This month has been another struggle to get through each day. With the month winding down, I was able to complete one card. Even with struggling to function most days I did quite a bit of stitching.
This is another month without update photos. The month just keeps going and I’m clearly not going to actually get photos taken. Which for a couple of the cross stitches wouldn’t be accurate anymore since they have another 200+ on them. I hope you aren’t too disappointed. I do have written updates and I’m happy to share that I was able to reach over 1,000 stitches on each of the Big 5.
The big 5 update
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Cats Library, Heaven and Earth Designs.
+1,196
Disintegration, Heaven and Earth Designs
+1,025
Universal Monsters, Witchy Stitcher’s SAL from 2019
+1,592
McGonagall, Cross Stitch Studio
+1,131
Super Mario World Map, Box Cat Shop (Etsy)
+1,161
Monopoly update + new game in October
The first Monopoly roll of the month landed me on Chance. I can now take 100 stitches off my next turn.
There was a Community Chest card that prompted some stitching on McGonagall’s Library. Nativity had a small update as well, but that may have been the month prior. The boards are moving quite slowly.
A new game hosted by Rhys_Stitches called Stitch Manor ran the whole month of October. While I did not get the correct answer in the end, it was fun to try to earn enough stitches each week to investigate further.
How did October go?
I was able to stitch more than expected. I didn’t beat chat though, they creamed me in the end with their stitch count.
Here’s how I did in October for chipping away at these: 6,105 stitches across the five. I came in significantly under the last two months. There’s been less time and desire for stitching or really anything.
The Big 5 have a combined stitch count of 1,295,620. I’m 7.13% complete with all five.
It’s an FFO
A card was finished. The stitching on Baby Bear is complete, but so far no other progress to make it a completely finished object.
Happy crafting!