Bunnies Galore and a winner!

Can you guess what I spent my morning doing?

Yup! I finish finished up a few things. I started last weekend on this one..

Harvest 1823 is one of my Crazy starts and finish. I planned this as I went! No real idea on how to finish but I'm happy with the result. I wanted to fill this with lizard sand but forgot to use fusible lining on the linen section. Oh well.

Also last weekend, I finally gave Dream Big some attention..

I had a marathon session with this. You know how it is..you smell a finish coming on and stay up late to get it finished! I had to look back in my posts to find when I started this and that was just last year. Not too bad. But today, here's what I did with it..

Eeeeeee!! I'm just in love with it. I attached white ric rac to the sides and pins that somewhat matched the hearts and the sun. I didn't put any beads at the bottom because I'm buying an easel for it. At the top is a funny beige ribbon. Here's another side..

Hope it's not too blurry. I believe the designer is CCN, Country Cottage Needleworks. It's very cute. 

And here's Happy Bunny Bunny Day by the Trilogy. I started this last year, finished it, and left in on the unfinished pile until now..

Love how it turned out. I wanted to bring out the color of the heart so sewed in the hand dyed ric rac. I made up new cuss words sewing that ric rac to the dark green fabric! I spent more time ripping out seams than actual sewing. Sheesh. I like the look of it though! I only added two buttons instead of the six it called for. Finished it all off with the ivory-ish chenille trim. 

My other 'bunny' design is an unknown freebie. Just a tiny thing, I added the grass, the sun peeking from the corner, his tail, and more flower. Here it is with the other bunnies!..

I'm done! Two Saturdays in a row of finishing...whew! I just found out this morning that Easter is April 2nd, so this is my Easter/Spring contribution.

Time to announce the winner of the magazine and fabric and that would be...

Congrats Jacquie! Email me at campbo41@q.com to give me your mailing address. By the way, can you all let me know if I'm a no reply blogger? Frances gave me a head up on it. I went and tweaked a few things and I'm not sure if its fixed.

Thanks for coming by! Have a wonderful rest-of-the-weekend!

Gifted Gorgeousness-March

Fancey, I'm glad to say, now has a body!

Well, more body! She just needs hands and legs now.

This was last month..

This bottom picture shows the more correct color of this fabric. This is Fancey Blacketts Brooms by Pineberry Lane. I'm taking my time stitching on this because its the only gifted project I have but then I forget that I won some threads, which I'll use to start some new things like freebies or bigger items. I'm good for the rest of the year with GG. Yahoo!

Please check out the little giveaway on the last post if you haven't already. It's a magazine and fabric for one of the designs inside it. I'm off to stitch. It's promising to be another great day. It's great to know that Winter has loosened it's grip on some of you. I just heard birds chirping outside! 

Take care! 

Jumped right into it, we have a winner, and a magazine/fabric giveaway!

Ahh, Spring! It's supposed to get to 74 degrees today. Maybe I can finally turn off the heater!

Although I don't have all the threads needed, I decided to make the leap and start Christmas Garden by BBD!

I've been budgeting for the purchases of the threads needed for this as some call for 3 or 5 skeins each. I have 3 colors and still need 2 others which I'll buy here in another week or two. Above is what I have so far, just some border. It's huge! A new start is definitely what I needed and I haven't picked up anything else! 

So we have a winner from the two that wanted the Aida and that would be LINDA!!!! Linda I have your address from the package you sent me for the Traveling Chest. Wonder what happened to that, if it got lost or what. I think some countries are going through mail strikes. Anyway, I'll have the Aida on its way to you this coming week.

How about another giveaway? This one is for the magazine and the fabric for one design..

My pictures are just terrible, ugh. The 28ct Dawn Grey Jubilee evenweave is for the project on the left-Autumn in New England. Lots of tweeding here, judging by the next picture..

The bracketing represents using one strand of one color and a strand of another. There's a lot of work here but it'll be beautiful when done. Not a whole lot of backstitching either. This is a JCS August 1992 issue with lots of other designs too. I've had this in my stash for a very long time; time for a new home! Who would like it? This time I can send overseas and Canada. As usual, if more than one person wants it, I'll draw names next Saturday. Open to everyone, follower or not.

Alrighty! That's it for today, a short post. I'm stitching on my GG project so I'll be back tomorrow to post for that. The 15th already! Time is just speeding by. 

Take care!

WIP it! WIP it good! Stashing and whatever else.

How've you all been? I've been MIA due to work, aches and pains, and while I'm at it, where the heck have the last two months gone? Hmm? Well, I can finally walk properly without a hitch in my get up and go. My knee is finally doing better. The overtime at work is over, hallelujah! I now have my 3 day weekend back and after not stitching for 4 or 5 days, I picked up a needle and stitched this morning. But the mountain of WIPs still remain. Last weekend I picked up a few WIPs, stitched an hour or so and then picked up something else to do the same. That weekend it rained for 4 days on and off and then as a last kick in the booty, snow! Picture heavy.

And now, it's 61 degrees outside and we've got this..

Everything is just greening up. I was going to prune my 25 year old rose bush but have misplaced my pruners. So here I am and now you probably want to see my progress on WIPs. Here we go..

I added more branch to Trick or Treat.

Blackie Pin Cushion by Homespun Elegance got more body and the tree, and leaves. I thought I had a before picture but I don't.

Here's Holiday Samplings II by Homespun Elegance also..

That last diamond at the right is where the end is so its not too big.

And before..

And I finally picked up an older WIP, Blackwater Hollow Sampler by Stacy Nash..

And before..

I have more that I stitched on but I'll save those for another day.

And I stashed!

The extent of my Market buys..for now! I have my eye on a chart from Lindsay Lane, two from Country Stitches, one from PSS but they'll have to wait. 

These came from Needlecraft Corner in their Clearance section for half off so disregard the prices on the two Stacy Nashes! Bee in your Bonnet is going to be the perfect summer stitch. And I can't pass up anything Scary so there ya go!

These came from a stash sale put on by the owner of the blog Cozy Egg for her friend. I looked for it again but it looks like the sale is over. I bought the Smokey Pearl linen for the Frosty Forest charts (thanks Jeannie!) but I'm not real sure of the color now.

I think I have enough new stash now!

Couple posts ago Jo of Serendipitous Stitching asked me if I had a lot of fabric for finishing..

That's all of it! Plus other Halloween fabric in the green box below. I feel about fabric like I do stash, I have to rein myself in. A lot of it though are remnants that I picked up at Hobby Lobby, and Joanne's.

While I'm at it, here's my trims..

   

And..

All of this is in my tall plastic storage tower. And I have more because Victorian Motto had a Primitive trims package for sale so I bought!

While doing some cleaning, I came across some 14ct Aida. Who would like them? If more than one person would like them, I'll draw names next Saturday. Unfortunately, I can't ship overseas or Canada, just the US. 

Steel Grey, Williamsburg Blue, and Fiddlers.

Well, I believe that's it. Hope the pictures aren't too blurry. I haven't touched my Gifted Gorgeousness yet so I need to get going on that. I have not bought fabric for the Glendon Place Desserts SAL put on by Brenda from Stitch Haven so I need to take care of that. At the same time, I ask myself..Do I really need a new start?! We'll see. I may be raring to go when the 2nd post comes up for the SAL in April!

I'm enjoying your comments! A big WELCOME to the new followers on Bloglovin and here. Take care!

Here's Bubba Jay who just woke up