Linda, I am so happy you enjoy seeing the pictures of Cocoa. She is such a huge part of my our lives. Big plans for June trying for several goals so wish me luck. Dena
Dena you look so good! It makes me very happy to see your success at improving your health and you've inspired me. I seeing the dietician Wednesday. I always love your variety of stitching. Have a great week!
I am thrilled you are seeing a dietitian on Wednesday! I saw my son this weekend and he has lost another 25 pounds. I almost didn't recognize him! he is so trim! He inspired me and now I've inspired you. That is awesome. Dena
Loved your Spring at Hawk run Hollow progress. Good luck on your ambitious plans. Enjoy your visit with your son! And of course I love your Cocoa updates. Happy Stitching.
Linda, I have completed a block on Hawk Run Hollow last night! So excited for that! So far so good on June's plans. We had a fabulous time with our son! Cocoa sends her love! Dena
Jeannie, we had a wonderful visit with JT! I will share a photo or two in my next video. He has lost even more weight. I called him "Skinny" when I saw him. Dena
Hi Dena, I love your By the Bay and it is looking great! You have been stitching so many beautiful projects and I love them all. Enjoy your visit with your son and praying for safe travels. I wanted to add that you look great in all your spring outfits too. Happy stitching! Dottie
Dottie, thanks so much for the well wishes for our safe trip to visit JT. We had a blast and enjoyed every minute of our time together. I had a finish on the way home and am aiming for another small finish today if possible so I am working hard on getting those WIPs back down below 20. LOL. Happy Stitching to you. Dena
Fabulous stitching as always Dena. Great stats too. We all know you will reach your goals! Hope you have had a lovely weekend with JT. I am just back from a 2 week trip to Scotland to visit my granddaughters - Imogen is 3 and Isla only a month old. Very hard leaving them but that’s the price of living thousands of miles apart. Happy stitching.
Susan, I am so happy you got to visit your grands! They are so precious and grow up so quickly. We did have a fabulous trip to visit our son, JT, and now we are getting ready for Tommy to have a great hike on the Appalachian Trail. That is the reason I have such lofty stitching goals. I will have plenty of time to stitch since my hubby will be hiking. Cocoa and I will have a girls time. LOL. Happy Stitching. Dena
Carla, you are very kind, thank you! I have accomplished the first of the six goals (I had a finish this morning, on the way home from my visit with my son), so I am on my way. Dena
Hello Dena so good to see your progress on the WIPS. Hope you had a wonderful time with your son. Cannot wait to see By The Bay completed it’s gorgeous. Happy stitching
Thank you so much for the encouragement on my By the Bay! We had a wonderful time with JT. He gave us a big tour of his new home town and showed us all his favorite hang outs, where he works, where he goes to exercise in the parks and we even tried out new restaurants together. Great time! Dena
Hi Dena, Your stitching is stunning!! I so love By the bay piece. Every time you show it, I think I would like to stitch it. But have nowhere to hung it. Have fun visiting with your son. Have a good week.😊🪡
Hi Dena, As always, it’s great to see you. I really enjoy seeing your stitching updates and hearing about your plans. Your stitching is lovely and your variety of projects is always fun to see. Your May stats are impressive and now on to June! Have a great visit with your son and happy stitching. 😊
Ellen, thanks so much for visiting and for your kind comments. June has started off well with my first finish today! We had a wonderful visit with our son this weekend. Now back to reality, LOL. Happy Stitching. Dena
Hi Dena, what a month of stitching you had, the information on stitching the tree was useful. I look forward to seeing how June works out on the pushing projects forward. Hope you enjoyed your visit to see your son. X
Sharon, we had a fabulous time with our son! We did some of our favorite things together: tried out a new restaurant, saw a movie and played cards. Mostly we talked and toured his new town. So good to be able to visualize all his favorite places when he talks about them now. Hope you are getting lots of stitching time this weekend. Dena
Hi Dena. I am very excited about a bunch of your wips, especially By The Bay and the project with the snow where you have to do the pine cone next. I really love the motif you finished on spring Quaker; it’s gorgeous! And I love the effects on the word merry. Enjoy the visit with your son; I’m sure you are missing him.
