Mary's Thread – Using every spare moment to stitch all the things

12/08/2024

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The cuteness will not stop with these felt ornament kits! Both of these were a breeze to make and stitched up very quickly over the weekend. The next kit is beautiful but more labor intensive. And it is actually the one piece that sold me on the collection. I can’t wait to show you!

Kiriki Press Ornaments 1 16 sec read

12/04/2024

Who is cute?

Elf is cute! My my! I don’t have anything more to say. The Kiriki Press Advent calendar is delightful.

Kiriki Press Ornaments 4 6 sec read

12/01/2024

Gingerbread Cookie

I finished the second Kiriki Press ornament today! It’s very cute. The 3rd ornament is an elf. It’s adorable. But it has many tiny pieces. I have decorating to do so I won’t start it until tomorrow perhaps. I can’t believe it is December 1, 1st Sunday of Advent, and 24 days to Christmas. There’s a lot to do!

Kiriki Press Ornaments 1 18 sec read

11/30/2024

Kiriki Press Advent Box

There have been so many enticing offerings from various stitching sources recently, I have been so excited about the possibilities for new projects! I absolutely could not resist the adorable Advent box offered by Kiriki Press…12 kits to make felt ornaments over the course of December…the ornaments revealed in the teasers leading up to the release were all darling. I […]

Finished! 2024 0 2 min read

11/25/2024

A Brain Break

I wanted to stitch…I didn’t know what. I wanted to do something new. The holidays are coming. It has been quite a while since I’ve picked up crewel. I do enjoy a bit of crewel and I have a small collection of Chris Davenport designs of ornaments. I decided one of those would do. The Santa. Here is my start: […]

Something Different 0 1 min read

11/19/2024

A Pink Tomato and Bling-y Pins

Look! I made a really cute thing! It was a present for my co-worker at The Attic, Carolyn. She loves pink and bling-y things so a pink wool tomato and some fancy pins! I put it on the shelf when it was finished and my Japanese lady was looking over at it so I have to take a picture of […]

Creative Endeavors 0 30 sec read

11/04/2024

Every Leaf

Good old cross stitching is so therapeutic. The weekend was a normal one, not too crazy, with a couple HS fall ball games to watch and home chores, but I got in a lot of stitching on Every Leaf Speaks Bliss and I feel really good about that. Mostly I have the border left and a sprinkling of small leaves. […]

Almost finished! 0 1 min read

11/01/2024

Feeling Fall

One of the stitches I had brought along on our trip to Europe was Emily’s Bliss by Summer House Stitche Workes. I didn’t actually plan to stitch on it unless I ran into trouble with my other projects, and so I didn’t, but it was on the top of the pile so I’ve picked it up a few times over […]

WIPs 6 2 min read

10/12/2024

Belated Blog Anniversary!

Oh dear … I checked my last published post and see it’s been over a month since an update! Yikes! I think I had planned a post for the end of September that was never published but now I can’t find it. I probably wrote it in my head! It was related to it having been my 8 year blogging […]

Finished! 2024 1 3 min read

09/06/2024

Miscellany

Life has gotten bogged down lately…mostly ok stuff, just too much going on! I didn’t meet my stitching goals for August. But I was out of town 3 weekends and there has been a lot of busy-ness at home! I told you I’d share the little bird pinwheel from Fox and Rabbit that I had started at summer school. It […]

WIPs 1 1 min read