Flosstube #47 | March Plans

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February are finally over, it’s been a cold one here in Sweden and I’m really looking forward to some more sun and warmer weather. With spring coming I’m changing my schedule to upload new flosstubes every other week. Spring always brings so much other things I want to do instead of stitching so with that slowing down it’s just natural that the videos do too.

I did finish off my Full Coverage February stitches, worked a little bit on the Castle Homecoming SAL and started my easter ornament stitching. There are also some new things coming to the shop, my choices for the #millhillsantasal2024 finally arrived and are up in the store and so are the complete Spring Collection from Mill Hill!

So in todays video I’m showcasing all I have been stitching on, how I plan for my easter ornament to fit on my fabric and also sharing my plans for march and the rest year, including my WIPGO board!

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Works In Progress (WIPs)

GAMER NOUVEAU

This was started in March of 2023, and as with all of my full coverage stitches I wanna get some good progress this year. So for #fullcoveragefebruary I’m doing 500 stitches per project per letter allocated in the acrostic CONFETTI. Gamer will be stitched on 2 times for a total of 1000 stitches for the letters N for Nouveau and E for gamEr. And I have now stitched all of them!

DETAILS:
Pattern: Gamer Nouveau by Gecko Rouge
This is no longer sold by Gecko Rouge. The artist is selling it on her own etsy which you can find here: https://etsy.me/3vTXUKP
Fabric: 25 count Easy Grid Evenweave by Zweigart
Stitched in charted DMC 2 over 1

CHRISTMAS HOUSE 1

This is my oldest full coverage project, started in 2018, and I would really like to at least get to 30% this year. For the acrostic CONFETTI this project will be called 3 times. For C as in Christmas, for T as in roofTop and for I as in Ice sickle. And in total I stitched 1500 stitches on it.

DETAILS:
Pattern: Christmas House 1 by Artecy
Fabric: 25 count White Evenweave by Zweigart gridded with fishing line
Stitched in charted DMC 2 over 1

MINI SUNSET OWL

I started this freebie in October of last year when joining in with a SAL. For the acrostic CONFETTI this is called for O as in Owl, F as in Feathers and T as in Talons. In total for the full coverage february I stitched 1500 stitches on it.

DETAILS:
Pattern: Mini Sunset Owl by Artecy (out of print)
Fabric: 25 count Potato Evenweave by Zweigart
Stitched in charted DMC 2 over 1

CASTLE HOMECOMING SAL

The Castle Homecoming SAL has ended so I really need to gets some stitches into it so that I can start the new Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery SAL when it comes out. So I put in about 4500 stitches! Still have loads to go tho.

DETAILS:
Pattern: Little Red Riding Hood Parade by Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery
Fabric: 16 count Dirty aida by Zweigart
Stitched in charted DMC 2 over 1, color converted Classic Colorworks Licorice Red to DMC 107.

New Starts

EASTER WISHES – EASTER ORNAMENTS

We moved around our furniture in the apartment and my mini christmas tree ended up in my office, so know I need to make easter ornaments for it, as I haven’t made anyone yet. So I have started and finished so far 8 ornaments! Let’s see if I’ll stitch more in the upcoming week.

DETAILS:
Pattern: Easter Wishes, World Of Cross Stitching Magazine Issue 334 April 2024
Fabric: 14 count Celadon Green Aida by Zweigart
Stitched in charted DMC

Plans

In march I will add about 1500 stitch on each of Christmas House 1 and Gamer Nouveau as part of my WIPGO goals. I will also start on my #millhillsantasal2024 makes. Below is the list of the santas & gnomes that I will be choosing from, I will be finishing 12 of them by the end of 2024:

Finally I will be stitching a couple of the Mini Mill Hill Ornaments that was part of my store update the other day. The ones I know I want to get to is Papa Rooster and Mama Hen. And maybe a couple of more.

Thank you so much for coming to my blog, hope you enjoy the content and I’ll see you in two weeks time!

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