July thru October

Catching up is hard. It's so hard I've been putting it off for a while, which only makes it harder.

Hi all! Long time no see. I can barely remember what I've blogged about so far this year, so I guess I'll just dive right in and start rambling. It was a crazy summer. I've moved. My mother sold two houses and bought a new one. She also had knee replacement surgery. Her new husband fell twice and broke several parts of his anatomy (but he's all healed now). And overtime at work didn't end until September 28th. So I've been a bit worn out.

My stitching progress overall hasn't been that spectacular, but I actually did manage a few finishes, all from Little House Needleworks. The first is the Virtue Sampler, which I kind of picked up and didn't put down back in August. So in 12 days, I went from here:

to here:

This one took 22 days total, and was pretty fun to stitch. I used all the called for colors on 32ct Limestone Belfast from Zweigart. I haven't framed it yet, but I suppose I should pretty soon. :)

My other finishes were from the Sheep Virtues series. I finished Love on August 2nd and finished Peace October 25th. So far, each of these has taken 7 days to stitch.

It's nice to have the first three of these done. Maybe I'll just do 3 a year. No rush, right?

My stitching has been really off since I moved (only managed 1691 stitches in July) and my rotation went out the window, but things are beginning to get back to normal. When things got super stressful, I didn't switch my projects as often and worked on things for 2 or 3 weeks instead of one. Since I didn't always stitch every day, I didn't see a ton of progress, but I think it's enough to share a couple things.

After I finished Virtue Sampler in August, I picked up Summer on Cherry Hill. This one feels like an August project to me, I don't know why. But it does have Summer in the name:

I'd say this is almost halfway done. About that, anyway. It's hard to say because I know the grass is going to take forever. But the bees are done, and I've started on her massive skirt, so that's something.

In September I spent a few weeks on Autumn Fraktur. I didn't plan to keep working on it, but once I started, I couldn't stop until the right side was finished:

I almost kept going on the left side. Almost. Maybe next year.

I've worked on a few other odds and ends, but I'll save those for later. I wish I could say I've made massive progress on Luna as well, but I haven't even finished the page I was working on back in May. It's very sad really, but I still don't have a stitching spot for my floor stand set up in my new place. Very sad.

I'm trying to get a few more goals met this year on various projects, but I've got a lot of distractions. I've been trying to declutter for a while now, and in the process I've stumbled across all my hidden treasures from other hobbies. So in the interest of use it or lose it, I've been quilting, knitting, doing puzzles and paint by numbers again. It's been a lot of fun, but it's also been a challenge to work everything in and share stitchy time. But I'm learning.

I think that's all for now. I've pulled out Jack's Bash by Plum Street for this week, so we'll see what kind of progress I make. Until next time!