Needle Progress Report- 4.20.23

 I am happy to report that I HAVE something to report.  LOL.  Little things to report but it IS progress.

First up is a photo of my Blackwork Stitch A Long (SAL).  Can you believe that this is 16 weeks worth of progress?  

Overall I am happy with how I am doing on this.  First I'm happy that I am keeping up on it but also I'm happy that what mistakes I made, I can't really see that well.  There is one block that I might redo but I will make that decision later.  This will not be my last Blackwork that I will be doing and I will probably sign up for another SAL if they offer it for free next year.

The other thing that I get to report on is my Christmas words cross stitch.  I had to order the DMC floss (still in shock that I didn't have all the colors for this) and it came is so I was able to pick up stitching again on it.

Sorry for the wrinkles in the picture.  I just quickly took it off the hoop and wanted to show you since it was a Thursday.  The sandalwood color was what I needed to order.  One thing that I like with this pattern is that the backstitching is done at the same time and in the same color as the words so I won't have to go back and do the backstitching.  Next to stitch will be some words in red that go above and around cookies and Seasons Greetings.

I tried to work on my UFO Rose of Sharon block but didn't really get to it this week.  I'll try and do some more on it this week.  I did take a break from stitching this week to go through some of my older patterns/magazines and decided what I would keep and what I would get rid of.  That is hard to do but I am getting a little better at it.  I mean, how many versions of Rose of Sharon blocks/patterns do I REALLY need?  It is more of a want than a need.  

That's about it to report for this week. I am still having around 4 cats that show up for breakfast.  At dinner time it is usually 3 but that's ok.  I sit out there with them in the morning and usually Mama Smidge and Sonny come up to get their morning pets.  Miss Callie lets me pet her but doesn't always stay around or come back in the evenings.  I still haven't seen the new litter from Mama Smidge but  they are around somewhere.

I will say goodbye now and get back to sorting through things and putting in some stitches into the Rose of Sharon quilt block.  One day it will be a finished block.

I hope everybody has a safe and great week.