WIP Wednesday June 11th

I picked up my tiramisu again! I am so close to finishing page one. I think I have about 100 stitches left, maybe no even that many. Then I will officially be 1/6th of the way done! Look for pictures shortly.


I haven't worked on the snowman for my MIL lately, but I did get the cat in:

I've done a tiny bit more since I took this photo, I have a bit of his (or her) orange coat in too. I really don't think I'm going to finish it in time for her birthday. It's hard! A bunch of fractional stitches, may colors, I think my fabric is 32 count, so squeezing those stitches in the middle is difficult. Yeah, I'm just making excuses now.


I am trying to finish up May's ornament of the month (yes, really, Mays, not Junes):

I'm thinking about putting my husband's name at the bottom and the year. Hopefully going to make one for myself too, unless I find another ornament pattern that I like better for myself.

Next post look for my floss toss for the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery's Mysterious Halloween Town which starts on the 17th. I'm very excited. I love love love the fabric (FOTM from Steph's fabrics). It's a nice shade of purple and anyone who knows me will know I love love love purple. :)

Until next time!

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Just a small update

Just a small updated today. I’ve been slowly working on my March ornament in between life things. It’s a freebie called Seven Pines by Little House Needleworks. You can find it here: Seven Pines unfortunately she forgot to add the color numbers, so they are included in the post right after this one. :) This is a pretty quick and easy pattern, so if anyone is looking for something quick in between (or during) larger projects it’s great! Anyone else planning to do this pattern?

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Last day of the month means last day to finish my February...

Last day of the month means last day to finish my February ornament!

If you don’t already know, I am participating in three different blog groups this year. Stitch from Stash over at Epic Stitching, One Ornament a Month over on the cross stitch forum I belong to and Finish a Chatelaine. I’m doing well on two of the three… I haven’t gotten around to my Chat yet. I have until December anyway!

Here’s month 2’s ornament. It’s called Snow in Love by Little House Needleworks. I’m really quite pleased with how it turned out. I did unfortunately get a little bit of nutella on it, but if I don’t point it out I don’t think anyone will notice!

Do you have any crafty goals this year? How are you doing on accomplishing them?



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Stash you say?

 

I never considered myself to have a lot of stash, but I join the Stitch From Stash Challenge anyway. I think because of this challenge I have become more stash orientated. 

I won this piece on ebay last month ($8.50) and it arrived earlier this month. I am always a little afraid when I buy colored things online because you aren’t really sure what you are getting, but my LNS doesn’t stock hand-dyed fabrics so I took the challenge anyway. 

This Plum Blossoms is a lovely shade of purple with some nice light and darker spots on it. I’m still trying to decide what I am going to use it for, here are some of my current ideas:

Square Damask from Ink Circles

This, but all in a solid color
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This design is from A rainbow of stitches (it’s a book). I think I’m leaning towards the Ink Circles design, but I don’t know if I want to do it with a white or a pink or a purple color! Decisions decisions. Any suggestions?

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Romantic Weekend

This weekend my husband and I went on a romantic trip to Columbus. I call it romantic because it was Valentine’s weekend.

We managed to do a ton of things on our 4 day weekend, including the Franklin Conservatory (for wine & chocolate night) and the Columbus Zoo (in the snow, we had the park to ourselves basically, it was wonderful)!

Of course I had to look up cross stitch shops and lucky for me there was one! I called ahead to make sure they were in before we made the trip on Saturday (since the Nashville market was this weekend too, I wasn’t sure if they were going to be open). The picture above shows what I purchased!

The beads are for the Glendon Place project I posted about not too long ago and the threads were all on the suggested colors list for a bunch of Little House Needlework patterns I have hanging out in my stash. I needed some new needles so I picked up the Bolin ones (new to me, I’m loving them so far, they have a HUGE eye which is great).

For February’s stitch from stash challenge I added $16.20 this weekend (the needles don’t count against me since I did actually need them, and I would have had them on hand anyway).

I have two more posts in the works so I will leave off here with the question on how you are doing on the stitch from stash challenge? It’s only month 2, 10 more to go!

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