Watching

Here's a Blast from My Stitching Past!

It is even stitching using DMC Flower Thread!  Can you even buy that anymore?

Design - Jack-O-Lantern Sampler

Designer - Curtis Boehringer

Fabric - 32 count raw Belfast linen

Fibers - DMC Flower Threads

Started - 19 August 1997

Completed - 1 September 1997

 

We are watching

Towhee

Steller's Jay

Golden-crowned Sparrow

Song Sparrow

A Bewick's Wren

And a Ruby-crowned Kinglet.

A good group of birds.

Nuthatches

 

Design - "Happy Halloween"

Designer - Bent Creek

Fabric - Aida

Fibers - WDW & DMC

Started - ?????

Completed - August 2014

This is another of my Mom's stitches.  She had it 98.6% completed.  I added some French knot eyes and long stitch nose and whiskers.  And ta-da!  It's done! 

I had a couple of Red-breasted Nuthatches arrive at the same time.

Here is #1

And here is #2

Fun to watch their upside down antics.

Sunriver Adventure Part Two

Design - "Hoot"

Chart - "Autumn Smalls"

Designer - Lizzie Kate

Fabric - 32 count Natural Light linen

Fibers - WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads

Started - 24 October 2017

Completed - 26 October 2017

 

We took a walk around the Sunriver Nature Center.

They have a pair of mated Trumpeter Swans.

The birds do not migrate.

They had cygnets this year, and the babies when mature are sent off to Klamath Falls or Malheur to join other swans and migrate.

Other birds along the pond included Song Sparrows

A female Wood Duck

And a Coot.

There was a Little Library at the edge of the pond.

And I always find this display so informative...and scary!  See how far a cougar can leap?

Sunriver Adventure Part One

 

Design - "Calendar October"

Designer - Ewe & Eye & Friends

Fabric - 32 count Raw Belfast linen

Fibers - Anchor - 1 strand over 2 threads

Started - 2 October 2010

Completed - 4 October 2010 

We spent the weekend in the Sunriver-Prineville area of Oregon.

I was thrilled to see a small group of Clark's Nutcrackers on the ground foraging Pine seeds.

They are pretty brazen, one of their nicknames is Camp Robber as they are not shy about begging for handouts.

This is an eruptive year for them, and though they hang out on the east side of the cascades, they've been seen in the Willamette Valley.

I think this was a group of Clark's Nutcrackers flying over my house in late September.

They're a corvid so they have a big brain and good memory of where they cache seeds.

 

I saw lots of Red Crossbills, Jays, woodpeckers, and deer.

Little Guys

Design - "Owls' Night Out" - A Halloween Year - January

Designer - Homespun Elegance

Fabric - 30 count WDW 'Kudzu' linen

Fibers - DMC, WDW and GAST - 2 strands over 2 threads 

Started - 12 October 2012

Completed - 14 October 2012

Kudzu linen made for a great color to stitch.

Some little guys

Bewick's Wren on the fence post

A small flock of Bushtits

I like the cobwebs as much as the bird.

Very Octobery!

The best photo

 

Friday Finches

Designer - Fanci That

Chart - Pumpkin (#101)

Fabric - 10" x 10" 36 count Edinborough Sand

Began -1 October 2002

Completed - Halloween 2002

Friday Finches

American Goldfinches

Male House Finch

Not a finch, but cute - Junco