Hoping to get back into the swing soon!

It's been a pretty darn awful end of January and February here. I have been dealing with some pretty heart breaking family issues. So at the moment it's really hard for me even to sit down and stitch. But, we will overcome this too! It's not like we have a choice in the matter.

I have tried to start to finish some things again, this is my latest project. I'm going to try to finish it as a hanging pinkeep. I have been looking everywhere for pretty pins in different colors and I found a package yesterday - in my own stash. Guess that I forgot about that one. I'll try to take a picture when it's all finished this weekend. I believe this is Valentine Holiday from Birds of a Feather, I have to go through the stash trying to find the chart.

As always, thank you for visiting. Don't give up on me, it feels like I'm dealing better with this new situation now then I did 2 weeks ago so it can just get better!

Trying to survive!

A bad cold that is! I haven't stitched since last Friday when my sinuses started aching and I just had to lay down. I though that I would share this framed piece that I framed earlier last week. It's an older kit from Ewe and Eye and Friends and I used all the materials that came with the kit. It's called Autumn Urn I think. Thank you for all the sweet comments and for stopping by. Off to have another cup of hot tea!

All my new starts!

It feels like I have started something new every day lately. It's kind of fun! Here's what Ranae and I picked for our on going Loose Feather Wednesday SAL, Beneathe the Sunlit Sky. I love it! Then Suzanne (Squazi and the Chicken) and I started Spring Rites that I'm working on Mondays. I think Ranae will join in on that SAL too.

This is the third BD Loose Feather I started last week # 6 Truly Thine and I'm almost finished with the sampler already. I'm probably doing the pincushion too so that will take another week or two.

Then my youngest daughter has been asking me to start this butterfly for her so here's my small start. The color of this aida is great. I'm not really an aida girl but this aida is ok to work with.

Thanks for stopping by and commenting. I'm hoping to be back with more updates later in the week.

Blackbird Designs Sunflower House framed!

I love how this turned out. I lucked out and found this frame at Hobby Lobby before our last snowstorm. And it fit perfectly. It feels like I'm getting closer to my sampler wall.

I made this fleece blanket with my youngest daughter during the same snowstorm. I wish I could share my 3 new Loose Feather starts, Beneath the Sunlit Sky, Spring Rites and Truly Thine but all my pics are so fuzzy it's no point posting them. We have had fog and gloomy weather here for a week now. It's starting to get to me, feels like I'm living in a horror movie. I have 2 more framed pieces to take pictures off too so I'm hopefully posting more pictures this weekend. As always, thanks for visiting and your sweet comments!

Hope X 500 dress!

Our 4 H troop outreach project this year is to sew these reversible dresses for an orphanage south of the border. I can't remember if it was located in Haiti or Honduras or the mission might have orphanages in both places. Really, it doesn't matter where they are, there's a need and the girls were happy to help (I should remember though, I'm the organizational leader). I think we have close to 30 dresses at this point. Pray for the people in Haiti and if you have a possibility to help out a bit please do!

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Two Blackbird Designs finishes and lots of snow!

I was finally able to get a decent picture of Blackbird Designs Loose Feather Evergreen. Every picture I took turned out blurry for the strangest reason. Ranae http://crazystitcher.blogspot.com and I are trying to decide on what Loose Feather to stitch next. There's so many pretty ones to pick from so this might be a long running SAL. I used the called for fabric for this design but I did change the thread colors to a greener palatte.

And I finally stitched up my youngest daughters birthsampler. Can't believe it took me 6 years to do it. The other kids had theirs within a year. It's Blackbird Designs Special Delivery and I didn't change a thing. Used all the called for threads and fabric.

This is my deck out back, we have so much snow at the moment I haven't seen anything like it since we moved from Canada down here.

Peeking out my front door. We got a bit more that day but it was only 2 inches which is like a drop in the ocean at this rate. Warmer temps are on their way though so I'm happy!!

Thank you for visiting and your sweet comments!

Finishing project # 2!

As I said, finishing is not something that I do often so it took me forever to get to these little guys. I stitched them up 2- 3 years ago and then they have been hanging out in the pile. But I'm pretty happy with this finishing, especially the pearl pins that I found. I love everything pearly (ist that a word??).

