Stitched goodies....

 

I'm back.   I make a promise to myself

each time I do a blog post that I will not

wait so long until the next one. 

Amazing how time flies.....

 

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I first want to say I have time to write

this blog today

due to my office being closed.

We experienced horrific flooding over

 the weekend in South Carolina

thanks to Joaquin.  The devastation

we have seen in our city has been unbelievable

and the flooding continues due to

dam breaches.  Please say a prayer for

all of these families.  We made it through

Hugo and know we will make it

through this too. 

 

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Just a few goodies to share.

I knew as soon as I finished this one that

I wouldn't wait to have it framed.

I still love it and have to say it is still

one of my favorite stitches.

 

By The Bay "Thirteenth Colony Parts 1,2 & 3"

 

I always gravitate to this molding

and thought it fit this piece beautifully.

 

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August turned to be a good month to finish

up some long lingering WIPS.

 

I started this piece back in 2012 as part

of the Crazy January Challenge.

I have picked it up several times over

the years but it just felt like a chore to stitch.

 

Plum Street Samplers "Halloween Hornbook"

Stitched on Lakeside Linen 35ct Parchment

w/Victorian Motto threads

 

I still don't know why I had such as

hard time with this one but I am so happy

I stuck with it and finished in time

for this Halloween.  Hopefully I can

get my gumption up to get it finished

before month end.

 

I am guessing these are some type of

morbid peacock and I just love

this one with the witch's hat.

 

I dove back into my pile of WIPS

and pulled this one out.

This was a freebie that I had miscounted

and just lost my steam.



Freebie--"Pear XII--Swan Song"

from Samplers and Santas Blog

 



I think I still have a couple more of

these to stitch.  I can say that I was glad to

finish this one and add it to my collection.

 

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Well...if you made it this far, thanks for

visiting my small place in the universe.

 

I hope you are having a great stitching month.

Happy stitching.... 

By The Bay "Thirteenth Colony"....

 

So excited to share this finish.....

 

By the Bay's "Thirteenth Colony"

parts 1,2 & 3 stitched as one.

 

I started this one back in early 2013 and I

can remember then the feeling that it

would take forever to stitch this.

I stitched on it here and there as the

mood hit me but something clicked

last month to get this one finished.

 

By The Bay "Thirteenth Colony"

Parts 1, 2 & 3

Stitched on 40ct Lakeside Linen with recommended DMC

 

I decided I really wanted to finish this one

by the end of the month and with only had

Part 1 left to stitch it was definitely doable.  

Of course, I completely lost interest in stitching

it after making that decision.  Figures....

 

I made myself trudge on and, after some

marathon stitching the last few days, I put

the last stitch in this afternoon.

By the Bay "Thirteenth Colony Part 1"

I started in the lower right corner so I basically

stitched it "backwards" from right to left. 

Part 1 was the last one for me to stitch. 

 

Love the little sheep and houses.

By the Bay "Thirteenth Colony Part 2"

Love the trees in this one....

they reminded me of butter beans.

By the Bay "Thirteenth Colony Part 3"

 

This huge weeping willow took

forever.....

 

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Two of my favorite parts of the piece...

love this little island....

 

Love the little house with sheep.....

 

I did joke with hubby that this one had on

specialty thread in it....

"Hair of Black Cat"

.... especially the last part.

My cat couldn't resist sitting in my lap

while stitching so I spent a lot of time

pulling out little strands of cat hair. 

Guess it could have been worse.

 

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Thanks for visiting and hope you are having

a great stitching weekend. 

Now I am off to find something

small to stitch.....

 

Weird week in South Carolina....

 

Pax aka "Winter Mess 2014"

 

The week started with the impending visit

from Pax to South Carolina.  It is uncommon

that we get hit with snow and ice and this would

be the second time in two weeks.  We stocked up

on every possible junk food item needed to

weather the storm.  We received more ice than

snow and were so fortunate not to lose power.  

Unfortunately, hundreds of thousands were

not so lucky and they estimate there were still

100,000 without power as of this morning.  We

have several family members and friends who

have been out since Tuesday night.  I know the

utility employees are working hard to restore

everyone and I am praying

everyone will be back to normal soon.

 

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Thanks to Pax, we got three snow days and 

hubby  thought it would be a good idea to

get caught up on some household chores

....seriously????  

These are a gift so I quickly declared them

"stitch days" and made the most of them.

 

The Primitive Hare "Love Never Fails" freebie

stitched on 32ct coffee dyed linen with

Victorian Motto

 

I stitched this cute freebie last weekend and got

the finishing done just in time for Valentine's.

 

Since I had the sewing machine out,

I finished these recent finishes off too.

 

Homespun Elegance "Majestic Bird"

 

 Summer House "Simple Abundance"

 

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I made good use of my stitching time on

Part 2 of Thirteenth Colony.

I was able to finish one page of the 4 page design.



 By The Bay "Thirteenth Colony-Part 2"

 

My last stitch was put in Friday night around

10:20 when hubby and I felt some rumblings.  

At first we thought we were crazy ... you know

that second you think "did that really happen?"

Lo and behold.... it was an earthquake.

There was a second aftershock this afternoon

but was too weak to be felt 60 miles away.

 

Needless to say, that just capped off one of

the weirdest weeks here.  Glad to see things are

getting back to normal and am actually looking

forward to going back to work tomorrow.

 

Hope you all have a great week and

happy stitching!



Catching up....

 

Time is flying.... 

Laziness has kept me from updating my blog

but now that the Christmas season is here

I  seem to be rejuvenated!

 

I thought I would share a little bit of the

happenings the past few months......

 

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I was lucky to win this great giveaway from Vickie at http://astitchersstory.blogspot.com/.

 

Amazing I didn't have this in my LK stash....

 

 

 

This will be the perfect stitch during

our upcoming travels.

 

Vickie also included these sweet counting pins....

 

 

Aren't they wonderful....I just love them.

Thanks again Vickie!

 

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I made my annual trek to Myrtle Beach

in October for Pals Stitching at the Beach

and enjoyed catching up with

some stitching pals.

 

Even better is meeting new stitching pals....

 

Anne   ~  Pam  ~  Teresa

 

.....Band of Misfit Stitchers.....

 

Also love the little goodies shared

by talented stitching pals....

 

 

While there my complete focus was stitching this...

 

By The Bay ~ 13th Colony Part 3

Stitched on 40 ct.

with recommended DMC

 

It was about 1/3 finished when I picked it up and

just knew I would knock it out in no time.  

Wrong... after 2 1/2 days of solid stitching

I still didn't come home with a finish.  It

took a few more days but I finally

finished that Weeping Willow.

 

I love this little part of the design...would love

to stitch it as little pin cushion.

 

I am stitching all three parts together so

this will come back out after the new year!

 

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This Christmas design caught my eye a few

weeks ago and I decided to stitch this up.

 

CHS "1999 Christmas Sampling"

Stitched on 28ct black evenweave over one

with Victorian Motto thread

 

I had hoped to make it into an ornament

so I stitched it over one on 28ct.  

Over one on black...what was I thinking???

Though a little large, an ornament it will become.

 

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I am not sure what to stitch next but plan

to clean out my stitching bag.   I still

have several Crazy Challenge pieces

lingering and it would be great to

finish one before year end.

 

Hope you all have a great stitching weekend

and as always thanks for visiting!