Happy happy

Hi all! I have another finish! Carol called it. She thought I would finish it soon and she was right!

It is very warm right now. I've been chugging ice water every day. The weather service has the humidity rising and storms for Tuesday. Yay! I can't imagine the southwest not having our monsoons, we would just dry up and blow away. Here's another fire near me, about 17 miles south. This one was started by a lightning strike..

It's that color because of the sunset. Last I heard it was about 8,000 acres. Firefighters 

are out on the fire but it's not over just yet. So say a prayer for their safety, for everyone

on this fire.

Speaking of finish, here it is..Happy Owlidays..

On a PTP fabric, 32ct using DMC. Isn't it cute? I just finished like 30 minutes ago.

I almost left off the words and put more gifts and snowflakes but I'm glad I didn't. A nice 

wintry stitch in these 90+ degrees.

I'm seeing almost the whole US in a heat wave and some with lots of humidity. Ugh.

Hope you're all keeping cool.

We have a winner for the JCS magazine up for grabs and that would be 

Linda/Stitching with my Furbabies. Congrats Linda! Once again I have

lost your address so email me at azcampis@yahoo.com and I'll get it out to you.

I stashed a little..

That smaller design on the chart at left will be part of my exchange plans. The 

Postcards design at right I wanted since I stitched up a Halloween postcard couple 

years ago and had fun.

Barb/Wicked Stitcher mentioned wanting to stitch Halloween. Me too Barb! My exchange 

project should scratch that itch for me. I'm just waiting until the end of of July to find out

who my partner will be.

Let's have a contest!

Take a look at my finish and all the snowflakes. Pick one (1) snowflake that you think is

my favorite. I do have a favorite. Let me know the area it is found. For the two big

snowflakes, you would say the one at left or right. The smaller ones you would say for

example: the snowflake near the hanging bird house and hanging star. If several people

pick my favorite, I will draw names. You must be a follower, leave your pick in the

comments, open to overseas followers, and you must have a working email and be 

sure to leave that with your guess. I'l send the winner a little something! Good luck to all!

Contest ends a week from today the 28th.

Okey doke. I have been staying in this weekend and watching movies from the

library. Today it's a Pirates of the Caribbean marathon. Yesterday though I watched

Titanic for the first time! I must say it had me crying at the end. I wasn't sure

what to make of it at first but I enjoyed it.

Alrighty. Just a small post this time. I think Owlidays is my 18th finish for the year!

Take care everyone and keep cool! See you next time.

Oops, Part 2

I forgot to show my exchange gift!

It's a needle rest! That's what my partner called it. Here's another pic..

The bee design is from Lizzie Kate. It almost resembles a bee with the ribbon as wings.

The wooden piece is open at the top and she mounted the design onto it and 

ruched tiny black ribbon around it. 

It's a great piece.

Be sure to see the new post below this one. Bye!

Mindless Stitching

Hi all! Hope you had a wonderful 4th of July, those of you who celebrate. Mine was low-key, just the way I like it! I think our monsoon season has begun, yay. The humidity has been up and earlier today we had a thunderstorm roll through, raining for a couple of hours. I was out during errands and got pretty drenched. Us Arizonans wait for our rains with anticipation!

I have progress to show, new stash, plans, and my exchange gift. No FFO's, haven't been in the mood!

After I finished The Merry Hart by PSS, I had to pull out Salem Hornbook because I enjoyed stitching on a PSS. Here's the before..

and the after..

Sorry for the wrinkles. Pretty good progress. I stitched on this for a good while and

then got bored! So it's back in its project bag. I just have that whole bottom

portion to stitch. So I dove into my bag of WIPs waiting for any of them to give

me a signal and this one was it..

This is a Maynia start two years ago. Happy Owlidays that came from one 

of those cross stitch Christmas books by Craftways. Here's the before..

and after..

The fabric might be PTP legacy or wren, not sure. It's a cutie. It's a bit strange

going from 1 over 2 to 2 over 2, always feels like it's so bulky. But

then I feel that way going from a high count fabric to a lower one. The PTP is 32ct.

Anyway, it's not a very big design. From that big snowflake to the gray line at 

the bottom is how high it is. I will stay with this one until I get bored or 

finish!

I found this latest magazine at Joanne's..

Here are 4 designs that I like..

See the Small Treasures design on the box below the magazine? I'm joining

Dixiesamplar's Haunted Harvest Exchange this year as usual. Sign ups are

this Monday and deadline is the 29th. I'm stitching that design but going to stick the word Scary between Small and Treasures and fill it with some small stitched items like a scissor fob, that 

small pincushion that is 3 pictures up, and a few other things. That's my plan but it depends 

on who my partner will be. I'm a Halloween fanatic and not every one is. We'll see.

Anyone who wants to join, go to Dixiesamplar's Exchange Group at FB. 

Giveaway! Yes, this magazine extra..

 

I will draw

 names a week from today if more than 1 person wants it.

There are some really nice projects in this issue. Be a follower, comment that you would 

like to have it. Sorry I can only mail in the U.S.

Alrighty, this will have to be it. Blogger is going nuts!

Hope your weekend is going well and that you're able to stitch!

Take care!

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!