Hello My Friends In Stitch World

 Greetings my dear friends, August was a very busy month, lots of VA appointments for Mike reevaluation  of benefits, we are still in the dark as to weather he will have a reduction or addition of funds.

The first week I went to the Guild Retreat had a ball the first day, I took two class’s, one a Kumohimo class and a felting class finished both which I will share in my next post.

I was so lucky to have found a bag a big bag of Gentle Arts threads, now I do not usually buy specialty threads unless I have too now I have almost all the colors. I asked if anyone was interested in the bag no one in the reallocation room was I was the lucky girl. So sorry babout the Sid way photos they would not turn.

 

I also was able to get four books A cross stitch Christmas, Seasonal Sensations, Seasons Of Memories,

Heart Of the Holidays and A Season To Remember, I love these books.

Stitching update:

I did finish a Pamela Kellogg design Kitty and Me designs, (so sorry about the wrinkles) I love her cats, however I am not a fan of Krienik threads which there were four used.

I am going to have Michael’s frame him for me 

I was able to fully finish a Christmas ornament I stitched a while back, I love Santas

I made myself a weight for a frame, sometimes I like to use a tv tray and lay a large stitching frame on the table and use a weight at the top to hold the hoop or frame, weighs about seven pounds

Time to start dinner and relax a little then down to my sewing room for mending and sewing, have an amazing week and wish and pray for Peace around the world

Catherine

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I Have Another Post

 Greetings My Dear Followers: Thank-you for your comments on my last blog post a few days ago,

            I hope you were all able to get thank-you from me, if not I will check back to make sure.

I did do a lot of stitching sewing and mending when I was not able to post on Blogger, so I am doing a                                                 little at a time to keep from having such a long post.

This design was sent to me from Marilyn in Wisconsin (no Blog) she is so kind to send this to me as a                      kit, I am a nut for needle rolls, this is one I had not seen before, Thank-you Marilyn

                                                This is a Shepherds Bush Folk Heart from 1999

                   stitched on 28 count Lavander Mist Cashel Linen two strands DMC over two threads, 

                                          For some reason the kit photo will not upload so sorry

 I stitched this for Christmas, my sister-in-law loves a pink Christmas

Please forgive me I do not remember the designer

These two designs I stitched earlier this summer, they are both from Marly's site, she has an amazing page of freebies, please visit her site https://samplersandsantas.blogspot.com

She has some amazing pear designs for free

stitched on 32 count unknown fabric, most of the fabric I have does not have a name or count I need to count the threads, most of the fabric I have, have come from stash reallocation tables at retreats

I did buy another item from Blue Ribbon Designs, I am a nut for Pin Pillows, this one caught my eye for                                                     the yellow red and the tiny, adorable Owl

Belinda has so many lovely finished items to choose from, she also has cross stitch, quilting and other items you may enjoy buying https://blueribbondesigns.blogspot.com please visit her site she has links to                                                                               her Etsy Shop

This was a design I won from a Youtuber, Heartstring Samplery My Wish For You

Stitched on 32 Count Kunzite Linen

Just for giggles

I will post again soon, I have so much top show but do not want to make it a very long post for fear of losing followers

Have an amazing Blessed week

Catherine💙

I am so happy to be able to do a post after all the problems I have been having with Google, hopefully                                                                          that is in the past

Below is a design I stitched a couple months ago, I took it to Michaels to have framed, I really like the way it turned out, it is a design from A New Creation a site on Etsy, I have bought another design from                                            this designer, I plan on starting the stitching in October
 

I love this design, I stitched it on an unknown linen count is 32, I will frame this one myself as soon as I find the right frame so sorry about the wrinkles, I just wanted to get it posted

This design is from Pamela Kellogg Kitty and Me designs, it is from the Colorful Cats series, this is my second design of hers I have stitched, the fabric is again another I cannot remember the name of however it is stitched on 32 count a very open weave linen which I do not like but I wanted to stitch it on a blue fabric

