Now that my office/craft room is finished and more importantly, now that the playroom is finished so the toys are out of my craft room area – I have space to unpack my stitching and a huge beautiful craft table to quilt on! I wasted no time in picking up some projects and the timing …
While no house progress is being made (busy summer) – I have been stitching in the evenings and I pulled out another old unfinished piece. This is My Stitching Treasures by Jeanette Douglas. I got this as a gift for my bridal shower (hosted at a stitch shop) from all of my friends – the …
Over the 4th of July weekend I started a new piece : Fairy Dust by Nimuë. It was a quick stitch although the backstitching was pretty challenging. I finished it up this week once the fuzzy thread arrived. I’ve been spending some time designing a new piece that will be a gift. I plan to …
I have some small house updates but i’ll put those off until tomorrow because last night I finished up Autumn in My Garden!!! pattern by Mirabilia. She’s on 40 count thread, stitched 1 thread over 2.
Of the 4 pages I’m down to the last one! Just her head and 2 leaves left to stitch (plus the simple border). Here’s an updated picture! I’m excited – I really enjoy picking up this piece in the evenings and find it hard to put down!
I’ve made a bit of progress on Autumn in my Garden – the bottom half of the piece is completed and rolled – working on the jacket of the maiden now. Lots of leaves to stitch. Here’s a look at the bottom before I rolled it…
I will do the house blog update tomorrow – but the big news is that we moved into the master bedroom this weekend! It’s done! Last week however I finished up a piece that I had started back in 2010 – it is a class piece from Celebrations that Jeanette Douglas taught. I made 1 …
I’ve hit a milestone (finishing the pumpkins) with a large piece i’m stitching lately called Autumn in my Garden by Mirabilia. I’m stitching this on 40ct fabric so it’s 1 strand of thread (dmc) over 2 threads and includes some beads. This piece will have companion pieces for each season but I started with this …
We have a couple of things working against us on the house progress front right now, some planned some not planned. First we have busy Saturdays entirely for 4 weekends in a row. Second Ryan got sick, his work got busy then Bella got sick this past weekend and his work is still busy. Travel …
This past weekend I went down to DC with my group of stitching friends from Boston! We met up initially at In Stitches in VA and what a great store it is! We shopped, took a break for lunch and a needleshow nearby and then shopped more. On Saturday we spent the afternoon stitching! On …
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