2018 year end review

December 31st 2018

Oh my gosh, as you get older the days and weeks seem to fly by. Lots of things have happened this year to slow down my stitching progress. I had to move house - 2 months of my life gone, looking, packing, moving and adjusting to new neighborhood and house.

As its the end of the year, I thought that we better have a look back at what I have finished stitching,  and been working on.

Finishes for 2018:

Dolls House by Joan Elliot - Finished in April

Florentina by Mirabilia - finished in May

Circus of Hearts - ink circles - finished in May

Fully finished onto a footstool and used regularly by Gypsy the little cat

Repair shop - stoney creek - finished in July

Amish Quilt: JBW designs - finished in September

Brew Ha Ha - Plum street samplers - Finished in February

Willow House Alphabet - Cherry Hill Samplery - finished in  March

Friends for you book - blackbird designs - finished in July

Cross stitch nation - heartstring samplery - finished June

Good Old Gent - finished in June

Christmas Gentlemen - Leisure Arts - finished October

Stitchers Sampler - by Ginger and Spice - finished October

Every day that I work I get to stitch while waiting for the store to open, so I have completed several christmas ornaments this year.

Sugar Stitches - gingerbread house and cupcake

I have stitched Needle and threads

Several Santa Ornaments: some fully finished , some not completed into ornaments

Here is the progress I have made on Dusty Rose from Heaven and earth designs:
Almost completed page 19, about 1/3 of the way thru the whole project.

I also framed 2 of my previous Christmas finishes. - Christmas Garden - blackbird designs and Winter White Santa from Mirabilia.

To finish off, here is a couple of pictures of our main tree this year

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year everyone. I am looking forward to a more productive year for 2019, Lots of  new starts and hopefully lots of finishes to come.

Stitch the things your love.
Nerissa

Halfway thru 2018, where has the time gone

Here we are halfway thru 2018 and it seems like time it flying way to fast this year.

I have been absent from social media a bit this year, bit still stitching away on all my wips.

I even have a few finishes so far for the year.

Finished the following wips:

Brew HA HA by plum street samplers

Cherry Hill Stitchery- willow house Alphabet

Dolls House - Joan Elliot

Florentina - Mirabilia

Circus of Hearts - Ink Circles

Needles and Thread - Little House Needlework

I also managed to complete a page on Filigree - heaven and earth design

And last but not least: 3 pages finished on Dusty Rose - heaven and earth design

Besides the finishes I have also started some new projects:
Royal Holiday - Mirablia

Red House Sampler - The sampler company

Rose sampler

I have also worked on several other  wips this year:

I added a few more stitches on Barnyard Kitties, its slow progress.Not enjoying this black aida, it came with the kit. but I will push thru and get it finished.

Got the first alphabet done on the Fanny Harris Sampler - 1852

Aida the Garden Fairy has had a lot of love lately, She has a face and hair, she is coming together nicely

I have worked on a few other but not a lot of progress on some and have not taken photos of then, so i will update those next time. 

It is now winter here in New Zealand and we have had a run of cold, wet, freezing weather so far this month, so other then work, lots of time for stitching.

Okay I can not think of much more, so will sign off for  now and get to stitching and hopefully updating a lot sooner. I am working on Fairy godmother and Dusty Rose today; and my car project at the moment is Amish Quilt Sampler.

Stitch the things you love

Nerissa

January WIPocalypse check in

January 29th 2018

Well it has been a busy time: I have managed a few accomplishments on my cross stitching:

New start:

Let's go way back - Antique/historical Sampler: for Soulful Stitching only worked on this for 1 day.

New start, old stash Jan Sal - Stitch from Stash 2018 - Stitchers Sampler by Ginger and Spice - worked on this for 6 Days:

Christmas all year round Sal - Stitch Maynia. Santa Claus - Merry old Gent worked on for 3 days

Also stitched on Christmas Gentlemen for the Christmas all year round Sal- Stitch Maynia , work on these guys for 5 days

For the stitchathon weekend (cross stitch finish line) and the IHSW weekend also the full coverage sale from Stitch Maynia  - Dusty Rose, she is one of my oldest wips and I have only completed 13 pages out of 54 so far, need to get lots of progress this year, hopefully. Stitched a total of 8 days, I worked on 2 pages , but did not manage to complete any yet.

For the wip it weekends I worked on Sampler Stitchers from Little House Needleworks: worked on this for 4 days

I worked one evening on Brew HA HA  not a lot of progress made on this , halfway thru is body.

I spent 1 day stitching on Repair Shop:

I stitched 4 days on Amish Quilt Sampler , got the boarder done and have started on the blocks inside

1 day stitched on Willow House Alphabet

For the Year of Starts: Stitch Maynia- New start on the 18th of each month.This month I chose to start Needle and Thread from Little House needleworks 3 evenings working on this one.

 I worked on Florentina - for Mirabilia Mondays - I managed to get the skin done on her face and part of one arm.

On my final weekend for January I worked on the Victorian Doll House by Joan Elliot, Got 2 rooms completed and part of the roof, only the back stitch to complete on those 2 rooms.

Looking back at what i have worked on I feel like i may have suffered from stitches, adhd this month, hopefully more settled next month.

Ps I have worked on a couple of Prairie Schooler Santa's , in the car while waiting for work to start, but alas the are in the car right now, i will try and get photos, if not i will show them next month.

That is all for this month, as you can see I have been participating in a lot of sals and will not be adding any more at this stage, maybe later in the year.

Stitch the things you love
Nerissa