I have bought a couple of things from Blue Ribbon Designs, Belinda has some amazing items for sale

The front and back of this adorable bag, it is perfect for my cheater glasses, pencil, scissors and other itemshttps://blueribbondesigns.com

Please check her site out she has quilting and cross stitching on her site

I stitched this a very long time ago, it is a design from the Stitching Fairy, I love this to bits, again it is stitched on an unknown fabric, I have a load of fabric from stash reallocation at Minnesota Needlework Guild retreats, https://happinessiscrossstitching.blogspot.com

Please check her out

I do have a load to show you but do not want to over bear this post in case something goes wrong while posting, it has been cool in the evenings here which is unusual for August in Minnesota, tomorrow it will be in the upper 80s on monday in the 90s, this is okay with me I will still be outdoors, we have been working in the yard a load this year, we have had a load of rain which Mike has had to mow twice a week two weeks this summer he mowed three times in 8 days, I have been deadheading flowers to keep them fresh looking.

We did have to buy a new PC and the same week our iPhone pooped out, it was a very expensive week, I told Mike this covers my birthday, Christmas and our anniversary for gifts for me

Mike is still have problems but seems to be able to handle the pain from neuropathy, he is an amazing man, he says that he is where God wants him to be

I will try and post again this coming week, i want to tell you about two retreats that I was at

Have an amazing week.

Catherine💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙 

What A Month It Has Been

 First of all thank-you to my faithful followers for staying the course with me in my absence, we have had a spendy month of July, first the computer started acting like an arse, then both our cell phones decided to make us angry, Mikes battery was about to blow up, my phone stopped some features like browsing the net, at AT&T the young man helping us took the battery out of Mikes phone and ran it outdoors saying it was ready to burst that is why Mikes phone died.

I tried posting on my IPAD but the photos kept coming up wonky, so I gave that up, then we had to get a new tower for the PC, well Best Buy was not a good experience, they talked us into a package of protection and also saying that it would get our stuff transferred over faster and instead of waiting a couple of days it was almost two weeks without a PC, now I am not an angry person ever but this really got to me, now as to the photo of the cat eating Mickey, well I had to put a photo on my blog so the woman could understand what I was talking about when I could not load photos, she asked what Best Buy could do for us, I told her that there were several issues with the PC, so that is the dilemma we had for over a two week period.

I am leaving for a stitch retreat in a few hours, I will be posting about that trip[ on Monday.

Thank-you all for hanging in there with me, I love all your comments and really appreciate them.

Catherine💙💙💙💙💙

Some Stitching Lots of Rain

 I hope you all are having  an amazing week, it has been busy here, I am splitting my Stella De Oreo day Lillie’s and transplanting them to the side of the driveway, hot and lots of digging, I will share photos when I am finished

It has been raining a lot but loving the green trees and the fresh air smell after the rain

I am working a bit on Sweet Liberty from Samplers and Santa’s, this is a design from Marly over at Samplers and SantasHTTPS://samplersandsantas.blogspot.com, she has so many lovely designs for free.

I hope to have this finished and get some fully finished things done by Sunday, have an amazing weekend

                                                                              Catherine

Happy Fourth Of Jully

 God has Blessed us with a wonderful free country, we are lucky.

I hope this Holiday is a great day for you who celebrate

Catherine

I have done a bit of stitching

I have done some stitching on my Stars And Stripes from Marlys freebie design, I am loving this design,       it will be a pillow for my dough bowl.

       I did finish this finally, (so sorry about the wrinkles, I hope to finish it into a pillow on Friday

I also finished the design I won from a flosstuber

I am having problems uploading photos so sorry, this one will be another pillow

I did finish this sweet design I bought from an Etsy Shop, it is from A New Creation designer, I am not sure how I will finish it

I need to stop now I am having problems, I will try and post again soon

Catherine 

This is a test

 I have been having problems getting on Blogger and uploading photos, so this is a test.

