Mini Magical Mystery SAL 15 - Part 1

Welcome back for day one of the fifteenth round of mystery stitching! This is the first mystery that will not at some point give a part number that has the same number as the mystery number (so say part 7 of Mini Magical Mystery 7) - yes we've done that many! Which means I also need to start thinking about a second end pattern as I want to have a different end on my chain from the first one. If you wish to see/remind yourself what the first chain looks like you can see it here.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Final Post

 

Welcome back for the final post of the fourteenth Mini Magical Mystery SAL! Don't worry it's not over - the Mini Magical Mystery SAL 15 starts in an hour! This post is just a final post showing my stitching of part fourteen and what I'm planning to do with it.  I do hope you all had fun! I have loved seeing your stitching in the mystery Facebook group!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 14

  

Welcome back for day fourteen of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! This is also the final day of patterns for this SAL - I'll be back one more time to show my completed mystery tomorrow (an hour earlier than usual). I hope you had fun stitching! I can't wait to see the results of your mystery stitching! The next round of the Mini Magical Mystery will start tomorrow at noon as per the information post.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 13

Welcome back for day thirteen of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! I was a bit worried yesterday about my ability to stitch as around lunch time, shortly after making my daily post I had an itchy eye, which I rubbed because I thought it was a kamikaze eyelash - turned out that it wasn't but an eye infection - joy. Just over two hours later I was at the dr getting it looked at (lucky for me they had a cancellation otherwise it would have been the weekend dr I'd have had to go see... right next to the ER) and now I have a cream to try and get in my eye twice a day. The mornings are always a bit unpredictable with an infected eye but fortunately the cream is already doing its job and it's improving nicely. I was able to stitch as per usual with my morning coffee. The eye cream comes after I have written this post as I can't see for a bit after applying the cream.

Bookmark SAL - October

Welcome to the tenth part of the Bookmark SAL! This month there are many options available for how to stitch and finish this month's pattern! The pattern itself has four sizes on it - shown as three options because option three has two possible lengths, but you can do so much more with it!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 12

Welcome back for day twelve of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! Yesterday I bit the bullet and designed both the Mini Magical Mystery 15 and 16. I also got the information post up for the Mini Magical Mystery 15 and for the Autumn Magical Mystery SAL 2020! I made the names clicky so go look if you are curious!

The Next Mystery SAL: The Autumn Magical Mystery SAL 2020

Great news: There will be an Autumn Mystery SAL this year! This time I'm going to do it a little different - both from the usual weekend long one and from the summer one. It's going to last the entire month of November! That means 30 smaller parts instead of bigger chunks every four hours - and instead of the Mini Magical Mystery SALs that will probably still be ongoing by the time November comes around.  I'll be aiming for around 70 stitches a day keeping it doable for many and not too difficult to catch up on if you get behind a bit. I'm doing it like this to make sure I can deliver all of the pattern parts without getting too stressed and with the way my health has been this year it seemed like a better idea not to push myself too much.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 15 - Information Post

Hi and welcome to the fifteenth 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 previous Mini Magical Mysteries and has 300 stitches total. This mystery will start the Monday after the current mystery ends: 12th October. Please note that due to my health issues I may not be able to post links to fb on a daily basis - please bookmark this site in your browser, add yourself to the email notifications for a daily digest email, or add this site to your RSS feed (the link to add this to your RSS feed is right at the bottom of every page).

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 11

Welcome back for day eleven of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! I'm not sure what I was going to say today, being faced with the new interface for writing my blogs for a second day has thrown me off again - I wasn't looking forward to writing this post as I used to - I was dreading it and actively avoided doing the still to be done information posts as it was all just too much change for me. I like to be able to test the pdf links before I post for example - something I can only do with a workaround now instead of the nice old "test this link" button. The "jump" button has been hidden (and the image changed), but it used to be next to the picture link and has been replaced with a insert video link instead - much fun and games there too when I click the wrong thing... the list goes on but I don't want to bore you even more with the complaints but I do want to explain why it's putting me off so much.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 10

 

Welcome back for day ten of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! I've been completely thrown off today by blogger taking away the "Legacy" version - in other words they have forced me to change to the new mobile friendly (and desktop unfriendly) version of the blogger platform which I hate the look of so much I almost didn't write this post at all. If I was trying to use a mobile phone I'd be a happy camper but I'm not and this isn't a mobile phone - it's a rather larger device that couldn't fit in a pocket no matter how much you tried. It was fine as it was and the things that did need tweaking weren't or were made worse... *grump*. Any ways... it's day ten and that means just four more days till the next Mini Magical Mystery SAL starts - I need to get the post up for it AND for the Autumn Mystery that I noticed I hadn't finished writing - sorry about that! I am so forgetful nowadays *sigh*

