Final TUSAL of 2014

Mojo has not returned. Maybe after Christmas it'll find it's way home.

TUSAL, FNSI, a little finish

Hello!

First up is TUSAL:

Black threads from Early Witches, yellows from my FNSI stitch.

FNSI:

Sorry for the wrinkles. This is Dream Big from CCN. Here's what it looked like before:

I hope to have it finished by Easter!

For practice I finish finished this guy before finishing the Christmas Ornament Exchange, which I'm happy to say is in the hands of the USPS and is going allll the way to the east coast.

I just attached the ribbon to the top and stuck the three pins in front. I'll find or make a ribbon bow to put at the top 'cause its looking kind of bare. Here's the side:

More gold beads stuck in at the bottom! Love pins, they cover a multitude of sins!

I'm off to buy groceries, curtains, curtain rods, new sneakers/tennis shoes, DMC at Michaels. I think my DMC list is about 30 skeins and I hope they are on sale right now! Otherwise, I'll have to buy 10 or so at a time. I feel for you ladies overseas who are having to shell out a lot of money for DMC. I saw someone having a giveaway of DMC for stitchers not in the USA and I think that's a great idea!

Take care. Thanks for stopping in and a big hearty WELCOME to the newcomers either by Blogger or Bloglovin'! Glad to have you!

TUSAL October

Whittling the year down...where has the last 10 months gone?!

My orts reflect what I've been working on-Harvest Delivery and Early Witches.

I'll be back this coming Saturday for Stitch from Stash (dreading that)! 

TUSAL time

Now I know I stitched more than this..

You can't see it but I have lots of black in there, mostly from the Queen of quite a lot exchange pillow.

Goodnight! Zzzzzzzzzz........

August TUSAL

Lots of Fall colors in my Ort jar

Back to stitching on my exchange project and Downton Abbey. Quite!

July's TUSAL and Stitch from Stash, progress, a finish, and stash!

How's everyone doing? This is going to be a long post with lots of pics. Just thought I'd warn you all! First I saw this over at 123stitch, borrowed the picture. I can say yes to 6 of these! Honestly now, what's your count?!

This is a new pattern on the New Items page at 123stitch.

So I'm doing double duty today for TUSAL and SFS. Here's my ort jar for the month of July

I have been stitching everyday, maybe a one day break when I finished my latest ornament. I took one ort out to show you how far down I go! I've looked at others and they're so long! Lots of blacks from Early Witches. 

SFS:

My ending balance from June was : $32.73

Add $25 for July:                               25.00

                                                       =57.73

Money Spent (I tried my best to make this a free month!):

$1.68 on GAST to finish the Sampler Pillow

  7.20 on LK Hats Off chart

  3.52 LK embellishment pack

  9.99 JCS Halloween issue

  2.20 on Colourworks thread (formerly Crescent Colours) for-

  5.39 LHN Red House in Winter

= $29.98! 

Ending balance is now $27.75 to carry over. I'm still buying too much I feel. I just need a couple skeins of an overdyed for a project I want to start in the next couple of weeks. After that, who knows?! Haha.

My new starts from stash were: Early Witches, the Mystery SAL with the Primitive Hare

I'm doing my best to get caught up but that's a lot of black! I'm using 32ct French Vanilla and I added some splotches with coffee and vanilla extract. So when I ironed this for its intro, up wafted the scent of warm vanilla! I know there's alcohol in the extract so I didn't use a lot. I'm taking this design almost right up the edges. Isobel did say that if you're going to frame, it'll have to be close without much border. I'm worried about how much length it'll take! 

Here's my ornament, from stash also. I tried to find a website for Cherrywood Design Studios. It's a real mystery because I printed the freebie from somewhere last year and I can't remember!

Isn't he cute?! I may make him a flat ornament with pins on the side. I'll just have to look for pins that'll match these colors.

And the last new start is from Pineberry Lane, the Lydia Broome Sampler

I'm using DMC on a mystery 36ct. I'll frame it for my mini wall.

WIPS or UFOS worked on: yes! Wicked, School Days, LK Scary Mystery Sampler, RP Sampler Pillow, and Dream Big.

Here's Wicked just recently

Before

I love the crow with his crown. I've made a mistake on the key handle, a miscount and I'm frustrated. The miscount is at the top, just to the right of the crow. I stopped at the bottom of that curve when it didn't meet up perfectly. I don't know whether to frog the top where the original problem started or leave it and adjust the bottom. It won't screw up the body of the key whatever I do. So I just dropped this and moved onto something else!

Here's School Days now

Those birds and the darker leaves are a bit darker than in real life. I'm about ready to add my initials and a date below the bird at the left of the trunk, and the trunk. The roof of the schoolhouse starts below those three birds. Can't wait!

Here's what I had before

And the last of the pictures, the RP Sampler Pillow, and the skein of Claret that I had to buy to finish this but I have another problem

See the W? The right leg is the newest skein of Claret and the older skein on the left. That older skein I've had for years! And it's so much lighter than the newer. What to do. Ugh, I hate that. I get a little persnickety from time to time and if I said I'll keep stitching it just to have a finish and that I'll use it just stinks to me! We'll see!

Any temptations this time around? Everything's a temptation right now! Anything that is Halloweenish/Autumn, is. Maybe because its been so hot here. This past week it's been 97 or so, and then our monsoon rains finally came back Thursday and yesterday with a vengeance, knocking out a transformer near work. I got to come home early yesterday!

