Mary's Thread – Page 14 – Using every spare moment to stitch all the things

06/19/2023

Oh deer, a new sampler

I was very sick last week with something like the flu…it wasn’t Covid…but still I quarantined away from the family because we didn’t need more people coming down with the awful thing I had! The only upside was after the achiness left my hands (2 days I couldn’t stitch the aches were so bad!) I had some good stitching time. […]

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06/13/2023

Another basket and even one more bird!

Last weekend I was camping with my 2 bigs kids and some friends. I needed a tiny project for down time. I selected Strawberry Liberty from Chessie and Me. Here is how it’s going. Maybe it will be my June small. One of them. Because I had yet another bird to stitch! I had to make the last part of […]

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06/01/2023

Bird Progress and A June Plan

I had a good weekend stitching Mary Amelia’s Bird. I went from here: To here: To here over 3 days. Not too bad! It is going quicker than I thought. I do not love stitching the 2 strands of DMC on the 36 to get the coverage I would like. It looks ok but not as neat. If had been […]

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05/29/2023

Another bird

Good morning! School is out. Wheee! I think, at the beginning at least, I like school being on summer break as much as the kids, with nowhere to hustle off to first thing on a Monday morning. Last night I watched The Attic’s flosstube. It is the only flosstube I watch because I need to know what the customers calling […]

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05/26/2023

May 2023 Smalls Check In

I’m a little late…that’s the theme of my life these days…but I have a small for you this last Friday of May…it is another element of the Stacy Nash Birds of a Feather needle book. Now isn’t that cute with all those different birdies? I do the last big bird in June, my favorite element of the project. Save the […]

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05/21/2023

Jane Plenderleath!

I didn’t do anything else this morning until I had finished Jane Plenderleath! I was so close I just had to. It was one more hour of stitching and Ta Dah! As I got to the end I went back and picked out several sets of letters to change them to my family initials. If you look you will see […]

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05/19/2023

Monogamous May…and a delay

I’ve made more good progress on Jane this past week. The border is matched up! This stitch is full of on purpose and on accident “personalizations” but at least no significant counting errors! Yay! The finish is in sight! I meant to spend Mother’s Day making a big finish. It didn’t work out. An essential component of the finish was […]

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05/12/2023

A productive weekend and week

Look at all the stitching I got done on Jane since last weekend! The bottom half is done done done! I redid the trees how I wanted them and “fixed” the smoke from the chimneys that was off center in the design and driving me nuts. I did that whole middle flower band and got a good start on the […]

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05/05/2023

Mostly Monogamous May

As much fun as it is to go skippity hop from one project to another, it is more satisfying to finish something so I’m going to do a mostly monogamous May and strive for a substantial finish! The stitch of choice is Jane Plenderleath from Needlework Press. I don’t even remember the last time I showed her on the blog […]

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04/30/2023

Borders, Birds, and Bouquets

I feel like I’m coming out of hibernation with my stitching and blogging this past month. I was kitting so many projects I’m not even going to list them here…except for the ones I’ve started. I have been on such an unearned new starts kick, having my own private MAYnia here through the end of April! Now that it’s May […]

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