Sunday's Stitchy Update...

Well here it is Sunday again! 

Has not been a lot of stitching this week... I love the heat but I couldn't bring myself to turn on my ott lite so I could stitch.  We have had three or four days of temperatures of over 100 and I don't have air so we tried not to add anymore heat to the house than we had to!

I still managed to get in some stitching though...

This week I had a new start

The U.S. Flag from Kincavel Krosses

 which was a one day project so I also FINISHED it!

 This week's rotation was EMS Flowers of the Month

which I started as a SAL with one of my Yahoo groups. 

  

Some of the stitchers finished while others

(like me) are taking our time with this!

  

This is the May flower...finally finished!

Since I stitched so little this week I decided to keep

this project out and start the June flower this week.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching,

see ya next week with another update!

Sunday's Stitchy Update...

It is time for the weekly Sunday Stitchy update - even though it is a day late ;)

I really wanted to finish the border on this piece before I posted and I finally finished it this morning.  This piece was not in my rotation but it was a UFO that was SCREAMING my name so I pulled it out.

This is Rules For Life from Kincavel Krosses.

Next up in the rotation is Rose of Sharon which I am starting over on a new piece of fabric.

Thanks for taking a peek at my stitching

see ya next week with another update!

Hello there...

Well…I have been meaning to update this blog but it always seems as though something else always takes up my time and I tell myself that I will do it next week and then next week I say the same thing again! I am sure you guys know that story; there are NEVER enough hours in the day to do everything!

The weather here is CRAZY! We are having a mild winter so far (shhh…) But I am sure that the cold will be here before we know it. So far we have only had a small dusting of snow and that is MORE than fine with me. I can’t stand the snow and will pick the cold over the snow any day.

Though to get in the Christmas spirit we took Jacob and his list to see Santa. Here they are having a heart-to-heart about his list!

Also my daughter and I went to an ornament making class where we learned how to make a scrap fabric ornament. I love how it turned out and it was WAY EASIER to make than it looks.

And I received a fabulous package from my Christmas Sock Exchange partner, Mary Ann! :) I got lots of goodies ~ see…

Thank you Mary Ann!!

I am still stitching away on my EMS Flowers of the Month. I am currently working on May. Here is a picture of my progress

These are getting finished WAY slower than I planned!

I am also still working on the Rules of Life – getting close to the end! FINALLY! Just have to finish the border. I would love to have this finished by the end of the year and so I am working on it everyday trying to get done. Here is what it looks like now:

I have joined a Facebook group called CrossStitchCrazy2012 and in this group we selected 15 projects that we want to stitch in 2012. They could be new projects or WIPs or UFOs. So I entered 12 new projects and 2 WIPs and 1 UFO. The ones I PLAN on stitching are in the slideshow on the left side of your screen if you would like to take a peek. Don’t think I will get them ALL finished in 2012 – but a couple of them have a chance!

That coincided very nicely with the Yahoo group I am a member of Stitching_Sisters as we are also having a 2012 Stitching Challenge! This group challenge for new projects is to start 12 new projects in the first 12 days of 2012 and to see how many we can complete but the end of the year. There is also a UFO challenge for the Stitching_Sisters group which I entered three projects

So I got to use the same projects for each group. These groups are simply meant for motivation but I think on the Yahoo group there may be a drawing between the ones who finish for a small prize of some kind in both categories! Feel free to come and check out the Yahoo group…we would love to have some new members join us in these challenges,

I CAN’T WAIT TO START MY 2012 STITCHING!

Long Awaited Update! :)

WOW ~ It has been a while! Lots of stuff has been going on; hope I can remember all of it or at least some of it! :)

First of all my wonderful grandson Jacob graduated from preschool! It was a wonderful day and we were ALL SO PROUD of him. He gave a small speech and he did so well. We went out for pizza to celebrate. Here he is all dressed up in his cap and gown looking so scholarly!

My poor laptop crashed! We tried and tried to get it back up and running with no luck. I did manage to save all my pictures (I had over 2,400) on my hard drive and the million XS freebies I have collected from all over the web! Have to remember to do a backup more often. Unfortunalty I did NOT get to save my Favorites! It was my internet that was messed up ~ think I may have had a virus of some kind. BUT think of all the new places I can explore while looking for the favorites I had before!!

Here in Chicagoland we are having a HOT and RAINY summer...I LOVE the HOT part though I am not to crazy about the wet part. We have set a new record for rainfall :(

I have been STITCHING ...I finished stitching L*K's ABCs of Parenting, framed it and gave it as a gift. Here it is ~

My daughter and I have found a couple of local groups where we can go sit and stitch with other people every other week. She brings along her knitting and I take my XS. When I am there I stitch my EMS Flowers of the Month SAL.

Meanwhile at home I started a new project. It is called the Rules of Life and it can be seen of the Kincavel Krosses website. I am doing my on 18 count with variegated purple DMC 102 ~ this is how far I got today.

But before I stitched today I went to PAINT POTTERY!! :) What fun. My daughter heard about this place not to far from us called Art 4 Soul and we had been wanting to try it. Well...we got a GroupOn deal for this so we decided to give it a try. We weren't really sure what we were doing but we found something for our "first" project and got busy. I painted this bowl...in two different shades of purple (of course). After you paint it you leave it there so they can "cook" it and we go back next week to pick it up. Here is what mine looked like when I was finished painting it. Can't wait to see it next week because the colors will change after it goes in the kiln.

Well back to stitching now...

Thanks for stopping by and hopefully it won't be so long between posts next time!