Sunday Stitchings 14.06.2026

 and Branch conference.

Last of the shading under the kittens is done so turning back to the brighter colours with a touch of pinky red

One over one

 and two skeins used, the third started and the edges are done.

I so wanted to start the sections that go into the empty squares, but had to keep with the edge designs first.

There is one mistake in the outer pattern,  I can see it, I thought it might hide but nope I can see it. I am contemplating if I can overstitch the one X that is in the wrong place with a shade matching the fabric and then add the stitch into the right place.

Maybe by the time the full thing is finished I can revisit that thought, it might have hidden itself by then?

Adding the album version of this Forestella song as I just happen to be listening to it whilst drafting this blog.

 

Sunday stitchings after Saturday craftings

 so Sunday and more grey. 

and a bit of "what now" laughter at myself, all that stitching and this is th first time I noticed the griding on the pattern is five by five as well as the ten by ten.

the Saturday before was a display and share craft evening at Church. Two hours there abouts from 5 ish to 7 ish.  I only took two quilts to display as I was not sure of the space I would have, and three cross stitches that were easy to grab, no taking them off the wall.

As got the demonstrate and share so visitors could take something away.

I did felt needle cases. I did the demo one and there were four made. Well three made their own and the fourth was a little boy who told me he was not allowed to touch pins or needles, so he designed and I sewed. 

The blue in the middle is mine, with cut out felt flowers, to the left the flowers are pre- formed ribbon flowers I bought and to the right three cut felt flowers and letter beads that were the little boy's mother and father.

Other crafts on offer were candle making, cross stitch, sewn cards, crochet and a drawing class. 

BFF SAL 24 a bit of everything

 brown to start till my eye were fed up with that. Then green, that is the last of the green done and then onto the light pink.

to see my BFF's progress (once shared) Click HERE

We anticipate a RAL for next week. 

Sunday Stitchings 31.05.2026

 More brown, a touch of black and some pale grey foreground shading.

The kittens are very close to being completed. However there is quite a bit of blanket to go.

No BFF session this week

 so I decided to fix the miscount on the RAL stitch, and add one more colour.

Not sure when I will pick it up again but there is no urgency to this.

Sewing one over one

 makes the thread go a long way. This is one full skein into this pattern. Using Variegated thread.

It runs from a dark grey through a brown to a purple red and a mid then light brown.  Not that it is showing up all that well here.

 

I have ten skeins of this thread and am interested to see how much it takes to finish. The pattern came with estimated thread requirements for different stitch counts. 

for 18 Count it suggests  18 skeins

for 16 Count add one to make it 19

and for 14 count you need 23.

If I have measured correctly (by stitching a row and measuring it) I am working on 30 count (might be 32 as neither my counting nor measuring are perfect) and I am hoping 10 will be enough.

Sunday Stitchings special 24.05.2026

 why special? Well most people were on the tech option today as there was a special multi stake conference for the UK and Northern Ireland.

A live broadcast via You Tube. 

It was slotted for two hours but was not quite as long as anticipated. However, it did give me a bit more stitching time than usual and after a few stitches of grey I felt up to doing some brown.

Two shades of brown and it feels like a lot of filling was achieved.

Because of the self imposed "when to stitch" time restrictions there are still several weeks worth of stitching to go I think.  Still I am already contemplating the question of what next, is there going to be a designated next at all.  Originally the Sunday stitching was something to take to church and work on in the Relief Society room whilst listening to the talks and avoiding the migraine inducing lights in the chapel.  Things have changed due to my parents health and attendance is via Zoom at the moment.

So I control the lights now. That an all my crafting stuff is available to keep my hands busy so my brain can focus.

Not the time to decide just yet but soon?

Charity Shop Frame

 and mount for £1 and I thought maybe I know what might fit in that.

Brought it home and fit it did.

And now it is on the wall.

You might recognise it as BFF SAL 14 (and currently on number 24 , just wow!) Click HERE for details of the finish and pattern. As that is quicker for me than typing it in again.

BFF SAL 24 brown

one of the missing browns.

Oddly my BFF and I were working on the same shade, the symbol sounding like a yoga pose, the downward triangle.

The initial stitches went in as fillers between previous stitches, that was nice. Then they moved into areas that did not have that framework. That was a little bit more work. There are still stitches to go in that shade but my eyes were tired of them before our designated time was up. 

There were two stitches in "sideways lollypop" which symbol  lead to the earworm of the Oh lollypop lolly lolly pop song.

Being a good friend I shared!

Click HERE for my BFF's update.