2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - The Back and Final Post

Welcome to the final post of the NYE Mystery SAL! I want to thank you all for stitching along with me - sometimes literally as I wasn't always up to date with the SAL myself but as you can see below I did manage to finish on time! I have had so much fun seeing all of your versions - and new people joining in now and then too!  I hope to see many more of you jump in as you find the time in your busy schedules - NYE landing in the middle of the week certainly didn't help with having much time!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 32

Welcome to the 32nd and final part of the NYE Mystery SAL! I hope you have had as much fun as I have, it's been quite the journey this time what with having over double the number of posts than usual! I also hope you are happy with the result of your efforts! I can't wait to see your final pictures - I'm so excited!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 31

Welcome to the 31st part of the NYE Mystery SAL! After this part there are just 92 stitches left! Fortunately for this part there are only 88 - a number you will have seen pop up quite a lot this SAL as the aim *was* to mainly have 88 as the stitch count. It's nice when you can mostly do as planned, though I would have preferred not to have had those two very big stitch counts in the mix, especially as I could have had more stitches in the first few parts instead. Hopefully they were not too daunting - I know I was able to get them stitched within the 4 hours between patterns - I hope more of you were too! I'm actually a bit sad right now - it's almost finished - but then again I'm happy it's almost over as I can't wait to see your versions finished!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 30

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Welcome to the 30th part of the NYE Mystery SAL! When this post gets published it will be midnight for me so the New year will have started - I'll be writing another post later in the day but for now I want to wish you all the best for 2020, may you be as healthy as you can be, may finances work out - even if things are not as easy as you'd like, and most of all may you have a wonderful stitching year! At the same time we have reached another milestone for this SAL: the last three parts... just two more pattern posts for the front after this one, then two more posts to round things off completely. There will be more today, but I'll tell more in a later post.

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 29

Welcome to the 29th part of the NYE Mystery SAL! Sorry for the second delay of the day! I dozed off after dinner and didn't wake up till just now - the nap was unplanned, but apparently needed. While I was stitching part 28 it occurred to me how nice it is to finish off the shorter bits that have been parked all over my embroidery (and suddenly clearing up space when a lot happen at once) as it did when I was doing part 28 - "only" have 13 parked threads left - I had 19 before I started part 28.

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 28

Welcome to the 28th part of the NYE Mystery SAL! As I'm sitting here stitching along with you I keep getting the delightful *cough* sounds of a banger going off just outside the window - even though I know there are kids out there doing stupid things with fireworks I still jump out of my skin every time a louder one goes off. I will be glad when it's the second of January and things quieten down again! I'm sorry it's a little late - it took a moment to feel ok after the last series of bangs :(

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 27

Welcome to the 27th part of the NYE Mystery SAL! Hopefully the last part was a nice easy restful zoom (barring parked threads getting in the way - always a pain but worth not having to start and stop all the time) I'm not sure if you noticed how it suddenly brought the edge of the embroidery together making the line that much clearer to see.

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 26

Welcome to the 26th part of the NYE Mystery SAL! In 24 hours I will be giving the very last part of this SAL - there will be two more posts after that but they are not for the front pattern. I do hope you have been enjoying this SAL. I have been seeing some fun colours in the fb group! It's really fun to see both people who are just starting as well as people who are just about up to date with the latest pattern part all mixed together. Don't be afraid to jump in, even this far into things - remember not everyone stitches as fast and some people are taking things slow to make it last as long as possible - all ways are good ways to stitch this SAL!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 25

Welcome to the 25th part of the NYE Mystery SAL! When you have finished stitching this part there will be only 7 parts left! The end is getting closer... but you still have over a day to go! When you have finished stitching part 25 you will have stitched 2021 stitches! There are only 680 stitches left, so not too much to go still.

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 24

Welcome to the 24th part of the NYE Mystery SAL! The hecticness continued after my last post so I'm still behind on stitching - I still haven't stitched part 22 but I DID stitch part 23... I got *that* confused, I thought I was stitching part 22 - oh well... so pardon the confusing image below! Hopefully things are going better for you!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 23

Welcome to the 23rd part of the NYE Mystery SAL! Today has been pretty hectic so I have again had to resort to a picture for this post - best laid plans and all that... hopefully your stitching plans are doing a bit better than mine!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 22

Welcome to the 22nd part of the NYE Mystery SAL! Great news! When you have finished a third of this part you will be two thirds of the way with stitching this SAL! Isn't that awesome?! I think some of you are starting to get close with ideas as to where this ends up but even so... I think you will be surprised with the ending I have planned!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 21

Welcome to the 21st part of the NYE Mystery SAL! Having just finished a bit of ripping on part 20, the top left stalk and bud as I can't count accurately and did five stitches on the stalk instead of six. *Sigh*. On the plus side it showed me that I'd completely failed to see the sneaky single stitch on the curved bits so I was able to go back and add a little note about that in the pattern - why say something now when it was for part 20? Because I wanted to show a bit of my process of how I do things. I make the post, then stitch that bit as my photo is needed for the next part. Because I work ahead I can spot things I didn't notice when looking for the stitches for the pattern notes. So I basically work in order of when I need things.

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 20

Welcome to the 20th part of the NYE Mystery SAL! Goodness there are so many parts done now! There are still twelve to go too - which means there are just two days left from now - not that long really, to do all the stitching that needs doing. I'm certain the stitching will be done in time - and I don't just mean mine hehe.

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 19

Welcome to the nineteenth part of the NYE Mystery SAL! I hope is going well with the stitching! I also hope that my weird filenames aren't bothering too many of you, it's unfortunate as I prefer to have nice neat names that are all the same within a SAL but I noticed people trying to get sneak peeks of patterns so I have to make weird ones that people can't guess so all they get is a big fat nope when they try to look ahead. I hope I don't run out of ideas before I run out of patterns!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 18

Welcome to the eighteenth part of the NYE Mystery SAL! Hopefully you are having fun with the SAL - who's worked out what it's going to be yet? Let me know either here or in the fb group! It's been a few parts since I last gave the total stitches so I think I shall do that now: When you have finished stitching this part you will be at 1397 stitches and still have 1304 stitches left, so you will pass the half way mark of stitches while you stitch part 18!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 17

Welcome to the seventeenth part of the NYE Mystery SAL! Those of you who are using sparkly thread will notice that it's getting quite sparkly by now and there is still more sparkle to be added! Only 16 stitches this time but it will help the corners sparkle just that bit more (and made me regret not using 4 lots of thread rather than just one at a time for the border - oh well. If you are in the fb group and haven't voted on the poll to see what you think the white shapes will become in the end it's not too late to do so! I've been quite amused by some of the answers - you will see why eventually!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 16

Welcome to the sixteenth part of the NYE Mystery SAL! When you have done this part you will be halfway! When I woke up this morning I discovered that people had been stitching up a storm while I'd been sleeping - great job everyone! All of the different colours being used look fantastic - I am looking forwards to seeing them finished!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 15

Welcome to the fifteenth part of the NYE Mystery SAL! Day three is starting and with it a new pattern for you to stitch! After a couple of parts with just one colour you get a part with two colours, and in the same bit of pattern too! I look forward to seeing how this part changes your own versions!

2019/2020 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 14

Welcome to the fourteenth part of the NYE Mystery SAL! This is the last post of the second day of Mystery mayhem! There are still 3 more days to go after today so still plenty of time to catch up with stitching - it's easier when you can set your own pace so if you are "behind" you can see that you do actually have a bit of a benefit to it!