English Cottage

At times, I can be a sneaky devil. ;-)

My in-laws left town right before our county fair began. I have a key to their house. I decided that I was going to enter Miss Hathaway's Garden in the fair. I stitched this for my mother-in-law. On my way to the fairgrounds with 2 other pieces I was going to enter, I stopped by my in-law's and "borrowed" the English cottage picture.

My results from the items I showed:

• A blue ribbon and best of section for the crocheted doily
• A blue ribbon for the cross stitch sampler I designed
• A blue ribbon, best of section and first place rosette for Miss Hathaway's Garden

Last night, I returned the cottage picture to my in-law's house. This time, I really felt like a burglar because the park they are in only had 1 or 2 houses with lights still on! ;-)

When I re-hung the picture, I left the ribbons hanging on it. Ron and I are waiting to see how long it takes for either of my in-laws to notice!

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Wild Menagerie update

Well, I've finished pages 2-9 on Wild Menagerie. That leaves 4 pages to go. Page 10 is almost a full page of stitching but the rest of the pages are considerably less.

Here's a picture of my progress thru page 9:

I have rolled the scroll frames and made a few stitches on page 10.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Lions, Tigers and Bears, oh my!

Ok, my WIP doesn't have any bears. There is a tiger and a lion though.

Saturday night, I finished a page in the pattern for my Wild Menagerie WIP. I had already made working copies of the next 2 pages (I highlight my progress and destroy the copy).

When I started to double check the area for the next page, I saw a nose on the pattern that wasn't fitting in properly. I had to sit there and stare at it for about 5 minutes before I realized that I had already stitched that page! It was great to realize that I had 1 more page done than I had thought!

That means that I have pages 9-13 left to stitch. I made some progress on page 9 last night but didn't bother to take a picture.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

New WIP

Well, now that I've finished the Rune Sampler, one of my UFOs is now a WIP. The project getting my attention now is Wild Menagerie. Here is a current picture:

The reason that it's sideways, is because that's how I'm stitching it. The material wouldn't fit horizontally on any of my scroll frames, so I rotated the fabric and the pattern 90°.

You can't see it because it's wrapped around the top scroll frame, but I have the tiger completely done. As you can see, I'm making good progress on the lion. The confetti stitching at the bottom of the photo will eventually be a leopard.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Rune Sampler finished!

Yeah!! I finished the Rune Sampler on Wednesday night. Here's a picture:

I've already picked out the mat that I'm going to use when I frame it. Now I'm just waiting for some frame samples to arrive so that I can pick out the perfect frame.

This project was started on 1-1-2010, so it took me 8 months to stitch. There were other projects that I worked on since the first of the year, so really, not a long time to do this one.

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Rune Sampler progress

Well, I have managed to do some cross stitching between working on quilts. Here is my latest progress picture for the Rune Sampler.




Hopefully, I can get this done in time to enter in this year's county fair! I guess I'd better get to stitching on it more!

Happy Stitching!

Stacy

Another Quilt Top

The quilting bug has bitten me hard! Lately, all I've wanted to do is work on quilts.

Linda from the Stashbuilders yahoo group, posted a photo of her One Block Wonder quilt to that list and it inspired me to try one myself. I just finished adding the borders last night.

Here's the fabric I used:

and here is the quilt top:

I may appliqué some of the original fabric onto the borders. I haven't made up my mind yet. I know that as soon as I get a little extra money, I'm going to have to rent time on a quilting machine...the finished tops are literally piling up! This one makes six that need to be quilted!

Happy Stitching!

Stacy