Give-Away Alert!!!

My wonderful friend Jan, of Only One Ewe Needleworks, is celebrating the release of her first design with a free pattern give-away!

Introducing....
Rare Treasures from Tree of Life Samplings


Please go to her blog, Belfonte Notes, and leave a comment to be entered into the drawing!

Major Happy Dance!!!!!

Big time! Sleepy Hollow is finished!!!!

Cricket Collection's Sleepy Hollow
28ct PTP Mystic, using DMC and some WDWs.
(Click on the pictures to get a bigger view.)






This piece was a lot of fun to stitch and watch it come to life. I must say that the 2 roofs took a bit of tedious stitching time, but a minor annoyance considering the finished product!

And Another Stitchey Post!

Here was my first big finish for August. I was stitching this for the OOE SNS and finished it on the 8th.

Americana Sampling from LHN
32ct Natural Raw Linen and CC's (from the kit)


And I thought you would like to see the backing fabric that I found for Jayden's Gingerbread Man Stocking. I saw this several weeks ago and it just wasn't in the budget but I was very grateful that it was still available when I went back to get it. I don't think there could be a more perfect fabric for this stocking!

Thank you all for your wonderful comments!

A Stitchey Update!

First up are the WIPs...

This is an older one. The 1st of 6 ornaments in Dimension's Timeless Elegance Ornaments kit. I was originally going to do these for my mother's book club ladies as their Christmas gifts last year. However, once I got going and realized how much work would be going into each one, the time restraints just weren't going to make that possible and we chose something else for them. In the mean time, this has been sitting at the bottom of my WIP drawer in the same state it was since last December! I decided that I wanted to get them finished up and then Mom could use them as gifts for whomever she wished this year so the kit has been shifted up near the top. This heart is nearly 5" wide! As you can see there is a lot of "fussy stuff" that will need to be done once they are stitched.


Since I finished my latest SNS project earlier in the month, I started working on another of the Barbara Baatz Birthday Fairies. I already have January and February done and it was one of my goals this year to get these finished up thru June. Well....yeah, right! I decided to start working on the March one for my next SNS piece and have made good progress for the 1st 2 Saturday stitching time. These are done on 14ct white aida (to match the 1st 2) using DMC, blending filament (in the wings) and Mill Hill beads. Here is my 1st 2 weeks of progress...

Welcome Caleb Allen!

It's been several weeks since I last posted but they have been filled with a lot of happenings!

First & foremost being that I became a Great-Aunt...again! LOL Caleb Allen was born 1 month early on Aug 13th, weighing in at 5lbs, 13.1 oz. He did have a bit of a rough time at the beginning since his lungs weren't quite developed enough yet. He spent the first week and 2 days of his life in the NICU. But he progressed rapidly and last Saturday his parents were able to bring him home. What a difference a week makes!
This was taken on the 15th:

And this was taken just this past weekend after he came home.


I can't wait 'til I get to meet this precious little bundle. Hopefully it will be this weekend when I'm out for one of his cousin's 2nd birthday party.

Caleb is the 6th "Great" for me. He's the 5th Great-nephew. So far we have Caleb (yep another one!), Nathan, Jayden, Raymond-John (RJ), Becca (the only niece so far), and then Caleb. We have 2 more babies expected in February and March! I will be stitching stockings and birth samplers for many years to come - especially if they don't slow down!