I LIKe Thursday #296

 

I found this on Facebook this week. And today is the 1st of October so I thought it would be fun to share. I’m sharing with LeeAnna and friends at Not Afraid of Color. 

LeeAnna suggested this Conversation Starter. 

What’s your favorite thing about the shift from summer to fall?  

For me that’s easy. Fall is my favorite time of year. The colors gold, red, green,orange are some of my favorites. The air is cooler in the morning, you may need a jacket or sweater, then later in the day you don’t need a cover-up cause it warmed up and the sun shone all afternoon. And then there is this:

Shared bounty from the garden of your BFF!!

Last week at Thursday Stitchers we had marvelous Show & Tell. 

Cross-stitch

Crochet

Kinusaiga

Counted cross stitch ⤴️⤵️

In progress Cross stitch

And a 3 yard quilt , binding done! ⤵️

Another PooChon photo. Emmie had a spa day and got a haircut. 

And she learned to jump up on the couch.  “Katie, bar the door!”

I’m hoping to have finish photos of our home improvement project soon. We are nearly finished. Then some new towels and some decor. 

This month our book club is reading  Theo of Golden. So many varied reviews and comments. Have you read it?

Did you clean your threshold and invite abundance into your home this morning. It’s an intention I’m going to try in the coming months, on the 1st. 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful. 

Slow Sunday Stitching 9-20-26

 

 Stitching with Kathy and friends at Kathy’s Quilts’ Slow Sunday Stitching

Today I hope to make some progress on Jack’s House. I had a problem last week. I was stitching merrily along til I got to this point. 

 

Actually I was nearly to the bottom of the right side of the house. There is a Halloween pumpkin there. As I started to stitch the stem on the pumpkin, I realized I was one row too far to the right with the black border. I counted and pondered. Could I just adjust everything to compensate. Not with this fancy border. The measurements must be perfect. ⤵️

So out came the unpicker  and the seam ripper. UGH1 I hate doing that. The problem occurred when I stitched the moon. I unpicked to here. These two stitches were correct. 😟

I spent most of my stitching time early this week restitching and now this is where I am.  The moon is correctly placed, the green of the lawn has progressed and one pumpkin is complete. 

When this project is Fully Finished , I need to get started on some Christmas stitches. I have a couple I want to do.  

This WIP from 2024! Actually this is a Winter stitch, not really Christmas!

And 

Last year 2025, I won a gift from Texas Quilt Gal during a Christmas in July blog hop.  (Linda, correct me if I’m wrong). Threads (that I have added to, to stitch Peace on Earth)

and fabric.   (Isn’t it gorgeous with the gold sparkle?)

and a project bag.  Which I didn’t photograph! 🙃

So I’m all set for the “stay indoors and stitch” weather that is headed our way!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful 

Slow Sunday Stitching and maybe Monday too!

 

It’s already 4:30pm on Sunday and not a single stitch laid. We have out of town company. It’s hard to turn your attention to stitching when you have guests. 

I really want to work on Jack’s House. 

I’ve barely begun!

I hope to get the house done before the end of the week. I’m linking up at Slow Sunday Stitching

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful

I LIKE Thursday #292

 

I am so saddened by Dolly’s death. 

LeeAnna wants to know: did you like school?  YES, I did. Elementary School especially. I had favorite teachers. I liked Jr High and High School too. I didn’t go to college, but I would have liked that too, I’m sure. I wasn’t great at P.E. in Jr. High and  High School, and didn’t care for Speech which was part of my Advanced Placement English Class. But mostly I looked forward to going to school. 

Go to Not Afraid of Color, check out LeeAnna’s post, then  read the blogs of others listed at the end of her post.

Another pincushion will go with me today to my stitching group. 

This week we had spaghetti squash for dinner one night. It was given to us by a friend. It was really good and we enjoyed leftovers too!

The evenings have been so nice lately. We had a fire table one night. 

Some stores and businesses have flowers at their entrances. This one was in front of the parking place when I pulled up to PT last Thursday. 

I had the opportunity to do some cross-stitch shopping on Saturday.  My “Haul” as the Floss Tubers say!

Guess I’ll have lots to do when the snow starts to fly!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!

Slow Sunday Stitching

This is a post I wrote last Sunday. But alas, someone?, interrupted me to go for a walk and then I didn’t get back to my blog. 

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I’ve been reading all the entries at Kathy’s Quilts - Slow Sunday Stitching

Not much slow stitching happening in my neck of the woods, lately.

 I finished two more pin cushions yesterday. The “C” went in the mail yesterday . To CS in California, an early snowbirder this year. Their grandbaby #2 is due soon. They have a park space to stay. So it will be a wonderful happy time for them. 

The ‘d’ goes with me today to Thursday Stitchers. DB’s birthday is next Tuesday.

This week I’ll continue to catch up on February and March birthday’s . I’m caught up on August and no birthdays in September. I’m enjoying this project. 

I’m anxious to start on Primrose Cottage’s current stitch, Jack’s House. ………….

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I stitched the next pincushion. It needs  flowers, or buttons or beads. That’s the fun part! And a backing and stuffing. 

Jacks House: 

It’ll be a dough bowl filler. 

And yesterday, a new stitchery shop from a nearby city, 104 miles away actually, brought charts and fabric to a local quilt shop and taught a beginners cross stitch class.  I had to visit, to chat with Jen the shop owner and Nancy and Amy, and of course to buy!.

3 pieces of fabric, 4 charts and 2 needle minders Now I’m ready!

These will be fun to add for the ‘ber’ months in my dough bowl.

Jen’s shop and a matching needle minder. 

I’m sharing at the current weeks blog, Kathy’s Quilts - Slow Sunday Stitching

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful 

Slow Sunday Stitching

 

I’m still stitching. Just not a lot and not for very long!  Slow and steady is the name of the game. Joining the group at Kathy’s SLOW SUNDAY STITCHING

Some progress was made on this WIP. 

At my stitching group on Thursday, there was some show and tell. A lovely Jenny of Elefantz design stitched by Diana. 

and also this fabulous hexagon flag wall hanging. The Hexies are 1” finished , I think. And the white felt stars are attached with glue. It is just gorgeous and also sewn by Diana . 

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful 

Slow Sunday Stitching #26.18

 

It’s been a while!  But I’ll be joining up with Kathy and friends to do some slow stitching. 

I did some stitching on this laborious bell pull. It’s going to be beautiful, but I can’t stay focused. 

So I switched it up to try to finish this stitch along from several years ago. Some of you will remember it. 

In the process of finding it I thought I had a turquoise rectangular hoop like this Nurge one. 

Do you think I can find it? Nope! I’ve spent parts of 2 days looking for it. I will use the purple smaller one, but can’t for the life of me figure out where the bigger one might be🤷‍♀️?  Mr. Busy always says, “out of place is lost”!

I will be sitting in the cool today, slow stitching on the winter stitch along from Stitchonomy. I started it Jan 2024. Maybe I can complete it by Dec 2026!

Stay Busy and Stay Happy and Healthy and Hopeful!