Long IHSW weekend coming up!

This weekend is IHSW, plus it is my birthday!
 Here is info for IHSW, if you are interested: https://www.facebook.com/groups/757401391130415

I have a nice 4 days off from work coming up, and I want to get as much stitching in as I can!

I'm working on Luminaro (still!). I have gotten some progress on page 4, now, too. I can't wait to finish page 4, because then I will be halfway across on this row (there are 5 rows total).

Here is last post's update:

And here is where I am now, just before my long weekend.

Page 3 completed!

In less than 3 weeks since picking up Luminaro again to work on it, I have completed page 3! I'm on a roll!
I would say that I have certainly made up for that missed day of stitching on my challenge, since I have a page finish already!

Here is from my last update:

Here is my finished page! I'll show a picture of the whole thing so far when I move the Qsnap. Until then, it is too much of a pain to deal with. Since I moved it too far over, I can get 3 pages done before having to move it again, so it will most likely be after page 5.

After my page finish yesterday, I had more time to stitch, so I just kept going into page 4!

I'm hoping page 4 will go just as fast! There seems to be more colors involved on this page, though, so we'll see. Plus, I have an extra long weekend coming up next weekend for my birthday, so I'll have more time for stitching!

My husband said again that he can't wait to see this project finished. He is enjoying seeing it come together, page by page. This is the biggest project I have done so far (at least with this much progress). He hasn't really shown much interest in what I work on, whether it be chainmail or cross stitch, so for him to say this multiple times is keeping me motivated, for sure. Especially now that I am on to page 4, which is pretty much the same as 1-3 so far.

Once done with page 4, I'll be halfway across the pattern, too! I will be 10% done at that point.

Happy crafting!

Windows update caused my challenge failure!

So, crazy enough, I have already failed my daily challenge. How funny is that?
I did get a lot done over the holiday weekend, though, so maybe that can even it out a bit?

Anyway, I was getting my stuff together to do some stitching last night, and I noticed that there was a Windows update for my tablet that I keep patterns on. I had some other stuff to do before I got to stitching, so I went ahead and started the update, thinking it would be done by the time I was ready to stitch.

Boy was I wrong!
This update took FOREVER to complete. I could see it was still working because the % kept increasing, but only 1% at a time. By the time I gave up and just went to bed, it was only at 21%. I had to just leave it and not get any stitching done last night.

Here is an update, though. I had a couple extra days off this week and got extra stitchy time in (that just makes up for none yesterday).

Here is from my last update:

Here is where I am now:

I am getting so close on this one! There are only a few more colors left (besides the big patches of 2 colors, where that big white swath is). There was a tiny bit more done on the next page, as well. I was going along with an orange, and since I had a long thread, and there wasn't a lot of it on page 4, I just kept going. Now I don't have to worry about that color at all on the next page!

Daily challenge: 5 days down

So, since it was so last minute (and since I think I only have 2 or 3 people who actually read my blog anymore), I didn't have any takers for my daily challenge. I'm going to keep with it, though, and try to get stitching done each day in July.
Who knows? Maybe I'll inspire someone to join me come August!

This past weekend was a lovely 3-day weekend because of the US Independence Day. I got a lot of stitching time, in, as well. I was really hoping to finish the page I am working on with Luminaro, but that just prove to be out of my reach, unfortunately. I do have  another day or two off work this week, so I may finish it very soon.

Here is where I left off last:

Here is where I am now:

I decided against taking pictures every day of my progress. Mostly because all those pictures will take up space and not show much progress day-to-day. I will take pictures every few days, but I will definitely stitch every day.
Once I get people to join in the challenge with me, I will take pictures every day.

Stitching challenge: Day 1

Well, I know it was last minute, and I guess not many people are reading my blog anymore, but I don't care. Maybe this challenge will bring more people to my blog?
I'll just keep going by myself for now. To get in on July, I will leave it open to the 4th. Just comment that you would like to join for July! 

Here is Day 1 of stitching on my daily challenge. I think I'll post once or twice a week on it. I was thinking Wednesdays, but I'm not sure that would be often enough to actually show my progress and that I am stitching every day.


Here is where I left off last:

Here is where I am after my first day of my challenge.

Yes, there is more than one day of progress in there, but I didn't take a picture before working on it yesterday.


It's weird. I'm on page 3, and so far nothing I have stitched really looks like anything, even if I were to finish this page. And yet, I can't seem to find the will to work on anything else. This is soooo not like me. Normally I get bored with things, especially when I can't really see much progress after a lot of work. This one, though... lately I just don't want to do any other projects. This one keeps calling out to me the most.

While I am still in love with this one, I am going to keep working on it as much as possible.