Bits & Pieces

The semi-lazy days of summer have commenced and altho I work Monday thru Friday, I try to stuff a lot of doings into my evenings and weekends. Of course, when you have a weekend such as I did 2 weeks ago, it throws off the balance. I was miserable. My A/C wasn't working and the house was a constant 84* inside! Saturday wasn't too bad because it was still somewhat cool inside because the system stopped working sometime on Friday. But by Sunday, the temps were climbing inside as well as outside (upper 90s). I couldn't get anyone to do repairs until Tuesday (don't even get me started on that story!) but suffice it to say that I am totally enjoying the A/C now that it is back up and running. And just in time for 2 days of upper 60 degree weather! LOL

Altho I had a couple of days when the heat inside affected my stitching plans (it was just too hot one day to even consider doing anything but vegging in front of the fans and the TV) I did manage a new start - Patriotic, of course for the upcoming holiday. I had been stash diving and ran across this sale purchase from Hobby Lobby. It's an old Little River design that calls for WDWs. It's the first pattern I've done where they used the letter of the floss color as the symbol on the chart. It makes is so much easier to stitch without having to check the symbol list all the time. I don't have much done so I don't have a pic of my progress yet. I plan on working on it during the 3-day holiday weekend.


A small disappointment was my non-finish of Deftly Wrought. It's my own fault. I messed up on that center floral border back when I first started the piece and didn't realize it until I had the outside border done to the opposite side. Yep - it didn't line up...GRRRRR! So the first hour of my SNS time Saturday was spent with Mr. Frog and then another hour to replace what I'd ripped out. At least I know it's correct now and the finish should come this Saturday night. After working on all 4 of the mini samplers over 1, it seems like the stitches I'm doing now are huge!


And a finish! This is my June Ornament. I found it in one of my older JC mags (Dec 89). I stitched it on 32ct Summer Khaki with DMC. I think it has an old-world charm to it.


I have also finished the left side of Sleepy Hollow and will post a pic of that this weekend. The manor house with the huge roof looks awesome and now I can't wait to work on the Old Dutch Church, it's graveyard, and the moon that are all on the right side of the bridge.

Happy Stitching!

Shop Model finish!

I put the buttons on Checkered Halloween last night and this piece is so cute! It kind of threw me when I saw that the spider body button only had one hole but if I had read the pattern directions for attaching the button, I wouldn't have been surprised as it makes much more sense to have one hole than 2! The border was repetitive so once I got the pattern down, it went by pretty fast. It's all pressed and ready to be sent off as a shop model.


Last night I got a bit more done on Deftly Wrought so that I would be back on track for a finish on it this month.

I hope everyone has a great day!

A finish from the weekend!

Last week I had planned on working on both Checkered Halloween and Simply Live, hoping to finish Checkered Halloween and then going on to Simply Live. Well, the best laid plans... Simply Live was calling to me and I answered about half-way thru the week! Needless to say, I started working on it on Wednesday evening and it occupied my stitching-time hands until it was finished early Saturday afternoon. The fabric is 32ct PTP's Ale and the thread pallet is Crescent Colours, converted by Jan, owner of Only One Ewe Needleworks.


And not to be left out, I worked on Checkered Halloween yesterday after finishing Simply Live and it is complete except for the buttons, which I will add tonight. So I still managed to reach my goal, I just switched their order!

Have a great day, my friends!

Deftly Wrought progress

I am really enjoying working on this pretty Midsummer Night Designs piece. Altho it is a challenge to stitch the over 1 samplers along the top, they are coming along faster than I expected them to. I have 2 completed and the 3rd one more than half way done. I just know that once these are done the remainder of the stitching will just fly! I'm stitching this on 32ct Sugar Maple using CC conversions. Here is what I completed this past Saturday night during the OOE SNS...

The year goes in the middle of the flourish and I will chart my name this week so that I can add it under "made by".

I've been working on Checkered Halloween since Sunday and nearly have the border completed. I may continue on this until I'm finished as there isn't much left to do after the border is done. Be watching for an update!

Pardon my slip!

I've slipped a bit on getting some posting done. I've actually been busy at work and I haven't had the time to post any updates. And boy, do I have updates! LOL Here are the current states of my WIP's...

1st up is Checkered Halloween from M Designs. I'm stitching this as a shop model and is it fun! Watch for an update on this one, as it's next on my list of pieces to work on.


I started an SAL with this pretty piece from Primitive Needleworks. I'm using PTP's Ale and a pastel conversion done by Jan from Only One Ewe Needleworks. The colors are just popping on this fabric!

Deftly Wrought from Midsummer Night Designs is my SNS piece. I've got 2 of the mini samplers completed. I just love the 2nd one!

Jayden's Gingerbread Stocking is coming along great. I expect to have this done in another couple of months so he can actually use it this year (he was 2 in January!).

I've got more than half of the huge roof done on the Van Tasel's home in Sleepy Hollow. I'm using 2 different blends of London Fog for the roof.

And last, the one I'm really excited about. This is another 21 hours on Samantha's Perch. I will probably be able to finish her this summer. WooHoo!