Moving projects forward

Coffee Quaker - August 19

Here it is another week and yes I was able to find some time to do some stitching and am happy with the progress that I see on some of the projects.

Coffee Quaker - August 24

Coffee Quaker - well this project got a little bit of time and it would have got more if I hadn't had to restitch the bird.  of course, when I started the bird I had it in the wrong place so after finishing it and moving onto the next motif I discovered I had placed it wrong so that meant that I had to take out the motif that I had started and the entire bird.  As you can see the bird is back and it is now in the correct place and next time I pick this project up I will try and get some more of the motifs completed.

All Dogs Go To Heaven - July 20

All Dogs Go To Heaven - This is going to be a very long project and I understand that because it is a full coverage piece and there are 89 colours in a piece that is going to be around 13 x 16 inches when it is finished.  I am enjoying working on it but right now with basically three different shades of blue happening is sure doesn't look like much.

All Dogs Go To Heaven - August 26

I am thinking that next time I pick this project up I may see if I can add at least one other colour to the piece as it would help a lot.  As this piece is so large I ended up putting a spreadsheet together so that I can track the progress that I am making on the design.  It is 24 pages of pattern and of course, the page I am currently working on has the most stitches on it so that is going to take me some time to get through.  As of Saturday evening, I have finished 22% of the first page and 1.4% of the entire design.  Yes, it is going to be taking me quite a while to see some really good progress on this piece but considering some of the Heaven and Earth Designs can take people two or three years to complete I understand.

Linen and Threads Mystery SAL - August 19

Linen and Threads Mystery SAL '18 - Of course, this piece needed some attention this week because I wanted to make sure that I got the entire August section done before the September section is released.

Linen and Threads Mystery SAL - August 23

The Phoenix did seem to take quite a while to do and I am not sure why but at least by Thursday evening I was able to say that the August section is now complete and I am waiting to see what the September piece is going to be like.  I am thinking it might be a border design to break up the design but we will have to wait until the end of this week to see what it is.  I figure I will try and get the September section started as soon as it is released and then see how much time I have in September to work on other projects.

Temperature - August 18

Temperature - I am still working on getting Temperature caught up and that is taking some time but at least this week I was able to get June finished up and have just started the July temperatures.

Temperature - August 23

I am continuing to try and get four of the temperatures done each day and it seems to be helping as it means that I am slowly getting caught up on this piece.  I decided that I am going to try and continue to get four of the temperatures done each day through September and maybe then I will be a little closer to being caught up by the end of the month.  I know that I want to have this piece completed in early January 2019 and the only way that is going to happen is if I can actually get it all caught up and then just be adding the two temperatures from each day as they happen.


I am still working on a few other projects and am happy with the progress that I have been able make.  Just seeing that things continue to move forward is great.  I am busy with work as well so that means that the crafting time is the evenings and weekends but I don't mind.  I enjoy sitting in the evenings doing some crafting and I have something to show for it at the end of the evening.

I hope everyone has a great week and if you are also a crafter, you can find some time to do the things that you enjoy doing.

Moving things forward and a new start

Linen and Threads Mystery SAL - August 10

Another week has come and gone and at least this week I was able to find some time to stitch some evenings.

Linen and Threads Mystery SAL - August 19

Linen and Threads Mystery SAL ' 18 - I continue to work on this piece and yes I am starting to see that I am getting closer to the other side of the design.  I am happy to see that I am finally making some good progress on it and if things go well I might even have a chance to finish the August section before the end of the month.  The Phoenix does have a lot of detail so they do take quite a bit of time to stitch but as I only have one left to stitch I should be able to get it done.

I am thinking that if I can focus on stitching this piece I might even be able to get the rest of it done before the end of this coming weekend if work and everything else allows for it.

Temperature - August 12

Temperature - now again I am trying to get the June section of this piece done so that means that I am working pretty hard to get the rows done that I want to get done each day.

Temperature - August 18

All of the high rows have been completed for the June section and I now just need to finish getting all the low rows done.  I have around 20 more rows to go and hopefully will see all of them done this week if I can focus on getting them done.

My goal before the end of this month is to have a few rows of July done and that means that I am slowly getting caught up on the piece and that does make me feel a little better.

Coffee Quaker - This piece is my Heartstring Sampler and I have to admit that as soon as I saw it I wanted to stitch it. I quickly got the fabric to use on the piece as it is a light beige/brown and it then sat for a few months until this weekend when I finally decided that it was time to at least get it started.

Coffee Quaker - August 19

The first goal that I had was to get all of the words stitched and that meant getting at least one motif also completed so that I knew where the last row of words would go without having to do a lot of counting.

I hope to be able to work on this project one motif at a time and I will be stitching this piece a second time as it is going to be for my sister.  We are both coffee lovers and get that from our mom.  I am also using some of the floss that my mom gave me so we both going to have a project using mom's floss or at least some of the floss.  I will be adding the rest of the floss that is needed for the project.

Thread X-Mas Ornaments

Other projects - well what do you do with all the ends of threads that you have from your stitching?  Well, if you are like a lot of stitchers you collect them for a year and then either throw them out or you do something like I did.  Yesterday, I finally sat down and decided that it was time to fill the glass ornaments that I had picked up last fall.

What is nice is I can see the different colours and sometimes I even remember the projects that I did to get all of a certain colour.  The ornament that is filled with a lot of red is from the two projects that I did early last year for Canada.  I can then look and see that all the other projects that I worked on last year are now put into different ornaments and that makes me feel great.

I do have some other projects that I have been working on and I am getting closer to get them done.  Some of the projects will be going up on ETSY once they are all done so that is why I haven't shown any pictures yet.  I figure that I am going to take all the pictures at once and then will have something to show.


This week I am not sure how much time I will have to stitch but I hope to be able to at least spend some time on both Temperature and Mystery SAL.  I know that I have a long list of things to complete for work so that is what needs to get first and then I will see what time I have to craft in the evenings.