I had a good weekend stitching Mary Amelia’s Bird. I went from here: To here: To here over 3 days. Not too bad! It is going quicker than I thought. I do not love stitching the 2 strands of DMC on the 36 to get the coverage I would like. It looks ok but not …
Another bird
Good morning! School is out. Wheee! I think, at the beginning at least, I like school being on summer break as much as the kids, with nowhere to hustle off to first thing on a Monday morning. Last night I watched The Attic’s flosstube. It is the only flosstube I watch because I need to …
May 2023 Smalls Check In
I’m a little late…that’s the theme of my life these days…but I have a small for you this last Friday of May…it is another element of the Stacy Nash Birds of a Feather needle book. Now isn’t that cute with all those different birdies? I do the last big bird in June, my favorite element …
Jane Plenderleath!
I didn’t do anything else this morning until I had finished Jane Plenderleath! I was so close I just had to. It was one more hour of stitching and Ta Dah! As I got to the end I went back and picked out several sets of letters to change them to my family initials. If …
Monogamous May…and a delay
I’ve made more good progress on Jane this past week. The border is matched up! This stitch is full of on purpose and on accident “personalizations” but at least no significant counting errors! Yay! The finish is in sight! I meant to spend Mother’s Day making a big finish. It didn’t work out. An essential …
A productive weekend and week
Look at all the stitching I got done on Jane since last weekend! The bottom half is done done done! I redid the trees how I wanted them and “fixed” the smoke from the chimneys that was off center in the design and driving me nuts. I did that whole middle flower band and got …
Mostly Monogamous May
As much fun as it is to go skippity hop from one project to another, it is more satisfying to finish something so I’m going to do a mostly monogamous May and strive for a substantial finish! The stitch of choice is Jane Plenderleath from Needlework Press. I don’t even remember the last time I …
Borders, Birds, and Bouquets
I feel like I’m coming out of hibernation with my stitching and blogging this past month. I was kitting so many projects I’m not even going to list them here…except for the ones I’ve started. I have been on such an unearned new starts kick, having my own private MAYnia here through the end of …
April 2023 Smalls Check In
I’m a little late today with creating the Smalls Check In! Sorry about that! I’ve been enjoying slowly getting back to my stitching this month. There’s just so much fun stuff to work on, I’ve been in a sort of chaos-unfocused mode! But I did make a start on one of my favorite Nashville releases…Stacy’s …
2023 Easter Blog Hop
Happy Almost Easter! And Welcome to Jo’s Easter Blog Hop! If you are here by accident and would like to start at the beginning of the game, please click here to see the first blogger in the hop…and I’ll see you again really soon! Otherwise, read on! I did not have a new Easter stitch …