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

01/06/2025

Weekend finishing: The Garden Box

Having out finishing tools and stuff for the tooth fairy pillow inspired me to get going on more FFO’s this past weekend. I REALLY wanted to FFO the Jeannette Douglas Garden Box project I stitched last year. I guess doing so much button hole stitching on felt gave me a boost of confidence too with finishing this up. Here’s my […]

Fully Finished in 2025 2 44 sec read

01/04/2025

A Tooth Fairy Pillow

Here is the finished stitching for Natalie’s tooth fairy pillow: And here it is getting made into the pillow! And here are 3 of the 4 the tooth fairy pillows that I have made. (My oldest son never got one. He had a little treasure box that he liked to use.) (The first one I made was put away as […]

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01/03/2025

Happy New Year 2025!

This first week of the new year has seen some good stitching! While I don’t have my WIPGO board ready yet, I do know some of the things I will be working on this month and so I got started. I have to admit to massaging my board a little bit to suit my plans for January! I guess that’s […]

WIPGO 2025 1 2 min read

12/31/2024

Merry Christmas….and my last finishes of 2024

Merry Christmas! We are enjoying a home week. Nothing much to do, plenty of leftovers and snacks, and fun presents that are occupying our time nicely. My best stitching presents: 2 kits from Inspirations and Mother Of Pearl treasures from Jackie duPlessis. Also I got needles and finger pads, and a nice pair of rose gold colored scissors. The pretty […]

Finished! 2024 2 2 min read

12/21/2024

Beads on Felt

When I was going through my bead stuff recently, I rediscovered this little kit I bought a while ago, it is more stitching beads on felt. I put off doing it because the instructions are a poor translation to English from Ukranian and I knew I would need to mostly follow the picture, not the written instructions. I wasn’t up […]

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12/14/2024

Stitching All the Things!

OH MY GOODNESS! So much to stitch these days! Plus all the busy-ness of the holidays! Here’s what’s in my lap and under my needle and being toted around to waiting rooms and school events in the rush before Christmas…. I have gotten some stitching in on my vintage Jiffy crewel kit. Santa comes along bit by bit. No plans […]

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12/08/2024

2 More

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.

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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!

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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