Stitch!

 

I don't know if we can call it awesome!🤷🏻‍♀️ somewhere someone said they were done with winter. We haven't even had a winter! 

Instead of the groundhog, Arizona has Agua Fria Freddy who is either a rattlesnake or a Gila Monster. The Gila Monster is a large beaded lizard that lives in the deserts south of me. They're protected and they're venomous. I guess when they bite they will not let go. I didn't think to get a picture of one!

Take a look at what's going on in my yard...

Yes, those are flowers, lol. This happens in April not February! As I've said before, Mom Nature has gone crazy!

Shall we do stitching? Let's go!

I have 2 finishes and 4 pieces that I've been working on.

Here's my finish...

Stacy Nash's bonus pattern that I've called Gingerbread Houses. I finished this on the 27th of January. The big house on the right was not bad at all! It's just lovely! My plan is to finish it as a pillow with either pompom or chenille trim the same color as the floss which was WDW Parchment. I forgot to include what's left of the floss...1 strand! This design took almost the whole skein. 

Next up is the ornament SAL that Carol leads...

I finished the moose at the top right. I measured them for round sticky board and it'll take 4" rounds. They'll be kind of big. I have a 4 ft green Christmas tree, artificial of course, that I'd like to hang these on. I have another moose finish that is from a JCS Christmas ornament mag that I will add to the tree. I might stitch a couple more to fill the tree.

WIPs 

Here we have A Bit of Spring by BBD...

I've added the F, G, T, and the Y. I'd like to be done this month but there's a lot to the letters. 

Next is...

A Victorian Christmas by Samplers and Stitches. Just last night alone while watching flosstubes I stitched in the tree and its pot (ghosty) on the right. It needs hanging flowers now in red. Maybe I can finish this before the 28th which is just 12 days away🫣

Last but not least is my foray back into Halloween! I missed it, lol...

He's coming right along! I'm just moseying along through my WIPs and decided to see if I could finish him. It's close!

Because I got Meowt out, I want to start this chart...

So gorgeous 😍 I could graph 1776-2026 in there somewhere to be my 250 year celebration sampler.

Lately I've been signing up for Patreon accounts. I'm with Hello From Liz Mathews already but jumped on the HOD Christmas ornament Patreon; for tier 1. I'm sure you all have seen the first ornament...

So pretty. I signed up in November for an autoshjp from Barefoot Needleworks? Not sure if that's their name. The autoship is for a new series of charts from Country Cottage Needleworks. Here they are...

I am missing one. The 4th chart is on its way soon. Because I finished Frosty Forest a couple years ago, I'd like to stitch another series onto one piece and these charts are it! Oh here's that lost chart...

I also might stitch this instead for March...

This would be the 4th in the series of White Christmas by HOD. I have 3 stitched already. We shall see🤔

So the 29th of January was my bday. My boss gave me a Visa debit card and I promptly spent it at Primrose Cottage!...

The Toadstool Stitches chart I found on a stash selling site. It was an exclusive to their Sip and Stitch mystery boxes.

I'm feathering my nest, folks! When I move I'll have to clamp down on spending. 

I'm just about done! On March 6th, I have to drive down to Phoenix to see a doctor. Back in January, I ended up with a pain in my gut, front side, and my gut would just swell up. It hurt and I couldn't sleep on my right side or flat on my back because of it. I don't know about your area but around here doc appointments are far out! When the receptionist said March, I thought in my head Well I could be dead by then! When the pain began, I read that soda pop with its carbonation could create bloat in your stomach. So could swallowing air🤷🏻‍♀️ so I lowered my soda intake down to 2 12 oz bottles of Coke Zero a week and started drinking a fiber powder and water drink at night before bed. It has helped as I can now sleep on my right but whatever it is, it's still there. It also leaves me with back soreness on that side. I have sciatica on my left side and my right side has never ached before like it's doing now. My mother died at 49 years of age with renal carcinoma so it's best I get this thing checked.

I believe I'm done. Thanks for your comments last post. Honeybee, I tried to comment on your post from today. I just wanted to say that I agree, stitchy blogs have a place on the net judging by those of us still hanging on!😂

Take care everyone! I'll leave you with this to peruse 👇🏼👇🏼

Lost and found

Helloooo! I haven't really been lost, just sick, again! This time around I lost my sense of smell and nearly taste. A week later, I can now smell again but things taste strange🤷🏻‍♀️ lots of congestion still.

It's been a weird winter and January! For once this month has flown by. Probably because I wasn't looking!🫣

However, I have been stitching, so let's look at that!

I started out the year stitching 4 projects, 1 new start and 3 WIPs, and 2 are now a finishes. I joined Stitching Dreams Carol and her 12 ornaments SAL and finished Christmas Eve, from a JCS ornament issue. I don't have the date of that magazine but if you'd like to know, let me know in the comments.

All the colors are darker than IRL. I used a 40ct linen from Heartstrings Samplery during Jingle Ball. I like to look for unique colored fabric from the designers shops. This fabric was for one of her designs. It's similar to Chives from GAST. One down and 11 more to go. I don't have February's picked out yet but I have one in mind.

Next are my WIPs. Martha Richardson is a finish!!!

I'm not sure of the name of my fabric but it's 36ct and definitely a PTP. Isn't she something?! That mansion is H U G E! I saw someone talking about this sampler and she thought that's a lake with a sailboat on it. It does look like a sailboat. Below that is the large wreath stitched in Otter Creek by GAST which is now my favorite color. If you look at it under good light, there are dk greens, med greens, and what I thought was blue. When I first looked at this chart, I thought the wreath was just a bunch of stitches but no, there are flowers on the top and bottom. I love it! It's an adaptation of an antique and adapted for Needlework Press. 

The next WIP is A Bit of Spring by BBD and in their Ooh La La book...

I finally turned the corner at top right and could cut off the extra fabric getting in my way! Sorry for the wonky-ness. On 36ct Patriot's Brew by R & R. I think I'm going to carry this into February, this and the next piece...

The bonus pattern from Stacy Nash. I wish I could get the correct color of the fabric😕 anyway, I'm stitching on this to the end of this month as long as my WDW Parchment floss lasts! It's coming along nicely. Only thing is I wished I had done a better job placing it on the fabric. That tall house on the right threw me off so I started in the middle. I could've had some extra fabric to start something else on. Oh well!🙂

I'm liking this little plan I have to work on the Christmas ornament and then stitching on WIPs. For finishing the 2 pieces, I'm going to have a new start in February besides the ornament and it's also from the Ooh La La book by BBD.

Stay tuned!

That's it for the stitching. I may have had more to talk about but I can't remember!😂the brain fog is real, folks!

The sun is shining but it's about 43 degrees out. Nowhere near what those of you out East are dealing with. Here's to keeping warm and safe and with stitching on your lap!

See you in February🙋🏻‍♀️