Slow Sunday Stitching - January 25, 2026

 I hope everyone in the US is safe and warm.  Here in eastern Kansas, we missed the forecasted ice storm.  It was already well below freezing when the precipitation started, so we got snow - about four inches so far and it's supposed to end soon.  We need the moisture - it's been a dry fall and winter.  But I have discovered that those lovely windows with the northern light in my new sewing room means that it got a little too cool to be comfortable.  So no quilting in the snowstorm!

I moved into my bedroom where it's warm, hunkered down, and stitched all day Friday and Saturday though.  So this week saw a bunch of stitching.   I already have over six hours in on the Vintage German needlepoint 'Old Farmhouse / Alter Bauernhof'.  My grandson did an AI search for this pattern and identified it as a "Vintage Tapex Vienna printed canvas needlepoint kit".  AI likes my stitching LOL, and described it as "in good condition with consistent stitching on a sturdy frame".  Carl can obviously work image search better than I can because I just came up with similar very vague Ebay listings when I tried it.

As usual, you can't really see the stitches against the painted canvas, so here's a shot of the back side.  I finished off all the clouds and got all the way to the left upper corner with the sky blue.  (Also note that the canvas has been edged and mounted on stretcher bars.  I am much happier with how it feels to work on now.)

Not too bad, considering that I only really started seriously working on the "Not Counted X Stitch" rotation slot on Wednesday.  The first couple of days this last week, I finished up the ten hours on the Blackbird Design piece "And to All a Good Night".   See the changeover post for the details. 

I've also been keeping up on the 100 stitches a day on the Mead Dragon full coverage piece - more details and a picture on that next week.

Knitting is also coming right along.   I have about two inches left before I start the second crown.  This is admittedly a rather confusing photo.  The cast on crown is tucked up into the body of the hat all the way to where the white marker (center of straight section) is at the eventual start of the brim.   The red marker (which almost disappears into this warm colored yarn) remains the edge of the cast-on crown and when the current knitting reaches that point, I will start the cast-off crown.   So somewhere around 70% complete, I would estimate.

Linking up with the SSS crew (this week's roundup).