Freedom!

Hi all! While it's still fresh in my mind, I tried to leave comments on Astrid's and DJ's blogs but Google keeps saying an error occured. Astrid, I'm so sorry on the loss of your furry family member Ming. She had a wonderful life and so will the two new kitties. DJ, your recent stitches are lovely and Anne Thomas is gorgeous 😍

Hope everyone has thawed and/or dug out! Here in the West several cold fronts are supposed to swing down into the SW and who knows what that will entail. Too soon to tell the weather people are saying.

I better start talking about stitching! I have a finish, a couple FFOs, and etc etc. Let's go!

I was surprised to see a few of you were also in the Halloween group that is ending soon. Linda, I knew you were in it and I'm sorry you bought extra Dragon charts to do the one challenge. I think the admin added so many different challenges, it got out of hand. It's like Teri/Dixiesamplar and the exchange she ran. However, it was the participants who probably had a hand in the demise. It's hard to herd people! 

Moving on! I have 2 WIPs I'm doing with the Halloween group. Jack's Bash and These Is My Words. Here's the latter...

I am now in the very last part of this stitch. I have text and flowers/cacti left to do and it'll be a Happy Dance! Can't wait!

Jack's Bash is the other and I feel I've done a lot with it...

Having fun!

I read the comments left at the last post (I always read them) and Honeybee/The Copper Fox said 'Enjoy your freedom!' And you know what? It is freedom! Freedom to stitch on whatever I want with no counting stitches! But first, I up and joined a SAL! Haha! A very informal SAL I might add. The Camping Stitcher on FB is hosting a Leap Year SAL for new starts. Since I planned on starting the Christmas Mug series from Shannon Christine around the same time, it was a no brainer to start on Feb 29. I may take a page out of Carol/Stitching Dreams book and stitch them all on black linen! I do have a small piece of 32ct black linen that I'll stitch a few stitches on to see how it looks.

That's the only SAL that I'm joining!

Next I have progress on a few WIPs. Here's Dog's Declaration from Ink Circles ..

I got my order from 123stitch a few days after my last post which had the missing skeins of Valdani floss to stitch the vine. You can see on the chart it goes halfway down on the left. Then I picked up Bertha Mae Brown by Chessie and Me...

She's just pretty with her pinks and reds. I think I stitched the P to the w and then to her name and the sawtooth line. There are 4 more rows of letters to go before the fun stuff i.e. flowers, deer, baskets, and a pink house.

I have a finish and that's the Jingle Ball 2023 ornament and folks, that skirt is no joke filling in that green!

I'm not sure what fabric this is but with the white dots it's pretty. Once I find flat mat board, I'll make it a flat ornament. Designed by Lindy Stitches.

I also had a designated FFO day a couple weeks ago and here's what I have to show...

Feliz Navidad. From a JCS ornament preview issue I can't find as I'm scrolling on my iPad looking for my post of when I finished it. Here it is-July/August 2012. My coworker is Mexican so this'll go to her for Christmas this year. I'm thinking of attaching a hanger on somehow 🤔

My next FFO is a secret that will be revealed Valentine's Day during the Secret Sweetheart blog hop. Stay tuned for that!

Well, tomorrow is my birthday! Sixty years on this earth, man, that's hard to say! I've used up some lives on the way! I will have a bday start and this is it...

So pretty! I just need 2 missing DMC. I'm so excited to start this. It's been kitted for almost 2 years. 

And because I'm turning 60, I'm doing something wild and crazy!! So be sure to come back on my next post to see what that could be!! 😆😆

I believe that's it! At least my phone has cooperated!

I'm  going to stitch on Dog's Declaration the rest of today and get laundry going and mucking out the cat box; fun!

Be well! See you soon!