Fall Posey Finished!

Well that was quick! I think this took only about 5 stitching sessions! Here is Jeannette Douglas’ Fall Posey! I ordered a pincushion form with a round base to mount it on. Jeanette has a similar design for each season. They are all lovely but I liked this fall one best. But that winter one…it’s super pretty too! Maybe I […]

People’s Choice: Spring

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 […]

Last Finishes of the Year and New Starts

Many stitchers, I know, try to finish up a few last projects at the end of the year. Count me among them, I too had to wrap up a few loose ends! First is an ornament I stitched WAY earlier in the year, this little mitten from Mill Hill. This one was started by my grandma and only had about […]

December 2020 (Christmas Day!) Smalls Check In

Merry Christmas! With the last Friday of the month also being Christmas, I am late posting this! But maybe nobody is going to be fussing with blog updates today anyway! I have nothing new since my Advent Calendar post. This is my small finish for the month, Jeannette Douglas’ Cozy Into Winter. I didn’t have a chance to do anything […]

Online Advent Calendar 2020

Welcome, welcome if you are visiting from Jo’s Online Advent Calendar! (If not why not click over to Serendipitous Stitching and check it out?) Each day in December a different blog features some Christmas stitching so there is a lot to see, since now is the 23rd! If you’ve been following along this month you know I’ve been working on […]

Decision Time

I’m determined to get one of my stitches done before Christmas and it’s time to decide which I will focus on. It’s going to be… Cozy Into Winter. I just have to finish the colored diamonds on the border and the specialty stitch bands. I can get that done amid the wrapping, baking, Christmas letters, decorating…Oh my there is a […]

Progress report

I have a little report this week on my two December stitches. Here is Deerfield. I’m still loving this one. And here is Cozy Into Winter. I am not enthusiastic about the satin stitch stars. I will have to do a little at a time with them because they are not very fun. I hate satin stitch over 1 and […]

A quick stitch and what I’ll be stitching in December

I realized suddenly this month that I don’t think I’ve stitched any Christmas ornaments this year! Well, I had to change that state of affairs! A while ago I had kitted an ornament from Just Cross Stitch Magazine 2001. It is called Gemstone Heart by Hermanson Hardanger. Since it was ready to go, I picked it up. Except for the […]

How’d I do?

At the beginning of October I had GOALS. I met them. I am proud! Yay! I finished (FFO’d) the 2 small projects I wanted to get done. I got the stitching done on 2 “bonus” smalls: And, I made great progress on Autumn Quakers: The little mauve leaf at the bottom right is the bottom of the sampler. So I […]

October FFO Gallery

We were on fall break this past week* so I didn’t have a lot of time to finish things up, so I tried to get most of it done before we left. I also didn’t have too much recently stitched to FFO anyway. I made the Pensee Sauvage by Samplers Not Forgotten into a pillow per the kit instructions. Oh […]