All the santa's is from The Prairie Schoolers St Nichola's II leaflet (that's from the top of my head so excuse me if I'm wrong).

This backing fabric is awesome! Love the design and the fabric itself is thick and easy to work with! My next finishing project is already started. We are getting another 6 inches of snow and near to blizzard conditions here today. So yesterdat I did whatever any sane stitched would do when facing the prospect of getting snowed in with their kids, I got milk and then 3 frames at Hobby Lobby so I could frame some of my stuff, hehe. Thanks for visiting and thanks for the sweet comments!

Finishing project # 1 and stashing!

I didn't stitch much this Christmas but I did get to finish a couple of things. I really need to start some finishing work again, I have a whole pile of things that I have to get to. This is Just Nan's Snow from her tin series. It comes with the little mitten needle book. I used DMC and Weeks linen.

The linen color looks really washed out in these pictures, in real life it's darker.

Before Christmas I made it to a stitching group down at Judi's shop, For the love of Stitching down in Plattsmouth, Nebraska. I found some lovely things I couldn't live without.

And she had gotten this series in too, I asked her to order them for me. It's the seasonal floral sampler's from Knotted Tree Designs. After I saw them stitched up in a shop down in Liberty I have been obsessing with them.

As always, thanks for visiting!

Happy New Year and thank you!

I took a little unplanned break from blogging during the holidays it seems. We had a great time and the kids kept me busy after I was done with all the Christmas preparations. But now it's back to reality. Both the kids school and mine have started again A big thank you to Suzanne over at http://squaziandthechicken.blogspot.com for the give away that I won! Isn't this chart great? I have already decided to pass it on when I have stitched it up, what a neat idea. Thank you all for your comments on Villages, you are all so sweet!

Finished Villages of Hawk Run Hollow!

Villages of Hawk Run Hollow
designed by Carriage House Samplings
DMC and 36 ct Vintage Lakeside linen

It was really hard to get a good picture of this huge piece in our gloomy weather but here it is! I loved working on this piece! Thank you for visiting and for all your sweet comments! I have been visiting blogs this week and I'm hoping to be caught up in the next few days.

Block # 12, my favorite.

BBD Evergreen update!

" This is my progress after 3 Wednesday so I'm pretty happy. I just have to get some of that GAST Pomegranate in there this week to spice things up. It's very green at the moment. "

"I did write my finals and it went really good. After I was done I have been busy making merry! We had the dinner group here for a fotball party this weekend and last weekend my son had his birthday slumber party here. A lot of feeding is going on when you have teenage boys in the house. They are all such nice kids though and it seems like they had a blast. It sure was worth all the prep work!"

"Thank you for all your sweet comments on my snowman! I appreciate all of them. I just started browsing the blogs this morning, can't wait to see what you guys have been up too."

Green Snowman finish!

I totally forgot to post a picture of this little fella when I finished him. He was a shop model for Judi down in Plattsmouth. I loved stitching him, what a fun design! Well, it's back to the books, I'm writing my finals the end of this week. Thank you so much for visiting and your sweet comments!

Started a new Loose Feather yesterday!

It's Evergreen and I just love it! That border stitches up really quick, I thought it would be really tedious but it's really fun. I changed the WDW Havana to WDW Moss because my skein of Havana was really brownish and I wanted a greener color.

I'm off to play a bit more with my laundry. I don't have anything in the hamper (the second time that has happened in the last 10 years) so there's a lot of folding in my future. DH is off to China tomorrow so he will have his pick of clothes for once.

Thank you for all your nice comments on my Hardanger piece!

Hardanger class piece!

This is just a scan, after I finished the ornament up I mailed it to the shop right away. Totally forgot about taking a picture. Anyways, I just designed this little piece for my next Hardanger class in the beginning of December. I just wanted something very small so we might finish it in one afternoon so hopefully this will work for that. Thank you for visiting!

Third time's the charm!

I finally got some picture to come out decent, it's been so grey and gloomy here that all my pictures came out as weird color gloobs. This is my third batch and you can finally see what it was I stitched.

I finished up my SAL with Ranae over at Stitch by stitch. It's the Sunflower House from Blackbird Designs. I love how it turned out. We are trying to figure out which BBD we are stitching next, so much fun. I used all the called for threads and fabric.

