Stitching Stuff: Week 52 of 2021

We had temperatures in the 80's for both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, it certainly didn't feel like a typical Xmas holiday.  Hope your holiday was full of family and fun. Ours certainly was.  

It's week 52 of 2021, so this will be the last stitching stuff post for the year.  I like to close out my stitching year on December 31st, so I'll have the end of 2021 and the beginning of 2022 in next week's post.  My stitching week didn't go so well. I spent all of last weekend working on company reports, went to bed feeling really crappy last Sunday.  Woke up to a fever and with a number of Covid symptoms on Monday morning.  Thankfully it wasn't Covid, but I was pretty sick till Thursday.  All I did was sleep (and blow my nose) for most of last week. Thankfully I was feeling almost normal by the time Christmas Eve rolled around. But that didn't help the stitching report much. 

• 15 minute days/week 52 = 2/7 days
• 15 minute days/Decemer = 5/25 days
• 15 minute days/2021 = 265/359 days
• Success rate = 73.82%

I at least managed two days with at least 15 minutes of stitching time this last week, that's better than how the first three weeks of December went!  All my reports are done and I'm off all this next week. My hope is I'll have lots of time for stitching this last week of the year.  

My stitching time this week was all handwork, I did make a bit of progress on my traveling embroidery project. 

The Scientist in Training has been home the last couple of weeks. She's spent a lot of her time off working on a Christmas present for her grandmother. She found some line art on line and embroidered a couple of dish towels as gifts.  

  

She did 4 of these cute faces on one dish towel.  

Then two strawberry motifs on another.  Grandma was very happy with her gift.  The SIT says a very sincere "Thank You" to Barbara who blogs at Cat Patches.  Barbara recommended the Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvey sheets as one way to transfer embroidery designs. That's what the SIT used for both these projects, she thought they worked really well. 

I'm linking up with Slow Stitching Sunday this week to celebrate having a bit of time to play with thread this week.  You can link up below to share how well you did at finding time to stitch over the holiday. I hope you had more opportunities to play with needle and thread then I did!  

1. Ivani 2. Gretchen 3. CathieJ 4. maggie f 5. Julie in GA 6. karen

7. DonnaleeQ 8. Melisa - Pinker n Punkin Quilting 9. Shasta @ High Road 10. Colletta's Kitchen Sink 11. Sherrie 12. DawnyK

13. Meloney 14. Amanda 15. Andre at Quilting and Learning 16. Andre at Quilting and Learning 17. Carol @ Quilt Schmilt

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