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[@FrostyXStitch]

Smokey is lovely ❣ Enjoy your summer stitching 🪡🧵🥰

[@deborahmclaughlin776]

I kept hearing your cat and I'm looking around thinking it's mine lol

[@mihaela.929]

Your weekly progress this time is my progress for the last two months. You have stitched quite a lot, especially on the new Mira and she looks great. The teapot is so so beautiful, this time you made me decide: I will buy this pattern and I will stitch it as a present. Happy stitching!

[@vickisimer7003]

You got a lot of stitching done last week. Great job!

[@lisadolson6598]

Hi Sarah! I always enjoy getting to see your projects and hearing your plans. Hope you have a lovely week of stitching!

[@crossstitchingwithmildred]

I love the project with the roses!! ❤

[@jackietrembley9827]

Hi Sarah! Your start on the Mirabilia looks great!

[@flossabilities]

Hi!! Omg the cat is soo cute! Great start on your new Mira. That’s going to be stunning on that fabric! 🧵💗

[@lynncordova8169]

Your Rose's project is wonderful. I love the colors. Smokey is a cutie.😊

[@waldoknits]

You have inspired me. I'll be stitching the Tour de France, but not officially. 3500 full cross, 18 ct, background, Bibliodame by HAED. Thank you.

[@StitchinMommy]

Sounds great! How has your Tour de France stitching be going so far? Thankfully, I've managed to stay caught up, which feels really good!

[@kathryntymonko3408]

I decided to have a Christmas in July start. Then I decided to do Tour de France using that start. It's not full coverage but 3000 stitches will be a wonderful beginning. So it won't be official but hopefully both of us can keep up.

[@zook717]

Smokey was so stinkin cute today! I love her so much! Thanks for the head’s up about Tour de France - I’ll have to get the new calendar. You got so much done on your new starts! They look fantastic!

[@highwaystitchercoletteking5633]

Smokey was the center of attention for sure! I was waiting for her to get tangled up in the fishing pole line. 😂 Your new Mira is looking gorgeous! Her face is beautiful! The Ranunculas (never could spell that word!) are beautiful too. Hope you get the time you want to stitch this week. And have fun visiting your nieces! 🤗💕

[@jillpoteat2974]

Your cross stitch this time is so pretty. I enjoy seeing your videos. Thanks for letting us see Smokey again. It has the most beautiful gray fur. I love it. Have a great rest of the week and see you soon.

[@sandykalmeyer9523]

Smoky is such a sweetie! Always love to see a Mirabillia face come to life. Beautiful. It’s 6 months till Christmas and the new year. Yikes😳. We still have plenty of 2024 to stitch in, but was wondering as I worked on my Turtles yesterday if there might be a new temperature chart in the works.

[@StitchinMommy]

I do have another Temperature design I'm planning. Summer is usually too crazy to do much designing, so hopefully I can start getting it plotted out when school starts back up. :)

[@saleemylva]

So nice to see someone else starting in the centre, and focusing on one colour at a time as much as possible. I do have multiple projects going but wouldn't be able to do them a few days before moving on to the next. I make jewellery and it has been ages since I had time to stitch, and I only recently found three kits I thought I'd lost forever. Frederick the Literate is 70% done but I've lost half of the threads so need to sort that out. Also Peacock Tapestry that is no more than 8ish % done, and Clifftop Poppies that I might now be 30% done with and am working on at the moment. Used to be very efficient but jewellery has taken my focus over the past 10 years.

[@StitchinMommy]

We do go in waves sometimes with our hobbies. :)

[@WhatstheSizzle]

My favorite is the teapots . We go thru stages, I have stitched teddy bears, cats, flowers, etc. My favorite are my teapots, teacups, etc. Smokey is a trip.

[@karinmonnich3310]

Love your progress on your wips. Smokey is so cute. Happy stitching!

[@lisaboban]

Oh that "Drawn Thread" piece is so lovely. You are such an enabler! Hi Smokey!

[@Linda_James]

I had a Smokey when I was a little girl ❤

[@elizabethkrafnick5466]

Always love to see your stitching but I would watch a 15 min video just of Smokey playing with her string!

[@jessicaevans6828]

Thanks for another great video. My cat really enjoyed seeing you playing with Smokey. She decided she needed to get up from her nap to try and bat the string too.

[@StitchinMommy]

I love that! :D

[@madgrandma]

I finished the storykeep version of Princess of the Sea last year. You are right - she is really pretty. Chip away at those plans, every stitch counts.

[@Jayne22]

I kept being distracted by Smokey in the background, but your work is wonderful and helpful to me.😊

[@msufly]

Do the Tour de France however you want Sarah! The changes were very minor, and the FCF events are just there to provide motivation to work on your FC pieces!

[@StitchinMommy]

@@msufly I love how it’s now exactly 3500 km/stitches for the whole thing - that’s a nice round number. 😊

[@margaretbaker623]

Hi Sarah. Thanks for the update. Laura is such an enabler! 😂 ⚘️

[@itchingforstitching]

If you haven't already, get a kittycat laser pointer (I think that;s what it's called; it's mouse-shaped.) Also, get a YEOWWW! Catnip banana. My cat goes mental for these items (and she's 13 years old.)

