Designer:  Joyful Expressions
Design:  His Name is Jesus
Fabric:  Be Stitch Me 18CT Vanilla Latte
Floss: Pirate + Robbin Cranberry
1st Stitch:  01/25/2026 - Last Stitch: 07/27/2026
For:  CJ

 

Designer:  Curious Carrie Designs
Design:  Mini Sampler Series - Winter
Fabric:  14CT Ice Blue
Floss:  DMC called for
1st Stitch:  05/1/82026 - Last Stitch:  07/23/2026
For: Me
Notes:  From Winter 2026 Just Cross Stitch magazine
May Monday Start
To be finished in the hoop in the photo

Fully Finished Object

Designer:  December Stitchery (ETSY)
Design:  Je T'Aime
Fabric:  18CT Antique White
Floss:  DMC
1st Stitch:  05/12/2026 - Last Stitch:  06/18/2026
For: Bob
Notes:  May Monday start
Fully finished 07/11/2026

I finished another May Monday Start

 

Designer:  Prairie Schooler
Design:  2026 Yearly Santa
Fabric:  18CT ? scrap from my stash
Floss:  Called for DMC
1st Stitch:  05/11/2026 - Last Stitch:  07/10/2026
For: Me
Notes:  This is the 3rd May Monday start I have finished.   I stitched on this 5 days in May and then another 5 days in July.  I am going to send this to either Faye Riggsbee for Keepsakes to be fully finished into either a pillow or a flat fold.  Haven't fully decided yet.

My 1st stitching finish of July

 I don't stitch a lot of patriotic, but I have had this chart in my stash for many years and decided that our 250th birthday was a good time to stitch it.  Sorry for the quality of the picture.  Is it me or is it my cheap old camera?

Designer:  With Thy Needle & Thread
Design:  Holiday Hoopla 4th of July
Fabric:  20CT Vintage Country Mocha
Floss:  Called for Classic Colorworks and WDW
except I didn't use the fuzzy stuff for his beard
1st Stitch:  07/01/2026 - Last Stitch:  0704/2026
For:  Me
Notes:  I would like to fully finish this in a hoop.  A 5" hoop seems too big and I don't know if there is a 4" hoop.  I will have to check ETSY.

I hope everyone had a good 4th of July.  Ours was just like any other Saturday.  We had grilled T-bone steak, dill macaroni salad, sauted mushrooms, and yellow beans for dinner.  Everything was really good.  Bob and I worked together on fixing it.

What have I stitched in June

 I've posted several finishes for June including Peanut Butter Cookie (Peanut Blossom), Prairie Schooler December, Luminous Fiber Arts Frosty.  By the way this was the 3rd time I have stitched Frosty and I plan on stitching him one more time in blue.

I have one more finish and 2 works in progress that I worked on in June

Designer:  Curious Carrie Designs 
Design:  Mini Sampler Series:  Winter from the 2025 Winter issued of Just Cross Stitch magazine
I started this as a May Monday start on 05/18 and stitched on it for 5 days.  I took it out yesterday and stitched on it for a bit.  I will continue to stitch on it until it is finished and then pick up another May Monday start

Designer:  December Stitchery (ETSY)
Design:  Je T'Aime
Fabric:  18CT Antique White AIDA
Floss:  DMC
For:  Bob
Notes:  Ignore the basting stitch around the outside.  I will use that to place it on my mat board.  This was my May Monday start on 05/12 and I worked on it for 5 days that week.  I picked it up in June and stitched on until it was finished.  I am going to finish it into a leaner and either give it to Bob when it is finished or put it away and give it to him for Valentine's Day 2027.

Designer:  Joyful Expressions
Design:  His Name is Jesus
Fabric:  18CT BeStitchMe Vanilla Latte
using Pirate & Robbin Cranberry
I am stitching this for CJ.  She saw the one I stitched for Barb and when Barb wouldn't give her the one I had stitched for her, CJ asked me to stitch one for her.  I hope no one else asks me to stitch this again.  I really don't like stitching it.  I've only been stitching this on Saturday and Sunday.  Now that I finished PS December I will make this my focus piece.

I hope to start PS August early in August.  That is the last of the PS months I have to stitch.  I also plan to send PS December to Keepsakes, maybe next week when they are back from vacation, to be fully finished into a flat fold.

I was wrong - I have another June finish

 When I posted PS December last week or so I didn't think I would finish another project in June.  I was wrong.  It's a small but it is a finish.

Design:  Frosty
Designer: Luminous Fiber Arts
Fabric:  18CT Buttercream
Floss:  DMC 814
1st Stitch:  06/17/2026 - Last Stitch:  06/29/2026
For:  Linda M.
Notes:  I am going to fully finish it into a little pillow and send it to Linda to remind her of her home state of Pennsylvania

Last June Finish

Just finished PS December a couple of hours ago.  

Designer:  Prairie Schooler
Design:  December - Book#150
Fabric:  Colour & Cotton 18CT Fawn Pale
Floss:  DMC
1st Stitch:  05/04/2026 - Last Stitch:  06/27/2026
For:  Bob & Me
Notes:  I will be sending this to Keepsakes to be fully finished into a flat fold.  I'll wait until later in July as I know the shop is closed for vacation after StitchCon

Now I only have the month of August to stitch, and I will be finished with all 12 months.  I'll wait a couple of months before I start it.  I was filing my copy of December away today and found I had already had a copy, and it was in the original card stock not the flimsy paper they use now.