One More Finish to add to my list

Good Morning Everyone!

Where did the last 2 weeks go? 

The last time that I posted we had just gotten through my sons wedding. What a great weekend that was!

I have not been doing a lot of stitching lately, but the one piece that I have been working on is finished just in time for my great nieces 1st birthday.

Giraffe Baby Girl Sampler

Tobin Home Crafts

Chrissy started this piece in Aug 2012 and handed it off to me in Sept to finish up for her.

The kit came with 14 ct aida but Chrissy chose  a piece of 28 ct linen and we used the thread that came with the kit. 

And I finished it last night (07-29-13)

A couple of reasons that I have not been stitching much lately is I have been working in my craft room putting in a new cupboard for my quilting material. I saw on pinterest that you could use comic book board and wrap you material around it and stand you fabric up so you can see what you have easier, kinda like walking in a quilt store but with smaller bolts of fabric. I will take pictures when its compete. And I also have been digging into my family history again. Always fun to find a missing piece of information that you have been looking for, and I have been organizing some of my paper copies and photos. 

But the needle is calling me but I am not sure what I will work on next, a WIP or start something new?

Decisions - Decisions!

Here are a few more pictures that I took at the wedding 

Well that's about all for today, time to go take my shower and start some laundry and pick up the house a little. My DH's brother is coming in from WY today and will be here until Sunday. They talk every week on the phone but haven't seen each other for a couple of years. Should be a fun week for my husband.

Happy Stitching!

Denise

Another cold morning

Good Morning everyone and welcome to my new followers!

Love to see new bloggers!

Its cold outside but not snowing (yet) Will spring ever get here!

Quick update on Honey, she is doing very good on the healing of her two broken legs. And she is letting me know she is feeling better every day. She is getting quite tired of being in her kennel all the time and when she does get out she totally goes wild on me. She wants to run and jump but the doctor said not until after 4 weeks of healing. We have gone through 2 Cones of Shame  because she has been chewing on them. I have given her chew toys and bones but she wants that thing off so she can chew her cast off!

Thank you for all your comments and hugs for Honey they were greatly appreciated.

Yesterday I stopped at Micheal's and pick up my Birds of a Feather that I had frame there and it turn out great! Have a look.

Had to take the picture at an angle so I wouldn't get
the flash in the picture.

And the next update I have is of 

Abigail's Birth Sampler

Sorry about the wrinkles, I am so close to being finished that I want to wait until I am done before I give it a good press. I need to back stitch the toys on the bottom of the picture and the Giraffe's head and Abigail's name, date and weight. Don't thing it will be done by this week end when Chrissy and her family come to visit but it will be close.

This will be a short and sweet post because I need to get off this computer and get to work on my taxes, I would like to get them turned in by this Friday. I have them almost done but have been procrastinating  on getting them finished up.

So until next time

Happy Stitching

Denise

January Gone

Good Evening Everyone!

I am not enjoying all this cold weather, and walking around the farm is no fun either with all this ice.

Knock on wood, I have not fallen yet. The other thing that I can knock on wood about is that I have not caught a cold or the flu that is going around. The grand kids and DH are all getting over it now.

In January I decided to keep track of when I stitched and how many stitches I did. 

So this is how I did.

This is the book that I have kept track  in.
Where you see the line drawn through the day are the
days that I did not do any stitching.

15 days of no stitching so that leaves 16 stitching day for the month. Of course my goal is to stitch some every day, but that doesn't always happen.
  

The 3 pieces that I worked on during January are:

Abigails Birth Sampler

I put 1152 stitches and a whole bunch of backstitching

Poinsettia House

620 stitches

Finished the roof and started the boarder on top.

And the new piece that I started

Green Quaker Sampler

1803 stitches

So for the Month of February I will be mainly working on 

Birds of the Feather by 

With Thy Needle and Thread

As you can see I don't have a lot left on this one, just finish the alphabet and the boarder.
So this just might me my first finish of 2013. And then it will be back to working on Abigail's birth sampler.
I do intend to get some of my WIP's done up this year and a few more Christmas ornament for my tree.

Its time to get some supper on the table so I will be leaving you with a cute picture of  my granddaughter. She is here for a little while this evening.

Happy Stitching
and stay warm
Denise

Reading, Reading, & Stitching

I got behind in my blog reading again and so I have been playing catch up the last couple of days. A lot of bloggers are joining in on the Build your Blog. I have truly enjoyed reading and learning more about my fellow bloggers.

 

I am still working on Abigails Birth Sampler and have made some good progress since my last up date.

I have a train and a teddy bear to stitch by his front legs and then I will complete his head and Abigails birth details.

 

I am going to make this update short and sweet because I want to get back to my stitching.

Everyone stay warm during this awful cold spell we are having.

Happy Stitching

Denise

 

 



Burrrr it cold out!

 

Good morning everyone! And welcome to my new followers.

I now have 150 followers. The past couple of years posting and following other blogger has been so interesting. Seeing what everyone one is stitching , what there taste in stitching is, and a little about there personal life.

