Week 10: Waiting for Spring

I'm so ready for Spring. The weather has been a tease the last few weeks, we had temps in the 80s for a few days only to drop back down to the 30'splum s each morning. I'm ready for the dreary gloom of Winter to go away.

To lift my spirits, I worked on a freebie from Plum Street Designs. And wonder of wonders I have finish. I left off the words at the bottom to make it a general seasonal piece. Hare's Easter is stitched on a piece fabric from the stash pile. I changed out most of the called for colors, starting with the color of the hares. The called for color was too close to the fabric and didn't stand out enough. Then I brightened up the colors for the clothes as well

Hares' Easter

Plum Street Samplers

 The other stitching that I managed last week was on The Needlework Shop. I've added the upper portion of the shop and the awning.

                                     

The Needlework Shop

Little House Needleworks

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Up date

My progress on The Darning Sampler, Trenner Needleworks and .....

Live Love Laugh.    







I am waiting on thread to finish this one up. Hope to have a better picture next time.



Now back to pre-stitching.
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Gwen

Alphabet Finish

My work schedule often puts a dent in my opportunities for stitching. Last week was one of those weeks when not much got done. I did finish stitching the alphabet on the Darning sampler. The group leader recommended stitching the alphabet and numbers before starting the darning patterns, but I'm stitching in a slightly different order. Since finishing the alphabet I have completed the first 2 darning patterns. I don't have an up to date picture but I hope to complete 2 more patterns and have good enough light this weekend to take a decent picture.



The Darning Sampler
Trenner Needleworks


 
This week I started the pre-stitching for a class I will be taking with Jackie du Plessis in June. Looking forward to this class and seeing friends.

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 Gwen

A new start and some re-stitching

One style of samplers that has been on my to-do list is a darning sampler. This year Ellen Chester is sponsoring an SAL of a darning sampler in her newsletter. I thought this would be a perfect opportunity to stitch my first darning sampler. Though small, this sampler gives the stitcher a chance to learn eleven different darning patterns and also has an alphabet and the numbers that would have been used to mark the household linen. I am stitching mine on the recommended linen with AVS 2946 E.

My progress so far on LLL. I have one more motif that I have to re-stitch after my mis-counting.
Thanks for stopping by,

Gwen