I’m back! I am so excited to be back with my favorite stitchers. I was gone for quite a while because I wanted to concentrate on getting my debt paid down. Now that I am well into my 80 week challenge I decided it was time to get back to stitching.
I received a kit for Christmas that I have been quite taken with for years. It’s a chart of Jesus’s face with His crown of thorns which is by Vervaco. Thank you mom for the very thoughtful Christmas present! This image is haunting to me. Just beautiful in fact.
I haven’t stitched a kit in years so I am trying not to mess us to often because I don’t want to run out of a color.
Here is the kit image and here is how much I have gotten done so far. I have had to rip thread out twice! I’ll get there though.
There are a lot of other stitcher in this group. Please visit their blogs by clicking on the links below. You will be pleasantly surprised at what you see! See you in three weeks! -MM.
Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, LucyAnn, Kate, Jess, Sue, Constanze, Debbierose, Christina, Kathy, Margaret,Cindy, Helen, Steph, Linda, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Hayley, Megan, Catherine, Deborah, Connie, Clare, Mary Margaret, Renee, Jenny
The Professional Domestic 
It’s good to see you back in the SAL 🙂
Love the new project. What a lovely gift from your mom.
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Thanks Carole! Glad to be back!
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Welcome back! Lovely project and a wonderful mum for thinking of buying it for you.
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welcome back Mary Margaret!
and what a lovely design you’ve chosen!
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Welcome back, and I agree that picture is just hauntingly beautiful. Enjoy your stitching moments, a great reward for your hard work the past few months!
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This one will need lots of concentration until you get going but it’ll be worth it. Welcome back to the fold 🙂
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Welcome back! Happy to hear you are finding success paying down debt. That can be a real challenge. You’ve already made great progress on your new kit. While it looks like a challenging piece, it looks like you will be quick to stitch it!
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Welcome back! Your new piece looks sophisticated and challenging — looking forward to seeing it develop.
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Welcome back and I will look forward to watching this grow. I find if I have something that’s difficult to follow then I photo copy or scan the chart and mark each little bit as I do it. Not every stitch but every little group of stitches and that helps me to keep on track. Sometimes I just scan a small section of the chart and print it off large so its easier to see especially if I am going through a phase where I find it hard to concentrate, this really seems to help.
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This does look difficult with all the colors that are so close together in shade. What nice gift from your mom!
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Welcome back! This is a beautiful piece, you are right when you say it is haunting, but a really lovely interpretation. Enjoy stitching it, it’s good to have you back!
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Welcome back! What a beautiful embroidery!!
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Welcome back. And wow this is going to look really good. A very interesting choice for cross stitching!
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Hi there – I wasn’t around when you were here last – interested to see how you piece progresses.
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Looking forward to seeing more progress, it’s off to a great start !
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What a wonderful project! I found you on Instagram and see you’ve made even more progress. I look forward to your next SAL update. Beautiful work.
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Thanks Renee! I love your work too! Do you have an Instagram I can follow?
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