I have a new start, I will do about 100 stitches and and stich for about 1 hour on Air Goddess. Then focus on the ornaments. 

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:

New Birthday Starts

 2 starts on my birthday: Footprints by Sandy Orton but I got the Bucilla Kit which includes 28ct evenweave fabric and DMC floss. The kit can also be found at the Kooler Design website


Friends Nostalgia by GrumpyStitcher  on Etsy

Fall Stitching

 

First day of fall was on September 22nd this year. So I started this piece featured on the Cross Stitcher magazine September 2020. 

Fall into Autumn by Cheryl McKinnon

I’m stitching this on 28 ct Britney fabric in color Haboob by Chromatic Alchemy (although I’m pretty sure it’s 32 ct because the stitches looks smaller to me)

I’m using all DMC floss but I’ve made a few substitutions for another color simply because I did not have them in my stash:

437 – 436
720 – 900
721 – 947
722 – 402
945 – 739
3346 – 987
3820 – 728

Stitch Maynia

Hola Stitchers!

I’ve been a bad stitcher lately. I haven’t been following my rotation because I’m excited about an event that will start on May 1st and I’ve been getting ready for it. Stitch Maynia will start this Sunday! For those of you who don’t know what that is, Stitch Maynia is an event in the Facebook group that I am a member of: Stitch Maynia 🙂

Well, this event started last year where a group of stitchers got together doing something crazy: 15 starts for the first 15 days. However, others got even crazier and started 1 project every day of the month. That’s 31 starts!

Personally, since it’s my first year in Stitch Maynia, I’ll start small and do 15 new starts the first 15 days.

This is my plan for Stitch Maynia:

May 1st: Pumpkin Passport by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery (yes, I’m joining the fun)

 

May 2nd: I Love Coffee by Soda Stitch (Freebie)

May 3rd: May – The Potting Bench by Erica Michaels (Freebie)

May 4th: Bathtub Luxury by Susan Bates (Cross Stitch Gold)

May 5th: I Love Cross Stitching by Michaela Learner (Freebie)

May 6th: Merry Christmas by New York Dreamer (Just Cross Stitch 2014 Ornament)

May 7th: His name is Jesus by Joyful Expressions (Freebie)

May 8th: Satisfaction by Elizabeth Almond (Freebie)

May 9th: Snowflake Frost by Country Garden Stitchery

May 10th: Stitcher Sayings by Rhonda Norrie (Freebie)

May 11th: Coffee by Barbara Ana (Freebie)
You can see the pattern here.

May 12th: Let it Snow by Dames of the Needle (Just Cross Stitch 2014 Ornament)

May 13th: Keep Calm and Stitch by Maria Diaz Designs

May 14th: Tea by Barbara Ana Designs (Freebie)
You can find the pattern here.

May 15th: Believe in the Magic by Angel Stitchin (Just Cross Stitch 2014 Ornament)

Year of Starts!

That is the title of a SAL in the Facebook group I’m a member of: Stitch Maynia. Year of starts is a crazy SAL where most of us are participating. It consist of doing 366 starts in a year (daily starts), 52 starts in a year (monthly starts), or 12 starts in a year (monthly starts). I chose to do 52 starts in a year and, so far, I’m up to 16 which puts me ahead (this week is week 15 of the year). Anyway, so this week I thought I was behind by one week so I did two starts. I was so sure I was on time but a typo in my report in the group confirmed that I was, indeed, on time. However, I found out after I started two pieces this week.

So, I will be sharing the last three pieces that I started:

The first one is Espresso Yourself by Kinkavel Kross. The starting point is just the top of one of the coffee cups. I’m planning to finish the cups and do the letters for the rotation.

 
Espresso Yourself by Kinkavel Kross
Started: 3/27/16
Stitched on 14ct ivory aida
The second one is a bookmark that I am planning on giving it to my niece as a gift. She loves cats and I think this one is cute and it will be very useful for her bible. As you can see, I have a paw and the word “paws” already done. Next I will be finishing all of the paws and the letterings.
“Paws” Bookmark by Angie Kowalski (a freebie from Linen Flower Designs)
Started on 4/4/16
Stitched on 18t white aida

The third one is a second chart that came in a pack of DMC threads. It was a pink and a blue flower. Therefore I am making this a part of my “April Shower Brings May Flower” SAL over at Stitch Maynia. I am planning on finish them both; or at least I’ll try. I started with two of the flower stem. Next I will finish the vase.

Pink Flower by DMC
Started on 4/4/16
Stitched on 14t oatmeal aida
The last two were the ones that I started on the same day. Therefore, now I’m ahead of the game. 
Thanks for reading and happy stitching!
Lucy