Mary's Thread – Page 19 – Using every spare moment to stitch all the things

08/25/2022

August Smalls Check In

Here is my Small for August. Indeed it is the only thing I stitched on this month at all. I am a little bummed about that. I hope next month will have more stitching. However, I do like this finish. It is so refreshing and tranquil when life has been so hot and hectic this month! Mountain Lake from Louise […]

Fully Finished 2022 4 44 sec read

08/21/2022

Mountain Lake

I’ve been enjoying my little full coverage project “Mountain Lake.” Once I had “the bones” in—the larger color areas and darkest chart symbols—it’s been fun to fill in the missing pieces like doing a puzzle. I only had to take out 3 stitches due to miscounting. Yay! I’m glad it is small. Without seeing the light at the end of […]

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08/17/2022

Something completely different

It’s been a little quiet around here hasn’t it?! Please don’t worry, I’m well but the last two weeks have been extraordinarily busy. I went on a mother/daughter weekend retreat with my 12 year old two weeks ago and chaperoned my 14 year old son on his 9th grade camp out this past weekend. These were special experiences but left […]

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07/31/2022

Spanish Sampler Etui Lid

Ta DAH! The lid was fun. It only took me until doing the lid to figure out the color scheme of this project with some accuracy! I’ve mostly been relying on the color copy of the project for color placement but not all my colors are positioned correctly. That’s ok. It still looks good! You do not stitch the central […]

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07/29/2022

Spanish Sampler Etui Side #4!

I finished the fourth side of the Spanish Sampler Etui! It wasn’t hard. I just needed to do it. The next thing I should do are the inner pockets which are a simple satin stitch pattern. But I decided to tackle the lid. I’m still loving this project!

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07/29/2022

July 2022 Smalls SAL Check In

For my Small this month, I used Jo’s People’s Choice-Pets Edition, as my inspiration to finish the stitching on a Chessie and Me project I started last year. I think it is called “Beneath the Bough.” This was supposed to be a fob. I decided it was way too big and I’d make a needlebook instead with the same picture, […]

Finished! 2022 4 36 sec read

07/23/2022

Sampler of Stitches DEF. Jane Plenderleath

I finished the 4th section of The Drawn Thread’s Sampler of Stitches DEF. It is nice to get something done. I think this one took me longer because on several stitches I redid them in different colors after they were already stitched. Also for some reason I made a lot of mistakes that had to be redone. Hopefully the frog […]

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07/18/2022

The People Choose…Pets!

I’m taking part in Jo’s People’s Choice this month to highlight pet themed stitching. For me, that means cats. Although I don’t have any pets at the moment, until recently I had cats my whole life, and before children I also went through a period of serious fish-keeping. But I learned that aquarium fish are more a hobby than a […]

Blog Hop 4 1 min read

07/17/2022

July 2022 Fully Finished Object

My Fully Finished Object for the July Gallery is the Blue Flower Pindrum by La D Da. I did my best! It is stuffed with poly beads on the bottom for weight, sawdust for stiffness in the middle, and fiber fill on the top to be easy to stick the pins in. I have done enough pindrums now to learn […]

Fully Finished 2022 2 55 sec read

07/11/2022

More Jane and What I Should Be Doing

Since being back from Indiana, I have just kept working on Jane Plenderleath. As I’ve been stitching, it seems to me that it is a larger project than I expected. I guess I’ve completed 1/4 of it but it seems like I should be further along. The house was big. Perhaps the letters and floral bands will go quicker? I’m […]

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