IHSW or International Hermit and Stitch Weekend always starts on the third Friday of the month.  It's a chance to lock yourself away and focus on your stitching for the weekend.  You can take part on your blog or via the Facebook page - IHSW on Facebook. This year I am trying something different for IHSW - an A-Z Challenge!  These usually take place in April and people stitch one letter every day except Sunday.  I don't want to swap projects daily so thought I could do 2 or 3 letters per IHSW instead.   July is N and O. I didn't have an active proje ..read more

  IHSW or International Hermit and Stitch Weekend always starts on the third Friday of the month.  It's a chance to lock yourself away and focus on your stitching for the weekend.  You can take part on your blog or via the Facebook page - IHSW on Facebook. This year I am trying something different for IHSW - an A-Z Challenge!  These usually take place in April and people stitch one letter every day except Sunday.  I don't want to swap projects daily so thought I could do 2 or 3 letters per IHSW instead. July is the turn for N and O.  I don't have an O pro ..read more

       Welcome to the July Gifted Gorgeousness link-up. The link-up date continues to be the 15th and I will keep the link-up open until the end of each month so you have plenty of time if you are late posting. The format remains exactly the same, there is a list of rules on the main sign-up page if you want to check what is required but basically anything connected to the word "gift" is allowed, whether it was a gift TO you or is a gift FROM you. My evening project was a gift from Vickie and is a finish already! Lizzie*Kate - Sampling Christmas My replacement evening pi ..read more

    Hosted by Rachel the Ten Hour Stitcher This SAL is designed to motivate us all to do something with that box of Finished pieces instead of just storing them under the bed.  We will all be linking up on Rachel's blog on or after the 10th of each month (10 Hour Stitcher - 10th of the month). Unfortunately, nothing got FFO'd this last month! So here's a photo of my current progress on Nora Corbett's Capricorn: stitched on 32 count Capricorn Murano from Sparklies Finally, I need to make a resolution to do some FFO'ing earlier in the month and not leaving it to ..read more

 It's time for Pie! My main Focus piece for the month was Stitchy Princess' Alice in Wonderland.  I started her on the 2nd and completed her after 13.5 days of stitching.  The half day was part of the Longest Week Marathon. stitched on 32 count Millenium Blue fabric I used a darker fabric than the charted so had to change the blues.  The charted light blue just looked white on this fabric so I swapped it for a darker shade. This was a nice quick stitch and all I need now is a square frame and it will be on display. After stitching on Alice for 13 days, I switched t ..read more

          WIPocalypse is hosted by Measi's Musings Each month we have to share the projects we want to complete before the End Of The World. Since 2011 I have chosen a number of projects to focus on that year, starting with my "11 in '11" and increasing to "24 in '24" for this year. This month I stitched on 5 of them and had one finish. 12. Living on the Rainbow 3D Haunted House 13. Joan Elliott Faces SAL 14. Stitchy Princess Alice in Wonderland - Finish! 21. Cottage Garden Sampling Year in the Woods The Swans 24. Cottage Garden Samplings Hall ..read more

  IHSW or International Hermit and Stitch Weekend always starts on the third Friday of the month.  It's a chance to lock yourself away and focus on your stitching for the weekend.  You can take part on your blog or via the Facebook page - IHSW on Facebook. This year I am trying something different for IHSW - an A-Z Challenge!  These usually take place in April and people stitch one letter every day except Sunday.  I don't want to swap projects daily so thought I could do 2 or 3 letters per IHSW instead.   June is L and M. I didn't have an active proje ..read more

  My annual Longest Day Marathon usually takes place as close as possible to the Longest Day of the Year which was 20th June this year.  I had planned to stitch all day on the 19th June but unfortunately had meetings that day and there was literally no other day when I didn't have something planned. So I decided to do a Longest Week and stitch 2 of my WIPs each day for 8 days, starting on Sunday 16th June and finishing on Sunday 23rd June.  That way I would get at least an hour on each one, some got even more time! I started on Sunday with my usual Sunday morning catch-up on ..read more

      The Smalls SAL is hosted by Rachel For my Smalls stitching this year, I have chosen 12 smaller designs and numbered them for my WIPGO Board.  Each month one Small will be stitched in the evening timeslot and hopefully finished within the month.   After the excitement of my Just Nan-athon in May, I have returned to a focus piece for June.  The WIPGO Board chose the 3D Haunted House from Living on the Rainbow and I've been working steadily on that each evening. Here is the front and back, blurry but completed: Here is my progress on the sides and ..read more

      Welcome to the June Gifted Gorgeousness link-up. The link-up date continues to be the 15th and I will keep the link-up open until the end of each month so you have plenty of time if you are late posting. The format remains exactly the same, there is a list of rules on the main sign-up page if you want to check what is required but basically anything connected to the word "gift" is allowed, whether it was a gift TO you or is a gift FROM you. Once again, neither of my monthly focus pieces have a gifted element to them so I'll stick with my two staples for the SAL this year ..read more