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
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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".