Mini Magical Mystery SAL 9 - Part 8

Welcome back for day eight of the ninth round of mystery stitching! Having mentioned yesterday that we were past the half way point today I can tell you that there are only four parts left - the last part is Friday! Time has really flown this time!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 9 - Part 7

Welcome back for day seven of the ninth round of mystery stitching! I'm so used to part seven being the halfway point that I completely forgot that with this mystery being two parts shorter than usual the halfway point was at the end of stitching part six! So you are already halfway!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 9 - Part 6

Welcome back for day six of the ninth round of mystery stitching! Today's post is very, very late. After yesterday's bad night and day I was exhausted and today I slept right through my alarms - I managed to turn them off but I didn't actually wake up to do it. I woke up shortly after midday - my usual posting time - and made a post on fb so nobody would worry overly much. It generally takes me a while to do get up and as it was lunch time I was late with meds and had to deal with them first as well. And I needed coffee! In between all that I did the stitching for yesterday and today - I didn't want to be more behind and writing usually takes me longer than the stitching.

Bookmark SAL - July

Welcome to the seventh part of the Bookmark SAL! I'm sorry this post is also late. This month there are again two variations! I have given a pattern for use on perforated paper or plastic Aida, and I have given a version for use on any fabric. The reason being that the version for on plastic Aida includes cut out bits that you probably don't want to do on fabric. Not all areas are cut out as if you do that the bookmark would become too fragile and break quickly - so only a few spaces are cut, they are marked in black on the pattern.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 9 - Part 5

Welcome back for day five of the ninth round of mystery stitching! In case you missed it yesterday I thought I'd mention that I'd made a post with my plans for 2021 - you can find it here. Today's post is short, and without a photo - I had a bad night, and so far a bad day and stitching isn't possible right now.

2021 Plans

It's super early to be talking about this but never too early for me to start plotting. This is NOT an official information post - I won't be giving amounts for anything - I'm going to be dropping hints so you can perhaps not throw away something you might need.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 9 - Part 4

Welcome back for day four of the ninth round of mystery stitching! Today is my youngest's 17th birthday - he didn't want a special birthday dinner cooked by me (they usually get a choice of what they want to eat - and where if money allows) he wants to cook it himself. He's been dreaming of making KFC style chicken at home and has asked for a whole chicken for him to cut up and use for that. Who am I to complain about not having to cook? He's even going to go buy the things he needs for the meal himself which makes my life easier too. I can definitely tell he's missing the practical classes of culinary school!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 9 - Part 3

Welcome back for day three of the ninth round of mystery stitching! You will have noticed by now that if you'd not done part one correctly you'd have found out while stitching part two. Hopefully no ripping was required! Today we will continue down the path that was started on Monday.

Weavers Animals Band Sampler SAL - Part 7

Welcome to the seventh part of the Weavers Animals Band Sampler SAL! I'm afraid this is rather late, I'd fallen asleep on the sofa after dinner instead of finishing the programme I was watching and wanted to finish. This month the amount you get to stitch varies depending on your chosen size as for the people doing the standard size there is a border that is skipped for the small size. Both sizes will finish the current band and start at least one new band.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 9 - Part 2

Welcome back for day two of the ninth round of mystery stitching! I hope the unsymmetrical start didn't throw you off yesterday! The good news is that you will be able to continue with what you started so don't have to do a lot of counting today. I didn't get the backstitched outline completed last night as planned - I had to start it today and, as I have to get the post up on time, I had to stop stitching before it was finished. Stitching before sufficient coffee is a **very** bad idea so starting sooner isn't really an option.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 9 - Part 1

Welcome back for day one of the ninth round of mystery stitching! It's been fun seeing the embroideries of people who have had time to stitch and share their progress! This is the final round of mini mystery stitching before the slower than usual mayhem of a full sized mystery starts - because of when the Summer Magical Mystery SAL starts this one will be two parts shorter than usual.

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?

Ornament of the Month 2020 - July

Welcome to the seventh Ornament of the Month for 2020! This month I used a few beads - they are all fixed in place using a full cross stitch going through the bead twice - some X's are bigger than others, so please look carefully before doing the stitching. This month's colours of the month are green, russet, and red. I had already used red and green so decided to use russet, except I didn't have anything on hand that was orangey red enough so I went with copper instead as that too is more orangey than brown - though sometimes it's a bit more pink. Mine of course had to go more towards pink hehehe.

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.

Temperature SAL - July

Welcome to the seventh Temperature SAL post! And all of a sudden it's July! How did that happen? June was a month of unexpectedly low temperatures followed by some rather hot ones but fortunately not so hot that I had to get out the orange yet, but I did have some days of the darker yellow to contend with. The nice bit is that the end of June brought us to the exact centre of the pattern! It will be interesting to see what the next six months bring other than more rain hehe.

Seasons SAL - Summer

Welcome to the summer edition of the Seasons SAL! Last time I was not able to get the pattern stitched completely but somehow I did manage this time so you not only get to see the last one completed but this one too!

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!