Dancing Happy!!!

Hi all! Hope the weather is fine where you're at. I thought I would poke my head in here and share a few things.

I have 3 finishes!! Yes, 3 in almost as many days. First one is The Merry Hart by PSS..

Love it! I just love that huge red flower. I think my fabric is Platnum 35ct that I

coffee dyed. I used mostly CCW floss with a couple DMC subs. Here are a couple of

other angles..

On the last post I mentioned feeling stressful over the amount of 'planned' stitching

I had. I chucked those plans and just picked up whatever made more noise. There's something

to be said for being a monogamous stitcher!

Next up is Promise Me by Lizzie Kate..

This is to be a Christmas gift to my daughter. It's on a 32ct linen, mystery, with WDW

floss. I wanted to put 'mom' and the date somewhere on this but I just couldn't get

it right. It looked horrible. I usually don't sign my stuff anyway. When it's framed I'll 

put something on the back with my name and date on it

My next finish happened just last night..

Early Witches by The Primitive Hare, on 30 or 32ct French vanilla linen with DMC.

I coffee dyed this too. I put in a marathon stitching session the last couple days!

A WIP since 2014, love it. Tituba has a black kettle that she is carrying and Marie

Leveau is carrying a voodoo doll with a bunch of pins sticking out of it. I added a few

more! Lol. Here's another pic..

I think you can see the pins. At first I thought she was holding a chicken. That would be

appropriate too!

Those are my 3 finishes! 

I also deconstructed a previous finish..

By Country Cottage Needleworks. I hot glued that thick store bought cording to the sides; 

never again. You can see where I started ripping it off. I had to puck off all the glue. Here is

how it looks now..

I'm not sure I have enough fabric on the sides to work with but I'm thinking of 

turning this into a table topper. Sew on matching fabric on the sides and then bind it. Hmm.

We'll see.

That's it. I just wanted to show my finishes. I will probably take some time to read 

and do some woolfelt appliqué. 

Thanks for visiting. Hope you all have a good week!

Stuff, the June edition

Hi all! Hope June is off to a great start for you all. It has finally warmed up around here, in the middle 80s. It's finally acting like regular Arizona late-spring weather.

I have Junia progress to show, my FFO'd exchange piece, new stash (again), and another FFO!

First order of business is something Robin in Virginia wanted to know about my header picture, the flowers. After some research, I've found they are called the Daisy Fleabane flower. They're from the
Aster family of flowers, not a Daisy..

They grow wild here in the spring. I can't remember if they grow here after our monsoons.

. They like dry conditions, fields. I did pick a leaf for the smell test and they do smell

like soap! For that reason, I'm guessing that's why animals won't eat them. I've never

given them much thought because they're basically just weeds. Here in the Southwest, 

wild flowers are confused with weeds. At any rate, I had to weedwack those cute

flowers. They sure brighten up a yard though. Different species of the Fleabane

are found in other areas too like Indiana.

On to stitching.

One of my refinished finishes was FFO'd today..

I really like how it turned out using the light orange cord that Carol (I think we all) 

know who Carol is!) made and I won. Cute.

I also FFO'd my exchange piece. I wished I took a better picture but here it is..

The fabric is lighter in real life, WDW Parchment. The design is 

Hurrah! Blue and Gray by Pineberry Lane. I stitched just the bottom 

portion. What is missing is the word Hurrah and a few more pinwheels like 

the one at her right arm and the diamond motifs. I'm pretty sure I

would still be stitching on it had I continued with the rest of the pattern!

I made it a hanging flat ornament with the shell rings to hang floss in, 

trimmed with the red and white twine and tied it with silk ribbon? I forgot what

that's called! The back fabric is a med brown with tiny blue and red flowers.

It is on its way to Georgia as I type. Hope she likes it.

For Junia I picked up The Merry Hart by PSS..