Linda, I love all the ones you mentioned in your comment so thanks for the support on each of them. We had a marvelous visit with our son and were so surprised that he has lost even more weight since we saw him last. Dena
Thanks Dena for another great visit...your stitching is prolific considering you were on vacation...the plans sound great...sorry your Haunted House is giving you problems...you can always stitch them separately on different counts and display with pumpkins, etc. and the different stitch count would not be noticeable...kiss Cocoa...have a great visit with your son...blessings and best wishes❤❤
Thanks Loretta for the kind response. I think if I stitch the other two I will do them differently for sure. We had a wonderful visit with our son. This momma's heart is full. Dena
You are making fantastic progress on your WIPs Dena. They are beautiful. Hope you had a great time with JT. I know you must miss him like crazy. Happy stitching
Linda, I was so excited to get to see my son. We drove to his town on Saturday evening and on Sunday morning we picked him up at his home about 9:00 a.m. He gave us a great tour and we ate out, went to a movie, played card games and had a wonderful full day. He had to work today, so we came back home, but the day we had was full and fabulous! Dena
@@halfstitchcrossstitch2456 glad to hear you had a great time seeing him and that he is doing well. It’s hard to see them grow up and move away isn’t it? Take care Dena and happy stitching
Angela, we had a wonderful visit with our son. He looked so healthy and trim, he had lost 20-25 lbs since we saw him in December. He was so proud of me as well. We did some of our favorite things together and spent a great day together. Thank you for the well wishes for our trip. Dena
That is a lot of finishes in May. I do as well always Christmas in July. Because in december I don't have a lot of time to stitch. And in January I'm kind of done with christmas. But I love christmas projects. Have a great weekend and happy stitching
TaMara, well.....the easy ones are done. Now I am onto the two that are very difficult due to the amount of stitching that will be required. Thank you for the positive support though. We shall see. Dena
Hi Dena! Great seeing all your stitching and hearing about your upcoming June goals! Looking forward to our next zoom meet up! I sure you had a wonderful time seeing JT! Happy June and happy stitching! Lori
Lori, I had the most wonderful time with JT and he looks so well. I just sent you, Dee and Donna a photo in Messenger of the two of us. Look forward to June and all the goals I am trying to reach! Dena
Hello Dena, that was a lovely May wrap up and so glad you got to meet so many goals during the month. I hope you had a good trip to see your Son and that you had a fun weekend together. Cocoa looked to be having a great time with her friends but her heart belongs to you and Tommy as she lets you know! Happy stitching, Teresa ps. for some reason there is only a thumbs down symbol where there is usually a thumbs up so I haven't pressed it this time but here is my thumbs up so you know I enjoyed the video, thank you 👍🏻
Thanks so much Teresa for the thumbs up! We had a marvelous trip to see JT. He has lost even more weight (about 20 more pounds since I saw him in December) so he looks very trim and fit to me. He rides his bicycle everywhere because his town is very small, but he loves that. Happy Stitching to you! Dena
@@halfstitchcrossstitch2456 that is wonderful Dena, JT should be very proud of his achievements - what a journey he's been on and he deserves his success!
It was fun to see the little goals you met here at the end of the month - I’m sure that feels good! Regarding your Haunted Mansion piece, I have some ideas. If you have your heart set on a Mill Hill trilogy like that, you could restart this exact triptych on 28ct fabric and finish your current one for a gift or smalls exchange, etc. If you don’t think you’d enjoy restitching this pattern, there might be a different Halloween piece you could swap it out for. Or even try a trilogy in another season - Christmas, spring, etc. Looking forward to seeing what you decide to do. Too bad the project didn’t go as planned, but that does happen sometimes. 😊
I appreciate your suggestions very much, Sarah, and I will consider what I should do. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with me. That is so helpful! Dena
Hi Deba so great to see all of your projects moving along so nicely. I was wondering if you considered purchasing other beads for your haunted manionproject. I know you have the color of the beads and they are perfect for 28 count but you could check to see if they are available a little smaller to fit your 32 count fabric. Enjoy your visit with your son.
Sharon, I hadn't thought about it since I have the part I've stitched most beaded as well. I think once I finish this one I will wait awhile and I may be able to find the smaller beads for the other two. That is a good suggestion. Thanks, Dena
Hi Dena! A tad late as my leg issues got worse and ended up at emerg. Then our daughter and her husband and boys were down for 4 days.and out of the blue my arm started and now it’s painful and not moving well. Physio tomorrow and dr end of July. Everything is so beautiful. Love those by the bays.. I don’t know how you get so any stitches i2days. It’s beautiful! We go to Lisas on the 11th but it’s 5.5 to 6 hrs😢. Oh my that’s a big motif for sure.looks great. Still focused on totem, but didn’t stitch for 2 days then 4 when kids were here. I will take some for the car and when we are up visiting 5 days. Good luck. My goal for July 25th finish hmmm don’t think so. See you next time!
