November 2023 Smalls Link Up

Hello, I hope all my American friends had a great Thanksgiving last week. We did. The kids and I made 3 pies (apple, pecan, pumpkin) and the rest of our feast was tip top as well. This is not Instagram worthy food photography but maybe you’d like to see it anyway… I did not finish my small. I thought if […]

Small Things

I’m just going to pretend that I’ve been blogging regularly and share a little finish I had this weekend… It’s called Small Things from The Drawn Thread. I do still need to sew on the charm. I can’t find the little brass heart charm this came with, but I do have 2 other good choices, the bow shown above, or […]

Selecting the next Drawn Thread

*Note: I’m seeing I had several draft posts that never got published, mostly for lack of the pictures. I’ll put them up now as I can get them finished up, in the proper order I wrote them, so I can have an orderly account of the last months stitching thoughts! I was just so excited about my Sampler of Stitches […]

It’s finished! C’est fini! Esta terminado!

Presenting my version of the Sampler of Stitches by The Drawn Thread! Ta DAH! I did chose my own colors. The letters are Gloriana Rosewood and Belle Soie Tulip. Then there are 2 greens, 3 purples, 2 golds, 1 taupe, and 1 warm dark brown in addition to the cream soie perlee and 100.3 used on the pulled thread and […]

Soooo close!

I had time to really work on the Sampler of Stitches this weekend! Look how close I am! 7 motifs left, and about a dozen beads to sew on the basket. I keep forgetting to do that! Look how I REALLY committed by putting the date on there! Next to the Q is a quilt made of queen stitches. I […]

Back to a regular schedule?

Hello friends! Goodness it’s been touch and go here. I was making good progress on several things…in stitching, and in life, I thought, but it’s been pretty wild around here! I have started a home decluttering project. I really need to do this. We have lived in our home for 13 years now and have accumulated a lot more than […]

July Stitching

July got off to a wacky start with several one night stands with a variety of projects but I have finally settled down to my main stitches of the month. First is my attempt at a small this month, the Sampler Scissor Box from Famcy Work: I got the kit a while ago, and last summer I found the oval […]

WIPS! Starts! Yay!

Finishing those 2 little projects last week of the VWX section on the Sampler of Stitches and the Philanthropic Pumpkin made me so happy because I could go back to a lovely stitch from last year…Rosehips and Ivy from Blackbird Designs. Here’s my progress this week. If I keep on at a good pace, I may just be able to […]

January Stitching

This month so far, and aside from my little finishes, I’ve been trying to move along on The Drawn Thread’s Sampler of Stitches. My goal is to finish it by my birthday March 28, and ideally by spring break which starts March 10 so I can dive into a new Big Start to work on this year. I know I […]