Category: Crafting

Week 9 of the 2022 Pep­per­mint Pur­ple Stitch-a-long is done! This week’s block was a nui­sance because I was dis­tract­ed. I stitched it in the wrong place first, then anoth­er wrong place. Then I left that there, stitched it in the RIGHT place, and start­ed rip­ping out the one in the wrong place. I goofed and […]

All caught up to this week’s block (week 7) and the inner bor­der is com­plete. Now I need to do the out­er bor­der, but I’m also busy work­ing on the 2021 SAL.

I fin­ished this week’s block and got 75% of the out­er bor­der done. Design by Pep­per­mint Purple

I got the grid done and I’m caught up on the blocks of the pat­tern released so far. I decid­ed to use a bor­der for the first time, so I’m still putting that on (it’ll take a while). This is one of the bor­ders Clare cre­at­ed for the SAL.

I got my fab­ric for the 2021 Pep­per­mint Pur­ple stitch-a-long (final­ly) and stitched the grid. Now I’m wait­ing on a ship­ment of thread so that I can be sure to have enough of it to fin­ish the whole piece in one dye lot. The post office lost the fab­ric for the 2022 stitch-a-long for a few […]

I final­ly fin­ished the 2020 Pep­per­mint Pur­ple Stitch-a-long! I want­ed to start the 2021 SAL right away but real­ized that the fab­ric I was sent was­n’t what I ordered. I ordered 32-count white Lugana to match this one and received 28-count. So now I’m wait­ing for a new order of fab­ric (I fig­ure I’ll eventually […]