I finish finished an ornament too

I had it sewed up a couple weeks ago and needed more stuffing. I used the fabric it's sitting on as the backing and used the ric rac to trim it. It's a keeper. I have more things to be finished so I need to get my butt to the sewing machine.

Want to see my stash?

I see about 5 designs in the Halloween mag that I want to stitch. And of course, Praiseworthy Stitches always has worthy designs in these issues that I want to stitch. And then the LK design and the LHN one. I've seen that one stitched up before on blogs but never thought much of it. This time, had to have it! That red of the house is beautiful.

I believe that's it! Thanks for hanging in there. I'm hoping to have more finishes by the time Turtle Trot day comes around. I need to justify the stashing and all I keep doing is starting stuff! Then there's more of my 2014 new starts that I haven't touched in months that I should be taking care of. What I really need to do is win a lottery worth a couple hundred million and then, I can stay home!

Take care! I appreciate your comments!

TUSAL June

I had some smokin' needles this month

That's a lot for me. Mojo kept sneaking away last month. Not this month! I'm stitching like there's no tomorrow!

Have a wonderful weekend!

TUSAL for May

I feel like I stitched a lot but my jar doesn't look like it!

See you all on the 10th for Turtle Trot! Sheesh, I guess I better get stitching on some WIPs!

TUSAL time, and another Happy Dance!

Here's my jar, looking down into it




Lots of green and brown from In the Meadow which has been finished, btw. I've got finishes comin' out of the kazoo! Practically a finish every other post.








My iPad camera cannot get the color of the fabric right. This picture from the last post




shows the color the best. Stitched on WDW Scuppernong fabric with CC overdyes. I'm making this into a pillow. Here's my idea for it. I have this brown cord and this homespun plaid fabric for it




I'm going to Hobby Lobby tomorrow to see if I can get some ideas on the backing fabric and another kind of trim. I'm thinking pompoms for the trim though. I also miscounted somewhere but I couldn't find it! It's maddening! So everything below the trees had to be adjusted like the bases of the trees and the snow. I counted everything from the words on down and still couldn't find where I went wrong! All the items on this design are basically mirror images of each other; the snowflakes, the trees, everything except for the words and his arms. But I think it turned out great. I went through one and a half skeins of CC Bamboo though going 2 over 2. Just an FYI!

Oh and I forgot to put up a few Temptations! Here they are




This is Rebecca from La D Da, and Long May She Wave




from Barbara Ana designs. Both pictures from 123stitch. This patriotic one is sold out at 123stitch. And since I'm doing my best at keeping 123stitch in business, lol, I stashed!




Ruby Pemberton Sampler pillow (in the mood for pincushions!) by Beehive Needleworks and Calico Heart by Notforgotten Farm, so cute. All to the tune of $17.08. Best thing about these two is that I have the flosses and substituted fabric for them. Right now though, I'm back to stitching on some TT WIPs.

Be sure to click on the pictures to get a better view. Looking at them on this iPad, they're looking blurry.

Well! This was supposed to be just my TUSAL post and nothing more but I couldn't wait until the 10th of April to show In The Meadow! And the other stuff. I've taken Tuesday off from work, so I'm in the middle of a 4 day weekend and loving it!

Thank You ladies, for stopping in and leaving comments. Jan left an excellent idea for Celtic Birds and I have found a perfect quote from an Irish poet to stitch with the design. I just need to plot what style of font, and where to put this quote, on top or at the bottom. That ought to be interesting! Take care all!

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TUSAL, and more on this drizzly day. Yay!

Yay, rain! We have not had precip since sometime in December. Sometimes storms leave the worst of it in California and by the time it gets here, they're just showers. I don't think anyone here in AZ has any flooding. Thank goodness.

So it's TUSAL time!




I had more orts last month but I've been stitching steady, except for two days. I'll explain further down!

Happy Dance! Two of them



This is Home, A Diminutive Sampler by Pineberry Lane. I loved stitching this. From the over one in Home at the top (yeah, I put on my big girl panties and did it!), to the satin stitched lawn right below the house. I had run out of GAST Roasted Marshmallow and bought more with b-day $$ and luckily it matched. I'm going to look for a frame for this, something that won't overpower the design because it is.....diminutive ;))

And Snow Day by LK



Don't you like how that one weak ray of sunshine is passing through the snowman?! I used the called for threads except for maybe the snow. It said GAST Whitewash, and I'm pretty sure I used it but there are no variations. So I think I used DMC white! It looks pretty good though. I'm thinking pillow for this but I'm not sure of the fabric to use with this like do I use a color that matches some of the colors or a solid that matches the trees or white? What do you all think? So anyway, I could SMELL finishes last weekend stitching these two and had tunnel vision, ignoring everything else. After I was done, I gave myself two days off of stitching! Lol. Home is one of my Turtle Trot WIPs and Snow Days is a new 2014 start.

I was taking pictures on my craft table and looked over at my pile of finished things and thought I should try to finish finish at least one thing and here's that result!



Yellow Bird by La D Da. I trimmed it with chenille and stuck 3 gold colored pins into it. And that was it for finishing! After that I kitted up a couple ornaments.



I don't know when I'll start on these because Spring and Easter-y designs are whispering at me. I have three projects kitted up for those. I've just been a kitting fool! Kits here, kits there, etc.....

Well that's my Ort report. I've been bad in responding to your comments the last post so I'll do better here on out. I really appreciate everyone stopping by, regular commenters or lurking. I lurk a lot too! Take care you all! I'll be back on the 10th!



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