Looking for Spring?

I am really getting tired of winter and am looking for spring.  Spring reminds of flowers and gnomes.....

I stitched these two some time ago, and framed them last summer, but I don't think I ever showed them to you.

The first one is by Sue Hillis.....

The second is by Hinzeit.   I have one more gnome piece to stitch before I hang them up, but there just aren't enough hours in the day to get all the stitching done that I want....

Happy Valentine's Day

I didn't do any special stitching for Valentine's Day this year, but did stitchup this little ornament for an exchange a few years ago.  I should stitch it up for myself someday.....but there is so much to stitch and so little time....

Happy Easter!

This is a finish from a few years ago. It is Happy Easter by Sue Hillis, stitched on a white evenweave with DMC and Whisper floss.

Stay Warm!

Currently the temperature is -6 degrees! And according to weather.com it feels like -27 out there! It's cold!

Once it gets that cold, I know I am cold, and telling me how cold it actually is, doesn't really help me much, it just makes me cranky!

After work today, I will be back to more model stitching. So today, I am showing you another finish from a few years ago, Warm Winter Wishes by Sue Hillis. It is done on a 28 count linen, kind of a bone color, with DMC floss.

Stay warm!

It's Winter

Since I can't show you what I am stitching and finishing at the moment, I thought I would show you a finish from a few years ago: It's Winter by Sue Hillis, done on some mystery linen with DMC floss.

Stay warm!

Another Christmas Greeting!

Another Christmas piece that I stitched a few years ago. I hope you all have the merriest Christmas!

Merry, Merry Christmas!

With this stitched piece, I wish you the happiest of holidays!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers!

Today's photo is of a finish from a few years ago, and is called Happy Thanksgiving by Sue Hillis. The was the very first time I ever used something other than DMC and I remember being very confused. The leaves on the tree are done with Caron Watercolors Wild Fire. I remember wondering how just one color floss could produce such colorful leaves on the tree, but once I found the floss, I saw how highly variegated it is. It was such fun to stitch with, I couldn't wait to use variegated floss again.

Blessings of the season

As we near Thanksgiving, I thought I would post a finish from a few years ago. This one is called Harvest Blessing, by Sue Hillis. It was probably the third or fourth Sue Hillis design I stitched, and also the third or fourth piece on linen/evenweave. This was the second time I had ever used a specialty fibre. The border and lettering are all done in Wildflowers Fiesta, by Caron. It is a highly varigated cotton, single strand, very much like a perle cotton. I really enjoyed working with it, and it has become my favorite fibre!

Happy Halloween!

In honor of Halloween, I am posting a finish from the summer of 2006. Sue Hillis Designs Black Hat Society, stitched on a 28 count purple linen of some sort with DMC floss.

The chart came with the button for the hat, but I purchased a few more buttons to decorate the black frame.

I have a few more "witchy" type stitching charts, and hope to hang all of them in my new stitching room, when the person living in the room vacates the premise.

The Day Before Halloween

This is a piece I stitched a few years ago, called Bad Tendril Day by Viv Bales. It was a free chart, probably one of the first few of her designs.

I don't know why it appealed to me, but I thought it was just too cute to pass up. It used to hang on my office door every year before Halloween, this year it is just displayed at home.

Halloween Stitching

I am not fond of Halloween. I really don't like it and don't decorate for it, but there are some Halloween designs that I am just drawn too, and feel the need to stitch.

This is the first Halloween design I ever stitched. I did this one a few years ago (2004 or 2005) and I actually stitched it twice, once for my nephews and once for me.

The design is called Jeepers Creepers, by Sue Hillis. I used DMC floss, but I don't remember what fabric I used.

My Favorite Ornament

Riona commented that the Spool Trees Ornaments were her favorite Sue Hillis Ornaments to stitch. While I agree that they are fun to stitch, my all-time favorite Sue Hillis Ornament is the Victorian Christmas Tree. It was in the Just Cross Stitch Ornament Edition a number of years ago, and I think I made and given away at least 18 of these in the past few years.

Happy 4th of July!!

I stitched this one a few years ago (in June of 2005), and since I didn't get around to doing a patriotic piece this year, I thought I would post it today. The piece is called Life and Liberty, designed by Sue Hillis. I stitched it on a neutral, dark beige colored 28 count evenweave fabric, don't remember the name of the color or fabric. It was stitched with DMC floss.