I have been stitching and beading some, I am working on a Patriotic Samplers from Samplers and Santa’s, it  is Marlys 1776 design I love it, I am using Gentle Arts threads Cherry Wine, Shaker White, Gold Leaf and Uniform Blue, I really like the colors on the fabric so far.

Please visit Marley at HTTPS://samplersandsantas.blogspot.com please visit her lovely blog, she has a great sense of humor a very generous lady with her time and talents for her family.

Marly has many free and lovely designs she shares.

I hope to have it finished by Monday, since this is a test I will make this short.

Thank you to DJ for checking on Me.

Catherine

Just Popping In To Say

 Just popping in to say Brookes Books is having a great 30% off all her PDF's, She is doing better and gaining strength and other capabilities after her cancer treatments.

Hop on over to her Etsy shop, take a look you may find some lovely designs to stitch.

Catherine🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

Happy Spring Here In Minnesota

 Greetings top all my faithful followers, thank-you from my heart for your comments, thank-you for all the private emails I received about how well I am doing, this touches my heart, thank-you so much.

I am doing well, I have flutters every once in a while but the doctor said that is to be expected due to the angry areas that were invaded with the ablation, it will go on for up to three months.

My husband likes to give gifts, he was raised with three sisters they taught him to be kind to the lady he marries, Mike wanted to give me an anniversary gift before our 47th anniversary, he is so kind.

I cried so much the day the DMC box arrived and with all the threads, I am so grateful for his kindness

This is something I had been looking at for about a month, he must have seen that I was interested in this design, and to think this came in one day it is a Minnesota company that sent it.

I sit with my back to the office door facing the window so I can enjoy the outside and what is going on with the birds and children playing its so much fun to see the children having fun

The threads are amazing, they are so soft and silky, I am not sure when I will start this one, I have two projects going now which I have never done before I will share                                                 them with you today

I did buy this on Etsy the site is: NARAxcrossStitchPatterns, there are some lovely                        designs on that site, hopefully I will start this one before fall

 This lovely Sampler is from The Wishing Thorn, I bought my first design from                                             Birgit one year ago, I love her Samplers

 I won this on a YouTube video giveaway, I am so sorry I cannot find the name of      the Youtuber, her name is Lisa Smith, I am so sorry about not remembering her              YouTube name, I will hunt it down and let you know her YouTube name

You know I love doing wool applique and working with wool, well I found this         sweet design online and hope to get to it sometime soon, I will make one change instead of the Fall letters being on different hanging fabric I will do them all on one     piece of fabric, also I plan on not doing the cotton fabric it is too wrinkly for me

This is what I am working on now, I love the Cats from Kitty and Me designs, I had stitched one a little over a year ago, now this one, I love the blue fabric Pamela chose but could not find it anywhere to purchase, this is the other on I want to enter                                                   in the county fair in July

 Next up is the Nativity Band Sampler this I also bought in the Etsy shop, by A New Creation by Alison, she has some amazing designs

 I am not a fan of black or dark blue fabric but this works for me so far, I started this on Saturday evening, did not get much done, I also want to enter this one in the                                                            county fair this year

 I would like to show more of what I have been up to but do not want to make this so long, again than-you for your kindness to Michael and myself for all your                                                        prayers they really do work

                                             Catherine🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

I Am Home And Recovering

 I want to thank- everyone for your personal emails, it is so kind of you to send good well wish's.

My ablation surgery took a little less then 2 hours, I was told if there were complications it would take 3-5 hours, everything went well, I am feeling better have done a bit of stitching and watching a boatload of Fraiser, I think Niles on that show is such a hoot and easy on the eyes.

I cannot do much until Monday, I have a weight limit and need to just relax, Mike has been doing all the cooking and cleaning up, he is such a sweetheart, I am so lucky to have him.

I will be posting again later this weekend after I have done a bit more stitching.

