Valentine's stitching and finishing....

Last year, I made a cute pin cushion using a motif from BBD's "Truly Thine" and I decided to whip up a few more for this year.  I have so much fabric so I picked out my backing material first and then got to stitching. 

 Stitched on 32 ct linen in variety of colors

Unfortunately, my math skills have deteriorated over the last year and they turned out much larger this year that the one I made myself.  Oh well....they will still serve the purpose!  I plan on sharing these with a few stitching friends in blogland!

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While I had the sewing machine out I decided I would do the finishing on my latest LK....

LK "Where's the Party"

I just love this little design and think he will stay out all year.  The finishing fabric is perfect colorwise for this one.  Wish I had bought more since I now can't remember where I got it! 

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Thanks for all your wonderful comments on my "Her Sampler" finish.  Some commented about the design and I believe you can still purchase it from Carriage House Samplings website since Kathy's sister, took over the design business.  

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As always, I do appreciate you taking the time to visit.  I hope you are having a great weekend with many happy stitches....

Crazy flu challenge.....

This past week was the "crazy flu challenge" where you don't stitch at all for five straight days. 

I rejoined the living on Friday and made up

for my lost stitching time this weekend. 

First... I needed some LK therapy and

stitched this cutie .....

LK "Where's the Party"

30ct WDW Guacamole

I plan to make this into a little pillow and

will use the fabric shown.  I love the WDW

fabric and have some extra that probably

won't last too long! 

I did make some substitutions

(GA Midnight Sky, WDW Hunter) 

for the greens since the called for colors

(WDW Holly, Envy) were a little

harsh for my taste.  I also swapped the

red (GA Buckeye Scarlet) to

better match the backing fabric. 

I still need to add the little gold beads around

the boots but hope to get this one sewn

up this next weekend.

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I then reached into my

"Big O' Bag of Challenge" 

and brought out this beauty to stitch....

 CHS "Her Sampler"

I will say this one looks so much better
stitched...the pic on the design just doesn't
do it justice.  It may also be the Buttercream linen, which is just luscious with this color
palette.   If you have this one languishing in your stash, you need to pull it out and stitch it! 
You won't be disappointed. 

I think I will stick with this one this week since
I can most likely finish it and put a check by
one of my challenge pieces.

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Pork Chop was definitely feeling lonely this week

and decided last night he had been ignored

long enough and would take matters into his own

"paws".  I share with the "look" I got when I asked him to kindly remove himself from in front of the computer screen....

He's still cute even when he's mad...

I'm looking like this too about now as I psych myself up for work tomorrow....ugh! 

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Oh well...thanks for visiting and hope you have had a good stitching weekend!