2 Fully Finished Objects and 1 Stitching Finish

 I've been waiting for Bob to center 2 designs in hoops so I could fully finish them.  He finally did it on Sunday and I finished one yesterday afternoon and the other one this afternoon.

Curious Carrie Designs - Mini Sampler Series Winter
This was part of a series of seasonal series from Just Cross Stitch in 2025

Holiday Hoopla 4th of July by With Thy Needle & Thread

I finished the stitching on this yesterday afternoon before I worked on fully finishing Holiday Hoopla.

Pattern:  Cocoa & Cookies
Designer:  Primrose Cottage
Fabric:  18CT Sand
Floss:  Called for DMC alternative
1st Stitch:  09/23/2026 - Last Stitch:  10/05/2026
For:  I don't know, I don't even know why I stitched it other than I thought it was really cute
Notes:  I believe this was a 1st Friday Freebie from last December

WIPs brought forward from September

 I brought 3 WIPs forward from September.

Primrose Cottage - Cocoa & Cookies
This includes stitching I did on 10/1
Why am I stitching a Christmas ornament, because I thought it was cute. I think this is one of their 1st Friday freebies from last year.
 

Tempting Tangles - Quakers in France
This is my Grid Iron Grind project.  
My team is the Philadelphia Eagles.  During the preseason I stitched 5 stitches for every point the Eagles scored.  During the regular season I am stitching 10 stitches for every point they score.  This is a big project but as you can see the Eagles haven't scored an abundance of points.  The stitching is for 3 preseason games and 3 regular season games.  Yes, I only stitched half the horse because it is on a page break.   

The Primitive Hare - A Christmas Carol: Scrooge
I saw this stitched by a floss tuber, Sew Me Sarah, and thought Bob would like it.  Bob bought me the chart last year for Christmas.  I wish I had known that it had quarter stitches, I don't think I would have stitched it.  However, since it isn't as big as I thought and since I have the chart and since I have stitched quarter stitches on AIDA before I will continue to stitch this. 

I should finish Cocoa & Cookies in the next couple of days.  Then I am going to start Primrose Cottage's October 1st Friday freebie which is an Autumn design whose name I don't remember/

A Cross Stitch Halloween Display

 I don't stitch much for Halloween.  This year when I received the Just Cross Stitch Halloween issue I fell in love with a design called Free Spirit.  I quickly stitched it and fully finished it.  Love it.  Then I was trying to decide how to display it.  I remembered the 2 lollipops I had stitched many, many years ago and thought they would be neat to display together.  I went on ETSY and bought a small wooden bowl.  Bob cut Styrofoam to fit in the bottom which I then covered with black tissue paper and pushed the lollipops down into the Styrofoam.  Then placed Free Spirit in the middle.  This morning as I was pulling out a few more Halloween decorations, I found another little ghost pillow I had stitched several years ago so I added him to the display along with 2 ghosts I made in ceramics.  I think it turned out good.

Except for Free Spirit I have no idea what the other cross stitch designs are.