Weavers Animals Band Sampler SAL - Part 10

Welcome to the tenth part of the Weavers Animals Band Sampler SAL! This month both sizes have about the same number of stitches but for different reasons. The standard size because it has the skinny border and the first few stitches of the next border and the small version because it has a wider skinny border than the standard size. Although the standard size has a few stitches of the next border in the pattern I won't be showing the final two (or one if you are doing the smaller version) borders till next month - just to keep the suspense going *grin*.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 9

Welcome back for day nine of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! Today I played four games of thread chicken on my version of the SAL - because all four threads that I use came close to the end two stitches before I'd finished stitching yesterday's part and I didn't want to start a new thread for just two stitches when I can eke out a few more and potentially avoid starting a third thread for each section later on. It's crazy I know, especially as this is DMC so not *that* expensive (though more than thrice that of the USA cost - it always makes me blink when people in the USA complain about paying 59 cents for a skein when we pay closer to two dollars.) but I still like to be frugal with my thread where possible even though I can't be bothered to start and stop my thread for every jump.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 8

Welcome back for day eight of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! As I was sitting here wondering what to write today the sirens went off as they always do on the first Monday of the month at midday - reminding me that I'd been lost in thought and it was now suddenly midday. It's an old relic from the WWII really, though it was started up a bit afterwards to make sure that the mechanical sirens still worked and to keep them in working order. Later it changed from hand cranked to electrically cranked and later still to digital recordings which rendered the need to test the sirens obsolete. People had complained that they were still being tested so long after the war and the siren testing was stopped for a while but it was started up again as people complained that it had stopped and also because people didn't know what it meant when the sirens were used locally to warn people when something went wrong like an overturned gas lorry (truck) and they should stay indoors till the air was safe to breath. I have to say that I missed the sirens when they were not happening, I wasn't the only one apparently. Any ways... enough short history! On to the reason for this (now very late) post...

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 7

Welcome back for day seven of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! Another halfway point has been reached - this time there is a LOT more space left than there have been in the last few SALs at this stage... will it remain this light and airy? Time will tell as always! Don't forget that I LOVE seeing your WIPS! It always brightens my day when you share your progress (and means I know people are joining in *wink*).

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 6

Welcome back for day six of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! Today is another quick part with only 16 stitches to add, just like for part five. Hopefully it will ease you into a nice quiet weekend or be a quick stitch between the hecticness of your weekend... or something in between... however your weekend is I hope you enjoy it!

Temperature SAL - October

Welcome to the very delayed tenth Temperature SAL post! I'm sorry it's so late but at least it's now up! Somehow despite being a finger short for stitching due to having cut my left index finger while cooking dinner today (it's not a bad cut, just in an awkward place and doesn't like pressure) I managed to stitch this in under two hours! That's my fastest time yet!

Ornament of the Month 2020 - October

Welcome to the tenth Ornament of the Month for 2020! I'm running a little late - both the thread and the beads were contrary today and it didn't help that I'd cut my left index finger while cooking dinner today - it's not a fan of being used, so I had to hold the ornament without it. This month's colours of the month are white, yellow and variegated. As I don't want to stitch with white this year and all of the other ornaments are/will be solids I don't want to use the variegated option. In addition I've already done a yellow I decided to go with gold, which is kind of a yellow.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 5

Welcome back for day five of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! Somehow I managed to get all confused with the last diagonal stitching from yesterday's part and forgot to skip the first stitch - I then still managed to end up in the right place - by way of skipping a stitch between the third and the last square of the diagonal - all without noticing! I sat back, took my first sip of coffee and DID notice... yeah... It's fixed now, fortunately it was only six stitches.

Seasons SAL - Autumn

Welcome to the autumn edition of the Seasons SAL! This is also the final part of this SAL as we started with winter in January, went on to spring in April, and did summer in July. Rather to my surprise I managed to finish stitching this on time - I'd hoped to also fully finish it but I was just too tired and still need to stitch the Temperature SAL (which is why this post is first, not second as I'd said this morning).

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 14 - Part 4

Welcome back for day four of the fourteenth round of mystery stitching! One of the things I've noticed since my micro stroke in March is that I'm a bit less organised than I used to be - and I wasn't terribly organised before that hehe. With blog stuff I've got into a nice habit of doing stuff (and as you may have seen in the fb groups I have a calendar tracking stuff) so that's easy enough to remember even if I can't always stitch what I design in time. But for everything else I have to write it all down, including what I need to remember to do/bring or it's likely that I will forget. It isn't as bad as it was in the early days though, so I'll take the improvement for what it is. Things are slowly getting better.