Ahh Snow - A Start

Finished up "Before the Trip", so now have started

"Ahh Snow". 

Looks to be a good traveling piece - large easy blocks of color to stitch.

Just Before the Trip - A Finish!

Design - Just Before the Trip

Designer - Mosey 'N Me

Chart - Just Cross Stitch Magazine 2007 Ornament Issue

Fabric - 32 count Ice Blue linen

Started - 25 December 2009

Completed - 30 December 2009

Accidentially left this finished piece at my hotel in Valencia, CA!  
Housekeeping found it and mailed it back to me - yea!!! 

From the Cross Stitch Archives

Design - Patchwork Cats

Designer - Barrick Samplers

Fabric - 32 count Muffin linen

Started - 17 May 1998

Completed - 20 May 1998

Just Before the Trip - Progress

I love the way this is turning out!

Spring Must Be Right Around the Corner

Signs of Spring 2010!

The Seed Catalogues are beginning to come!

Just Before the Trip

I could not resist this cutie!  Began "Just Before the Trip" on Christmas Day.
I hope to finish it before the end of the year.

Merry Christmas - Be Merry!

Design - "Be Merry"

Designer - Val's Stuff

Magazine - Just Cross Stitch 2009 Ornament Issue

Fabric - unknown blue 32 count linen

Started - 22 December 2009

Completed - 24 December 2009

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas - Baking

Chocolate Meringues, Sugar and Cinnamon Shortbread Cookies,

Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars, Chocolate Mint Brownies,

and Chocolate Chip Cookies.

Tired Baker!

Christmas Joy

Chart - "Joy" - a freebie

Designer - Lizzie Kate

Fabric - 25 count Navy Blue Lugana

Started / Completed - 22 December 2009

From the Cross Stitch Archives

Design - Santa Folk - Animal Santas - Rabbit

Designer - Sue McElhaney

Magazine - For the Love of Cross Stitch - November 1988

Fabric - 14 count White Aida

Date Stitched - unknown

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas

Christmas / Winter Pillows

Do Not Open Until Christmas - Finish

Kit - "Do Not Open Until Christmas"
Designer - Lizzie Kate
Fabric - 28 count Picture This Plus Willow Cashel
Started - 18 December 2009
Finished - 20 December 2009

Finished this up Sunday evening.

Very cute.

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas

Red Ornaments on a rustic wrought iron tree 

...And a Start!

I thought this might be a cute and fast Christmas stitch.  It's "Do Not Open 'Til Christmas" by Lizzie Kate. It's nice as the kit already had the fabric and buttons included.  I had all the floss required, so as the picture shows, I've begun to stitch the border. 

Just a Little Snowman - A Finish!

Design - "Just a Little Snowman"

Designer - Ruth Sparrow / Twisted Threads

Chart - 2003 Ornament Issue of Just Cross Stitch Magazine

Fabric - 30 count Hog Wild Blue R & R linen

Started - 29 November 2009

Completed - 17 December 2009  

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas

Hallmark Miniature Ornaments

From the Cross Stitch Archives

Chart - "Merry Ho Ho" (Snippet)

Designer - Lizzie Kate

Fabric - 27 count R & R Iced Cappucino

Started - 9 November 1999

Completed - 19 November 1999

From the Cross Stitch Archives

Chart - "Little Green Tree"

Designer - Bent Creek

Chart - "The Christmas Collection"

Fabric - 32 count Summer Khaki linen

Started - 17 November 2001

Completed - 21 November 2001

From the Cross Stitch Archives

Design - "Woodland Christmas" 

Designer - Theron Traditions

Chart - "Heartfelt Traditions"

Fabric - 36 count R & R Light Espresso

Started - 13 September 1999

Completed - 3 October 1999

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas

Santa Tins

..and yet more Santa Tins

Just a Little Snowman - Continued Progress

Slowly, slowly the stitching continues....

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas

Sue Dreamer Snowmen Figures

From the Cross Stitch Archives

Design - "Ho Ho Ho" (kit)

Designer - Bent Creek

Fabric - 32 count linen (bell hanger)

Started - 17 February 2000

Completed - 25 June 2000

When I left for work this morning the temperature was 9F - COLD!

From the Cross Stitch Archives

Design - "Good Yule House"

Designer - Shepherd's Bush

Chart - "Father Yule"

Fabric - 18 count beige

Stitched - Christmas 1994

From the Cross Stitch Archives

Design - "Monthly Mania - December"

Designer - Heart in Hand

Fabric - 32 count Khaki Belfast

Started - 20 December 2000

Completed - 12 January 2001 

It's Beginning to Look Alot Like Christmas

My collection of hand-carved wooden Santas

From the Cross Stitch Archives

Chart - "Reindeer Sampler" - (kit)

Designer - Heart in Hand

Fabric - 32 count natural linen / silk

Started - 11 November 2001

Completed -17 November 2001

Just a Little Snowman - Progress

Here is what I've accomplished so far.  Between University of Oregon sporting events and Christmas preparation, there is not much time left over to stitch!

From the Cross Stitch Archives - Christmas

Design - "Christmas Cookies"

Designer - Mary Garry's Sewing Cabin

Fabric -32 count Amber Wichelt linen

Started - 6 September 1999

Completed - 12 September 1999

I bought this chart in Ogden, Utah at "Shepherd's Bush" cross stitch store after admiring the one they had on display.  The gals there had modified the color scheme from the original chart, and they provided me with the conversion which I then followed in my own stitching.

Late November Frosty Morning

The morning of the 29th was cold and frosty.  We'd had rain recently, so when it turned cold there was plenty of moisture to make for a covering of frost.  

Douglas Fir bough

Blackberry leaves

Queen Anne's Lace

Steller's Jay

Besides the frost, it was a grey and foggy morning too. The Sellar's Jay was the most vibrant (and loudest)

"On the First Day of Christmas" - A Finish

Design - "On the First Day of Christmas"

Designer - Sisters and Best Friends

Magazine - "Just Cross Stitch" 2005 Christmas Ornament Issue

Fabric - 28 count R & R Cafe Kona linen

Started - 26 November 2009

Completed - 28 November 2009

Snow - A Finish

Design "Snow"

Designer - Val's Stitchin Stuff

Chart - "Wish Upon a Star"

Fabric - 28 count Stormy Grey Lugana

Started - 22 November 2009

Completed - 26 November 2009

This was a fun piece to stitch!  Quick and easy, the color of the linen and the colors of the floss really sang! 

From the Cross Stitch Archives - Autumn Basket

Design - "Autumn Basket" (Snippet)

Designer - Lizzie Kate

Chart - "Autumn Basket"

Fabric - 28 coiunt Ivory Cashel

Started - 27 June 2004

Completed - 4 July 2004

From the Cross Stitch Archives - Frost on the Pumpkin

I thought this a fitting post as we had a hard frost last night. 

The world is glittering and gleaming this morning.

Design - "The Frost is on the Pumpkin"

Chart - "Frost" #173

Designer - The Cricket Collection

Fabric - 10 count R & R Alpine Green Tula

Started - 7 September 1998

Completed - 11 October 1998

On the First Day of Christmas - A Start

I spent a couple of evenings going through my old issues of "Just Cross Stitch" magazine; specifically the annual Christmas ornament issues.  In the 2005 issue I fell in love with the Sisters and Best Friends design "On the First Day of Christmas".  Their use of color is extraordinary! 

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 - Autumn

Design - Autumn Leaf

Designer - Ewe and Eye and Friends

Fabric - 40 count Sandstone linen

Started - 20 November 1998

Completed - 1 December 1998

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.