Halloween Trick or Treat Blog Hop 2019

Happy Halloween!! My favorite time of year. This is the second time I've joined in on the fun of this blog hop, the brainchild of Jo at the Serendipitous Stitcher:

http://serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/2019/10/halloween-trick-or-treat-blog-hop-2019.html

One of my favorite Halloween finishes is Halloween from the Postcards from The Heart series of seasonal designs, by Summerhouse Stitcheworks.

There are 2 designs to stitch that are then mounted onto a burlap covered wood frame. 

You then pick whatever bits n bobs to add to the front to make it yours. This is

mine. I love the sparkly spider crawling into the orange and black rose bush. The

side of the frame is trimmed with a black and orange ribbon.

My letter..

The letter T. Make sure you gather up all the letters from this blog hop to make 

a word and then head to Jo's blog, link above, to enter your word. How

fun is that?!

I will now send you on your way to:

http://jocondine.blogspot.com/

to see what spooky and scary stitching she has!

Hope you have a great Halloween with no tricks and plenty of treats!

Water, Sand and Snow

Hi all! Hope you're all doing fine. I came back about an hour ago from watching the Downton Abbey movie with my daughter. I enticed her with a large popcorn! I don't like going to the movies by myself! I liked it. I won't mention any parts of the movie but I was happy to see a couple questions answered and I teared up over 1 scene. Hope that means another movie further in the future for the characters.

I have progress to show, new plans (I always have new plans!), a finish/FFO, etc.

I have reached water!

Yep, that little bit of blue directly to the right of the dog on the sled is water and I'm a 

happy camper. Back story: After finishing and FFOing my last Halloween

project, I picked up Winter At Beacon House, a long time WIP. Here's the before..

The fabric is lakeside Winter Sky and shows correctly in the pic right above. I've 

extended the alphabet, filled in the missing stitches near the girls, started on the

lighthouse, and filled in the snow amongst the alphabet. The nice thing about this

design is I can jump around when I get tired of stitching the sand and snow. I am 

giving it a break though because I am now in a Christmas stitching mood!

Here's my last Halloween finish..

Ritual and Spell from the 2016 JCS Halloween issue. I made a few changes- left

off the skull vine on the bottom, and stitched my own spider web in the upper

right corner. I used my last piece of fusible web on this so I haven't finished my

other Halloween finishes.

At first, I was going to keep stitching on Beacon House but after looking at all

the new Christmas charts on the 123stitch, I've kitted up 3 projects...

I almost had all the called for flosses, with one sub. It's going on a 36ct fabric, 

mystery.

An oldie but goodie. I've made this once before. And..

Christmas Scooter. I'm using a different fabric than called for but it'll look great. 

Starting tonight, I'm stitching this one^. 

I also stashed, lol..

Scored on a stash selling FB group.

That is it. I joined Jo's Halloween blog hop at the Serendipitous

Stitcher blog so I'll be back on Halloween for that.

An upcoming plan is to stitch a Christmas pattern by Romina Petrucci,

otherwise known as Romy's Fibers, for a contest. It'll be an ornament 

I think. Sounds like fun!

Job is going well but Mr. Vertigo has made a return, unfortunately, and I missed a day at

work for that. He's been gone for the entire year and why he's returned

has me scratching my head. I try to pinpoint differences that may set it off and when it 

disappears but can't. I just have to deal with it.

Take care! See you on Halloween!

Just a funny picture of a hitchhiking bug on my windshield! Looks

like its lifting that little car..

Where's the time gone?!

Howdy! Yes, I am back with a new post! I've been AWOL for almost a month. Crazy!

How's everyone doing? I've been catching up to everyone's blog posts and seeing great things being FFO'd and stitched.

First order of business, I finally sent the magazine giveaway to Linda about two weeks ago! Sorry
about that Linda. Things were crazy last month. Also I'd like to respond to some comments from
last post. To Carol: No I didn't take a picture of the lightning strike. It is hard to get a pic of
lightning! I stood outside during one storm constantly clicking the camera button on my iPad and
caught nothing, lol. I heard shutter speed comes into play so a fancier camera works.

To Meg: Yes I added Orange RIT to my coffee dye mix to come up with that fabric color, then
popped it into the oven for a bit. And to Astrid: I have gotten used to the new job and the hours.
I cuss when the alarm goes off but after one 5 minute snooze, I get up! I also now go to bed at
9 pm or sometimes 8:30 if I'm especially tired.

I have exchange goodies to show and a finish so let's go!

Here is my finished creation that went to my exchange partner..

This is Land of Milk and Honey by Summerhouse Stitcheworks.

I attached magnets to the back of the stitched piece and hot glued some to the 

muffin tin. Some of the flowers are either hot glued in place or glued to a magnet.

Next time I'll use skinnier, flatter magnets. I am happy with how it turned out and 

Susan loved it. As usual, I forgot to take a picture of all the things I sent.

Here is what I received..

Love it all. Bag of M&Ms are gone! I love ceramic pumpkins so was glad to get that

small one in the corner. The WTN&T pattern, perfect. And everything else.

Here's a look at the stitched piece..

It's by Pineberry Lane on Carrot linen, probably from WDW. So pretty. One of

the questions for the exchange is what colors do you like and mine are always

the same-Halloween colors! I am going to have to buy that pattern now!

I also have another Halloween finish-Vlad's House..

By Lucy Beam Love In Stitches. That house, though! I had to leave off windows

on the bottom of the house because I was running out of GAST Soot. I 

figured Vlad lived in a fortified castle and it wasn't a good idea to have

windows at the bottom! The lighter gray areas of the house are WDW Pelican Grey

which I nearly ran out of but I went into some kitted projects and found a skein. 

I'm not sure how I'll finish this.

I am stitching yet another Halloween ornament but it just has a few stitches in so

no pic.

I guess that's it's. I have chicken and two bean chili going in the crock pot right now,

almost done, and in two hours an oil change for the car. As I mentioned above, the job

has become easier. I wake up at 3:45am and now have a routine going. I hate

rushing around that early in the morning! Things are done the night before so I can

get on the highway for my 30 minute commute. I don't mind it, I listen to music, see

the sunrise yet, and think! 

I'm not sure what's in store stitch wise. I'll finish the ornament and would like to

put in some work on Christmas Garden by BBD. I've seen several finishes of it

and am inspired to get going on mine.

Well, thanks for visiting! Hope you're all stitching up a storm!

Take care!