More Winter Stitching!

I want to share my recent stitching finish with you..........this is Winter Wonderland by Little House Needleworks. I started it on Jan 1st. Have had a few interruptions in between, but made up my mind that I would finish it this week. I have many charts by Little House and seem to be drawn to stitch on them this yr so be prepared, you will see more!

The next picture is of the block I received at my stitch group exchange this week. It's by Val's Stuff, isn't it cute?

Valentine Cookies!

Since I featured Kelsey in my last post, I thought I would spotlight her sister Addie in this one. She was out of school recently for parent-teacher conferences so we had her for the day. The idea of making cookies mushroomed into making Valentine Cookies! So we made the dough and later in the day rolled them out and she cut out the cookies. Since this was before the Super Bowl, she wanted to cut out football helmet cookies for her dad too. Here she is decorating the cookies and the final result.

Making Pizza with Papa!

Last week Kelsey and Papa made pizza for lunch! She loved the idea of making her own pizza! Of course it was a cheese pizza! Here she is at work!

Stitching!

My weekly stitch group does a block exchange. Several years ago we stitched monthly blocks. Last year we decided to stitch 4 per year and it worked out great. Our first block exchange this year was going to be today, but we didn't meet because of icy streets. We'll exchange next week, but thought I'd share a pic of my block now. It's a heart design by De Selby. While searching for the "right" design, I started going thru old magazines in my stash.....and I found this heart with several other designs called Damask Ornaments in the June 2007 issue of The Cross Stitcher Magazine. I hope my exchange partner likes it!

The next stitched project is my RR from last year. There were 6 of us in the RR. We stitched the Quaker Style Friendship Sampler by Samplers and Such. I chose for my sampler a handdyed linen by Lakeside Linens (sorry, I can't remember the name!) and used CC Bing Cherry floss. I stitched the middle bottom section myself as there was a postal strike in England when my sampler was to go there. I'm very pleased with how my sampler turned out and am anxious to get it framed. Isn't it pretty?

One Month Down!

Goodness, one month is gone already in 2010! Where did it go? We celebrated our DGD Addie's 8th Birthday in January, attended a family wedding and had lots of snow to shovel! That kept my DH busy!

As far as my stitching, my first finish this year was Little House Needlework's Fa La La. It's the first ornament in her series. I made a few changes which is very unusual for me. I changed the lettering to red, changed a coat to blue and backstitched the girls' mouths instead of making French knots. I think it's a very sweet design.


I also stitched a green block for the Stitcher's Time Out exchange, and picked a Prairie Schooler shamrock design for it.


I will have more finishes to post soon so stay tuned, stay well
and keep on stitching!

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year 2010!

Isn't that an unbelievable date?? It sounds so futuristic!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. I meant to post at Christmas and on New Year's Day, but life got in the way! And Snow!

We had our family Christmas on the 26th as our DD and family who live near Liberty were snowed in by big drifts on C-mas Day. We had a great time that Sat and The grandkids so enjoyed being together.

We've gotten so much snow, quite unusual for us. WDH has been kept busy shoveling the driveway!

The pictures below are of more C-mas stitching. The Little House Home for the Holidays ornaments were for our DDs and their families. I like the flat ornament finish and will definitely be using it more in the future.

Next is a design by The Sampler Girl. I stitched this for my friend Janet. The quote is from Mansfield Park by Jane Austen. And the heart is my present from Janet, a pretty Homespun Elegance design. Isn't it sweet? Love the finish on it.


I wish all of you many blessings this coming year!

More Stitching Pictures!

As you can tell, I'm still a novice at this blogging thing........how to post pictures and where to put my writing. Hopefully it will all come sometime, and I hope you will bear with me.

I attempted two new finishes this holiday season. The bell design is by Stacy Nash from last year's C-mas book, A Simply Early Christmas. I stitched this for a dear friend and I'm quite pleased with the result. She stitched the framed piece for me, isn't it lovely?

The JBW tree was for my stitch group exchange. I hadn't tried making a flat ornament before, but found it wasn't too difficult. I'm going to use it on a couple more ornament finishings this week, but I won't show them until after Christmas as they are gifts. The last picture is the stitch group ornament I received. It's very sweet and I love the braided hanger!