[@darlenemonk4190]

I have a gray cat just like that called Sebastian. He’s a big boy.

[@Samsonsmom83]

My cat is that color gray too. He is also a big boy named Samson

[@cathy5boys]

Smokey steals the show!

[@slightlybananas6031]

Lovely update. Thanks for sharing and Happy Stitching! 💜 🫎 🐌 🐋 💜

[@emilywilliams3237]

Always fun and interesting - thanks, Sarah.

[@silent_as_a_mouse8707]

I really like your Celtic ladies collage, they are all so pretty together and I look forward to seeing Edwardian lady again, she's pretty too! Can I ask about "Wip Go"? I've heard that several times now but I don't know what that is? Oh and Smokey was so cute with the string!

[@StitchinMommy]

@@silent_as_a_mouse8707 WIPGO is a kind of bingo game you can play with your WIPs (works in progress). Jesse Marie Does Stuff runs it. She has a video on her channel that describes it as well as Facebook and Instagram accounts for it. Basically, you fill out your board with your projects and your goals and Jesse will call 2 numbers each month for you to work towards. This year, my goal is to work on the called projects for two days each during that month. Last year I chose smalls that I was focusing on finishing during the month.

[@silent_as_a_mouse8707]

Oh ok! I understand now, thank you for clearing that up for me! 😄

[@kathyn4267]

I like the red in the heart.

[@heatherstrickland7668]

I always enjoy seeing smokey. She is just beautiful 🥰. Your prodjects are always just beautiful. I love the one with song birds with the verse. I love the colors. Could you tell me what the name of the pattern and designer? I think my mom would enjoy this pattern.

[@margaretbaker623]

Hi. Sarah's stitching Those Who Sing by The Drawn Thread. It's on my wish list too 😊.

[@StitchinMommy]

Yes, that design is Those Who Sing by The Drawn Thread. You can find it at 123stitch or directly on the Drawn Thread's website. :)

[@yvonnevigil7489]

Hi Sarah, Tea Cups and Princess of the Sea are soooo pretty. Smokey is so cute. Oh ya question: tent stitch do you have to stitch it a certain way. I think you have a video on it but what one. Something about a hummingbird haed?. take care❤

[@StitchinMommy]

I tend to stitch my half stitch projects just like they're the first leg of my X, only I don't cross it. I don't do anything special, but part of my success with that is that I stitch with a fairly loose tension. I think if your tension is on the tighter side, you might need to look up tricks to avoid fabric warping. Personally, some of the things that I've heard suggested make warping worse for me, so I just keep on using a regular half stitch. I do need to block the finished piece (wash, pin straight, let dry while pinned) before framing to correct the mild warping that will inevitably occur.

[@missinginastitch]

Joining in with Tour de France 🙂

[@HyggeStitcher]

❤❤❤

[@sarahcontento9516]

What happened to your temperature stitch that was back in time. I lost my fur baby about 5 months ago. I had a dachshund. Saturday, I'm going to get a baby Yorkie. My week is busy too. I have canning to do and planting flowers and I'm in desperate need of an apron so I'm going to sit down and sew an apron. Your stitching is always so beautiful.

[@StitchinMommy]

I was stitching Temperature Butterflies for the year we got married. Only I was also stitching a current temperature design that year as well - too much to keep up on! I do hope to pull it out again for my travel stitching next year to hopefully get it finished up. :)

[@sarahcontento9516]

That sounds awesome Sarah

[@DeviSisk]

Smokey is so cute❤

[@MsKarenMR]

Happy Stitching ❤!!

[@susanmarit5365]

Hi Sarah can you tell me if those cats and heart have any kind of stitches but crosses? HAPPY STITCHING 🧵🪡🧵

[@StitchinMommy]

The Cats & Hearts patterns use cross stitch and some backstitch for things like stems and an inner border around the heart.

[@christinapoindexter4251]

Did you use the needlepaint threads for your celtic ladies? Love the collage look!

[@StitchinMommy]

@@christinapoindexter4251 I was gifted the Celtic Ladies patterns along with many of the needlepaint flosses. There is one range of shades I had to substitute with DMC, but it’ll be fun to use the ones I have. 😍

[@loiscassels8966]

Your top is pretty❤️🇨🇦

[@carolynroden4941]

I always love your videos and look forward to them each week. Smokey is adorable. I love dogs and cats and always love seeing them included. Have a wonderful day!

[@lindaklinedinst9236]

Hi Sarah Smoky is so pretty - Love all of your WIPS - The girl in the Sea - this is going to be so pretty - Love the Colors. I love the girl’s Face. It has been extremely hot - Stormy - Cool at night - Very windy as well where I live at. Take Care & Happy Stitching ❤️🤗🙏🧵🪡🧵✂️🏡☀️🐾🐱🐾❤️