Happy Turkey Day! Be Ye Grateful

Design - "Tall Turkey" (kit)

Designer - Heart in Hand

Fabric - 32 count Tobacco linen

Started - 22 November 2001

Completed - 25 November 2001

From the Cross Stitch Archives - Give Thanks

Design - "Give Thanks"

Designer - Bent Creek

Chart - "Mighty Thankful"

Fabric - 28 count R & R Cape Codder Blend linen

Started - 29 September 2004

Completed- 1 October 2004

From the Cross Stitch Archives - Autumn

Happy Thanksgiving Week!

Design - "Autumn"

Chart - "Autumn Samplers" #66

Designer - The Prairie Schooler

Fabric - 32 count Wichelt Lambswool linen

Started - 10 November 1997

Completed - 25 December 1997

Valdani Fibers

Valdini fibers are hard to find - thank goodness for Google and the internet!  I have a Stone and Threads chart that uses these and I look forward to working with them.  

Snow - Kitted Up

Kitted up "Snow" a design by Val's Stitchin' Stuff.

I am using Stormy Grey Jobelan - really a lovely color - it mirrors the colors of a "snow sky" perfectly.    

Snowman - A Finish

Design - "Snowman" 

Designer - Twisted Threads

Chart - "Winter Trio"

Fibers - WDS and GAST as charted 

Fabric - 32 Count Dirty linen - one thread of floss over two threads of linen

Started - 16 November 2009

Finished - 21 November 2009

New Fabrics - Adding to My Stash

I have plans, plans and more plans...thus the mondo fabric purchase which wended its way to my doorstep yesterday.  I've spent the past week or so flipping through past issues of  the "Just Cross Stitch" ornament issues.  To say I was inspired...crazed...in over my head would be an understatment!  

There is no way that I will get everything done before Christmas, but even so I can admire all the colors:

Hog Wild Blue, Fitzgerald Red, Sheep's Straw, Stormy Grey, Ice Blue, Cafe Kona, Moss Green, Espresso, Summer Khaki, Iced Cappuccino, Rue Green, Lambswool, 18th Century Brown, and Carol's Buttercrunch.

There is poetry in the names!  

Snowman - Progress

Here's what I've managed to stitch so far...I think it might get tiresome stitching row after row after row of the snow guy!

Brown Paper Packages

Look what arrived in the mail today!  Sometimes the prettiest things do come in "Brown Paper Packages". This line of fibers is new to me - colors are lush and skeins are generous!  I have a "Ewe and Eye and Friends" chart which will use these lovelies!

Snowman - A Start

Kitted up "Snowman" from "Winter Trio" by Twisted Threads.

I am stitching on 32 count Dirty Belfast - one strand of floss over two linen threads.