Mail Call!

My Little House Needleworks and Country Cottage Needleworks charts were delivered the other day!!! I am so excited about these designers! Little House Neighborhood and Though the woods are the first two I am starting. I have a basket on my dining room table with my current wip's. It was just a little overcrowded in there (imagine that) so I finished up a couple and now I can start more! I have started The Sweetheart Tree 12 Days of Christmas Series. I have the first 2 'days' so I only have 10 left to buy. Another fun shopping spree! I do not have any stitched ornaments I have made for my own tree so I am excited about having at least a couple from this series finished this year. I'm looking forward to alot of snow/stitching days!
Happy Fall my stitching friends!

UFO'S, WIP'S & SOME STASH - LISTS

I have added 2 lists on the sidebar. I need motivation to have more finishes this year. Maybe by seeing the lists, as long as they are, I will be more in a stitching mood! I also have a stitching partner in this adventure. Dawn is trying to finish up some of her WIP's so we are working together. Several of my pieces are BAPs so I need to stay motivated to put in more stitching time. The Stash list is only part of my stash. It does not included the magazines or all of the charts. I still have another tub full of charts! A very kind stitching friend cleaned out her stash and gave me alot of the ones I have! All of the Heart In Hand charts are kits with speciality floss! All I have to do is add the material, which I have. Some of my WIP's I started without having all the floss I need so I will have to order some DMC to finish them. That would be another list.

Caring Wings

This is an undated pic of Caring Wings. The spaces in her dress are for the gold thread and the beads. The material is 28 ct. hand dyed evenweave. I can not remember the color right off hand but I have it written down somewhere. My material has a little more lavender than the model. I matched it to the lavender in her dress. I looked back over my previous pics and was encouraged by the progress. Sometimes is hard to see. I work for a couple of hours and can hardly see any change. When looking back over the previous pictures, I can see a big change. Every stitch counts.

Update on Holiday Snapper

I finally got a couple of updated pics. of Bent Creek's Holiday Snapper Series. It was too large for the scanner so I did it in two pics. I have a little left on the Christmas block and then 3 more blocks and the outer boarder and I will have a finish. The 4th of July, Halloween and Thanksgiving are the last 3 blocks. My daugheter is going to make this into a pillow for me.

New Project

New WIP- "Yum" Bear from 101 Bears with Personality. I am also going to stitch the "Sandy" bear. No pic. yet. I have the bear and the watermellon stitched up but that is all. I have also worked on my Bent Creek Holiday Snapper on the Arbor Day square.

Caring Wings

I have updated my Caring Wings photo. If you have never tackled a larger project, I would recommend Caring Wings from Mirabilia. The chart and color changes are easy to follow. I am stitching mine on 28 ct. hand dyed evenweave. I matched the lavender colors in the chart when I selected the material. When finished this will be framed and given to my daughter. She picked out the pattern.

Heart In Hand

I started this Heart In Hand kit this past Friday evening. It came with 32 Ct. Summer Khaki Belfast Linen, Gentle Arts, Weeks Dye Works and Olde Willow floss. Can we say, "Wow!" Now I get to add 'linen' , '32 count' and dyed floss to my list of have stitched. If you look closely at the picture, which seemed to turn out scanned better than any I have ever scanned, you will notice it appears a bit crooked here and there. It appears that way to me. Just coming out anywhere near where I was suppose to was a miracle. I tried my best and even frogged it out a couple of times. I am not used to linen. The 32 ct. was a bit small even for my new glasses. I had the material so close to the lamp it is a wonder it did not catch on fire. I have the summer, fall and winter kits also. Maybe by the time I get to winter, I will be a better 32 ct. linen stitcher! lol I must add, these kits plus several more were given to me by another stitcher. She is a very kind, thoughtful lady and I appreciate her gifts so very much.

Bent Creek Holiday Snapper Series

This is the progess on my Holiday Snapper Series. I have worked on Arbor Day some since this pic was taken. I love the colors.

Caring Wings Update

This is my Caring Wings update.

The Fortunate Traveler update

Here is the latest progress pic. on my Fortunate Traveler. I have stitched alittle more since this picture was taken.

Celtic Cross

This is a free patteren I got of the internet. It is the first Celtic Cross I have worked on. The colors are dark & light blues and yellow/golds. It is make a nice ornament for the tree next year.

Caring Wings Updated

Progress on Caring Wings! I really enjoy stitching on this piece. I love the colors.

Caring Wings

This is an update on my Caring Wings progress. I really love the colors and the fabric. I received a new stitching lamp for Christmas so I am excited about putting it to use. I really needed it to work on this fabric.

Celtic Cross

This is my first Celtic Cross. I plan on making several into ornaments for next year. The problem with this one is... I have started it too close to the top of the fabric. I will probably just start over and not try to take it out. I am stitching on an off white, 28 count material. The colors are deep blues, yellow and gold.

Holiday Snapper series

Bent Creek Holiday Snapper series.
I am working on March now. Happy Holidays is in the center. I am doing them all on a piece of cream aida. I plan on making them into a pillow.

Jessi's Afghan

This is Jessi's Afghan. It is blues and light lavenders mixed. I am making a section of 8 doubles and 2 singles. This is an easy pattern and I have about 1/4 of it finished so far. She has worked on it some also.

Ladybug Garden Progres

This is my progress on my Ladybug Garden from Cross Country Stitching. I have done some of the back stitching as I went along. I have bought ladybug buttons, a black bird button and a red bird button to put on after I'm finished. This piece is for me. I'm going to frame it and hang it in my kitchen wall.

Caring Wings

Progress update on Caring Wings-Mirabilia. I am stitching on hand-dyed 28 ct.fabric. I love this material! It is soft and the colors are beautiful. I am stitching this for my youngest daughter. She picked out the angel and the material color.

Started Christmas Stitching

I have started working on a Christmas project! I have several projects ready and I'm going to work on my Christmas stitching on Mondays along with other desperate stitchers. Right now, I am doing a really cute santa holding a Christmas tree on a towel. I also have Star of Wonder, All Hearts Warm at Christmas, and a Peace Dove with an American flag. I am gathering the materials I will need for these other 3 projects.

I get it!

I finally figured out how to add my stitching friends on the Link section! I see I still have an "edit me" on there but at least I know how to change it! I have been working on my bears this week. The wisper floss is fun. I do have to go back and add some more floss to the first part of the bear because I used a piece that was too long. My 'fuzzy' is kind of thin. I started with Austin's black bear. I should be able to finish him today. I still have to order all the charms and buttons for all three pieces. I think I will keep them until Christmas and put them under the tree. I bought some stitch bows and pages to hold my floss this week-end. Going to switch from the floss bobbins to the stitch bows. I have alot of crinkles in my floss when I get to the end. That can't be good. I also bought a needle threader. No instructions, not even a picture on the package. Did I have a problem figuring out how that thing worked? Yes! I said Yes! I had a problem! Even when I thought I had that little silver sucker figured out I still was wrong! Finally....I did get it! It does make threading the fuzzy floss much easier! lol