Yes, that's what I wanted to do, start everything! The whole month of July has been this way! All it took was looking through magazines or my stash. So I have 2 new starts in addition to a WIP. And yesterday, I found the graph to Jenny Bean's Halloween Sampler in what I call the canyon on my sofa. I have a faux suede sofa with 2 recliners on each end. When something falls in between where I sit and the next cushion, it requires moving this heavy thing. I lost the TV remote and couldn't get my arm further into the canyon to grab it but I did pull up the graph! Lol.
So I have progress to show, the new starts, and my ongoing FO parade. Let's do it!
I've been stitching on Summer in The Country..
I have since added the houses, the inside of the star, more of the left side border, and more tree. I am waiting for 2 flosses from 123stitch to stitch in a few other things.
New starts: my mind kept wandering to all the things I have kitted but I kept thinking of the 23 WIPs I have! Lol. So what I did start are not overly big...
Noel
This is found in a Stony Creek holiday issue..
I'm doing something that I never do and that's doing 2 over 2 on a 36ct Ale or Doubloon linen by PTP. I wanted the red and green to pop on the fabric. I also changed the red and green DMCs to another DMC color. On the model, the green is so dark so I'm using a slightly brighter green. It's hard going but I'll keep at it.
The next new start is The Yule Queen by The Primitive Hare...
The model calls for a charcoal linen but I decided to use this 32ct Cow Fodder by a dyer who calls her fabric From the Cauldron. Her name escapes me. There are a lot of snowflakes all over this pattern, single stitch and more. When I'm done I'll go back and add most of them. When I'm stitching a pattern that has stitched snowflakes, I almost never put them in just like the graph. I do that with spider webs too.
The Yule Queen I started because it was so hot here. Nowadays it's not getting into the 100s like it was.
That's it for progress.
In one of the FB groups I'm in, a stitcher showed a bunch of Christmas ornaments she's finished and I saw one that I'd never seen. I asked her from what JCS magazine and she couldn't remember. So I hauled out my collection and started from 2006 but it was in last years issue! So now I want to stitch ornaments, haha!!! Decisions, decisions!
Parade time! These are my medium finishes, and I will try to remember the info on them.
First up is this pretty by LHN. I'm not sure of the title. It's a favorite finish of mine. I'm undecided on a final finish for this. I may end up framing it. The fabric is a slate-y color that I thought was perfect for this.
Next...
Halloween from a JCS Halloween preview issue. I don't stuff long designs very well! I think I'll add a strip of appropriate fabric to the bottom and then sew it and stuff,🤷🏻♀️
The Tribal Rooster! I can't remember the designer. I just know they do a lot of shapes like a pumpkin and call it a tribal pumpkin. My phone camera shows reds and oranges really bright but they're not in real life. Another favorite finish.
Here's an easy one! Dear House by La D Da, using the called for fabric and floss. I see this chart for sale on the FB stash sale groups every now and then. It's a favorite finish also.
A Country Cottage Design piece, I first FFOd this as a pillow trimmed with a store bought rolled trim; I hated it! So I took it apart and now I'm left with slim margins. I want to make it a table topper of some kind. The fabric is Guacamole by WDW and it's much lighter than my picture.
Aww, Buttercream! So pretty. This is from an e-magazine called The Gift of Stitching. Anyone remember that? I have 3 or 4 issues that I still have on my iPad. I forget that I've got a lot of PDFs on it! This is on WDW Parchment and it's so pretty. After all this time, I'm still not sure how I'll FFO.
Here's a Kathy Barrick pattern, I believe. Fun stitch, I put a red nose on the furthest left reindeer! Santa's giving them a break!
Cobblestone Crossing by Stone Street Stitch Works. I love this! I really modified this pattern. It had a black 1-line border all around it with a date at the top, I left it all off. For whatever reason, I also shortened the house on the right and left a space below it to stitch over 1 the date of the first printing of Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. I may have made some mistakes in counting stitches for that house and decided to improvise. At any rate, it's high on my favorites list!
Last but not least is Salem by Willow Hills Stitching. A cute Halloween design that didn't take long to stitch. It's small enough to turn into a pin pillow.
That's it for the parade!
Not much going on around here. We're healthy, working, and I for one am impatient for Fall. I'm not one to wish away my life, but can we just skip August?!🤣
And that's all she wrote! I'll be back in August with more parade and hopefully more finishes. I had plans but now I'm thinking Christmas ornaments! We'll see. You'll have to tune in to see what I settled on!
Take care, and see you soon😊
