Update on the Stitching Front

Good Morning Everyone!

Can you believe its the last day of August already? I keep thinking that things will start to slow down and I can get something useful accomplished but it never happens. 

Last week we spent time at Prairie Village ( a long weekend event that has old tractors, trains, buildings that you can go through and there is free entertainment, there are tractor pulls, and horse drawn plows. I think you get the picture) This is the highlight of our summer and the kids always look forward to it. We camp there all week long, some of us in campers and some in tents. Its a great time! This year I was not in the picture taking mood so what few pictures I did take I have not downloaded yet.

We have a little bit of a  break in the weather today. This morning was in the 60's so the air is off and the windows are all open and we are enjoying some farm fresh air. I love the fall air! Today my DH is out chopping Silage with some neighbors glad its not so hot out there for them.

I have a finish to share with everyone !

This is  Blooming with Inspiration 

by Belinda Karls-Nace 

Blue Ribbon Designs

I used 40 ct Wisteria hand dyed fabric from Lakeside Linens

and the called for Weeks Dye Works floss.

I started this as part of the Crazy January Challenge 2012

January 10, 2012 to be exact.

Finished it August 30, 2013

I really like the bright colors in this piece! And now to get it framed and hung up!

Now that I am done with this piece I was digging around looking for something to catch my eye to work on next and this is what I found.

Welcome October 2009 by

Brenda Gervais - With thy Needle & Thread

I started this piece on Oct 24, 2011, It doesn't feel like that long ago that I worked on it. I will have this piece done to display this October for sure. It was a freebie that Brenda had on her blog and you see it HERE and print a copy for your self.

Well that's about it for this post, I need to get ready to go to work for a couple of hours then it's a cookout at my daughters this evening. Should be fun and some great food!

Have a great weekend everyone

Happy Stitching

Denise

Better Late than Never!

Hey everyone! I had intended to do this post on Monday but here I am on Friday making time to get this post out there. 

Last Sunday I completed April Showers

Freebie from Needle Bling Designs
28ct African Daisy Hand dyed Jobelan
and the called for threads (CC, GAST, WDW)
Started - 4/23/2013
Completed - 4/27/2013
abt. 900 stitches

Sorry the picture doesn't show that the fabric is actually a light yellow. Because I completed this at the end of  April I will get it finished so it can go in my Spring basket next spring.  We didn't have any spring showers this year, we had spring snow.

Well I did pretty good on stitching just about every day in the month of April. There were only 8 days that I did not pick up a needle and thread. Two of those days I worked on my craft room trying to get stuff put away again. And I bought a new book shelf to store all my magazine's and leaflets and hard covered books

The little book shelf was already in my craft room I just did some moving around and got it looking all neat and organized. (I'm not going to show you the rest of the room at the moment because that is still a mess)

So for the month of April I did a total of 4802 stitches. Here's the breakdown:

Poinsettia House - 1996 stitches 

(finished and posted pic on and earlier post)

Spring Shower - 900 Stitches 

(finished and pictured above)

Blooming with Inspiration - 948 Stitches

(still working on this one)

Green Quaker - 958 Stitches

( this one is also a work in progress)

But I do have a picture of Green Quaker to show where I left off.

Well that is about all the stitching stuff I have for now so I am going to leave you with a couple of pictures of our new born calves. We are waiting on the last 4 calves to be born and then our calving season will be done.

Happy Stitching 

Denise

A Finish, New Stash,& Calves (picture heavy)

Good morning everyone! Spring still has not come to us here in SD. We still have snow on the ground, not much but some and guess what? Yep 3-6 inches is on its way later this morning, some of SD is already getting it now. 

I have another finish too show you!

Poinsettia House by LHN
28ct Lt Examplair Linen
Called for Crescent Colours
Started 11/24/12
Finished 4/19/13

After I finished this piece I pulled out Blooming with Inspiration by BRD, this is the WIP that I was suppose to work on this month. Here is a picture of my progress as of last night.

I am working this one on 40ct Wisteria hand dyed fabric and using the recommended WDW.

I also enhanced my stash this past week, I went a little crazy and ordered from 123 Stitch. Here is what I purchased.

Can't wait to start this one!

I need these like I need a hole in my head , I know I know. Into my stash they go.

In my last post I mentioned that we have calves being born and Catherine wanted me to post some pictures of our new born calves  so here are a couple of pictures I took of them.

Last but not least we had a small get together at the shop this past weekend. My SIL fried up some mountain oysters and deer chislic. He did an awesome job!

Me and my oldest grand son Trey

Brotherly Love
My grandson's Trey & Gavin.

Well its time to get some house work done so I can sit for a few hours this afternoon and stitch.

