Thread Gathering

I was hoping this would have been a happy dance, but I spent so much time this past week getting of DD stuff ready for her trip. She will be landing in Toronto in another hour then a short 2 hour wait and she will be off for 8 days to Paris, France. I wish it was me but I'm so excited for her and she's bringing me French Stash so I'll be happy. So Thread Gathering gets put back into the basket until its next turn in the pecking order.

Mondays and Tuesdays are my Christmas Sampler and I'm happy to report that I have almost all the stitching done but I haven't picked out my beads yet. So this weeks rotation of the crazy 15 is "Feathered and Frosty Friends" it might be getting an early start unless I go out shopping tomorrow.

1 down and 14 to go

Yes you heard right finished one of my 15 from the crazy challenge, its a small finish but a finish is a finish right. Here is the completed Winter Greens from Little House Needleworks. This was stitched on 28 count fabric 1 over 1 with the recommended colours.


I have a couple more sampler ornaments that I want to stitch up then will decide how to finish them up after that. Now on to finish Thine Is The Trick And The Treat if all goes well will be back in the next day or 2 with that finish. Well guess I will visit with you tomorrow for my Wednesday Update on the "On Christmas Day Mystery Sampler"

Have a nice day and happy stitching.

Day 13

Day 13 flew by for me, with all my Dr's appointments and tests. I was right though I got tons stitched after a long day finally arrived back home brought in all my stuff and the groceries. Got everything put away and started supper, and thought I have time to put in a few stitches. So went to grab my stitching bag from my purse and it wasn't there, hmmmm, checked Kenny's bag, checked the car, checked everywhere. Even sent DH out to check the car, finally noticed the answering machine flashing guess what I left my stitching at the Dr's. So what is a bound and determined girl to do, guess I could have waited to post day 13's picture but I thought what the heck. So I grabbed some more fabby unfortunately not the 32 count called for, but rather 28, and started stitching. The first ornament is done except for the rag doll and this is how far I got last night on the second one.


So when I finish both of them, I will post pictures of both then hold a little draw. The 32 count one I will finish as an ornament and the 28 count one will be finished as a no sew cube, the winner will get to pick the one they want.

On more bad stitchy news, my fabby finally arrived for my day 15 pick but when I opened it they had sent me the wrong colour and count size. Accidents happen but now what to do about day 15 pick something different or wait until the right fabric arrives. Decisions decisions.

Day 12

Day 12 got off to a rocky start with me forgetting to take my stitching bag to my appointments, talk about a blond moment. When I got home I had such a splitting headache I went to bed for awhile. I didn't get a great start to "Seashell Treasures" this is a kit from the gold collection petites by Dimensions. Of course it didn't help that I started with threads almost the same colour as the fabric but if you squint really hard you can actually see the stitches.


My plans for today's project have been scrapped for the moment, it was just too big of project to take with me and I have to go to the hospital today for 2 tests, see my Doctor and see a specialist so busy day for me. So instead I picked for day 13's project "Under the Tree" by Littlehouse Needleworks. With all my appointments and waiting maybe I'll actually have a happy dance finish to show you tomorrow.

Day 8

I had a good stitching day yesterday and I'm pleased with the results. Yesterday's project was "Thread Gathering" which was a Special Edition design by Little House Needleworks, I'm not quite sure why this has sat so long in my stash pile. I managed to get almost half the border finished yesterday.


Now to decide what to stitch for today. I'm going baby shopping so might not get much done, come back tomorrow to have a look.

Day 1 January Challenge

I would like to wish all my family, friends and fellow stitchers a Happy New Year. My original plans for 2011 stitching was to stitch only small things manly ornaments for my Christmas tree for next year, but like most good plans things happen. What happened to me was the crazy 15 day Challenge. I do most of my stitching at night and my camera and lighting do not seem to co operate at night so I'll be posting day 1 on day 2 and so on. Most of you will be use to me being a day behind anyway. So the project I picked for yesterday was "Winter Greens" from the "All Dolled Up" series for Little House Needleworks. I started stitching yesterday morning when I had a brilliant idea, so I ripped it all out and instead stitched overt 1 on 28 count fabric so it will be an ornament for next year.



I'll be back tomorrow to show you Day 2 pic, I probably wont get much stitched today because it's my little boy's birthday today.

Pear Tree

I'm so happy to have the "Pear Tree" by Little House Needlework's done. I stitched this on 32 count linen over 1 and the frog made too many visits to count. The stitching gremlin made a surprise visit to my house and made off with my Mill Hill beads for it so I have ordered more will post another pic as soon as I have them on and stitched up into my ornament.