I’m linking up with Rachel, Ten Hour Stitcher for the May Smalls SAL. I really wanted to finish the Jeannette Douglas Garden Box this month. It was just a delightful little stitch and I loved it. I did finish the bee skep sampler which is the largest of the components and so the stitching in …
Things to share
In spite of a Very Bad Headache today, I was able to finish my Flowers From Mary pin pillow. The project was a La D Da kit I received as a gift last year from dear Jean at The Attic. I got very little else done on this day which ought to have been productive, …
Dorcas’ Strawberry Band
I have been TRYING to work on the Strawberry Band, this month’s assignment for Dorcas Haynes. It is TRICKY! Here I am… So far I have figured out how wide the backstitches are (the diagonals are over 2 and the horizontals are over 4, but the Scarlet Letter chart is not quite right…it is a …
Can’t resist a finish…
I was so close I went ahead and finished the stitching on the first 2 little pillow inserts of the Jeannette Douglas Garden Box. Here they are!! I started the long cushion next. Unfortunately I stitched the border in the wrong color. The chart is oriented sideways and and symbols used for the supposed-to-be-TAN border …
Bees and Funky Birds
I finished the Botanical Bee from Hands On Design! What a cheerful project, but there is a lot of stitching in it! I have it prepped for finishing. I am deciding on these 2 fabrics to back it as a circle ornament. I am leaning to the blue stripes as more elegant but I’m shopping …
Grapes and Squirrels
We spent all of Saturday cleaning and reorganizing our garage before it gets too hot. Our garage was full of debris and disorder from the remodel and we couldn’t get the car in it. My husband’s nice car shouldn’t be out in the sun all summer because it will ruin the paint. Mine is already …
Now I’ve Sewn My ABCs
This was a little goal I had in my head for this month…to finish the alphabet part of Jeannette Douglas’s ABC Sampler. I figured if I could get my colors sorted for the ABCs, the little band and spot motifs on the bottom at least would have colors I could choose from, and there would …
WIP MAYnia #6! The final one!
My final WIP for this May was the ABC Sampler by Jeannette Douglas. I started here… And just did one night stitching. I was quick and got 4 new letters done. B, D, K, and Y. I am more happy and confident with my colors. I still need to change the black U for purple. …
Heirloom Anniversary is DONE! And now I can enjoy a WIP MAYnia!
I got really bogged down in the Heirloom Anniversary the past few months. I think “obligation stitching” will do that. If you know you are “supposed” to be stitching something, it can become something of a chore! But a happy chore nonetheless! And here it is, my Heirloom Anniversary Square! If I do say so …
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The People Choose…
Series of designs! Thank you, Jo for providing such an interesting theme to discuss! I enjoyed thinking on this topic, and look forward to others’ posts as well! Even though from my blog posts it may not seem like I don’t do much stitching of series, I certainly do a lot of collecting for it! …