Category Archives: Cross-Stitch

The November Challenge

For those who find stitching boring – skip this post. You have been warned. Anyway – I have five projects left to finish I just realized, looking at the list that they are ALL 2024 starts. So I met the … Continue reading

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Call-O-Ween

You have to hand it to them. Nothing like taking advantage of a chance to use a horrible pun or co-opt a holiday that really does not have the same kind of ownership that other holidays have.. In this case, … Continue reading

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Five to go

I found another 28 stitches that needed to be completed this morning on Deadly Aquarium, followed by multiple colors of backstitch. And so here it is – all 18,622 stitches. And that doesn’t include all the backstitch. Some of which … Continue reading

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Where do I go next?

This is a classic stitchers/embroiders dilemma. In this case I don’t simply mean where in the house although that could easily apply. I have “The Clock” stashed in the upstairs lounge. The Hearthside Frame is in the living room with … Continue reading

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Still Legal

As I was attempting to find a lost critical item this morning, I went ahead and grabbed a picture of this –   Most years, I just renew my license when the window opens up 1 Sept. This year, since … Continue reading

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Three heads might

Just be better than one. at least if you are a German Shorthaired Pointer in a costume competition (Netflix series Kaos, Cerberus & Handler from Hades security).  Dani survived it with a sense of humor, apparently Quake had a wonderful … Continue reading

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Dragons

Does anyone remember that this is the year of the Dragon? I thought not. What seems so much fun at the beginning of the year kind of loses its shine. But, in any case, I finished the Field Guild to … Continue reading

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Google Eyes

The following is a four part mystery Halloween SAL from Tiny Modernist. The first two parts dropped and were finished before we left on our trip. Parts 3&4 were released while we were gone. Instead of having things evenly divided, … Continue reading

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a thousand stitches

hardly seemed to make a dent .. .. but I know it has been a little progress. It still leaves me with 11k or so to go on this project. I think it will be a while before I tackle … Continue reading

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Small Steps

I counted what I have left for started cross stitch projects. I have eight that were started this year – at various times from March on. I have five left from previous years. Two fall into the category of “do … Continue reading

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Tea Cups

This might have been a productive day. Certainly better than yesterday. Certainly I was up early enough to see the sun rise, the birds making noise, and to be gifted a lovely cup of coffee by the husband who slept … Continue reading

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Newton

Which, in this case refers to the town in Massachusetts, not the Sir Issac or various fictional characters of the same name. According to my usual sources – the name came from being “the newe town” which concatenated to Newton. … Continue reading

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And again

At least today I think everyone was expecting that we would not be making Louisbourg, Cape Breton Island, NS, Canada …. With seas of not quite two meters I can understand why. It doesn’t sound like much until you are … Continue reading

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Sailing back toward the sea

Today was a planned sea day. For me, that means hanging out in the Deck 8 lounge, stitching, audio books, and drinking probably  more coffee than is good for me.  We have two smaller tender ports up next, then on … Continue reading

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How many hours?

I spent a fair amount of the day on Zoom connected to Acorns&Threads Pacific Stitchers Summit. The 30 minutes offset on top of the rest of the rest of the time zone change was a total and complete mental disrupter. … Continue reading

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Sea Days and Zoom retreats

Not a day that is going to interest most people, unless you are really into relaxing sea days on a cruise ship or really into cross stitching.  And then there is the off balance of time zone changes. Specifically that … Continue reading

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Current WIPs

That means works in progress. I just thought it might be a good idea to list them, just to make sure that nothing has gotten completely out of control. This is actually several parts: List 1 – SALs. Stitch-a-longs. 1) … Continue reading

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European Dragon

question mark, question mark… I am not sure that there really is such a generic dragon. Certainly the dragon pictured in Old English is not the same as that which is pictured on the continent. But that is probably the … Continue reading

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Deadly Aquarium – almost done

There are three more parts to be released after this, according to the schedule I copied into my calendar notebook.  Not sure what is left to show up. Besides completing this section, I added in the last of the white … Continue reading

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Haunting the clock

The new sections drop about the first of each month. I had started on the new section right about the first and then became distracted by wanting to finish both Ms Yellow Mushroom and Sapphires in Sunshine. This is slightly … Continue reading

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