First stitch of the year! Blessing Stitch 2026

 We are Blessed - Teresa Kogut & Chantelle 141

Teresa Kogut and Chantelle 141 collaborated on a blessing stitch for January 2026. It's a round stitch by Teresa on a little drum created by Chantelle.  It's sticking cute!

I was lucky enough to get one of the first batch of kits that went out and stitched it up right away.

I will wait to finish it until I watch the YouTube LIVE's from Chantelle 141 on Jan. 20 & 27 at 7pm EST.

Stitched 1/2 on 36 ct. Mica from Cedar River Linen using all the called for flosses.

January - WIP List

 Horror of horrors!  I now have a list of WIPS.  I used to work on 3 at a time, one large year-long stitch, one larger stitch and one small stitch at a time. Not any more!  These are all projects that have been started.  All are listed as part of my 2026 WIPGO.  Several are part of year-long SALS.  As I finish some of the smaller ones, I will substitute a new start.

Here's my current WIP list:

1. Facebook SAL: Watergarden - Martina Roseberg/Chatelaine
2. Nativity Tiny Town - Cecelia Turner/Heart in Hand
3. Dwelling Place - Teresa Kogut
4. Discord USA 250 SAL:  Lucy to Henry & Henry to Lucy - Beth Twist/Heartstring Samplery & Paulette Stewart/Plum Street
5. Discord USA 250 SAL: America the Beautiful - Stitching with the Housewives
6. Discord Square a day SAL:  Halloween HiJinx - Carolyn Manning
7. January Blessing SAL:  We are Blessed - Teresa Kogut & Chantelle 141
8. Seasons in the Garden - Jeannette Douglas
9. Tired Trio - Paulette Stewart/Plum Street
10. HOME wreath signs - Stitching with the Housewives
11. The Garden Trellis - Carolyn Manning
12. Friend SAL:  Cardinal Points - LongDog
13. 12 Monthly Minis - Lindsey Weight/Primrose
14. Spring Quaker - Lindsey Weight/Primrose
15. Snowmen Word Swap - Stitching with the Housewives
16. Friend SAL:  Christmas Garden - Blackbird

I will prepare a WIP movie to capture the starting progress of each project in the near future and will post a link here.

DotDot Goose Discord Group

 I joined another cross stitch discord group hosted by Dot Dot Goose. 

If you'd like to join us here is an invite link.  https://discord.gg/78RqE73QMj

(If you don't have a discord account, you'll need to create one first.)

You'll be dropped into the server in a text channel (#) where you can type messages and post items.  Please look around the server.  There are several voice channels and several text pages.  You can usually find some people online in the voice channels early in the morning, late afternoon, evening, and during the night.   Please feel free to stop in.  You don't need to turn on your camera or microphone if you don't want to.  

There are many events running with many options for you to choose from like sals, smalls exchanges, challenges, meeting times, location maps, birthday greetings, etc.  You can see all of them under the Events (calendar icon).  Make sure you click on the event to see the full description.  You can take part in any or all events.  Click interested and you will get a reminder email before the event starts.

Time Off until Jan 1, 2026

I'm still alive!

My intentions were to bring the blog up to date for the end of the year, but I think I'm just going to move on and look ahead instead of behind.  If I get some free time, I may still do an End of Year movie showing some of the FFOs not posted in the blog.  I'll also post the statistics for the end of year.

During my time away, I did some model stitches, worked on some baby quilts, and a lot of stitching was done with the folks on the new discord group I joined. I blame them totally for my hiatus from the blog.  More about that later! I'll post it separately.

Halloween HiJinx - Carolyn Manning (WIP)

 I started the Halloween HiJinx by Carolyn Manning on October 1st.  I am doing this with my discord groups.  We are stitching one square a day. 

I used 36 ct. Sepia Sorcery fabric from Fiberlicious and the called for DMC flosses.

Here is my progress. I am loving the fabric!

Jack-O'-Lantern Jumble - Just CrossStitch Summer 2025 Pg. 70-72

 I've been working on the Jack-O'-Lantern Jumble from Just CrossStitch Summer 2025 Pg. 70-72.

I started this 15-sided object as part of a biscornu SAL in one of my stitching discord groups.  Little did I know it would take a little bit longer than I thought. I am currently stitching on the beads before I attach the buttons.  I will have it done by Halloween for sure.

Bead prep

 I want to make some little zipper pulls for an few upcoming retreats.  Here is my prep where I am auditioning different arrangements of beads. I'm not showing the completed objects as you might be going to the retreat! LOL!