Slow Sunday Stitching: September & October Cross Stitch Recap and November Planning

 As I've noted on my quilting-related posts this past week, it's been a while since I've reported on what I worked on over the last two months.  So I'm joining in at Kathy's Quilts for some "Slow Sunday Stitching" talk!

When I posted about cross-stitch back in early September, I was working on two projects.  The first was my "New York Skyline" piece by XstitchbyTA which I had started during this year's May-nia season:

Maynia Start

By the start of September, I had two pages of the pattern finished:

The plan was to have had the next page done by the end of that month, however Page 3 wasn't finished up until yesterday: 

There are now only two more pages of the pattern left to go.  My hope had been to have finished through Page 4 by the end of October but now I am going to try to have this be a "monogamous stitch" for the rest of this month so I can meet my original goal of having it completely finished by the end of November.  I already have a frame for it and would like to be able to "fully finish" it and have it hung up by year's end.  

The other project I had just started in early September was this year's Fat Quarter Shop "Christmas In July SAL" project:  "Up On the Rooftop":

My September Start

Steady progress by the end of September

Technically finished by the end October!

I had finished stitching the sleigh and the border on Halloween.  However, during that process I realized that the two little white motifs above it on the right had been positioned incorrectly!  So last Monday my first task for November was ripping and re-stitching them.  So now it really is finished!

My plans for this is that I want to create a display for the holidays using this, last year's FQS CIJ piece "Letters To Santa" (which I finished stitching during this year's CIJ) and a "Patchwork Bow" that I made for the CIJ blog hop that Melva Loves Scraps hosted.

I have some ideas about how I want to do it so hope to flesh out those plans for "fully finishing" the two CIJ cross stitch pieces this month.     

That brings everything stitching-wise up to date.  Now I can go over to Kathy's Quilts and see what everyone else has in their lap for "Slow Sunday Stitching" as the cooler days of late Fall are now upon us!