June Round Up!

Summer rolls on and I’m not one to complained, but I’m pleased that the weather has cooled down just a little.  

We hit 37.7C in some places in the South East, exceeding our June record and we are not used to those kind of temperatures.  I’m just happy that I don’t have to go out to work and am fortunate enough to have a patio and I nice big awning to sit under and stitch.

 

Which brings me to my stats for June:-

I had another productive month and I worked on 2 wip :- 'Ride the Waves'  and 'Santa Claus is Coming to Town'.

I had 5 new starts. :- 'A Stitch for all Seasons', 'Six Geese A-Laying', 'Build Sandcastles', 'Collect Sea Shells' and  'Make Memories'.

There were 5 finishes :- 'A Stitch for all Seasons', 'Ride the Waves', '6 Geese A-Laying',  'Build Sandcastles' and  'Collect Seashells'.

And a total of 8 FFo’s,- 5 of which were finishes from last month.:- 'A Stitch for all Seasons',  'Ride the Waves', 'Beach Rules', 'Soak up the Sun', 'Floral Etchings 2', 'Angel with Lantern', 'Patterned Pretties 4'  and  'Collect Sea Shells'.

As you can tell from the details above, I’m still working my way through ‘ Beach Rules’ from  Primrose Cottage,  and speaking of FFO’ing, I’m always keeping an eye out for interesting finishing pieces to use with the remaining panels.

I knew as soon as I saw this little frame in ‘The Range’,

that with a little bit of jiggling around with the chart, it would be perfect for my next panel, ‘Collect Sea Shells’.

I did a 90 degree flip, making sure that all the elements of the original are still in there and I added a seagull, stitched on perforated paper to hide ‘Home’.

So with ‘Build Sandcastles’ waiting to be FFO’d, I now have

 just two more panels to go and have already made a small start on ‘Make Memories’.

The wip I pulled out and continued to stitch on was ‘Santa Claus is Coming to Town’ from Historische Stickmuster  and is the project I always stitch on the 25^th and 26^th of the month.

This is where I left it

And this is where I am now.

I actually carried on stitching on this until the end of the month, so managed quite a bit of the top left side and I'm now almost 3/4 done.

Looking forward,  July’s stitching will as always consist of my ‘Christmas’ stitching and the second month of  ‘Cross Stitch Camp 2026’,  which involves stitching something patriotic, or something with the colours of your country’s flag.

There’s lots of red white and blue patriotic charts out there but very few with Union Jacks or the flag of St George, so in the end I decided to forget stitching something with an actual flag on it and just go with Red, White and Blue.

I’ve downloaded ‘July Garden’ from The Sub Rosa Design   and am ready to go!

 Happy Stitching!

Sue 

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Beach Rules

Designer – Primrose Cottage

Fabric – 36ct Hand Dyed Linen – Coffee Craft Fabrics

Threads – 

Classic Color Works

Black Coffee

Blue Corn - sub to How Do You Blue (Roxy Floss Co)

Caribbean Waters - sub to Take A Bough (Roxy Floss Co)

Cherry Cobbler

Deep Blue Sea - sub to Mountain Range (Roxy Floss Co)

Peanut Brittle - sub to Tahiti Orange (Classic Colorworks)

Sassy Brass - sub to Colonel Mustard (Roxy Floss Co)

Storm Lake Sunrise - sub to Oink(Roxy Floss Co)

Trail Dust

DMC

B5200

503  - sub to Whistler (Roxy Floss Co)

Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Designed – Historische Stickmuster

Fabric – 32ct unbleached Linen

Threads – Soie d’Alge silks