Slow Sunday Stitching - May 10, 2026 AND 2026 Rotation #3 Slot #3 (Historic) Changeover

Got the rest of the ten hours in on the Blackbird Designs "It's Berry Time".  I finished up the top alphabet border, and I got the strawberry border in on the left side.  The berry border is how high this piece is; it's a short but wide piece, which is why I decided to scale it down to a drum sized finish by stitching it one over one on 30 count linen.   I also finished about half of the foliage/flowers in the first of the three baskets.  One thing I am changing is putting Smyrna Cross instead of eyelets in the flowers.  Eyelets only look good if you pull them a bit and open up the center.  You can't really do that when you scale them down from a 4 x 4 thread to a 2 x 2 thread size - there's simply no room for threads to move, instead the working floss starts slipping under the ground threads and it turns into a real mess.   

I also put in just over 1,000 stitches on "Santa of the Forest" by Lavendar and Lace, which brings that one to 20.7%.   I will keep working on it for the next few days.  Planning to kick off the next rotation on Friday, May 15, so I will take an end of rotation photo then and post the total stats for the rotation.

It's finals week, so I probably won't get a lot of crafting time this week, but I would love to get Santa to 25%.  We'll see.   Linking up with the SSS crew (weekly round up here).