Slowly slowly I’m getting through the Strawberry Band. Here I have almost half of it done. This weekend I put the little leaves on the berries, satin stitch, and started on the queen stitch leaves, which have many partial stitches. Here’s a close up: The Scarlet Letter graph is not very useful because it just gives the outline of the […]
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 this project is all done! […]
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, but I was determined to […]
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 little fudged I think, so […]
I have FFOs for you! Autumn Splendor from With They Needle and Thread. I’m so happy I was able to finish it just like the model. I loved the model so much! The Botanical Bee from Hands on Design. I went with the yellow bee fabric. For one thing, this choice won the widest support from everyone who saw it […]
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 is upside down of the […]
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 around for opinions. Here is […]
I bet you knew I would make it! I finished a small for this month! This is called Flowers from Mary by La D Da. Of course I was delighted to have a little project with my name in the title of it. I love the quirky flower vase and the alphabet border. I love just about everything from La […]
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 […]
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 […]
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