Friday Night Sew In Pictures!

 So much fun on Friday (Night) Sew In this week!  I finished or stitched and finished three projects, *and* I got taken out to eat by my dear husband to end the day's work.  I am so blessed!

First, my needle book from the Traveling Stitcher by Little House Needleworks.  I stitched the cover of the needle book back in July, but hadn't decided if I was going to purchase the Project Keeper or make my own.  I decided to "wing it" and give it a try.

 I had just picked up the cute little pair of scissors on Thursday, when my daughter and I decided to take advantage of her day off and take a quick trip to a little cross stitch shop called Welcome Stitchery about an hour and a half away in Illinois.  It was *such* a fun trip!  Anyway, my little scissors needed some sort of fob, so I quickly stitched the little girl from the Traveling Stitcher chart, added my name and put it together quickly with some pinking shears and felt.  I'm so thrilled to have a needle book!  Perhaps I won't keep dropping my needles on the floor now!

Next I finished a quick Pine Mountain stitch that I also picked up on Thursday.  I'm doing it in different colors for the pillow that it came with, so this one, I decided to incorporate into a little quilted mug mat that I'll be passing along to Ann as her pay it forward from November.  (I'm pretty sure she's on a blogging break right now and won't see this, but if she does... Hi Ann!).

And finally, I finished my Woodland Sampling from LHN into a pillow.  This was going to be a PIF too, but my daughters both claimed it.  Besides, I want to stitch Mouse (the winner of the draw in my last Pass it Forward) a snowman, because she was taunting me with Cherry Blossoms when I still had snow! LOL!!

I did some stitching this week on two of my other Crazy challenge pieces, but not really enough to show, and I need to settle on something for the rest of the weekend.  I might just go through my basket and see what calls my name. :-)

Blessings!

Number Seven Complete!

This challenge has been so good for me!  Here is my 7th finish...  LHN's Woodland Sampling.   I stitched this one on 18 ct Fiddler's Cloth for a fun and quick stitch.  My only wish is that the snowflakes showed up more... but that's ok.  I still like it. ☺

This next picture is of LHN's Robin Hood that my daughter just finished.  Isn't it pretty?  I love the colors.  DD is a fantastic stitcher.  She's working on a HAED design that is amazing!

So, would anyone be interested in a trade for my Woodland Sampling Pattern?  I have a number of LHN/CCN patterns that I would love to add to my "to do" pile if you would like to trade!  On the top of my list right now is LHN's Counting House or CCN's new Bunny Hop or Sheep in the Meadow, but I'd also like the Frosty Flakes ornament, Winter Wonderland, ABeeC Sampler, the Joyful in Hope thread pack, the Bookstore...  and I'm sure there are others! :-) Drop me an email with your offer - my email's in my profile - and I'll be sure to contact you one way or the other in a day or two. :-)

Have a blessed Sunday!

Weekend Wrap Up & Friday Night Stitch In

Hello friends!

Friday Night Sew In became Friday Night Stitch In at my house yesterday.  Somehow sitting, stitching and watching an old Doris Day movie seemed to be what the evening called for, so I complied. ☺

I've been working on Pumpkin Cottage this week mostly.  Here's the progress so far...

Hopefully you can't tell all the little (or big!) mistakes I made.  I tried to cover them up and I think it will be ok...  We'll see!!  I just love the colors in this one.  It makes me happy!!

I've also put a few stitches in my LHN Woodland Sampling.  I'll work on that more this week, too, I think.  Here's it's progress...

Now my fun mail for today!  My son went out early, early this morning to put a letter in the mailbox and came back with a little box that I'm *sure* wasn't there yesterday.  Hmmm... Anyway - I received my ornament from the HOE Reindeer Exchange from Janet and its MARVELOUS!  The fabric is sparkly and there is wool on the back.  Sigh!  I love it.  She also send a few threads and some gold John James needles.  I am *so* spoiled.  What a happy Saturday morning!

Isn't it gorgeous??

Well, that's it for me for now!  Hopefully I'll have a finish to show by the end of this next week.

Blessings!

Days 7 & 8

It's day 8 of the challenge and I'm finally starting to feel better!  What a blessing!  But when I went to write this post I realized that I had been feeling so rotten that I'd numbered my days wrong on the last few posts.  They're fixed now! 

  Here is my Day 7 start - LHN's Woodland Sampler ( or is it Woodland Sampling?  I don't have it in front of me...)  I was going to do it on linen that I'd bought especially for it, but my head hurt too badly last night to attempt to do anything over two, so I started it on 18 ct Fiddler's cloth and it's adorable.  I can't wait to finish it!  

And here's today's start... and finish. :-)  Just pretend that I made the picture look antique-ish and that it isn't really the horrible light that I took it under that made it look sort of yellow.  I'll post a better picture when I actually finish-finish it. :-)

I've had this Shepherd's Bush fob kit for a year and just kept putting it off.  Today was the day, though.  I was feeling better, but not good enough to do much, so I spent most of the day stitching and listening to Elizabeth Klett read Emma.  She is a FANTASTIC reader!  I love to listen to the Jane Austen books that she's read for Librivox while I stitch.  It was so fun to finish something - especially cuz I feel like I've lost a week of the challenge while I was sick.  I'm not behind with my starts, I just didn't feel like I'd been accomplishing very much. 

So... what shall I start tomorrow?  I hope you'll stop by and see! :-)

Blessings!