Cindy, I am so sorry that you had such difficulty and hope you are feeling better. Glad you got to visit with the family though. You will get back to stitching on your totem soon I am sure of it. You are making such good progress on it. Dena
Kathyn, we had a great visit with our son. We just got home and I have a Zoom with stitching friends tonight, so I am a happy camper. I hope you are having a wonderful start to June with your stitching! Dena
@@halfstitchcrossstitch2456 yes I am working on a stamped cross stitch and a counted Shannon Christine Designs coffee break. It says coffee warms the soul. I am stitching it on a darker purple fabric. I think it may have turned out better on a lighter fabric.
Hello. You have great plans for June. I love hearing what your thoughts are when you go through your plans. Did you finish your pre stitching for the finishing class in July. I'm thinking of doing a few Christmas projects in July also. Happy stitching. 💜
Kanday, I have finished all my pre-stitching for the finishing classes in July, so that is good. I have decided to stitch almost Christmas exclusively in July because I have 8 different Christmas WIPs already. I may start a new one or two in July as well. LOL. But first, I have some big goals for June to make room. Happy Stitching. Dena
Have you considered not doing the beads and just do the stithing on the other two? I have done that in the past on a couple of projects and was happy with the outcome. 🙂
Dena, you are so organized. Thank you for sharing your plans and beautiful stitching. Also thank you for sharing Cocoa ❤.
Linda, I am so happy you enjoy seeing the pictures of Cocoa. She is such a huge part of my our lives. Big plans for June trying for several goals so wish me luck. Dena
Dena you look so good! It makes me very happy to see your success at improving your health and you've inspired me. I seeing the dietician Wednesday. I always love your variety of stitching. Have a great week!
I am thrilled you are seeing a dietitian on Wednesday! I saw my son this weekend and he has lost another 25 pounds. I almost didn't recognize him! he is so trim! He inspired me and now I've inspired you. That is awesome. Dena
Loved your Spring at Hawk run Hollow progress. Good luck on your ambitious plans. Enjoy your visit with your son! And of course I love your Cocoa updates. Happy Stitching.
Linda, I have completed a block on Hawk Run Hollow last night! So excited for that! So far so good on June's plans. We had a fabulous time with our son! Cocoa sends her love! Dena
Dena, another great video 😊 You made such great progress in May and 8 finishes WOW! Enjoy your visit with your son & safe travels.
Jeannie, we had a wonderful visit with JT! I will share a photo or two in my next video. He has lost even more weight. I called him "Skinny" when I saw him. Dena
Hi Dena, I love your By the Bay and it is looking great! You have been stitching so many beautiful projects and I love them all. Enjoy your visit with your son and praying for safe travels. I wanted to add that you look great in all your spring outfits too. Happy stitching! Dottie
Dottie, thanks so much for the well wishes for our safe trip to visit JT. We had a blast and enjoyed every minute of our time together. I had a finish on the way home and am aiming for another small finish today if possible so I am working hard on getting those WIPs back down below 20. LOL. Happy Stitching to you. Dena
I can't wait to see how you finish your 3rd colony!! It's gorgeous as all your projects are!!! 🙂
Thanks so much for the kind compliment on 13th Colony! I am so anxious to finish it this year. Dena
Fabulous stitching as always Dena. Great stats too. We all know you will reach your goals! Hope you have had a lovely weekend with JT. I am just back from a 2 week trip to Scotland to visit my granddaughters - Imogen is 3 and Isla only a month old. Very hard leaving them but that’s the price of living thousands of miles apart. Happy stitching.
Susan, I am so happy you got to visit your grands! They are so precious and grow up so quickly. We did have a fabulous trip to visit our son, JT, and now we are getting ready for Tommy to have a great hike on the Appalachian Trail. That is the reason I have such lofty stitching goals. I will have plenty of time to stitch since my hubby will be hiking. Cocoa and I will have a girls time. LOL. Happy Stitching. Dena
WOW!! I love your plans for June. I really hope you accomplish them all. You are amazing and always inspire me with every video you do.
Carla, you are very kind, thank you! I have accomplished the first of the six goals (I had a finish this morning, on the way home from my visit with my son), so I am on my way. Dena
Hello Dena so good to see your progress on the WIPS. Hope you had a wonderful time with your son. Cannot wait to see By The Bay completed it’s gorgeous. Happy stitching
Thank you so much for the encouragement on my By the Bay! We had a wonderful time with JT. He gave us a big tour of his new home town and showed us all his favorite hang outs, where he works, where he goes to exercise in the parks and we even tried out new restaurants together. Great time! Dena
Hi Dena, Your stitching is stunning!! I so love By the bay piece. Every time you show it, I think I would like to stitch it. But have nowhere to hung it. Have fun visiting with your son. Have a good week.😊🪡
Cathleen, you know you could stitch it as three separate pieces and put them near each other. Dena
Love the style of your videos. Your voice is so soothing.
thanks Cindy for the kind words. Glad you enjoyed the video format. Dena
Wow! Lots of stitching!!! Happy June!!!
