Tuesday, September 1, 2026

September's Blog Header


September's Blog Header


Garden Grumbles & Cross Stitch Fumbles September 2025 Blog Header

The designers, charts, and design names are listed below in horizontal rows.
Shepherd's Bush design "The Promise" is so long that it is scanned in 2 pieces. 

Row #1: Sisters & Best Friends, "Two by Two"; Shepherd's Bush, "The Promise" Part 1; Designs by Charlotte, "Folk Art Favorites" - "Noah's Ark"; The Cricket Collection, "A Well-Dressed Man" - "Noah's Mitten"; Sally Ann Cox, "Brother Noah Built the Ark" - Leisure Arts "Contest Collection". The Cricket Collection, "Noah's Umbrella Clause" (freebie). 

Row #2: Kandace Thomas, "Noah's Sampler" - Leisure Arts "A Sampling of Tradition"; Better Homes and Garden, "Prize Winning Mini Samplers" - "Noah's Colonial Ark".

Row #3: The Cricket Collection, "Noah's Ark";  Barrick Sampler, "A Weeping and a Blessing"; The Artist's Collection, "Heartstrings - Noah and Company - The Ark"; Shepherd's Bush, "The Promise" - Part 2

Row #4: Jane Chandler, "And Noah Opened the Window" - Leisure Arts "Noah and Friends".

Design - "Quilter's Ark" 
Chart - "A Little More Seasoning" #111
Designer - The Cricket Collection
Fabric - 25 count Driftwood Dublin linen 
Fibers - DMC
Started - 20 August 1995
Completed - 4 September 1995
Framed - August 2011 

I left this one out of the collage for some reason! 

Tuesday, September 3, 2024

September Blog Header


September 2024 Blog Header Revisited

Time got away from me, so I am bringing back a blog header from 2011 figuring that many of you were not Followers then.  Here's your Math Challenge! 
I'm listing the stitches by vertical rows (not horizontal!) except rows 4 & 5 which I'm combining any-which direction!

Row #1 - Prairie Schooler, "Farmer's Market - Corn", Better Homes & Gardens, "Prize Winning Mini Samplers - Fruit Sampler", Fanci That, "Cabbage Patch", and Farmers' Market Photograph.

Row #2 - Ewe & Eye & Friends, "Wild White Onion", Farmers' Market Photograph, Ewe & Ewe & Friends, "Tangy Tomato", and Need'l Love Company, "Crow and Berries".

Row #3 - Farmers' Market Photograph, Prairie Schooler, "Thanksgiving Comes Again - Indian Corn", Prairie Schooler, "A Prairie Garden - Sunflower", and SamSarah, "Alphabet Baubles - P is for Pear".

Row #4 & Row #5 - Heart in Hand, "Wee Vegetables" - then to the right to Twisted Threads, "Harvest Trio - Bitty Birds", then down to Ewe & Ewe & Friends, "Curious Carrot", down again to "Ewe & Eye & Friends, "Corn", and lastly a Flower Basket Photograph.  

If you have further questions, write a comment or email me and I'll be happy to answer as best I can. 

Friday, September 1, 2023

September's Blog Header




This month we are All About Bugs.

Horizontal Rows as follows -
Row #1: Alessandra Adelaide, "Coccinella"; Hog River, "Duh Ladybug"

Row #2: Heart in Hand, "Ladybug, Ladybug"; Heart in Hand, "Curio - Ladybug"; Ewe & Eye & Friends, "Slow Poke"; Knotted Tree, "Little Bugs - Butterfly"; Knotted Tree, "Little Purple Beetle"

Row #3: Heart in Hand, "Monthly Mania - June"; Country Cottage Needleworks, "Dragonfly"; Knotted Tree, "Little Bugs - Lady Bug"; Knotted Tree, "Pink Butterfly".

Row #4: Country Cottage Needleworks, "Ladybug"; Country Cottage Needleworks, "Bumblebee"; Birds of a Feather, "Cute as a Bug"; The Prairie Schooler, "Summer & Winter" - "August"; Knotted Tree, "Little Gold Bumble Bee"; Hog River, "Lady Bug Sampler".

