But not weather-wise! Just my stitching! Hope you are all well. The end of my 3 day weekend because of Veterans Day being recognized, I can see my dad's funeral flag given to us on the occasion of his death. It's on the mantel in its display case. He served in the Air Force. Respect to all veterans!
Let's start out with housekeeping. I hope my phone cooperates today. Blue Whale Designs seemed to be around when I discovered stitching blogs about 13 years ago. The chart I have doesn't have a copyright date on it. The Christmas Sampler I'm working on got some pretty good progress on it...
I've set it aside for now.
Stitching Dreams Carol mentioned the many designs found on Etsy. Absolutely! On IG I saw a new one from Myfanny, super pretty with colors I don't usually use on Christmas projects.
An anonymous commenter asked about the Jingle Ball coming up the first week of December, the 2nd and 3rd. The classes are virtual and at most, they run for an hour or a little bit more. The bookmark class I signed up for will go for an hour I believe. They will be available for 30 days afterwards. It sounds like your hands are full so maybe one of the other free projects would work better. All you need is the $10 ticket into the ball for those projects. I've been stitching my bookmark so I can be ready when class starts...
I really like the shot of teal in this bookmark. I don't have much more to stitch, still need to back stitch the outline for the back piece.
I'm on Instagram as some of you know. My question to those of you who are on it too is are you tired of the strange men following you? I had to go private on my account because of the men liking all my photos! Ugh! As I'm typing, I just got two requests to follow! Scammers are what they are and I'm so tired to the point of just leaving all social media.
Last but not least is new follower Katie! Welcome Katie! I'm headed to my 13th year of blogging and no signs of slowing down any time soon. Hope you can understand my blather! Haha!
Besides the 2 WIPs I've shown already, here's another I pulled out of my pile...Yule by The Primitive Hare and found in the PNPS magazine 2016 Christmas/Winter...
I'm doing mortar work right now, bricks and grout. The bricks will be different colors, not just red. See the blank space between the smaller cake stand and the big one? I may stitch a small Christmas tree in there or another present. We'll see.
And I finally sewed the buttons on Frosty Forest! I bought the buttons minus one back in June. Now it's completely finished...
The first block doesn't have a snowflake button because I stitched in the big snowflake over the deer standing sideways. Maybe I should have bought the button as it feels undone to me or lopsided, lol. I'll probably end up buying one.
Alrighty! Just a small update before the phone goes wacky. I will probably be back after Thanksgiving so I'll wish you all a wonderful Thanksgiving with good company, good food, and a soft place to land!
Happy stitching everyone!
Congrats on the great progress on all of your awesome projects Shelly. Happy Thanksgiving.
ReplyDeleteLinda
Beautiful work on everything. Thanks for the welcome. Yep I love reading about stitching haha. I agree with you about the teal with the bookmark. Just wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI don't let the random creepers stop me. I just remove the follower if they are someone I don't like. You can also block them. Instagram is fun to get the daily photos of our stitching. But I love blogging for the story behind the quick photo.
I love that Frosty Forest piece. I think the button would add a lot. I always love those added touches.
Have a wonderful Thanksgiving.
My dad was an Air Force veteran too. I think of him every single day and am proud to be from a military family.
ReplyDeleteI have the same problem with IG. I've heard changing your profile photo to something other than your photo helps. I need to try that. Keanu Reeves is a regular who I block there! Ha!
I love your finished Frosty Forest! Nice work!
ReplyDeleteLovely finish of your Frosty Forest, Shelly! I have to admit, I'd probably put the button on the left side, too. I do love things symmetrical--ha ha!
ReplyDeleteYes, lots of weirdos on IG. I just block them and move on :) My photo is not in my profile so I think that helps a lot. My sister had such a problem that she changed her photo to one of her and her husband. I don't think that helped a whole lot.
Happy Thanksgiving, Shelly! Enjoy your Christmas stitching ♥