Still Rolling...

I was going to be more diligent in posting and already it has been 2 weeks since the last one. I would rather post 1 or 2 items as it is less time consuming...I would rather spend most of my time STITCHING!!!

I have enjoyed seeing all of these "Challenge" projects get started the past 15 days. I had to chuckle earlier, when I say a post titled "And On the 16th Day I Shall Rest". LOL!

Before I went to Joan's last weekend for our retreat, I completed my first ornament for next Christmas.

"Tiny Tidings XIV"
Lizzie Kate
28 ct. remnant
DMC as charted
Date Stitching Started: 1/3/2011
Date Stitching Finished: 1/3/2011
Date Finished Completely: 1/6/2011

Isn't this just too cute? I used a larger bead on the edge of this one. I wanted it to have some ooomphf! I just love you it turned out. I will be making several of this one...I already know who will be getting one next Christmas!

We had a very wonderful and relaxing retreat. All of the girls were able to come during the 3 days. It was great to get together. I did stitch a Pinkeep Drum but have not done the finishing yet. I taught Joan's youngest daughter how to knit and ended up knitting a headband that she had wanted as it was a little advanced for a beginning project. She caught on very fast and made 2 scarves in 2 days. She was alot of fun!

Joan made me a pouch for the LHN Winter Wonderland. Last fall there was a quilt shop hop up here and she got some special fabric made for Minnesota that is used on the inside.



So, this past week I dug out my pattern and completed this pouch.

"Winter Wonderland"
Little House Needleworks
28 ct. Natural linen
DMC as charted
plus DMC #161, 433 and 935…3 strands.
Date Stitching Started: 1/14/2011
Date Stitching Finished: 1/15/2011
Date Finished Completely: 1/15/2011

When I was getting ready to go to Joan's house, I unearthed an old project that I did 10 years ago. It is a memory catcher. You probably remember these from your younger days. I did mine like a family tree.

This is the top of it. It has our wedding information on it.


When you open up this first layer, you see my husband's parent and my parents with their birth and death years. Mine is all finished now as I added the death years for my parents and my husband's mother.


When you open it up again, which makes it flat, the corners contain our grandparents. In the center, I put our birthdates, my son's info and a special verse about a son.

We did this as a group project and it was ALOT of work. I think the designer was Mary Vanderbee? Not sure. I love it but would never do another one.


I made a little something to thank Joan for the wonderful weekend at her house. She received it yesterday.

"Friendship Sampler"
Goode Huswife
DMC as charted
Date Stitching Started: 1/11/2011
Date Stitching Finished: 1/13/2011
Date Finished Completely: 1/13/2011

I had to tweak this a little bit to get our initials in it. Plus, I added the buttons, which were from my mom's stash.


Well, I think that is it for now. Today is more football and stitching! Love it.

Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

JillMN

A Summer Ornament

I just heard from Maggee that she received the Summer Ornament I sent her for the All Seasons Ornament exchange.

I stitched Lizzie Kate's Summer Crazy "Life's A Picnic". It is stitched on 28ct. celery/white Graziano with DMC Floss. I added some beads for the seads on the strawberries and the watermelon.


I just love stitching on this Graziano. It is so much fun!

I hope everyone is having a great weekend!

More Exchanges

Yesterday I saw that Lisa received my Winter ornament for the ASOE Ornament Exchange. I stitched "Winter Globe" by gazette94. It is stitched on 36ct. white linen with DMC floss, GAST and DMC white petite Mill Hill beads. It is finished with DMC perle cotton #12 white. Okay, I wish I would have noticed that big stain on the quilt when I was taking the picture--DUH!



In yesterday's mail, I received my fob for the Tiny Treasure Exchange. It was from Sabine in Belgium. There are 2 Sabine's on this exchange blog so I'm not sure which one it is.


Sabine didn't give me any details on the fob but it is gorgeous! It is stitched over 1 with what looks like 3 different overdyed threads. It is so delicate looking. I love it! Thank you Sabine.

I am sloooooowly getting better after falling the other day. I did go to work today but only lasted 2 hours. I just could not sit in the chair comfortably. We did not have much work anyway, so it was all good. I'm hoping with the weekend and all, I will be much, much better come Monday.

I am planning on going to my Friday Night Stitch Fix at my BFF, Joan's. I will be delivering my special gift I made this week. I will share tomorrow.

Happy Stitching! :)

Harvest Ornament from Gaby

Look what the mailman brought me! It's my Harvest Exchange ornament from Gaby from the All Seasons Ornament Exchange.



Gaby says it is a German design and that there is a second girl which looks similar. She said if I want the other one we could do another exchange next year. I think I will have to take her up on that. I just love it! And since I am mostly German, it has that much more meaning to me. Thank you so much Gaby!

Harvest Time for Gaby

I participated in the Harvest Ornament exchange over on the All Seasons Ornament Exchange blog. Gaby was my partner and she finally received my ornament today.

I stitched a design by Erica Michaels called "Autumn Harvest Square". It is stitched on 27ct Northern Cross Natural Linen with Sampler Threads and Weeks Threads. Since there were eyelets in the corner of the design, I put them on the back piece too and attached wire for the hanger.


I hope Gaby liked it. I think it turned out pretty cute!

Exchanges Delivered

I heard from Stephanie today who received her Fair Square Autumn Exchange squares that I sent to her. The design I stitched, is from BrightNeedle "Season Petites".


I was surprised, it only took 1 week for these to get to the UK.

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I also heard from Elizabeth today. She received her Halloween ornament for the All Seasons Ornament Exchange. Unfortunately, this was my second one that I sent to Elizabeth. The first is MIA. I was pretty much told by the post office that it just disappeared.


The design I stitched is by Erica Michaels, called "A Slice of Jack". I have had this pattern for a very long time and didn't have a picture. So it was kind of fun to stitch this up and see its progress.

I had to borrow Elizabeth's pic as I forgot to take one of my own.