Monday, February 17, 2014

Another late post due to loads of stitching and finishing

Greetings to all my followers, welcome to new flowwers I hope not to dissapoint you.
I have been very busy stitching and finishing items I have either started or have finished, I looked in a couple of small drawers and found stuff that i stitched long ago, my goal is to finish my Up For A Challenge 15 and to do the finishing work on the loads of projects that have been stitched.
First I want to show you a couple of things I bought in a stash reduction sale at one of the retreats I go to, this is a felt and seaquin with beads Santa, I finished this last year, it was started by one of my stitching buddies, she gave up and I ended up with it, now I am not much for seaquins but this called to me to finish it, i will donate it to a lady who fell in love with it. I do need to do a little ironing to get out the wrinkles, al in all it turned out cute.


  

This is also a piece I bought from the stash reduction sale for a 1.00 it was only stitched a little on the coat and lower right hand corner, I lovew this piece, it will look so sweet hanging up for Christmas.
It is done on 14 count (I very rarely use 14 count) I love the colors this was from a kit.




This is one of my favorites  from Sheepish Designs Scare Crow Wabbit, I plan on doing all of the Rabbits in the series, I just need to do the finishing work this week, this is done on 32 count not the called for 36, I used DMC threads, I did not do the scissors fob, but plan on it soon.




This is from a class I went to waaaay back in the early 90s I had ro frog this little thing twice I had only put in about 20 stitches both times, I am well over half way done, this is 40 count gauze, if you want to go crazy try stitchuing on forty count gauze whew I will be glad to have this done, hopefully next week.



Well if the above silk gauze was not enough here is another I did finish, I plan on putting this inside a watch face and wearing it as a bracelet after I finish the beading, this is a  Hearts Content kit,  I also bought this at a stash reduction sale, I love this this pattern, tonight I will work on this this evening.




Just Another Button Company has some of the sweetest kits, they are a bit spendy but I just love them, the pattern calls for the stitching to be on the inside of the finished item but I like the seams it on the outside, I think it gives iy a little more of a whimsical look, I did the carrot and brown bunny last year, the fabric that was in the kit for the collar was too  small so I used a little ribbon from my stash.



In my Bunny corner she has a place,  her name is Grace, his is  Samson I love them both.




These are some ornaments I stitched last year and needed to put together just to get them out of my drawer, the Just Nan mouse ears look like bat ears, i still giggle when I see it, of course it is in the entryway with the other bunnies.


 
 
  I started to stitch this on friday evening and finished it yesterday, I am going to fram it for a small table group, I love Shepherds Bush patterns.


 
 
  Today after work ( I am working at home today) I will start working on on this Lazy Turtle Pincushion, I love this little guy.




I better get back to work stay  warm and safe on the terrible roads out there. It is snowing today with expections of 2-4 inches, we are on the downhill side of winter yahoo.

Blessings

Catherine

6 comments:

Cathy B said...

Wow, you have been busy. Good job!

Lisa V said...

You have been a busy little bee Catherine. They all look great.

Marilyn said...

Wow, you have been busy, that's for sure!
It's nice of you to give the lady the sequin piece, she will love it.
All great finishes.
That Turtle is one of my favorites, so cute.
Marilyn

Chris said...

Busy girl!! So many wonderful finishes and projects. And so many different types of projects!
Have a great week Catherine!

Hopblogger said...

I love all of the wonderful colors that you have used. Everything looks great! Some cute bunnys!
Many smiles sent your way,
Conny

Lynn said...

Wow, busy bee you certainly are, I love the 40 count gauze picture, I do have some of that but not dared to try it yet!Lol