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 […]
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: […]
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 […]
A couple weeks ago The Attic hosted Autumn of Abundance, its fall event, this year featuring Linda of Chessie and Me, Teresa Kogut, and Beth Twist from Heartstring Samplery. It was a busy week in the shop. Here I am (on the far right) with Jean and some of the shop ladies. They are a wonderful group of coworkers. I […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
For my August small I finished the funky birdy from Moments of Glad Grace by Blackbird Designs. This past weekend we were camping and I finished it up in the beautiful cool air on top of Mt. Lemmon. “We” includes me and my 5 children ages 6-16, a friend and her family with husband and 4 children ages 1-14, and […]
I’m figuring it out. Now I have about 1/4 of the acorn bands complete. For those stitching along with me, here’s a few tips… Do the satin stitch first on the acorn “seeds” and only use one strand even if you, like me, used 2 ply in other areas. You don’t want the acorns too puffy if you want to […]