I hope everyone has a great week!

Happy Stitching

Denise

Catching up

OMG where do I begin!

 I have not posted a blog since the 20th of March.

It has to be LPS ( Lazy Posting Syndrome) (read this syndrome on Shirlee's blog The Easily Influenced Stitcher)

I think I spend too much time on the computer (reading blogs, Pinterest, face book, and all my emails)

It seems there is always things that come up to get in the way of my stitching. 

In Feb. I had done 4183 stitches, in March I only managed to accomplish 2436 stitches. And the month of April is starting out kinda slow also. Hopefully it will pick up before the end of the month.

The only thing that I have stitched on since the 20th is Blooming with Inspiration

the last time I updated the boarder was all that I had done,
so now the tree is done and I have to put some flowers the
grass and I will be able to start another section.

Over the Easter weekend my Son and his girlfriend came out and I took there engagement pictures for them.

They have set the big day for July 13, 2013, they got engaged at Christmas time. She has her dress and alot of the arrangements are already made. She is very organized.

 

I finally decided it was time to take some weight off , so after some looking around and searching on the web I decided to go with Ideal Protein. Yesterday I went in and had my first meeting with Dr. Chris, he explained the program to me and sent me home with all the stuff that I needed for my first week. So the weight loss started this morning. The tuff part of this diet is that I can have NO diet coke, actually no soda pop at all. But I am determined to make this work. So I will keep you informed on how it is going. I know a lot of you are also tring to loose weight like I am and what a struggle it is.

One last update is that Honey is doing awesome, she is no longer in a cast or have the cone of shame and is able to go outside and play a little. We still has to be careful with her so she doesn't rebreak the  bones, but she is enjoying the outside again.

Happy Stitching

Denise

Back From our Lake Shetek Retreat

I got home around noon yesterday from our Lake Shetek Stitching Retreat.

I had a great time visiting with everyone there. It has been about 3 or 4 years since I have attended the retreat and the girls were all glad to see me back.

Here are a few pictures that I took. None of the women that attended are bloggers, so for my memory sake I will put there first names under there picture.


Cindy



Grace, Donna, Ann, Char & Judy



not sure what the first 2 ladies names
were but the 3rd one with the
white shirt is Sharon



Sunrise on Thursday moring



Betty and her daughters and
granddaughter



Mona & Barb quilting



Judy, Sally, & ?



Scrapbookers in the Library



more scrapbooking
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Grace taking a nap



Fall Colors

I did get one thing finished and several things worked on, so here is my Stitching update!



Harvest Hand Towel
Elizabeth Spurlock - Cross Stitch & Needlework
14 ct banded huck towel
called for DMC floss
Started Jan 15, 2012  (CJC)
finished Oct 10, 2012

Next I worked on Blooming with Inspriation for a short while

This is where I left off around July 8, 2012

filled in the one box and did the outline for the next one on
Oct 11, 2012

The 40ct material was getting to me so I decide to work on BoaF for awhile and this is my progress.

As of July 8, 2012

as of Oct 14, 2012

I kinda feel like I should have gotten more stitching done but I also  got a lot of reading done, took a nap every afternoon so I could stay up late at night with the big girls (actually the younger ones) and there was a lot of talking, laughing, checking out what everyone else is working on. And ofcourse we can't forget lots of snacking. It was a great weekend and now back at home to get caught back up on the laundry & cleaning that didn't get done while I was gone.

Have a great week everyone
Happy Stitching
Denise
 



Lots to show you !

Well I didn't do any stitching while my cousins were here from Norway, But I have been making up some time since they have been gone. I started out working Blooming with Inspiration from Blue Ribbon Design.

This is as of 5/20/2012

As of today 7/8/2012

I am working on the final 2 pages of this sampler and as you can see I have not put my initials and date in the bottom area yet, I will do that last so that I have the correct year in there. I am hopeing it will say 2012. At the rate that I am going it should be done this year.

OK next up is Birds of a Feather Mystery Sampler by With thy Needle & Thread.

As of June 18th 2012

As of today 7/8/2012

Full picture as of today 7/8/2012

Then yesterday I decided to work on another one of my CJC 2012  starts:

Cappuccino by LHN
Started Jan 1, 2012

I put 457 stitches in it that day and have not touched it until yesterday and this is how it looks this morning.

As of this morning another 512 stitches in it.

I will continue with this one until it is completed because it is so close to being done.

Well its time to go sit my butt in my chair and do some stitching.

Thank goodness for the cooler weather now if we could have a little rain that would make our farmers sooo happy.

I hope everyone is enjoying there weekend, mine has been quite and relaxing so far.

Happy Stitching

Denise