Long Over Due Post!! (Picture Heavy)

Good Morning Everyone!

This might end up being a long one, but I am going to try to keep it at a minimal.

My last post was at the beginning of August so I will start there. August was our busy camping month.

Our camp site set up (that was our spot for 2 weeks)

My husband enjoyed the cooking - bacon and eggs on the grill - it was awesome

Then we moved on to the being of school for the grand kids and football season.

#70 is my grandson

The middle of Sept I managed a finish 

For Spacious Skys

Heartstring Samplery - Beth Twist

Started - 8/4/15       Finished 9/17/15

36 ct White Edinburgh Linen  and called for floss

Then I started and finished a Blackbird design

Peace Rose

Blackbird Design

Started - 9/10/15      Finished - 9/24/15

35 ct Abecedarian Linen  and called for floss

My Blackbird grouping

October 7 - 11 was spent with a lovely group of women at Lake Shetek for our stitchers get away.

the building we stayed in

a shot of some of the group

and the view I had from where I sat and stitched. what beautiful sunrises.

While at retreat I did the backstitching on this little guy.

Santa's Boy Toy (winter 2012 Magazine)

by Stoney Creek 

Started 9/25/15     Finished 10/9/15

fabric from stash and called for floss

Next I finished 2 more Christmas Blessings by Lizzie Kate

I only have one left to do (Song) and then I will make them into little pillow pin keeps to fill a basket during the holidays.

And last but not least is my update on We Three Kings

This was before I left for Lake Shetek

And this was as of 10/11/15

I have a new start but will leave that for the next post.

I am off to get the dishes done, then take my shower and off to work I go.

I hope everyone has a great week!!!

Happy Stitching

Denise

 

It's about TIME!

Good Morning Everyone!

Wow I haven't posted since July 28th and boy have I been busy. 

Get comfortable and enjoy my update.

I had a small finish on the 6th of August

Winter's Eve
Country Cottage Needleworks
JCS Christmas Ornaments 2006
Started 8/1/14
Completed 8/6/14
Finished size 4x4

Isn't it the cutest little ornament!

Next we had family visit from CO. So we had a full house!

The kids always want to sleep at our house and the parent are up at my in-laws house. It is so much fun spending time with them!

Sitting on the deck visiting

During July and Aug are our busy time with truck pulls. We had one just about every weekend .
We ended in Aug with our big family camping trip to Prairie Village and several nights of tractor and truck pulls.  Here are some pictures from our weekend.

Kay and her girls

SIL, DIL, and my Son and I can't quite tell who is laying on the ground

And we had a fire in the Pulling Truck
Lots of excitement there!

The 6th of Sept was my oldest grandsons birthday. OMG he turned 12 this year, I can't believe how the time has just flown by. That was a busy Saturday - First we went and watched the birthday boy and his brother play football (there first game of the season)

This is the birthday boy, he is the one with his hand on the football

I won't bore you with any more pics of the football game, lets just say I took a lot of pics of my two grandsons. Then we went to my daughter's house and had cake and ice cream and watched Trey open his gifts.
My husband & I Left from there and headed to Milbank, SD to attend a wedding of friends of ours. It was far enough away that we stay overnight and came back on Sunday. We had a great time !

The happy couple entering the reception hall.

Two weeks later we attended another wedding in Storm Lake, Iowa. Sorry no pics of the happy couple because I forgot to pack my camera. But again we had a great time!

We have one more wedding coming up but my husband will be going to that one by himself because I will be attending an annual weekend stitching retreat at Lake Shetek. My oldest daughter Jill will be going also. We are so looking forward to this get away!!!

The following pictures are of some of the things I have been working on and have not finished yet.

Another Christmas Block (only 8 more to go)

This small table runner I started last year and made a mistake
on one of the end pieces. I finally took it apart and resewed
it. It is now quilted and ready for the binding.

I have the top done of this round Christmas table topper.

 Last but not least is a birth sampler that I am working on for my great nephew

It is called Woodland Folk
There will be 6 little creatures sitting on the log when I get it done. 

Well there you have it in a nut shell!
Enjoy your weekend everyone!

Happy Stitching
Denise

Family Weekend

This is a seriously over due update!

Have done some stitching but not as much as I had wanted.

No Lizzie Kate updates, Friday I will get another

Christmas Blessing done. ( that's my goal, anyway)

The beginning of last week I was still dealing with my bronchitis.

Went to the Dr. again on Tuesday, they gave me steroids and stronger

antibotics, since then I have gotten better but still have little cough,

mostly clearing my throat type cough.

Wednesday found me packing for our camping trip with the whole family.

We camped from Thursday until Sunday afternoon.

Was a beautful weekend until Sunday morning

a thunderstrom blew thru.

My husband & I had a trailer camper we were staying in and our

Kids & Grandkids were in tents besides us.

they all ended up in our camper to wait it out

There was 6 adults and 7 little ones  in a very small space

The only night that I cross stitched was Friday night.

All the rest of the adults were drinking by the fire

and the little ones were sleeping

So I stayed up until 2am stitching this:

I found this pattern on dmc-threads.com, it was a free pattern

thought it was kinda cute.

And I have not stitched since then :(

The place where we were camping also had a flea market set up there,

so I couldn't resist going a doing a little shopping.

Found a flower frog for my niece - she has been wanting one for a while now.

I also found 4 packages of unopen fabric, 3 were 25 count and 1 was 18 count

I spent $9.00 on all 4 of them. What a deal!

I have joined the Crazy January 2012 challenge.

This should be a lot of fun, I have been following the 2011 challenge,

and seen a lot of fabulous stitching.

Minna has crated a yahoo group ( here )

The rules are simple:

Start stitching a new design everyday from

Jan 1, to Jan 15

so by Jan 15th you have 15 new WIPs to stitch.

Then try to finish everything you started stitching during the year 2012

How fun is that!!!!!!!!!

Still have a bunch of blogs to read and get caught up on,

thats next on my list to do, right after I switch out the washer

and dryer. ( still trying to get the laundry caught up)

Hopefully I will have more stitching updates by the weekend.

Happy Stitching everyone!

Denise