 

Anyway I have an update on Abigails birth sampler for you.

 

 

The baby giraffe now has a butt and tail. I decided to do some backstitching as I go so that when I took pictures you could see a little more defination in the stitching because the bllue is so light you can hardly see it. I have not been able to do any stitching for the last couple of days but the weekend is here and I do plan to get more done.

 

Well I have to get ready to go to work for a couple of hours at the Post Office, then it's home and vegging out with my stitching.

 

Happy Stitching

Denise



Goals for 2013 & more

Good morning fellow bloggers. The sun is shining and it suppose to be really nice today. Which means that some of the snow might be melting here.

 

I have decided to work on my WIP's & UFO's this year. And I also plan to do a few small projects also, such as Christmas ornaments.

 

This is the plan for now:

 

January - Abigail Birth Sampler

February - BoaF, With Thy Needle & Thread

March- Blooming with Inspiration, Blue Ribbon Design

April - We Three Kings, Glendon Place

May - The Embroiderer, Paula Vaughan

June - Spirit of Christmas Santa Christmas Stocking

July - Woodland enchantress

August - Sweet Cake, Erica Michaels

September - 15 sided Biscornu

October - The Best Things

November - Blessed are the Needleworkers

December -  Petticoat Heart.

 

I am hoping to get a few of these completed this year, some are real close.

Now for some progress pictures.

During the month of December I didn't get much stitching done , here is what I worked on.

( Well I wanted to get this posted this morning but I will have to finish it after I get off work at 2:00 and hopefully I can figure out how to download my pictures, it seems they change stuff on us again)

We Three Kings by
Glendon Place

And this is what I stitched in December

I used the called for fabric and threads

I also kept track of how many stitches I have done,

2452 stitches

 

And so for the month of January I will be working on Abigail's Birth Sampler. The last time I worked on in it was the end of November and this is what it looked like then.

 

And here is what I done so far since the first of  January

I tried and tried to get a picture that showed what

I had gotten done. If you look really close there is some blue on the right side, the

yellow flowers on the left side and some back stitching around the baby.

 

This last picture is of my step granddaughter, Kyla. This is her second piece that she has completed.

The thread she used for this project was part of her Christmas present from me.

She plans to give this to her friend at school.

 

Well I started this post this morning about 8:00 and finally figured out how to download my pictures.

I think there was more that I wanted to post about but now I can't remember. So I will close now so I can go and get some stitching in this evening.

 

Happy Stitching
Denise

 

 



Stitching Update

I took these pictures on Tuesday morning and meant to post them right away but didn't.

So here they are......

 

Poinsettia House
LHN
Started 11/24/12

 I have a little bit more done on the Poinsettia House as I have worked on it since this picture was taken.

 

Updated picture of
Abigail's birth sampler

 

Today I am putting up christmas decorations around the house, so won't be stitching until this evening.

 

Short and Sweet post!

Happy Stitching

Denise

An update and a finish

Good Morning everyone!

 The sun is shining and suppose to be in the high 50's today. Gotta love the weather!

This past weekend I finished another CJC2012 (a small one) 

 

Four Seasons by the Trilogy
32 ct Summer Khaki Belfast Linen
recommended  Weeks Dye Works
Started 1/12/12
Finished 11/16/12
the frame is one that I had in my stash

A close up of the picture

 

And I have put in about 1000 Stitches in this next piece.

 

Abigail's birth sampler

this is the last picture I took on 10/30/12



and this is as of last night
The light blue is kinda hard to see
but will be more defined after the
back stitching is done.

Thats about all on the stitching front.

I spent some time at my DH's new shop he is building on our property. He has been doing most of the work himself to save some money so it is slow going because he has a full time job besides working on the farm. Here are few pictures from this weekend.

 

Wiring the lights up

And we have lights

and the hoist is up and being put to use already

and now it time for a couple of bbq's

Well thats it for today, I hope everyone has a great week!

Happy Stitching

Denise 



A finish and more progress

From the Leisure Arts Leaflet
Christmas Patches

 

I finished him on the evening of my last post. My plan is to make the patchwork wreath and stocking to go with Santa. but decided that I needed to work on Abigail's birth sampler so here is what I have been working on the last couple of days.

 

This picture was as of
Oct 5 2012



And this is as of last night
The baby has a face and hair.

I will continue to work on the birth sampler for a couple more days or until I feel I need to do something else for a while. But I would like to get as much done on this as possible this week because next week I am going to Tacoma WA from Monday to Friday to visit my sister. Not sure how much stitching I will get done while I am there. But I think I will be taking small projects to work on with me.

 

This past week end I had 3 special little girls at my house for the whole weekend. The two little ones (they are 5 & 6) love to draw and color so they keep themselves entertained but Kyla is 11 and is at that in between stage. She was looking through my cross stitch magazine and found a small ship she wanted to do. (it was in the new Cross Stitch Gold magazine that I just got) So I got her a piece of Aida and 3 of the colors she would need (not figuring that she would finish it this weekend). That was Saturday night, Sunday morning she ask for the other colors she needed to finish her ship. Before she left to go home to Iowa she had finished her little project. While she was packing her stuff up and loading it into the car I ran up stairs and found a little frame and snapped it in. She loved it !!!! Well guess what in all the excitement of her packing and them getting ready to leave we did not get a picture. But she promised to send me one.

