Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Final Post

Welcome back for the final post of the eighth Mini Magical Mystery SAL! Don't worry it's not over - the Mini Magical Mystery SAL 9 starts in an hour! This post is just a final post showing my stitching of part fourteen and it added to the ever growing chain.  I do hope you all had fun! I have loved seeing your stitching in the Facebook group! (Remember these are mysteries so belong in the Mystery group, even if you are also a member of the main SAL group).

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 14

Welcome back for day fourteen of the eighth round of mystery stitching! This is also the final day of patterns for this SAL - I'll be back one more time to show what I have made tomorrow (an hour earlier than usual). The next round of the Mini Magical Mystery will start tomorrow at noon as per the information post. This time no surprise extra parts - that was a one off last time.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 13

Welcome back for day thirteen of the eighth round of mystery stitching! It's the penultimate part of the pattern! I'm not sure if you've noticed but I love that word - and quite a few others like discombobulate - but this one is one I can use frequently. In Dutch it's "voorlaaste" which directly translated is "before last" - but of course you can never really directly translate things and still get the full meaning across. If you aren't in an English speaking country - or even if you do and you have a local word - does your language have a word/term that means the same?

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 12

Welcome back for day twelve of the eighth round of mystery stitching! I've just realised that I have just two short weeks to finish making all the pdfs for the Summer Mystery SAL, which is a bit more work than the ones for the Mini SALs as I'm splitting up the pattern as I make the pdfs and for the Mini SALs I make the parts as I create. A whole different process! I usually do it all a lot sooner but ill health has slowed things down - but not so much that I won't be ready on time!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 11

Welcome back for day eleven of the eighth round of mystery stitching! It's been good stitching weather recently - not too cold but too wet to go out and do stuff in the garden. At least the rain was good for me to be able to do the June/July fertiliser for the apple tree and the bay tree, the granules were fully dissolved within the hour.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 10

Welcome back for day ten of the eighth round of mystery stitching!  It's been fun seeing the flurry of photos Sandra made while stitching the seventh Mini Magical Mystery - it only took a day of stitching for both the mystery stitched as a mystery and a back that was stitched using the final pattern. They both look fantastic! After today there are only four more parts left - it's a good thing there is the next Mini Magical Mystery SAL to look forward to!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 9

Welcome back for day nine of the eighth round of mystery stitching! I've been feeling better over the last few days despite the weather being so changeable - odd as normally that sets things off, but I'm not complaining, I'm merely surprised. The timing was good though as I still have a lot of stitching to get done for the monthly posts on the first of the month - I haven't even looked at the Temperature SAL (except to borrow the yellow hehehe). There won't be a post tonight as I've run out of SALs to post on Tuesday's but you get the Temperature SAL and the Seasons SAL tomorrow as it's then the first of the month.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 8

Welcome back for day eight of the eighth round of mystery stitching! I woke up this morning to the sounds of kids playing outside at a time they shouldn't be and realised that the primary school across the road was having the end of school year activities. It made me wonder how they did stuff for the year eight students who would be going on to secondary (high) school in September. My kids went to that school so I know that normally they go on a week-long camp to the seaside, which was obviously not possible this year. The yearly play the kids did and the Gala ball with the students arriving in batches in fancy cars/on a Harley also couldn't happen. I am sad this year's kids will miss out on all that, not just at this school but all primary schools where most kids spend years looking forward to this stuff. Deep thoughts so soon after waking up. On to something brighter!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 7

Welcome back for day seven of the eighth round of mystery stitching! We are at the halfway point of this mystery! Tomorrow the information post for the next mystery will go up - I think I set it to go up an hour after the daily pattern post. Then at the end of that mystery we get the Summer Magical Mystery - roughly three times the stitches per day for two weeks but it should be good fun!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 6

Welcome back for day six of the eighth round of mystery stitching! Not much to say today really, all the excitement has happened for the week and my rheumatism is finally relenting a bit so with any luck I can sit and stitch today. No pond yet - first it was too wet, then too hot, and last night it rained cats and dogs - and I'm sure I saw a cow go past! - which of course means no digging today as the earth is too wet. Ah well... more stitching time for me!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 5

Welcome back for day five of the eighth round of mystery stitching! Sorry for being a little late, this took longer to write than anticipated. Yesterday the teachers of youngest's school finally showed up at midday - talk about making us wait! They did some set up before ringing the doorbell that included rolling out a red carpet and setting up an elbow height table. Then they rang the doorbell and started up some music on the portable speaker. Youngest got a face full of the contents of a party popper and a felt mortarboard put on his head. Then while he signed his diploma one of his teachers sang "you'll never walk alone". She can sing fortunately but as this was one of the songs played at my dad's funeral it always sets off the waterworks - it was a struggle not to cry and I'm sure if the teachers noticed then they probably thought it was proud mum stuff.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 4

Welcome back for day four of the eighth round of mystery stitching! Today we will be getting a delegation of teachers on our doorstep to do the alternate method of graduation here: a folded table at least 1.5m/6ft away from our front door and the rest is shrouded in mystery as it's all a surprise. All we know it will happen sometime between 9 am and midday - so far we have been waiting 1 1/2 hours for them to show up. The shopping has fortunately already arrived (Thursday is the day my online shopping arrives) as youngest and I both had a nightmare that everything happened at once.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 3

Welcome back for day three of the eighth round of mystery stitching! Today I was able to get some stitching done - I'm not all caught up yet but that's because I wanted to get this post up on time. I'm pretty sure you can wait till tomorrow to see part two stitched up hehe. My rheumatism is still being mean but not as mean as it's been the last two days which is why I was able to sit and stitch. Yay!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 2

Welcome back for day two of the eighth round of mystery stitching! I won't be showing any progress pictures today for the plain and simple reason that I wasn't able to start stitching. I'm currently having a flare up and sitting is too uncomfortable for me to sit very long - it's one of the many joys of having rheumatism. The good news is that posts can and will go up as per schedule - I can sit long enough to make them happen.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Part 1

Welcome back for day one of the eighth round of mystery stitching! It's been fun seeing the few people who have had time to stitch and share their progress - I'm starting to think that this project is slowly winding itself down as fewer people are stitching (or at least showing what they are stitching) but we will see - perhaps with the summer coming up more people will have time again. I hope so as its rather fun.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 8 - Information Post

Hi and welcome to the eighth information post for a Mini Magical Mystery SAL! With lockdowns easing, but still enforced/sensible for many people I'm continuing with another mystery to keep you stitching! This pattern is the same size as the other seven and has 300 stitches total. This mystery will start the day after the current mystery ends: 22nd June.