Slow Sunday Stitching

Welcome to Slow Sunday Stitching - a celebration of all kinds of hand stitching! 2025 was a great year for slow stitching - 52 weeks have passed in which we could enjoy our own hand stitching, and be inspired by the projects of our friends. Thank you to each of you who have linked up your blog posts on Sundays and shared your stitching with us.

I am ending the year by trying to finish my version of the Modern Folk Embroidery's Christmas Duck. It did get many stitches in it, especially while waiting to get the oil changed in my car. The "speedy" part of the oil change was anything but fast, so it gave me "found time" to make a lot of progress and I really enjoyed the rest! I'm hoping this will be my last finish for 2025.

This is the Anna Gutova Stitch Along that she provided on her instagram in December. I stitched it on Roxy 16 count fabric using Rosy 'gilded' and 'smitten' flosses. I think I'm going to finish it in a hoop frame. It's such a pretty Christmas design and will be fun to display in December 2026!

Another December accomplishment for me was filming a daily Youtube video from Dec. 1 to Dec. 24 showing some advent projects and some of favourite quilts. It was quite a time commitment, but it worked out okay in the end. I'll be making a video of my exciting New Year's Eve hand stitching plans and posting it early on the 31st if you're looking for something to watch!

Are you ending 2025 with some hand stitching? We love to know what you're working on so tell us in the comments and/or link up your blog post below.

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Slow Sunday Stitching

Welcome to the weekly hand stitching party!

Today is the winter solstice in my little corner of the world. This occasion marks the longest night of the year and the shortest day.

What better way to pass the time than to do some Slow Sunday Stitching?!? 

The Christmas Countdown project called "A Pretty Song" has kept me very busy, and this is where it is as of friday's stitching. It's a very intricate stitch on 25 count evenweave. RIght now it has about 10 birds fully or partially stitched in, and I love it!

I have been stitching a few other projects this month and you can catch up on that by watching any of the daily videos I have made for "Flossmas" in the month of December. 

At this time of year everyone asks "are you ready for Christmas"? My answer is "not at all"! But things get done, food gets bought and cooked, presents get purchased and wrapped, and some of my hand made gifts might actually get finished in time!  

How about you? Are you "ready"? Link up your blog post below and share your last weekend before Christmas stitching update.

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Slow Sunday Stitching

Welcome to the weekly hand stitching party!

If you are feeling like you have no time for relaxation this weekend, I understand completely! And yet, it's so important to make time to slow down, to breathe deeply, and to reset with some relaxing hand stitching. 

I have been enjoying the Countdown to Christmas advent project called "A Pretty Song", This is where my project is as of yesterday. I adore the birds and really want to keep up with the pattern additions we get each day, but it has been a challenge!

In fact my hand stitching has become a little stressful this week as I try to keep up with a couple of advent stitching projects and finish some things for gifts. I have also been taping a short "flossmas"  video every day and it has been a challenge sometimes to get everything done. My goals far exceed my capacity! This is a long time pattern for me, so I have only myself to blame for this stress. It happens every December and in the next 11 days I will struggle to finish all the things I want to make. 

Are you the same? Do you put pressure on yourself to finish too many things in December- baking, shopping, decorating, wrapping, cooking,  visiting, stitching, etc??

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Slow Sunday Stitching

Welcome to Slow Stitching Sunday where we make time to slow down our lives, to breathe deeply, to pick up a needle and thread, and take some slow stitches. 

This weekend I have been attending the Jingle Ball which is an online cross stitch event. My friend Debby and I rented a little Air B'n B in the middle of nowhere which is a renovated 150 year old church with so much character!

We invited our friend Barb to join us for a little holiday, and she is a long time hand stitcher. 

We have had long stitching sessions and started some new projects. This one is a free stitchalong that I started. The pattern is from Anna Gutova at Artmishka Cross Stitch. My friends think it is a radish. It is not! I think it will become a Christmas ornament on some evergreen boughs.

I have been posting a video every day in December on Kathy's Quilts and Stitching showing my 5 advent calendar projects that I am opening every day before Christmas. One of the projects is the Evertote, Roxy Floss Co, and Modern Folk Embroidery holiday countdown collaboration called "A Pretty Song". This photo shows the border and I am making slow progress. You can hear more details on my flosstube if you are interested.

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