I really do love stitching on this. I have added the flowers to the border and a start on 

the roof. I hemmed and hawed about the fabric at the beginning but it has since grown

on me and I'm happy with it. I think I'll keep at it until it's finished.

Well, I stashed again (enter guilty grin)! I have got to stay away from those

stash selling sites on FB! But look what I found..

This has been my unicorn chart ever since a flosstuber showed it. I think I 

paid $8 for it plus postage. Here's the two other items I couldn't live without..

I just had to have the WTN&T chart on the right, love the colors on it, and

the magazine with the adorable Halloween pattern. I bought it just for that reason!

Okey doke! That's all I have. I think if I update more often with smaller posts, 

Blogger won't go haywire!

Merry Hart will stay in my qsnaps and will be finished. I'm rethinking my plans because

I'm getting a little stressed about my plans! Lol. I think from here on out, I'm just going to 

stitch on whatever catches my attention. 

Oh, I forgot! For Whine and WIP SAL on Stitch Maynia, I pulled out Dear House

by La D Da..

It's my whine piece because of all the dk blue. I have added the the blue to the 'you are

really' section. I'm nearing the halfway point on this but can only take the blue for so

long!

Alright, now I'm done. Take care and thanks for stopping in!

Happy Junia?

Yep, Junia, because I'm extending Maynia in June! I have lots to share and this post may run into 2 parts. I'm hoping not. Let's go..

Maynia kind of crashed and burned after the last post. Not really though because I joined an exchange and started stitching for that around the 20th. This is Hurrah! by Pineberry Lane Designs..

So everything I showed on the May 18th post was it for my Maynia. I got closer to a few finishes

which will be stitched in June. Here those are..

Christmas Garden, of course, I did get in more of that red flower bush there in the lower

left corner.

A Merry Hart in the picture above this^ will be the first I pick up once I get more stitches

in my exchange piece.

I have an FFO..

This is Cozy Cabin by LHN found in a JCS ornie mag. It's so tiny I felt I needed to add 

on the two fabrics. Still deciding on trim but I subscribe to the notion of less is more,

so we'll see.

From the Dept. of Reworked Finishes comes these 3..

For the skeleton piece, I cut most of the excess fabric off past the orange ribbon. I

like it better shortened. The middle piece was a long horizontal pillow which looked 

awful! So I took it apart and added the fabric behind it, to the top and bottom. Carol, 

this one will get the light orange cord treatment, one of the cords I won from you. Last but not

least is the la D Da freebie that was one of my very first finishes ever. When I 

discovered stitchy blogs, I learned that everything didn't need to be framed! I'm not 

sure how I'll finish it as both fabric and the homespun I used for the backing is fraying bad

with not much room for a quarter seam. All these refinished are sitting on top of their back 

fabric.

And I stashed too. Here is one..

and this beauty that I plan to start this month..

Girls in Blue Dresses by Merry Wind Farm. She has a blog and she's a kind of

newish designer of repro samplers. Beautiful samplers she's got going and 

sometimes she'll offer freebies. I don't have a link. I am missing some floss

like Buckeye Scarlet for the red and a few other DMCs. I bought the chart off

a stash selling FB site. Dangerous place I tell you! When I saw this chart, I jumped

on it.

I believe I'm done! One thing about using Blogger this way is I have to keep 

everything short and to the point! 

So there are my plans for June. I stopped stitching an entire week because 

of some worries and stress. Usually, I stitch to keep those at bay but not 

this time. After today, I'll be back to normal.

Take care everyone! Hope you get lots of stitching in:) 

Maynia updates

Hi all! I'm back for an update of my Maynia stitching. Picture heavy or as much as Blogger will let me! Here we go, in no particular order..

Witchy Kitty from a JCS Halloween issue, not sure which one though.

A Merry Hart by PSS. Good progress I think. I stitched in those parts of the house and

the border. I wasn't crazy about the color of the fabric but now I do. It's looking nice now.

Frosty Forest by CCW. I added a little, the parts of roof and the light blue on the front of the house.