Devra, thanks so much for stopping in to visit again. Happy June to you as well. Dena
Hi Dena,
As always, it’s great to see you. I really enjoy seeing your stitching updates and hearing about your plans. Your stitching is lovely and your variety of projects is always fun to see. Your May stats are impressive and now on to June! Have a great visit with your son and happy stitching. 😊
Ellen, thanks so much for visiting and for your kind comments. June has started off well with my first finish today! We had a wonderful visit with our son this weekend. Now back to reality, LOL. Happy Stitching. Dena
Hope your trip to see your son was lots of fun. Love seeing what you are stitching on.
Iris, I had a great visit with our son! I had a finish on the way home as well. Hope you are enjoying your stitching! Dena
Hi Dena, what a month of stitching you had, the information on stitching the tree was useful. I look forward to seeing how June works out on the pushing projects forward. Hope you enjoyed your visit to see your son. X
Sharon, we had a fabulous time with our son! We did some of our favorite things together: tried out a new restaurant, saw a movie and played cards. Mostly we talked and toured his new town. So good to be able to visualize all his favorite places when he talks about them now. Hope you are getting lots of stitching time this weekend. Dena
Loved your update as always. You get me motivated to set some stitching goals😀
You can do it! I am so happy to hear you find my videos motivating! Dena
Hi Dena. I am very excited about a bunch of your wips, especially By The Bay and the project with the snow where you have to do the pine cone next. I really love the motif you finished on spring Quaker; it’s gorgeous! And I love the effects on the word merry. Enjoy the visit with your son; I’m sure you are missing him.
Linda, I love all the ones you mentioned in your comment so thanks for the support on each of them. We had a marvelous visit with our son and were so surprised that he has lost even more weight since we saw him last. Dena
Thanks Dena for another great visit...your stitching is prolific considering you were on vacation...the plans sound great...sorry your Haunted House is giving you problems...you can always stitch them separately on different counts and display with pumpkins, etc. and the different stitch count would not be noticeable...kiss Cocoa...have a great visit with your son...blessings and best wishes❤❤
Thanks Loretta for the kind response. I think if I stitch the other two I will do them differently for sure. We had a wonderful visit with our son. This momma's heart is full. Dena
Hi Dena
Love your WIPS - Great Progress on them.
Take Care & Happy Stitching
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Thanks Linda! I appreciate your always letting me know you have topped by and visited with me and Cocoa. Happy stitching. Dena
Your work is incredible!
You are so kind! Thank you very much. Dena
You are making fantastic progress on your WIPs Dena. They are beautiful. Hope you had a great time with JT. I know you must miss him like crazy. Happy stitching
Linda, I was so excited to get to see my son. We drove to his town on Saturday evening and on Sunday morning we picked him up at his home about 9:00 a.m. He gave us a great tour and we ate out, went to a movie, played card games and had a wonderful full day. He had to work today, so we came back home, but the day we had was full and fabulous! Dena
@@halfstitchcrossstitch2456 glad to hear you had a great time seeing him and that he is doing well. It’s hard to see them grow up and move away isn’t it? Take care Dena and happy stitching
Sounds like a busy July planned! I hope you have/had a wonderful visit with your son!
Angela, we had a wonderful visit with our son. He looked so healthy and trim, he had lost 20-25 lbs since we saw him in December. He was so proud of me as well. We did some of our favorite things together and spent a great day together. Thank you for the well wishes for our trip. Dena
That is a lot of finishes in May. I do as well always Christmas in July. Because in december I don't have a lot of time to stitch. And in January I'm kind of done with christmas. But I love christmas projects. Have a great weekend and happy stitching
Nina, can't wait to hear on your video your Christmas plans for July. Happy Stitching! Dena
Dena - While your goals for June might be lofty, I am positive that you will meet them. Happy stitching! - TaMara
TaMara, well.....the easy ones are done. Now I am onto the two that are very difficult due to the amount of stitching that will be required. Thank you for the positive support though. We shall see. Dena
Hi Dena! Great seeing all your stitching and hearing about your upcoming June goals! Looking forward to our next zoom meet up! I sure you had a wonderful time seeing JT! Happy June and happy stitching! Lori
Lori, I had the most wonderful time with JT and he looks so well. I just sent you, Dee and Donna a photo in Messenger of the two of us. Look forward to June and all the goals I am trying to reach! Dena
Hello Dena, that was a lovely May wrap up and so glad you got to meet so many goals during the month. I hope you had a good trip to see your Son and that you had a fun weekend together. Cocoa looked to be having a great time with her friends but her heart belongs to you and Tommy as she lets you know! Happy stitching, Teresa ps. for some reason there is only a thumbs down symbol where there is usually a thumbs up so I haven't pressed it this time but here is my thumbs up so you know I enjoyed the video, thank you 👍🏻
Thanks so much Teresa for the thumbs up! We had a marvelous trip to see JT. He has lost even more weight (about 20 more pounds since I saw him in December) so he looks very trim and fit to me. He rides his bicycle everywhere because his town is very small, but he loves that. Happy Stitching to you! Dena
@@halfstitchcrossstitch2456 that is wonderful Dena, JT should be very proud of his achievements - what a journey he's been on and he deserves his success!
