2020/2021 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 9

Welcome to part nine of the NYE Mystery SAL! I think that after today's part you can see that colour C is a bit of the star of this show — not the only star of course, but it is showing up a lot lately, isn't it? I do hope you like where this is going!

2020/2021 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 8

Welcome to part eight of the NYE Mystery SAL! It's been lovely seeing all of your progress pictures in the FB Mystery group! It's a lot of fun seeing things progress with the colours you are all using! Having given you the most stitches of this SAL in part six, I am now giving you the least stitches in this SAL! From now on it's mostly 68 stitches per part, with a few 64 stitch parts for variation.

2020/2021 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 7

Welcome to part seven of the NYE Mystery SAL! And just like that we will have hit the halfway point after finishing this part! How wonderful it that?! There is still plenty of space left to get some stitches in, so you don't have any worries there.

2020/2021 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 6

Welcome to the sixth part of the NYE Mystery SAL! How is it going with the stitching? This time you are getting more stitches than usual — the most you will get in the entire SAL in fact! Do remember to show your progress in the FB group (linked at the bottom of the page)! There is no such thing as spamming the group with photos when you are showing us updates after you have finished stitching each part — if anything it helps keep others going, and some years we have had a friendly competition as to who would post first! All good fun!

2020/2021 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 5

Welcome to the fifth part of the NYE Mystery SAL! If you are reading this at the time it's posted I will be snug in my bed dreaming up new patterns… or something nice I hope anyway! I hope you take care with counting this time, it's needed to avoid issues later.

2020/2021 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 4

Welcome to the fourth part of the NYE Mystery SAL! I'm sure you have noticed by now that we are building a castle — what else could the stitches so far mean? Surely not something else entirely?! Admittedly you would not be wrong to wonder if I was leading you on what the English call “A wild goose chase” after all this IS a mystery SAL!

2020/2021 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 3

Welcome to the third part of the NYE Mystery SAL! I hope you enjoyed adding the shape in part two! The question now is: “Will it stay that way?” Naturally I won't be telling you that... yet... or will I? Nah, I won't ! Bwhahaha! (Yeah, OK, it's not a very good evil laugh but at the time I was writing this I hadn't yet had enough coffee to do better)

2020/2021 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 2

Welcome to part two of the NYE Mystery SAL! I hope part one didn't give too many troubles, but I do like to give you a firm centre and edge to a pattern in the first part to get you off to a good start! Remember I don't ask you to do anything I won't do myself with these mysteries, so while occasionally challenging at first it's all to your stitching benefit later!

2020/2021 NYE Mystery SAL - Part 1

Welcome to the first part of the NYE Mystery SAL! I hope you are ready for the mayhem that's to follow! I'm sure you are just as ready as I am to say goodbye to 2020 and what better way to do it than while stitching?! If you are new to the high speed mystery SALs that I host then I suggest having a look at the **Mystery SAL Tips** before starting just to help you start right. If you are only just finding this SAL, you can find the information post here.

500 posts!

This is post 500 of this year! I can't believe I've done so many, it's more than I've done in any of the previous years by a long shot. At this time my blog has 1344 published posts, so you can see that I have done more than a third just this year. 2020 has been the year of celebrating the blog's tenth anniversary and I think I have managed to do that — and more!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 18 - Final Post

Welcome back for the final post of the eighteenth Mini Magical Mystery SAL! This post is a final post showing my stitching of part fourteen. I do hope you all had fun! I have loved seeing your stitching in the mystery Facebook group! I had hoped to show you all of my minis completed in this post, but as things have been pretty hectic as always in the run up to Christmas, so I didn't have time in the end.

Jodyri Advent - Christmas Day and Overview

Welcome to the final post for my Jodyri Designs Advent “box” and my Harry Potter Lego advent calendar. This year the Jodyri Advent Box was paid for by donations while the Lego Advent Calendar was given to me by my fiancé. In this post I'll be showing what I got since my last post which I posted on the 28th of December. Spoilers after the “jump” if you are seeing this on the home page.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 18 - Part 14

Welcome back for day fourteen of the eighteenth round of mini 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 and I can't wait to see the results of your mystery stitching! As you will have read this is the final Mini Magical Mystery — not just for 2020 but going forward I don't have any planned. I need a break from daily posts, and I didn't expect to still be doing these in December when I started off in March, but then I don't think anyone did. Tomorrow the NYE Mystery SAL starts and with that the start of the end of the year will happen! Yay!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 18 - Part 13

Welcome back for day thirteen of the eighteenth round of mini mystery stitching! It feels very strange to be saying this on a Monday as normally part thirteen is given on a Saturday, but it's time for the penultimate part of the final Mini Magical Mystery for 2020!

Jodyri Advent - Week 4

Welcome to the fourth week's post for my Jodyri Designs Advent “box” and my Harry Potter Lego advent calendar. This year the Jodyri Advent Box was paid for by donations while the Lego Advent Calendar was given to me by my fiancé. In this post I'll be showing what I got since my last post which I posted on the 20th of December. Spoilers after the “jump” if you are seeing this on the home page.

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 18 - Part 12

Welcome back for day twelve of the eighteenth round of mini mystery stitching! I hope you had a wonderful two days however you celebrated them — or not as the case may be! I had a good rest and am ready for the last push to the New Year and beyond!

Merry Boxing Day!

I was planning on making this post yesterday but my body decided otherwise and demanded rest after working very hard in the days before getting everything Christmas ready in the house. So I spent the afternoon splatted on the sofa instead of stitching as planned since the boys always vanish with their new things after lunch. On the plus side youngest made sure the veggies and potatoes were prepped and oldest made the stuffing so all I had to do was baste the turkey now and then. I had a good rest, and I am feeling much better today.

NFSAL 2020 - December

 

Welcome to the final part of this year's NFSAL posts! It's been a fun year for this SAL, though I haven't been able to stitch them as often as I'd liked. Carla Eldridge was going to do the stitching this year but work and corona got in the way of her being able to keep up, so I did the best I could when I could. Next year I'll be doing the stitching myself because corona is still out there and Carla is still working really hard so doesn't have the time. I hope Carla does find stitching time soon, it's good for the soul!

Mini Magical Mystery SAL 18 - Part 11

Welcome back for day eleven of the eighteenth round of mini mystery stitching! Because of Christmas and wanting some time with the kids I won't be posting new pattern parts tomorrow and Saturday as per the information post. I hope you have a wonderful Christmas or Yule or just a few quiet days depending on what you celebrate and when. Naturally the Orthodox Church won't be celebrating for another two weeks, so I'll try to remember to say the same then.

Advent Magical Mystery SAL 2020 - Final post and Back

Welcome to the final post of the Advent Magical Mystery SAL! I hope you like the end result of the mystery! Below you will find a pattern for an optional back with enough space to add your initials should you wish to do so, if you don't then you can just finish the bottom gold bar the same as the top one.