Serenity

Yesterday I completed Serenity prayer by My Big Designs. I started this back in 2017.  It has had a bath and will soon go off to its home.

Weekly progress April 2-9

 Welcome to April!  This past week was busy and included freezing rain that took out my power for around a day.  Also Easter and a birthday dinner for my 2 year old cousin. This week looks a little quieter as I replace the contents of my fridge.

I am at the bottom of Serenity prayer 

And I worked on Rainbow city

Weekly progress February 5 - February 11

 I made some progress on a few projects:

Serenity prayer - My Big Toe Designs

Reflections of Ireland - Ink Circles

Mother’s bliss - Mirabilia

Plum pudding - Glendon Place

State of the stitching - the catch up edition

I decided to post an update picture of the projects I have been working on recently.  

Blackstone fantasy garden 

Plum pudding

Autumn reflections

Serenity prayer

Templar prophecy

Everythig new

Welcome to a new year, a new decade, a new stitching project and a new year SAL

This morning I took some update pictures of my recent progress on the projects I have been working on recently

Serenity Prayer (My Big Toe Designs)

Autumn reflections (Heritage Stitchcraft - John Clayton)

On Boxing Day I started a new project - Castle Walls by Ink Circles


















This morning I start this year's SAL - Let it snow by Barbara Ana Designs

February recap

I had planned to do some update blog posts during the month but those didn't happen.  Instead I give you the February Stitching In One Shot post

A finish!  

Dark Shards

Ink Circles

32 ct. Antique white

DMC threads

An ornament

Snowflake 

Scissortail Designs

DMC threads

Progress on Plum Pudding

Serenity prayer - the words on the first page are almost done

And finally I did a little filling in of the border on Blackstone fantasy garden

October Goals

It's a new month and time for new goals.

September Goals
Stitch an ornament Yes, two in fact - Old fashion ornaments II by Elizabeth's Designs
Work on SP - Yes
Work on Tour - Nope
Work on Plum pudding - Nope
Finish current motif on Canada Sampler - Yes

Here is the update on SP and Canada Sampler

October Goals

Stitch an ornament
Work on SP
Work on Tour
Work on Canada Sampler
Work on Blackwork Fantasy Garden

All the pretties

August has been super busy.

It started with a family lunch, then my birthday, the Knowledge and Needles Open House and a stash zone still waiting to be finished.

Also - my boss was away most of the month so work was busier than normal.  

Needless to say, blogging hasn't been the highest on my to do list.

But I have some progress pictures to share.

First: so of the glorious stitching on display at the Knowledge and Needles Open House.  I keep waiting for Ann to include drool bibs.

On my way to the Open House I picked up Teresa Wentzler's The Castle from the framers.  This guy is all mine

I have managed a little stitching progress

Blackstone fantasy garden

Canada sampler

Serenity prayer

Playing catch up

It has been so busy this month.

The was a death in the family at the beginning of the month and then an unexpected reunion just last week.  I have also been working on finishing up a presentation of the family genealogy which is almost done.

On the 12th Dani and I travelled to Toronto to see the Foo Fighters.  It was an excellent show and we managed to not get lost on the subway.

 I have made only a little progress on the new stash area.  The main parts are in place, I am attempting to make the best use of space.


I have been working on a wedding piece for one of my cousin's.  It was a Dimensions kit but I have changed the colours




I have managed to do a little on Dragons of Sumatra






Serenity Prayer finally got a few stitches - I am trying out 712 for the flowers for this one.

I am also working on a secret project... it has progressed well this weekend

In the merry, merry month of May

Here we are in June and I didn't get a last post done in May to show off all the stitching progress I made.

So to start off June here is what happened in May since last time

I finished Lorelei Lamb by Just Nan

I did this one on 32 count lugana instead of linen

I managed to finish frogging Blackstone Fantasy Garden by Ink Circles and then made some good progress on the green border

I did a little on Tour - which is so hard to see over one on 25 count

And I did a little bit on Serenity Prayer version 2

I am also having a debate on this one - the pattern is actually two colours - there are some flowers coming up and I am trying to decide if I should do the piece all in one colour or use B5000 (bright white) for the flowers.... must decide soon


I also did some work on my genealogy project which took much longer than I was thinking it would.  I made some really good progress though, although having ancestors with super common names is so frustrating.

SP Update

I have not gotten to work on Serenity Prayer 2.0 as much as I wanted to.  Light in the morning hasn't allowed me to stitch on the way to work.  I blame winter like weather.

I finished two of the letters.... many, many, many more to go

Action packed

It has been a busy month.. and a bit.

On the 9^th I went to see my parents, during this visit we planned a day trip.  My aunt joined us as we went on the 1000 Island Cruises Lost ships of the 1000 Islands cruise.  It was a little cool and windy for the first part of the trip but was bright and sunny by the time we got back.  This cruise does not include a stop at the restored Boldt Castle but it did go around it.  It was very pretty but I am not sure of the practicality of living in a castle in the middle of a river.

After the cruise we enjoyed a lovely bbq and visit.  And the next day I returned home.

I had a fairly quiet weekend the next week.  A friend and I went to see Wind River and to lunch.  The movie was excellent though the subject matter is not for everyone. 

On the 20^th I took the train from Ottawa to Toronto where for the first time I went to Union Station before getting on the GO train and heading to Burlington.  Why would I go there you might ask?  I had a work meeting the next day but had a lovely dinner and walk along the pier.  After my meeting I got back on the GO and headed off to Oshawa to meet Bonnie.  We spent a few days in Toronto going to the Royal Ontario Museum and doing some shopping.  On Saturday morning we went to Gitta’s where we met friends for stash shopping and lunch. 

It was a packed few days, the weather was hot and not at all normal for the time of year.  Still we had a great time and managed to do almost everything on our list.

I headed home on Sunday very tired.

The last weekend of September was the Cataraqui Embroidery Guild Marketplace and Show in Kingston.  Dani and I headed down for the day and had lovely afternoon/evening visit with local stitching friends before we headed back home.

This past weekend was Thanksgiving (Canadian) and once again I travelled to see my parents.  On Saturday my aunt joined us for dinner and then I made her help identify some old photos.  We seem to have a lot with no names or the “grandma and I”. …. Not helpful!  They will be labeled shortly and I have scanned them as well.

We went to see another aunt for a large meal on Sunday before I was back home on Monday morning.

So much travelling and many things going on! This is not normal for me and I am ready for a few weekends at home.

I have managed to do a little stitching and have been trying to make progress on the stash zone:

Added some drawers to the stash zone

Touching the Autumn Sky

Started the second page on Cougar kitten

Blackstone Fantasy Garden

Second round of Serenity prayer

Merry Ho Ho Lizzie Kate