Saturday, January 10, 2015

JANUARY 2015

It is turning out to be bitter cold here this month--
but I am stitching away--
started this cross stitch--
joined a sal with Jenny--
and used her first stitchery on a towel--
will send this to my Valentine swap parnter--
Bunny Hill is doing a bom with hearts this year--
I made two of them and one will go to Diane at Lavender Hearts cause she had a January birthday--
Jan 21--even, same as my mom's--
another bom I have joined--
this month we had 2 blocks to applique--
got the snow garland and the star done--
the rest of the details on these are really buttons--
so need to wait until it is quilted to finish them--
got the saying all embroidered for Shell's pattern of the month--

and designed this quilt top with fabric that I got a couple years ago--
here is the back for it-


And this counted cross stitch is finished--
working on another snowmen--
and the silk thread came in to start this one--
a finishe--
the bunny has a little button for his tail--how cute!!!
Got this months wool project from Shell's site finished--
the top one went to my Valentine swap partner--Kim--
and the bottom one went to my new friend Diane-
she also got the second snowman heart this month--
a bom from Val Laird is done--
just need to add the key charm when I get one--
the color for Jan is blue and these 4 will go into that quilt--
but also did some other ones--




took 4 designs off a fabric piece and appliqued them unto fabric--
then--
Cute--
finished off 2 more ufo's--
Have a bit more done on this one--the tree is nearly finished--
a large snowman stitchery from last year or before got finished off into a wall hanging--
this new pillow has a stitchery top that was a gift pattern and was stitched a while ago--
and the fabric was a gift from Alice I believe at some time--
and another stitchery is finished into a pillow--
a gift from Shell some time ago and the stitchery has been done for a couple years--
Shell also sent the fabric that I used on the pillow--
and another little stitchery that I did a couple years ago from Shell is finished--
And another knitted shawl is finished --
even blocked--
I got 2 large boxes of late Christmas gifts this month--one from Lola and one from Alice--
thanks gals!!!
and I signed up to do this wool wall hanging through Sues shop--
each one comes with the wool--
and I got this far on this stitchery--
even had another row around it--but took that off--
still not totally happy!!!????

and weather wise--
it has been one very bitter cold month--
most days not even getting over 32--
and right now on this first day of Feb--it is snowing and they say we might get a foot this time--
and then bitter bitter cold for the next week!!!!!

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

December 2014

Think it was a busy month--
Got this new wall hanging all stitched, hand quilted and hung--
Mailed out lots of packages to friends and blog friends--
and did this early like Dec2--
another wall hanging being quilted--
knitted lots of these little stockings for gifts--
though only 3 were with designs--that I have kept for now!!!
bought myself a new truck!!!!
and finished and hung--
new felt pillow --
Now I have a cute display of my trucks--
and once again--changed this scene--
it it now wrapped around my cake boards--
Made 4 felt tag tree ornaments--
patterns by Shell at Raspberry rabbit--


This years tree--
it has been 3 years since I did a tree--
this is a new one I got at walmart for $20--
it was perfect and miss gracie did not bother it!!!
and I decorated 2 small trees that I had--
and these pillows were under the tree for awhile-
til presents started coming in!!!
and I got this panel all hand quilted and hung up--
a new sal that I did not get to do until after chmas--
but the 12 blocks of only 3 1/2 inches are now done--
and note--that starting with block one--the deer--
each block has more and more pieces until the last block of 12!!
been working on counted cross stitching since Chmas--
got this one finished--

And I got 2 wip counted cross stitches finished--
this one had only the second 'zip' stitched on it --
and I was sure that I would never get it done--
but I did--was 11:30pm on Dec 31 when finished!!!!

think there was one row done and maybe another started on this--
but now--we are done--
just need to frame these two--
they where started back in 2010 or so!!!
Happy new year--


Sunday, November 23, 2014

NOVEMBER 2014

Lots of charity knitting--


And I did get some gifts made--

Found this pattern in a 2013 magazine-
and I made 6 of them--
and yes--one is for me!!!

and I got addicted to making these--
first there was 2--
then there was 8--
and then there was 15!!!!
so easy to make--
But not these--
2 was the limit on these!!!

started 6 mug rugs--

the rest of the knitting--




This brings the total of Oct and Nov to--
15 sets of hats and mittens-
5 sets of mittens-
2 sets of hats and fingerless mittens-
1 set of fingerless mittens--
so that was alot of  knitting!!!

Some more crafts
lots of little gifty items--
got all 6 of these mug rugs made and hand quilted--
and made 3 snow people tote bags--
So I had a busy month--
am also working on hand quilting a wall hanging from the same Santa panel as the mug rugs--