Here's my new start Happy Haunting from Shepherd's Bush. Evidently I'm aiming for a Halloween 2010 finish, ahem.

I just felt the need to pick up Villages again so I can get the last block stitched up. I love this block, isn't the grave yard just great?

We did get to Vala's this year too, but we were pushing it. A friend of us were visiting from Indiana so a group of us got a firepit out there on October 31st. I thought it would be really crowded there so we went early and did all the things the girls wanted to do and then we wandered over for lunch by the firepit. The day was just beautiful and there wasn't that much people there at all (the Huskers played when we were there too so that did help).

Now I remember!

How much work it was going to school. It's accounting I'm taking too so the homework takes a lot of time. But I have gotten some stitching done in the evenings. I finished the Red Snowman from Shepherd's Bush for Judi's shop. Yeah!

And I finished up two of the acorns Marianne of Midnight Stitching designed for STO's online retreat! Another yeah!

And I finished Block # 11 on Villages of Hawk Run Hollow from Carriage House Designs.

Which of course means that only have one block left before my finish. Unfortunatly it's the one all filled in with black. I'm trembling..

I'm moving at a snails paste on Ranae's (Stitch by Stitch) and mine SAL. I have done more actually, I have to take another picture. It's Sunflower House from Blackbird Designs.

But I really have to finish up this guy next. It's the Green Snowman from Shepherd's Bush and he's also for the shop so he's #1 off my list to stitch on.

Brr, it's starting to get cold here. It feels like it's too soon.

Thanks everyone for visiting! I love reading the comments!

Two wip's only!

My in - laws have been visiting for 3 weeks so there hasn't been a lot of stitching going on. They are sweet but they sure keep me busy. Since they fly in from Sweden they really enjoy the shopping here (so much more to chose from and cheaper, A LOT cheaper). They sure have made their part to support the US economy lately! Here they are at Silver Dollar City in Branson, cute little couple aren't they?

We bought some soccer cleats in Branson for DS and thus we discovered that we have a secret box lover in the family. I still have no clue how she squeezes in there, but I haven't had to rescue her yet. One of these days I'll have to shake her out of that box.

Here's my VERY slow progress on Sunflower House from BBD. It's not such a quick stitch after all. Ranae's is so pretty, she started with the flower vase, clever girl!

And here's the Red Snowman that I'm stitching up for my LNS. I have such a bad consience about this one. Judy sent both the Green and Red Snowman to me before my in-laws arrived and this is how far I have gotten. These are my # 1 priority now. That and the accounting class that I started a couple of weeks ago. Thanks everyone for visiting and your sweet comments!

New stash and small finish!

Here's my small finish, just had to add the buttons to this one. It's a JABC freebie that you got with the purchase of the buttons.

Look at my lovely new stash, sorry for the picture, my MIL is here visiting and she has quite a few opinions on the size of my stash. Words like huge and where to put it all comes up again and again. So I snuck my envelope up to my bathroom and snapped the picture there. Isn't it lovely? There's booth the 2008 and 2009 ltd edition kits from Prairie Schooler, the 3 new santas from Mill Hill and 2 little Debbie Mumm kits from Mill Hill too.

Thank you for visiting and all your lovely comments!!

Finished Autumn Bouquet!

But first a picture of the girls before they headed back to school yesterday. DS declined a photo op! Aren't they cute?

I love the the details in this piece, all the little acorns and vines.

Here's the whole design finished. I did it on 40 count Iced Cappucino from R and R and I think all the called for GAST and Weeks threads. Not very much happning here except for the school start. I did make a small start on Blackbird Designs Sunflower House but it's just border for now.

SB's Purple Snowman finish!

Purple Snowman from Shepherd's Bush

I stitched it all from the kit, no changes. I had offered to stitch something for Judi for her new shop and this is what she wanted me to do. It was a real fun stitch and the best part is that I get the model when Judi's done with it! Yeah!


I'm being stalked in the afternoons. Around dinner time when I'm busy in the kitchen to be exact. The kitties know that they get their wet food when we eat dinner so they show up in the kitchen as soon as they hear pots rumbling about!

Thank you for all your sweet comments on my last post! And for visiting the blog!