Feliz Navidad, from a JCS Christmas preview issue. Last time, I had just a few rows of the

green.

I started Merry Winter and here is where I'm at now..

I love this! It's been in my stash for 5 years at least. I'm using WDW Kohl and 

I'm about to run out unfortunately. Off to 123stitch to order another skein. 

Beau Leggy in the Desert by Ink Circles. Not far to go, it ends at the bottom of the fence

post.

Last but not least, this finished WIP freebie by the Primitive Hare. On my own coffee and vanilla

dyed fabric. I just ironed it for its picture and boy, does it smell good!

That, ladies and gentlemen, is my Mania update. In the snaps is Christmas Garden/BBD. I will

show that off next time. I want to really get some progress on it so I'll stitch on it today and tomorrow.

Hope your weekend is going wonderful. Mine is, it's a bit cool outside but I'm 

going to a lecture in a couple hours on Virgil Earp, a brother to Wyatt Earp of 

Tombstone fame. Virgil was a lawman in my hometown for a little while in the late

1800s. I love history!

Take care, you all, and happy stitching! 

Stitching!

What else is new, right?! I'm a stitcher! Couple weeks ago, my daughter suggested we start beading. I'm talking about American Indian beaded items. I've made beaded hat bands, and small pouches before, many moons ago. I took a picture of one bedroom wall that is almost covered in hanging stitched ornaments and sent it to her. I just don't have room in my life for another craft! Right now, it's all about the stitching!

How are you all doing? As I listen to my umpteenth replay of Downton Abby in the background, I have Maynia stitching to show and a few FFOs to show along with two new charts I bought. Instead of showing all of my Maynia projects, I thought I would show what I've stitched up to today. Onward!

On May 1, I started the Witchy Kitty..

I have stitched all the black parts in that cute ornament.

On the 2nd, I picked A Merry Hart by PSS and just filled in the empty areas

of the house. Not much to show so no pic but I know I'll pick it back up. 

On the 3rd, I decided to start Land That I Love, a freebie by Erica Michaels..

And it's finished. Tiny little thing. I took a Mill Hill star button but I used a JABCo

star button instead and used Kreinik for sun rays. 

For today is Feliz Navidad, doing double duty for Maynia and a Cinco de Mayo SAL

project..

I am finding that it's hard to stitch on sparkly fabric but I'll power through. 

This is from a JCS Christmas ornie preview magazine. It's been a WIP for at 

least 4 years.

I also FFO'd a few things..

My wool appliqué of Carl. I named him Carl. I had just enough plaid fabric for the front.

For the back fabric though I chose the autumn leaves fabric..

Not very plaid-y or prim but it's okay. I just need to buy more fiberloft to stuff it. I 

added the x stitches along the inside border.

Next up is this La D Da finish from last year maybe?

I'm seeing a red splotch in the middle that isn't there in real life. I don't stuff long

finishes very well but I still like it. 

What's next for Maynia? These two..

I want Frosty Forest finished this year so I'll take 2 days to stitch.

And...

Beau Leggy In The Desert from Ink Circles. Not much more to go on him.

That is that! I'll be back next week or the next. I'm having fun with all this 

stitching for Maynia. I think when June arrives I'll have 2 WIP finishes, Beau

right above and the Merry Hart/PSS. At any rate, it's now public so I have to finish them!

See you next time!

Oops, forgot about stash! Just two LHN ornaments..

Adios! 

Hi everyone! This is the 2nd time attempting to make a blog post. I hope this one loads. I have all sorts of stuff to show so let's get going.

Up first is progress on WaBH or Winter at Beacon Hill..

and after..

This is the only WIP I've been working on. I've added quite a few things. More

exciting is the lighthouse about to be just to the right of the girl in yellow. I will

keep stitching until May 1.

I finished my Year of Starts 2019 item..and now I can't find a picture! It was the Shepherds

Bush ornament Do You Hear. I'll FFO and show it sometime later.

