Stitching Updates

Here are pictures of what me and my needle have been up to - not as much as I had hoped.  Progress is progress.

Progress on An Open Heart by The Drawn Thread.  I'm not sure if the first heart in the next section is right and I'll have to figure that out before I move forward.  I was working on this at Stitch n Gab on Wednesday and was having a hard time concentrating.

A start on Autumn by Blackbird Designs.  I had hoped to work on this on Wednesday but failed to make sure that I had all the necessary floss in my bag.  So hit a bit of snag on that one.  Fortunately, I almost always have more than one project in my bag.

A little more to show on The Red Thread by Bent Creek.  

And a start on A Stitcher's Purse by With They Needle and Thread.

I'm hoping to log lots more stitching time in the coming week.  I think that things are starting to settle down with the restoration of our power and getting caught up on my homekeeping tasks.

Keep On Stitching!

Where to Begin?

Lots to write about today especially since I have been absent for a while.  Sorry - that thing called life getting in the way again.

I'll guess I'll try to do this in a somewhat chronological order.  First up a picture of an early birthday gift received from my friends Claire-Ann, Debbie, Janice, Phyllis, and Sherry (in alphabetical order.)  I think this is the earliest I have ever received a birthday gift.  What a wonderful surprise and something I would not have bought this for myself contrary to popular opinion. :)  Thank you ladies.  I just love this piece from Liberty Hill.

Next are pictures of a gift given to Debbie for her birthday.  I made this bag following the pattern Zippy Strippy by Atkinson Designs.  What a wonderful pattern, easy to read and more importantly follow directions. The zipper was so easy to do following the directions.  I look forward to making some more of these in the future.

I made the little beaded zipper pull and added a flying pig charm to symbolize one of Debbie's favorite expressions.   Then as an extra I made this Thread Catcher (Ort Collector) from a pattern I found on this blog but am unable to locate there again.  I think that it was only up for a few days during the Moda Country Fair.  Again, easy to follow directions.

 

And finally a scissor fob with the signature flying pig charm. 



I wrapped this all in fat quarter of fabric from Moda by Blackbird Designs - you know the one that looks like a sampler. 

Next up are continued progress on Grandmother's Flower Garden.  For some reason, I've put a lot of purple and red in these flowers.  I was never a fan of purple, but have been coming around.

This came in the mail this week.  I hope to spend some time this weekend adding it to the Summer piece.

And now for some disturbing pictures of the weather here in Eastern Pennsylvania today.  I commented on someone's blog this week that we rarely get snow in October.   Do you think that jinxed us?  I took these pictures from the windows - I'm not ready to go out in this yet.  Thank goodness it's not a work day!

I was upstairs a few minutes ago and see that there is much more snow now.  I'll take pictures later today and post them.

I have lots more to share, but will save it for another post.

Thank you to those who have become followers and those who have left comments. 

Keep on stitching!

Wednesday Update

 I've been busy the past few days and haven't had much stitching to post. But today is the day.

I had a three day weekend last weekend.  I had planned to get lots of stitching done.  Friday I was off so that my dishwasher could be delivered. I was getting things done around the house and the dishwasher was delivered without incident. 

I went outside to empty the garbage and found that I had locked myself out of the house.  Forutnately, it was a beautiful day and I was able to enjoy sitting in the sun until someone came home.  I kept thinking while I was sitting there that that would have been a great time to be stitching.  In fact, that was the first question someone asked me about the incident - did I have my stitching. Somehow, I managed to fritter away the rest of Friday without any stitching.

And more of the same on Saturday, without the getting locked out part.  I did do my Fall decorating.  It's too dark today to take pictures to show that.  Hopefully, it will be lighter tomorrow and I can do that then.

I did read How to Knit a Love Song by Rachel Herron over the weekend.  Each time I read a book about knitting I want to be a knitter.  Only thing is that the gauge thing trips me up every time.  Unless it's a project where gauge doesn't matter a lot, like a scarf, I'm out of luck.  I am going to go and watch someone else knit one of these days to see if I can see where my problem is.  I may even have to take a lesson.

I did get some stitching done on Sunday and finished stitching A Very Merry Autumn.  I hope to get this put together this coming weekend.  Actually, I had hoped to do that last weekend, but I would have had to finish the stitching before Sunday night.  

I decided over the weekend that I would like to choose one of my projects to focus on - meaning that's the one I work on exclusivelly while at home.  I chose An Open Heart by The Drawn Thread.  Here is my progress so far.  I am finding this piece to be a lot of fun and a tad addictive.  Each little motif is a different stitch and last night I found myself wanting to do just "one more" before I went to bed. 

Tonight is stitching at a friend's house.  I made brownies last night to take there tonight.  Not sure which project I'll take, but I have all day to figure that out.

Keep Stitching!

A Finish

I've finished the 1992 Santa.  It took a little longer than I had hoped, but it's finished.  Or the stitching is finished.  The  finish finishing will have to come later.

I spent some time looking through my stash and decided that this will be my next piece.  It should be a really quick stitch.

I'm off to start my new project. 

Have a great night!