Fully Finished Gallery - February 2026 🖼

Since Rachel @Ten Hour Stitcher is on a hosting/posting break, I created this little guy until she returns. 

A slow month for finishes, but I do have a couple.

I bought this over the summer while we were on our British Isles cruise. It's a coaster, but I might hang it up instead.

Our first stop was in Dover, so we went to Dover Castle.

It was nice to see that they had some stitchy things!

This has been finished for a while, but now is fully finished in this frame.

Fully Finished Gallery - January 2025 🖼

Welcome to Rachel's 

Fully Finished Gallery SAL for January 2025.

This is a great way to make sure I actually fully finish my stitched pieces! 

Please consider joining this monthly SAL, it just might inspire you.

Nathan is an aide for Mrs. H this year, all the boys have had her as a science teacher. She gave him some lovely Christmas tree ornaments she made out of wood. Nathan told me she likes turtles, and I had this Mill Hill kit I had made before. I already had everything I needed to make another, so that's what I did. She liked it and added it to her collection in the classroom!

This little cutie is actually a January birthday present for our daughter-in-love, C. He does look like their "little" Finn. I just changed some of the colours, removed some hearts, and gave him a Christmas bow.  

These Bride's Tree Ornaments were supposed to be a bridal show gift for C, but I didn't finish it in time. (Imagine that!)

So it was a Christmas pressie instead. I found all these little patterns either in one of the books I have of smalls, or free online.

I'm not quite sure why it's called a German Tradition, I never heard my German Momma ever talk about this, and my cousin there hasn't heard of it either. But, I thought of her when I was stitching them so that works for me! 

This is what my mother-in-law always used to sing to all the boys when they were little, so I thought it was an appropriate gift for her. It's also a magnet if she wants to use it that way.

Not the best photo, but I finished the last month for this Hands on Design , A Year of Celebrations. I changed a few things. Some because I made a mistake and wasn't about to frog it, and some colours so you could see them better. It was hard to see white on cream, so I outlined the snowman and made some of the white a light blue.

Here it sits with all the other snowmen. I'll leave this display up longer than the Christmas decorations because... snow!

Wow, that makes 16 Fully Finishes!

Be sure to check out what others have done, I need to do some catching up on blog reading so I'll be looking at them soon.

Thanks for hosting another year, Rachel!

Flashback of the Hershey Fall Getaway 2024 🍫

I know this is a late posting since this was in September, but at least it's still 2024!

(Memories of last year, posting late.) 

Another fabulous event by LinAnn Events!

So many fun retreats, present, past and future!

We were in a different stitching room this year, much nicer with lots of windows.

Our "sweet" goodie bag.

I love that I have a stitching magnet for the car.

So many great vendors!

The Paper Needle by Kymacc Creations 

Mind Your Needle

Bee Ewe Needleworks

Needlework with Jim

Classy Stands

Trish Vine Designs

One that I didn't get a photo of was Sister Lou Stitches. She came later and I forgot to take one, oops!

My little stitching area.

I had just started Hands on Design's October.

We didn't go into the park this year, but instead went shopping at Hershey's Chocolate World.

I love those Reese's, especially the pumpkin ones.

Who knew?!

Such fun with these girls!

That would be one huge brain freeze!

Brenda thinks if she kisses up to the frog, he'll leave her alone.

Cathy working on her sampler, such a beautiful colour.

My bestie!

And a sweet Kiss!

Our funtastic table, it's always a good time with these girls!

Ah, the white elephant exchange.

This is what I ended up with, so many lovely treats. The word this year was CANDY.

This is what I put together. The tree stump had to have a squirrel!

If I remember correctly, two of us were tied for the most creative.

A collection of treasures I purchased from some of the vendors.

Our group, hogging the stairway for our photo shoot!

So another fall retreat was a success, and next year is planned. I'm already excited about it!

Fully Finished Gallery - December 2024 🖼

 Welcome to Rachel's 

Fully Finished Gallery SAL for December 2024.

Wow, the year has flown by! I'm pretty sure I've posted every month, although I was hoping to have more finishes. There's always next year!

This isn't exactly finished the way I had hoped, but for now, it will have to do.

The only month I have yet to stitch is January, so at least I know I'll have one finish next time.

I made this for Nathan's band teacher this year.

From last year's photo of them together, I found out that he celebrated Hanukkah, not Christmas. Luckily it was a music ornament, so all was well! 

This can be either be hung, or used as a magnet.

And it matches his sweater, YaY!

It's pajama day at school, such fun. 

This is one that I personalized, but I can't show it right now. It was charted to say Cheers.

I hope you have enjoyed see all the finishes from those who have posted, I think there's quite a collection!

Many thanks to Rachel for hosting this year, it definitely made me get busy every month!

I'm looking forward to next year, I hope to be even more productive. 🤞

Fully Finished Gallery - November 2024 🖼

Welcome to Rachel's 
Fully Finished Gallery SAL for November 2024.

This time I've actually been very productive!

I used the same frame that I made for September, although now I see the fabric really needs to be ironed. Oops!

I stitched these three Mill Hill ornaments as Models for the shop. These are the ones Amy picked out.

The Snowman ornament from Mill Hill.

I chose to omit the beads on the edge and used a candy cane S hook to hang it with.

The Christmas Tree from Mill Hill.

This one was stitched as shown.

Ugly Sweater from Mill Hill.

The only thing I changed was using a red bead that I already had.

This is my favourite!

Fall Fun from Mill Hill - altered to fit Amy's New Cross Stitch Shop - Born to Stitch!

More on her shop on the next post.

Be sure to check out what others have finished, I plan to look this week!