Such a pleasant surprise to get the alert that there is a new video from you. I enjoy your voice and of course your cross stitching.
Linda, thanks so much for such a kind response! I hope you enjoyed the video. Dena
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Good to see you stopped by Janet! Happy Stitching. Dena
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Thanks for stopping by! Dena
It was fun to see the little goals you met here at the end of the month - I’m sure that feels good!
Regarding your Haunted Mansion piece, I have some ideas. If you have your heart set on a Mill Hill trilogy like that, you could restart this exact triptych on 28ct fabric and finish your current one for a gift or smalls exchange, etc. If you don’t think you’d enjoy restitching this pattern, there might be a different Halloween piece you could swap it out for. Or even try a trilogy in another season - Christmas, spring, etc. Looking forward to seeing what you decide to do. Too bad the project didn’t go as planned, but that does happen sometimes. 😊
I appreciate your suggestions very much, Sarah, and I will consider what I should do. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts with me. That is so helpful! Dena
Hi Deba so great to see all of your projects moving along so nicely. I was wondering if you considered purchasing other beads for your haunted manionproject. I know you have the color of the beads and they are perfect for 28 count but you could check to see if they are available a little smaller to fit your 32 count fabric. Enjoy your visit with your son.
Sharon, I hadn't thought about it since I have the part I've stitched most beaded as well. I think once I finish this one I will wait awhile and I may be able to find the smaller beads for the other two. That is a good suggestion. Thanks, Dena
Hi Dena! A tad late as my leg issues got worse and ended up at emerg. Then our daughter and her husband and boys were down for 4 days.and out of the blue my arm started and now it’s painful and not moving well. Physio tomorrow and dr end of July.
Everything is so beautiful. Love those by the bays.. I don’t know how you get so any stitches i2days. It’s beautiful! We go to Lisas on the 11th but it’s 5.5 to 6 hrs😢. Oh my that’s a big motif for sure.looks great. Still focused on totem, but didn’t stitch for 2 days then 4 when kids were here. I will take some for the car and when we are up visiting 5 days. Good luck. My goal for July 25th finish hmmm don’t think so. See you next time!
Cindy, I am so sorry that you had such difficulty and hope you are feeling better. Glad you got to visit with the family though. You will get back to stitching on your totem soon I am sure of it. You are making such good progress on it. Dena
Have fun at your sons house 🏠. Hopefully he will cook you something 😊 good. Coco will have fun too! See you next time!
Kathyn, we had a great visit with our son. We just got home and I have a Zoom with stitching friends tonight, so I am a happy camper. I hope you are having a wonderful start to June with your stitching! Dena
@@halfstitchcrossstitch2456 yes I am working on a stamped cross stitch and a counted Shannon Christine Designs coffee break. It says coffee warms the soul. I am stitching it on a darker purple fabric. I think it may have turned out better on a lighter fabric.
I think the Shannon Christine Designs are lovely. I purchased two patterns from her collection this year. Dena
Hello. You have great plans for June. I love hearing what your thoughts are when you go through your plans. Did you finish your pre stitching for the finishing class in July. I'm thinking of doing a few Christmas projects in July also. Happy stitching. 💜
Kanday, I have finished all my pre-stitching for the finishing classes in July, so that is good. I have decided to stitch almost Christmas exclusively in July because I have 8 different Christmas WIPs already. I may start a new one or two in July as well. LOL. But first, I have some big goals for June to make room. Happy Stitching. Dena
Have you considered not doing the beads and just do the stithing on the other two? I have done that in the past on a couple of projects and was happy with the outcome. 🙂
Good suggestion about leaving off the beads. I'll take a look at that. Dena
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Dawn, thanks for stopping by to visit! Dena