Everyone have a great week!
Happy Stitching
Denise

 



First Snow of the Season

 

Well we got our first snow of the season. It was only about 2 inches and now at 3:00 pm its about half melted away. These pictures were taken at about 6:30 this morning.

 

 

In my last blog I stated that I hadn't stitched for a couple of days, well it was more like 4 days that I didn't stitch but I am back at it again. I worked on Abigail's birth announcement for a couple of nights. Forgot to take a picture of it, so I will up date that in my next post.

 

I did start something new (shocker) I was reading a blog and they were talking about a leisure arts leaflet from years and years ago. It was called Christmas Patches

 

This patchwork santa caught my interest ( I really like cross stitching Santas) and I went looking through my stash and found that I had that leaflet. I really wanted to do the big patchwork Santa but knew I wouldn't finish it so I settled on the medium Santa. All I have left is the back stitching.

This Santa is only about 5 inches tall so I will finish him as an ornament. And I got my patchwork fix for the moment. It took me longer that I though it would because I had to keep changing colors all the time. I should have him finished up tonight or tomorrow morning.

 

Well I better go get supper started - first I have to think of something to make?

 

I hope everone is having a great week so far!

Happy Stitching

Denise



I Just Love Fall !!!!!!

Good Morning Fellow Bloggers!

And Welcome to my  New Followers!

 

Oh this is my favorite time of year! Cool in the mornings and 60's in the afternoon. Love it!

 

Not a lot going on around here this week, just still working on getting my car in good running condition. Its a 10 year old car (buick park ave) and I hate to get rid of it but, its starting to cost us money! I love the smooth ride and the roomyness (is that a real word?) I guess I will keep it a little longer and see what happens.

 

5 days until I live for our weekend stitching retreat in Lake Shetek in MN. It is always so much fun visiting with the ladies. This year will be different for me because I have always taken either my daughters or my niece or both with me to retreat. This year it will be just me driving up there to visit with the 39 other attendees. Can't wait! I have been trying to decide what I want to take with me to work on. I may end up taking a couple of my CJC 2012 projects with me and working on them.

Since my last update on Sunday I have gotten quite a bit of stitching done.
I worked on Abigails baby Sampler and here is my progress.

Sorry about the picture being so light I tried all different way to it it show up better but they all turn out this way kinda washed out look. The pink and purple are quite bright in person. And some of the light blue that I have done doesn't even show up.
I have put about 1120 stitches into it since Chrissy gave it to me to work on for her.

Like most of you I can't seem to work on one thing at a time. The other day I was looking at my Crazy January Challenge 2012 list and realized that I have not got that many completed yet. Out of 15 new starts in January I have only completed 4, and 1 that is 3/4 done. So I decided that I need towork on some of them for a while so I pick out one for the season. Its called Harvest Hand Towel.

This is what it will look like when finished!

106 Stitches completed on 1/15/2012

This was as of yesterday afternoon and I have added
more stitches to it last evening.
Total of 1002 stitches in the last 3 days.

Well that is about it for me today.
I hope everyone has a great weekend!
Happy Stitching
Denise


Jolly Jack, and a new project

Good Morning everyone, OK so I have not gone to bed yet and it is 1:00am in the morning.

 I have been babysitting little ones this evening and one of them cried himself to sleep. I felt so bad for him. I don't think his parent leave him very often. So the house is quiet once more and I have caught up on my blog reading and I have a few pictures to show.

In my last post I announced that SoCal Debbie was the next lucky person to get Jolly Jack, I have not heard if she recieved it yet but I hope so. I also stated that my daughter had my camera so I was unable to take pictures of my finish well the camera is back and here is the finish

 

My niece was home last weekend for the baby shower that I talked about in my last post. We got to get together a couple of time and did some stitching together. And she was the one that got the baby photo frame that I finished up last week. Before Chrissy left to go home to Pella she asked me to finish her baby sampler that she had started because with her newborn and going back to work she didn't think she would get it done so of course I said I would work on it.

 

This is what it will look like when completed

and this is as of 9/28/2012
she had a good start on it and I have put in about 825 stitches
since I have been working on it.



 Hopefully I can get some better pictures later maybe when the sun comes up.

 

I have 10 more days until I leave  to attend our stitchers retreat at Lake Shetek in MN. There are about 40 ladies signed up to attend. Should be a great weekend getaway as I have not gotten to go for a couple of years.

 

Before I end this post I have one more picture to show and that is of my son.

He was so pumped
It was his first buck with a bow

He has been following this bucks movements for some time now. He has the special cameras that take picture of any animals that walk past it, and  what time of day it is. I don't think we will be able to get the grin off his face for a few days to come.

 

 

OK it time for me to get off to bed and get a few hours of sleep.

 

Happy Stitching

Denise