Despite Memorial day reminders on the blog, I have been stitching and made more progress on my WIPs.   Another finish!

 Moonlight Madness is done.  Now I need to find a frame for it and get it framed.  Stitch Maynia is actually helping me make progress.

As for these two.  

The one on the left is done maybe.

Missing are the snowflakes.  I'm not sure I want to put in the snow flakes.

The one on the right is missing some snow on the chimney and the beard.

And the other day I out some stitches into it.

Here is the right one now.

Much closer to being done.

Last night I worked on Stars and Stripes but didn't take a photo.

Probably tomorrow.

Hard to believe only 2 more days but still far more WIPs to go.

But come June 1st, I get to make a new start!

I have 3 picked out but have not decided which one yet.

Memorial Day week-end

Then it's time to get serious

More May Mania

This is what I have worked on this week so far,

This really is a great travel piece.  Stitches here and there do add up.

When I picked this one up on Sunday evening, I only had the white/ecru finished.  I put the large star on Wednesday evening and trimmed it down to prepare for framing.

There is a lot of yellow in this piece.  Not my favorite color but it does work.  Still have a bunch of beading to go.

SAL day

Here goes another attempt to post this.

The last few weeks have had limited stitching time.  Two conferences, a semi-annual meeting and a friend's funeral.  None of this is conductive to trying to stitch, let alone sleep some nights.  For May I have been trying to do May Mania, only my versions was to work on WIPs, not new starts.

Some photos have ben shown already but this is fresh for the SAL group.

Finished pieces up first.

Gobble

Halloween #1

Halloween #2

Now for the non-finished.

Stars and Stripes

Almost ready for the stars in the sides

Moonlight Madness

Spider

Not a lot of progress but it's been a  loooooong time

since I have stitched on it.

This has been handy for the time

not taking notes at one of the conferences.

Don't foget to check out the other stitchers.

Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, Sue, Constanze, Debbierose, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Helen, Linda, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Hayley, Megan, Catherine, Deborah, Connie, Clare, Mary Margaret, Renee, Jenny, Carmela, Jocelyn, Sharon

Have a great Sunday!

The red border is DONE !

The two white triangles are done as well.

Now to finish that last blue interior border then start on the stars.

Another 500 stitches into Stars and Stripes

all the red border so far.

Those two white triangles still have a lot of unstitched area.

The first 500 stitches into the Red border

slowly making progress

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I have been busy working on WIPs and I have three finished ones.  Stitching has been hard since I was out of town and am busy with several other projects and not getting enough sleep most days.  Oh yes, there is the hubby who needs care and feeding, the cats and the outdoor work (which is horrid this time of year, it seems like we mow every few days) as well as the grandsons - we still have not made it to one baseball game yet.

But here are the three finished pieces.

Gobble is finally done.

 One Halloween piece is for one daughter 

and the other is for the other daughter

 

Both are from Blue Ribbon Designs which actually

 has more squares in the pattern.

FOrgive the wrinkles in all, no time for ironing right now.

My May mania is strictly working on WIPs.  I have too many for the moment and I need to finish up some.  I'll have photos later this week-end.