Love your progress on your wips. Happy stitching!

Love your progress on your wips. Happy stitching!

I would keep stitching on the one with half stitches. It will give it dimension, texture, it's back ground and will be shadowy. I have piece I did years ago, I truly love it, it has back ground trees , half stitches, looks great

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Garden. I love that Christmas woodlands piece. I think that you should put it in time out and decide next year what to do with it. If you want to decide this year, I think you should start over because I think your issues with it will make you unhappy even after it is finished. The Cat Alphabet is so cute! ☺️. Sorry that your vacation is over but it’s nice that you can ease into work a bit.

Santa stitch suggestions: For the sky: Suggest make the sky with whole stitches. Go back over with the top leg. If adding the top leg, makes the sky too dark, try using a shade lighter on top. Three suggestions for the miscount: 1) Find a place that you are certain is correct. Count past the tree and continue. That might help you find your error. 2) Spot check every 30 or 40 blocks (10x10 stitches-check the entire block) to see if the stitching is still correct. You should be able to pinpoint where the error is by doing that without too much difficulty because when you get to a block 30 or 40 stitches away that’s incorrect, just backtrack by 10 x 10 blocks. 3) Mail the piece and a copy of the pattern used so far to a friend to hunt for the error.

Love some knitting thrown in, need the motivation to get back to it !! Thx

Summer montage is beautiful! That rose could stand on its own. How big will that stitch be when totally completed?

I’ve never heard or even thought about what direction the half stitches should be placed. My 1/2 stitch lays opposite from the second leg of my full cross.

The comic strip is funny. I laugh every time I see the "Buying Cross Stitch Like I'm An Immortal" pattern.

Hi Carolyn I am glad that you are going to finish Christmas Dinner. Love your WIPS - I miss seeing Cat Alphabet. Take Care & Happy Stitching ❤️🤗🙏☕️🧵🪡🧵❤️

So cute the comic.and yay to continuing on! And summer montage love it! Oh so thankful your friend is doing well. Been there and hope never again. Daleen and I messaged a lot the past few yrs, she was a special soul. A gracious kind person. So so sad.

I’m glad you’re going to finish Christmas Dinner ! I think you will be so happy when it’s done !

So good to see you again. Great progress on Beautiful girl, I have a couple of those charts with different sayings. Sorry for your loss I never watched her, but I know her loss will be felt by many. Happy stitching Patty

Hi Carolyn. Thank you for the update. Great progress! Love the rose. I'm happy you're pushing through with Christmas Dinner! So sorry for your loss. xx⚘️

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You got a frog! I am going to ask my mother if she has an extra one…so useful.🦉🧵🌞🔆☀️

Sorry for the loss to the community

Lovely stitching. I am glad you are keeping Christmas Dinner. Keeping my Hope's up that you can finish your beautiful rose block by the end of summer.

I adored the Snoopy cartoon!

Very sorry for the community's loss ;( Looking forward to seeing Halloween Window.

Your stitching looks so good. You've made some great progress. I am so glad you are continuing with Christmas dinner. I'm very sorry for your loss.

Such sad news, Daleen will be missed

That is so sad! Sorry for your loss!

I am so sorry on the loss of Daleen. Everyone has left such kind words in her memory, I wish I had known her. All your stitching looks fantastic. Sorry your summer month is over, but goodness, you accomplished a lot! Happy stitching, my friend. Hugs. ❤

Please accept my sincere condolences on the passing of Daleen.

Beautiful girl is looking so good, your friend will so love it. I’m so sorry to hear about Daleen.

I order annies keepers on Etsy 100 count. I love them. So easy to pull off 1 thread when stitching. I found out about them from you.

It's so sad to hear about Daleen. She was a wonderful woman. Beautiful Girl is so pretty. I'm sure your friend will love it. 💜💜💜

Hi Carolyn are you going to shop with me with needle market in August.

So sorry for your loss of your friend. The rose on Summer Montage is so beautiful. I wish I had a real rose that color. That color is so hard to find in real life. Happy Stitching.

I've heard that frogs are about the size to fit into cup holders. They make stitchy baskets out of picnic baskets that have cup holders on them and put the frogs in there to hold them. I still love that Halloween window. I'm waiting for payday to try to get it. My heart goes out to Daleen's family. Thank you for sharing the news. She will be missed.

I love that you are reconsidering some of your projects and their "expected finish dates." Sometimes life gets in the way of our hobby and that is okay. I have found myself doing way less stitching and a little bit more reading, but walking has increased and then just resting. I am sometimes sad not to be stitching, but my physical and mental health are enjoying the reprieve. As soothing as stitching can be, sometimes doing absolutely nothing is the balm for my soul. If you really love Christmas Dinner, restart.... on April Fools Day next year. Happy stitching, dear friend!

RIP Daleen, such a wonderful gentle lady😢.

Carolyn, that buck that buck is so sweet looking. Everything looks great. ❤ take care

So sorry for your loss.

Hi sweet friend! So sorry your month off is over already but I know you were very productive during that month. Summer Montage is looking so gorgeous. The rose looks real. Great progress on Beautiful Girl. I have moved most of my overdyed flosses to the new house since I have all the stuff I am going to work on until September pulled. I am so far behind due to not stitching for nearly 3 weeks in June and July due to the fire, and then with Baby passing I didn't stitch a couple of days. I got her ashes back this week in a beautiful wood carved box along with her paw print engraved on a keyring with her birth and death dates on the back along with the Rainbow Bridge verse on a bookmark and a really nice card with a packet of wildflower seeds. Congrats on the green scissor frog. If you can find the right size cup or short vase, that works well for holding the frog so the tips don't scratch things. I love the mouse wedding photo on the front of TWCS so looking forward to the flip through. I am having a hard time coming up with something for over the Mountains but may end up using a bird of some type. So sorry to hear about a fellow floss tuber who passed. Hugs to you. Love and hugs to you and the boys. Happy stitching and don't get too bored in all your meetings. Dawn

Glad to catch up with you. I do fractional stitches as best as the pattern shows or the picture shows, glad to know there isn't a wrong way. So sorry to hear of a fellow stitcher has passed to the stitching heaven, prayers for all. Until next time take care.

My first visit! Love your stitching. And Simon! I'm a cat mom too!

Congratulations on your finish! I absolutely love your ABC cat embroidery piece. Yes your stitched cat looks like your own cat. Great floss tube.

I love me a garden.

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Thanks for sharing. As for the restart, do whatever makes you happy. My half stitches are always the bottom leg of the stitch. As long as you are consistent it doesn't matter what you do. Garden

Summer is so nice to get out in the garden 😊

I didn’t know about half stitches going the way of the top leg. I’ve always done half stitches like you did. I wouldn’t worry about the extra row. If it was my project, I would not restart it. But it’s your choice.

I was going to suggest you restart it in a different area like right to left

Don't restart it. I think you may not see your extra row anyway.

Oh what great progress on Cat Alphabet. I love seeing it come out. Great WIPs. I would say put the Christmas one away for a while then revisit. I personally start things over if i dont like the fabric or feel like i cant fudge it. You dont like the garden chart? Or just wont do it? I would love to add to my stash more jan hicks charts.

I would not restart your x stitch. Love the meditation garden.

Carolyn, hi your rose is beautiful and I watch Sarah's channel and love seeing you two's Montage's. Your ABC cats is so pretty. I am a dog lover but did have a cat who lived 18 years old. He was the best and can't replace him. My Mugsey ❤. But this chart is calling me. Thanks