Mary's Thread – Page 54 – Using every spare moment to stitch all the things

01/15/2018

On a roll!

My first finish of 2018 is “Boughs of Holly” for the Christmas Ornies SAL: Our themes this year are “12 Days of Christmas” or “Christmas Carol of the Month.” I did Boughs of Holly for “Deck the Halls,” the January Carol. This is a kit from Victoria Sampler, part of the learning collection. This one, set 2 #3, is to […]

Finished! 2018 6 58 sec read

01/12/2018

New Year, New Starts

I’m diving right in to a new batch of smalls! First of all, I wanted to make the Mill Hill violin which is the last in the Holiday Harmony series. Next, for the Christmas ornies SAL the theme for January is Partridge in a Pear Tree or Deck the Halls. I made a partridge last year so I’m going with […]

Uncategorized 6 31 sec read

01/07/2018

2017 Summary Part 2: WIPs

My WIPs leftover from last year are all my big projects, which to be honest, I hadn’t worked on in months. However when I got them out, I could not resist starting in on them; they are now “active” again. Here’s where I’m at: Random Thoughts by The Drawn Thread, maybe 1/3-1/2 complete: Ohhh I do still love this one! […]

Uncategorized 5 2 min read

01/01/2018

2017 Summary Part 1: Finishes!

Happy New Year!!! I feel like I should really take stock of my finishes for 2017 in one post to get a sense of what I really got done. I finished many smalls and many ornaments, thanks mostly to the smalls/ornaments SALs I’ve participated in! Here are my pin cushions: The two on the top left were stitched in 2016 […]

Finished! 2017 6 1 min read

12/30/2017

December Smalls SAL Check-In

This has been such a fun and motivating SAL this year! Thank you so much, Heather, for offering us something that resulted in so much work done! I feel like I really accomplished a lot! Without further ado, here is my last small for the year, Little House Needlework’s Quaker Birds ornament, in which I changed the colors to blue […]

Christmas Ornaments 7 26 sec read

12/07/2017

Two More Ornaments To FFO

I’m zooming in on completion of 2 more ornaments for the tree this year! First I have the Little House Quaker Birds which I did because it is my smallest LH chart and I knew I could get it done quickly. I changed the colors as inspired by another stitcher who did a similar colorway with blue, white, and silver. […]

Christmas Ornaments 5 51 sec read

11/26/2017

November Smalls SAL Check in

(updating to comment that this is my November Smalls SAL entry over at Stitching Lotus!) Well, you know I just love my Mill Hill ornament kits! And I finished off the two I had showed you last time. Thank goodness for tinier needles! I got that beading done much better! Here’s “Ye Old Santa” And the Drum from the Holiday […]

Christmas Ornaments 7 34 sec read

11/17/2017

A little interruption!

My stitching has been interrupted a bit as I hinted at earlier! This WIP was finished November 10! But she sleeps a lot and I continue to make some progress on little things… Last year I stitched this design from Lindsay Lane, Wishes do to Heaven Aspire. I love how sweet it is. But I really saw it not as […]

Uncategorized 7 1 min read

11/07/2017

When all else fails…

Follow the directions! I wasted a huge amount of time yesterday trying to improve a process that would have worked great if I had just trusted it a bit more from the beginning. I prefer to sew things up with the machine because I feel like it is so much neater and more secure. But man, is that pom pom […]

Christmas Ornaments 7 54 sec read

11/05/2017

Three Sports Ornaments

I just completed the second ice skates ornament this morning so now I have the 3 sports ornaments finished for my kids’ Christmas this year! I am happy with the color on the pink skates too, and it’s good to have them slightly different to tell apart whose is whose. Here is the pink one all by itself: And you […]

Christmas Ornaments 2 33 sec read