Welcome to my post for the 2021 Easter Blog Hop hosted by Jo of Serendipitous Stitching! For this blog hop you must visit each participating blog in order to collect the letters to solve the mystery phrase. The letter you will get here at Mary’s Thread is R. I was glad my spring stitch had my letter in it. This […]
Late last year I started a lovely little project by Chartmakers called Deerfield. By the end of December I had finished almost the entire center and just made a tiny start on the border. Then I put it away. This month, I’ve been working on it on my “tired” nights when I dare not touch something more complicated. I have […]
I had a really nice weekend! It’s been months since I’ve been able to go watch my oldest son play baseball. Usually my husband takes him because he’s one of the coaches and only 2 people for each player have been allowed to come. With 4 other kids that just doesn’t work for our family! So I listen to the […]
I finished Vintage Mini Pinwheel by Threadwork Primitives to share with you for the Smalls check in this month. It will be an easy FFO (a round pinwheel) and I even found some perfect little pins to stick in it. You’ll see it again soon for the April FFO gallery. What have you been working on this month?
In the midst of working on my bigger projects I don’t want to neglect monthly smalls stitching! I have 2 little ones I’m picking up here and there. This is Flowers by Lizzie Kate. When the designer announced her retirement several years ago I stocked up on her designs for my collection and this was one of them. I’m using […]
I’m closing in on Catherine Agnes from Indigo Rose! Here is what I accomplished since last time: I charted the left alphabet border to put in the year instead of my initials. I stitched the specialty stitch left inner border. I put in 2 more motifs, and almost finished the embellishment of the 2 left corners. I finished the right […]
For March, the People have chosen Spring as the theme of the blog hop. I have a few springy stitches to share. Here is one I made last year which you might remember, Jeannette Douglas’ Jump Into Spring: This piece also from last year also seems springy to me, it is called Pensee Sauvage from Samplers Not Forgotten. In Arizona […]
I spent some good time with Catherine Agnes last week and have made some excellent progress on her. I hope to finish this one in March. Last time I was telling you how each of the motifs uses several different stitches. So this one here is detached buttonhole (needle lace) and rhodes stitch and queen stitch and satin stitch. So […]
For my small this month I’m sharing the little piece I made for the Secret Stitching Sweetheart blog hop on Valentines Day. The recipient of my stitched Valentine was Astrid of Dragon Stitches. I had stitched it just for this event so it would be a surprise I had not shared before! And now it’s doing double duty for my […]
This was supposed to be an end of January progress report but that didn’t work out. Sorry! It’s definitely slower stitching these days. Many tiny tiny stitches make it seem like one stitching session doesn’t result in much progress. But over time it adds up I guess. I finished the 4th inner wing of Amy Mitten’s butterfly. I’m ready to […]
