September 2020 Update

My most recent finish is another piece from Festive Fobs. I stitched another basket motif. I plan to finish this one as a humbug. Hope to do the finishing this weekend.

                                 

                                                  

I worked some on Portrait in Red. This is my current progress.

                                       

I pulled out Blackbird Design's Moonlit Garden. I started this sometime ago. It will serve as my WIP and Seasonal piece until it's done. Hoping what's left will go quickly.

                                         

I've plans for 2 new starts. First off is Halloween 2020 Mix and Match and second is Fright Night. Both of these are SALs with Fat Quarter Shop. The official start date for Mix and Match is tomorrow the 1 Oct. but I got a jump start on my border. The fabric is a 28ct Charles Craft Antique White that I Rit dyed.

                                           

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Fully Finished: September 2020

Time for the Fully Finished Gallery Check In

The aim of  Rachael's SAL is to encourage cross stitchers to fully-finish (at least some of) their projects, whether they have been recently completed or long-since neglected.

I've been working through Festive Little Fobs Harvest Edition. So far I've finished 3 of the pieces. My finishing so far as been a disk, drum and strawberry.

Festive Little Fobs Harvest Edition

Heartstring Samplery

 

August Smalls

My managed to have a few finishes and a couple of FFO's in August. First up, I finished day two of the Eric Michaels 12 Berries of Christmas. I stitched another Prairie Schooler Tree and 2 pieces from Heartstring Samplery Festive Little Fobs Harvest Edition.

12 Berries of Christmas

Erica Michaels

Day 2

This Prairie Schooler Tree is from one of their mini cards. Used the called for DMC and stitched my initial in red. Just want to stitch at least one more tree to go with the two I have so far. Need to visit the store to find some buckets for finishing.

The Prairie Schooler

Two of the nine projects from the Harvest Edition of Festive Little Fobs by Heartstring Samplery.

Heartstring Samplery

Festive Little Fobs: Harvest 

I opted to finish the turkey as a disk and the pumpkin basket as a drum. This is my first drum. It came out better than I expected and I was able to wrangle my rick rack in to submission and got it to look just the way I wanted it to.

My drum and disk ready of a fall display.

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MId_August Check-In

I worked on this post for 2 days almost 2 weeks ago and couldn't get it to publish. I keep getting an error when attempting to load pictures and no insight on how to fix the problem. I accidentally got online with Firefox tonight and decided to try to use this browser. I usually use Chrome.The font is very small which is a struggle for me. Hope I can find a way to make it larger. Also the pictures don't come in as picutes but as HTML code, so I can't see what they look like until I preview/publish. Keeping my fingers crossed that it will publish this time.

♠ My new start was : Winter Row by Bent Creek. I'm stitching on a twilight blue 32ct fabric. I started with the alphabet and I'm ready for the first tree. After the next set of letters I'll work on the snowmen. ♠ I have 2 WIPs Portraint in Red, Green Apple Co. Working on the her red turban.

♠ My second WIPs is The 12 Days of Christms Berry by Erica Michaels. Since taking this picture I finished the stitching.

♠ This didn't take as long as my last two attempts but it's still a struggle. There has to be a better way to do this, this 'upgrade' to Blogger is not as user friendly as it could be. ♠ Thanks for stopping by, ♠ Gwen

July: Smalls and Ornaments

Okay, so I'm trying to learn how this new Blogger works and failing! This will be quick, it has not been painless for far.

Plans for working primarily on some Christmas ornaments in July went awry. I did manage to complete one HOD Chalk Ornament. The other projects completed was a third Cricket Collection Scary-corn and a FFO of Hello Summer by Priscilla and Chelesa of Stitching with  the Housewives.

When I get some more black perle cotton I'll add the trim to the witch ornament. Silent Night will be most likely be a flat finish as well. Hope to FFO that one with some others a group when I get a couple more of my Chalk Ornaments stitched. Hello Summer What's in my Cup was finished as a small pillow. I added Rick Rack with beads as my trim. 

I'd like to re-order these pics but it's a struggle right now. I hope I can figure this out and how to add captions before my next post.

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WIPocalypse/Smalls May Update

 My stitching progress for the month of May. 

Ann Roberts

36ct Parchment 

AVAS

Erica Michaels

The 12 Days of Christmas: The Partridge 

I started Flag of Stars on Memorial Day. I managed to get this much done on the blue field. Just starting on the stripes. After this I plan to work on another Bent Creek, The Flag.

Flag of Stars

Bent Creek Kit

Tonight,I finished the stitching on this sampler. I plan to use this as the box top for a button box. The sampler is from Cartonnage Brode au fil des boiles, Sophie Delaborde & Sylvie Castellano. 

28ct Natural Linen

DMC 712, Ecru

My Smalls for May were a Christmas Ornament finish and a Halloween Ornament.

28ct Green

DMC Blanc, Krienik #4 Braid 028

Essence is stitched, just need to sort and add beads.

Mill Hill Kit

The Ghost Trilogy: Essence

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Gwen