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 old and ruined so we […]

Grapevine

I finished the grapevine outline yesterday! I started filling in! Look! I got the closed herringbone filling done in one night. I love that stitch. It is SO soothing and fun and fast to do. And I love the braided look it gives. I had enough silk to do the one green grape, right in the middle, satin stitched. I […]

Grapes

I have been working on the Grapes band of Dorcas Haynes. At my present rate of stitching, it looks like I will finish the outline of the grapevine this week! I should have the satin stitch and herringbone fillings well started by the end of April. Yay! I don’t think I’ve mentioned what I’m stitching on or with. I am […]

Fully Finished Object for April 2024

You all are hardly going to believe this, but at last I have a fully finished object to share with you! I don’t even remember the last time I finished something off! Here is my Acts of Goodness pin pillow from the new book, Moments of Glad Grace by Blackbird Designs. I guess I got the stitching done in March. […]

Band 2 Finished. A Possible Plan

I am very happy with the colors. Here is band 2. It was a very straightforward stitch. Now to start band 3. That will have more challenges! I have continued to think about focusing on Dorcas this year. If I wanted to finish on December 25, I think I’d have to divide it up something like this… The plan would […]

Testing, testing

I started adding color to the first band of Dorcas Haynes, part of trying out my own color scheme. I have spent a lot of time sorting and matching colors on this so I’m a bit nervous but also have a fair level of confidence…Here is how it’s looking. Compare mine which is the middle one between two “Darlene O’Steen” […]

Dorcas Haynes

I mentioned last month that I have some things I’m excited about as I return to normal life and regular stitching…one of those is Dorcas Haynes. I gave her a start in 2021, but didn’t care for the colors in the Scarlet Letter version which is the only one available to me. I did some sleuthing, and with some luck […]

Happy Easter! March Smalls Link Up! and More!

He is Risen! I finished my little project for the Easter Blog Hop and since I’m still in the time frame for the Smalls SAL link up, I’ll join that too. It is now hosted by Rachel, the Ten Hour Stitcher and you can see the link post here: Smalls SAL Link Up March 2024 And here is my contribution, […]

2024 Easter Treasure Hunt Blog Hop

Happy Pre-Easter, Friends! I’m so happy you hopped on by for my contribution to Serendipitous Jo’s Easter Treasure Hunt! Please click on that link for full details and a list of participants, especially if you found me by chance and want to start at the beginning to discover the mystery phrase. My stitch for you was supposed to be the […]