I had a few FFOs too. First is that little ornament freebie by Midnight Stitching..

Thanks Robin for knowing who the designer was. It turned out cute! These round 

ornaments are fun to put together. I believe it's called Snowman Christmas Quaker.

The back fabric is a red and white stripe.

This next one is a cube. It was completed except for a topping. I finally went out and

bought red and green see through ribbon (I'm sure there's a better name but I can't 

think of it right now!), made a now out of the two and it is now totally finished..

It is perfect. I owe it to Vonna who uses thus type of ribbon on her cubes. Another look..

I have light green hat pins holding the whole thing down. Just pretty!

Some of you may remember me talking about this old WIP I have and that I lost all

the floss and the graph. I went on eBay and found a replacement kit because it is

a kit originally. When I got it, I found that some of the floss were different colors, like

someone tried to match colors. I just said doggone it and it went into limbo. Fast

forward to last week, someone on Stitch Maynia has a 20 year old table runner WIP

and she also lost the graph and floss. Someone found the kit for her. I was inspired to

pull this out..

Season of The Heart, on Aida. It's just too cute to toss. I matched floss on the fabric to DMC and it's a go, for Maynia!

Last but not least is the giveaway I won at Carol/Stitching Dreams blog. How exciting! She made up

her handmade cording and I was lucky enough to win!

So pretty and the card is cute! Thanks Carol, I can't wait to find finished things to use your 

cording on!

That is it. Next week I will post about my Maynia stitchings. I've made some changes

to my plans. I can't believe it's almost May already!

Take care everyone! 

A Little of This, A Little of That

Greetings from a very windy central Arizona. I've got the mother of all headaches right now so I'll keep this short and sweet. I have WIP progress, of course, a new start, and new stash. Let's get started!

Since yesterday was the 19th, I started a new piece for the Year of Starts 2019 on Stitch Maynia..

Please excuse my shadow at the right. This little cutie is Do You Hear by Shepherd's

Bush in the 2012 JCS Christmas ornaments issue. The lyrics of my favorite carol, so I had to 

stitch it! On mystery linen, I'm using 1 over 2. I feel like I can finish this tomorrow so after 

posting, I'll get back to it.

My progress on my old WIPs is progressing! Here is Early Witches..

There is the Pickety Witch. I think she's the creepiest out of the 4 witches with her

pumpkin head. Next witch up will be Marie Leveau of New Orleans and the rest of

the borders and Early Witches will be done. Can't wait!

The next WIP I worked on is Winter at Beacon House or WaBH. No picture since all 

I stitched was a few Smyrna snowflakes, 3 more 1 over 1 birds, and a few lines of snow.

This thing is so big that a few stitches just don't look like much. I also took a week off

from stitching to read one of the Outlander novels and that was nice.

I picked up some stash..

Paper Snowflakes and Here A Peep by WTN&T, and Fancey Blackett Tea for Two by 

Pineberry Lane. I love Fancey Blackett and have 2 stitched pieces in my 

portfolio. I also bought two pieces of fabric that should arrive today.

I had a tiny finish too but I don't remember the name..

I know some of you might recognize this. It's a freebie that's been in my freebie stash

for quite awhile. Cute little snowman peeking through. I used that piece of fabric it's on

just to get rid of it!

Well, that was fast! I have Maynia plans for this year so I'll be back at the end of

this month to show you what I'm doing. I'll have 10 new starts and work on 

9 WIPs. Some of those WIPs are near finished so I'm excited for that. 

Nothing else going on in my life right now. I have to make a quick trip

into Phoenix this coming Tuesday and I'm definitely going to TRY to stop in at the Attic

 Needleworks and have a look see! I know, dangerous! If I buy anything it'll be a piece of 

fabric, a fat quarter. My daughter is my chauffeur so she might

'accidentally' drive right past the exit! I'll keep my eyes peeled!

Take care everyone! Thanks for stopping by:)