Row #5: Just My Imagination, "Ladybug Picnic"; Ewe & Ewe & Friends, "Doodle Bugs".

 

Thursday, September 1, 2022

September's Blog Header Revealed

 Okay people, here's your Math Challenge! 


I'm listing the stitches by vertical rows (not horizontal!) except rows 4 & 5 which I'm combining any-which direction!

Row #1 - Prairie Schooler, "Farmer's Market - Corn", Better Homes & Gardens, "Prize Winning Mini Samplers - Fruit Sampler", Fanci That, "Cabbage Patch", and Farmers' Market Photograph.

Row #2 - Ewe & Eye & Friends, "Wild White Onion", Farmers' Market Photograph, Ewe & Ewe & Friends, "Tangy Tomato", and Need'l Love Company, "Crow and Berries".

Row #3 - Farmers' Market Photograph, Prairie Schooler, "Thanksgiving Comes Again - Indian Corn", Prairie Schooler, "A Prairie Garden - Sunflower", and SamSarah, "Alphabet Baubles - P is for Pear".

Row #4 & Row #5 - Heart in Hand, "Wee Vegetables" - then to the right to Twisted Threads, "Harvest Trio - Bitty Birds", then down to Ewe & Ewe & Friends, "Curious Carrot", down again to "Ewe & Eye & Friends, "Corn", and lastly a Flower Basket Photograph.  

If you have further questions, write a comment or email me and I'll be happy to answer as best I can.

Thursday, September 2, 2021

September's Blog Header

I've chosen birds as my September Blog Header Theme.
I've listed the charts and designers below by vertical row.


Row One: Praiseworthy Stitches, "Winter Bird Delight"; Designs by Charlotte, "Strawberry Patch"; Bent Creek, "The Plum Berry Sampler".

Row Two: Birds of a Feather, "Happy as a Lark"; Just Nan, "Bluebird Sampler".

Row Three: "Brite Birds"; The Drawn Thread, "For the Birds"; Homespun Elegance, "Miniature Samplers IV - Blue Bird Sampler".

Row Four: La-D-Da, "Backyard Birds"; Bent Creek, "Red Winged Blackbird"; Heart in Hand, "Checkerbird", over to the right to Twisted Threads, "Bitty Chick Sampler"; and Ewe & Eye & Friends; "Nest". 

 

Monday, August 31, 2026

Little Guys

Design - "Square Dance - September"
Designer - Heart in Hand
Fabric - 32 count Vintage Country Mocha
Fibers - WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads
Started - 7 September 2020
Completed - 15 September 2020

Little Guys

Chestnut-backed Chickadee

Goldfinches eating chicory seeds



Lots of gleaning going on this time of year. 

Sunday, August 30, 2026

Sunday's Hummers

Lots of Anna's 










Happy Sunday!

Saturday, August 29, 2026

Lunar Eclipse

 We weren't in line for a total eclipse Thursday night, but we did get a partial eclipse.






I thought it was pretty cool.

Friday, August 28, 2026

Black-headed Grosbeaks


Design - "Baubles - August"
Designer - Sam Sarah Design Studio
Fabric -28 count Zweigart Newport natural / cream linen 
Fibers - GAST & WDW - 2 strands over 2 threads
Started - 2 September 2016
Completed -5 September 2016 

All the adult male Black-headed Grosbeaks appear to have left the area.

Now all I'm seeing, and not very many at that, are females / immature birds.

Like this one.


And this one.


Still doing the grosbeak thing and cracking black oil sunflower shells with their strong beaks.


Thursday, August 27, 2026

Goldfinches


Design - "Watermellon"
Chart - "123 August"
Designer - Curtis Boehringer
Fabric - 32 count Antique White Jobelan
Fibers - DMC - 2 strands over 2 threads
Started - 4 August 2016
Completed - 5 August 2016

Lots of goldfinch activity

Male perching



Fledglings begging

American goldfinches are among the last species to breed in this area.


Fledglings looking for  an adult and food.




Female perching