A sampling of my designs as well as personal stitching, and life in general.

Sunday, June 30, 2019

Way late

I am way late for the SAL.  It's been a looong week.

Here's the latest:


An Open heart by The Drawn Thread
That little bit of "blackwork" took an whole evening



3 cats painted canvas
Slowly making progress


Along Came a Spider 
Finally Done
Still needs to be finished off


Drum Santa is back to making progress
but nt a lot yet

Don't forget the others


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




Sunday, June 23, 2019

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Yesterday was the Longest Day SAL merged with IHSW (International Hermit Stitch Weekend).Longest Day SAL merged with IHSW (International Hermit Stitch Weekend).  I managed a whole 3 hours.  Not so great but I did get a fair amount of the blue face done.  You see a dark swirl - I did that in a darker blue purple shade just to mark it off.  After all the tent stitches are done, I will do the swirl and it will cover any missing or "base" stitches.




my blank large blue face (on top)
need this to place the whiskers later


And now you can see the facial stitching.
The white outline had been done a few days ago.
So had the gold on the middle cat.
I'm doing tent stitches for the faces because my kitties have very short hair on their faces.



And to remind us, despite the rain
it really is summer



Friday, June 21, 2019

Friday, June 14, 2019

Sunday, June 9, 2019

SAL time

Check out the other stitchers!



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




Not a lot of change but the word is complete


JULY is done except attaching a couple of stars
I swapped out the word JULY for another fireworks over 1


Stars and Stripes overall


A close up of the side

And now for an opinion.
I stitched a star in a corner
but do I stitch the rest of the corner in the light blue
or even white?
something else?


Not sure what the corners in the corner will be yet
Eliminated the idea of a rhodes - it looked terrible
Squares like in the star didn't work either


Have a great week!





Thursday, June 6, 2019

75 years ago





Tuesday, June 4, 2019

small update


This is Spider - not all the beads are there yet



This is Spider as of 3 June
All the beads are finally in
and the web has bee created.
Next up - the SPIDER !

Saturday, June 1, 2019

May went quickly.  So many things to do and so many projects to work on.  I actually finished 5 things, 6 if the Santa in the chimney gets counted.   The projects completed were Gobble, Halloween #1, Halloween #2, patriotic heart and Moonlight madness.  Just scroll back and you can find the photos.

Here's an update on other projects still in progress.


July


PS Santa 2002


PS Santa 2004


Santa in the Chimney #2


Stars and Stripes


wooly Winter