Thank-you from my heart

Catherine🌷🌷🌷🌷🌷

THANKYOU10

 I forgot to mention that Alison on Etsy https://anewcreationbyalison.etsy.com is offering a 10% discount, use THANKYOU10 for the discount.

So sorry I missed writing that.

Catherine

I Am Still Here

 Hello to all my followers, thank-you for hanging in there, many things have happened here, I will not go into details except that I have been spring cleaning, lots and lots of spring cleaning.

I have done some stitching since Easter Morning after Mass, it felt so good to have needle and thread with fabric in hand, I had done some finishing which is not a lot but some.

First I want to show you my new design I bought just today on Etsy it is from A New Creation By Alison, she is an amazing designer and has so many beautiful designs I want to stitch but being a one at a time stitcher I will buy from her again after i finish this beautiful design, it is Nativity Band Sampler so beautiful. I hope to have the black fabric in my stash or maybe a dark blue will do. Please check Alisons site out. She is offering a 10% discount I hope you visit her. anewcreationbyalison.etsy.com

I did finish stitching Santas Workshop from Stitching Fairy, she is also on Etsy she has a blogspot: https://happinessiscrossstitching.blogspot.com Please visit Lyn  also.

Not sure how I will finish this one off, I will think a little.

Brenda Gervais Valentine Sampler

This is a Brenda Gervais design I stitched a while ago, finally finished the pieces,

The box's are painted a medium green with a Bree Wax finish, so sorry I did not take a photo

I love the pillow without trims around it, I did try pinning on a ribbon but felt it look like way too much ribbon because of the ribbons on the box's and needlebook, I am happy I only pinned them on just to see how it looked instead of stitching or                                                             glueing it on   

         

 I really like the folded book it is lovely in my eyes I should have taken a photo of                                                          the inside, so sorry

     This was to be a scissor fob but I stuffed it too much now it is a mini pillow

I also did finish a penguin from a club at Not Just Another Button Company, I will show you the photo in my next post he is adorable, I just do not want to post a long                            post today, have to get ready to go shopping

I hope all is well in your homes, please Pray the hatred stops in the world please                                      also pray my surgery goes well on Tuesday

Catherine🌷🌷🌷🌷

Did You Hear The Cries For help?

 If you heard the cries for help it was me I am lacking a needle and fabric with thread in my hand, ouch it is hard giving up something so dear to me, but well worth the Sacrifice For Jesus Gave his Life for our sins.

I am missing needlework terribly, it will be another 26 days before I have my needlework in hand, it was very hard the first week, it is getting better I must say, I hope to keep busy with all the alterations and other things I am working on.

I am doing a felt project for Christmas, one I am doing for myself instead of someone else, I have gifted in the past.

I have been spring cleaning also, I have decided that I will not climb a small ladder to clean my walls, instead I decided to use a swifter dust mop to run along the walls, this is working out well, so easy and get the dust off the walls from open windows and the running furnace.

I will not post photos today just wanted to stop by and say hello.

I hope all are doing well, please Pray for the state of Texas they are having some horrific fires going on and California had some areas with five to ten feet of snow, something even the mountains are not used to.

Have an amazing week.

                                                  Catherine☘️

Some Finishing

 Greetings Everyone: Thank-you for your comments on my last two posts, I will send out thank-you's soon.

I have given up stitching for Lent, it has been two weeks and two days, it has not been easy, but thinking what Jesus Christ did for my sins I am able to make it through the tough time of not picking up needle and thread, I will really appreciate the needle and fabric in my hands after Mass on Easter Morning.

I have been sewing and finishing cross stitch that I have done in the past, the pile is starting to go down, finally, they are simple finishes' but still constructed items.

First up is a Brenda Gervais that I stitched I am not sure maybe two years ago, it was a pattern I was able to rescue from the stash relocation table at Needlework Guild retreat that year.

So sorry about the crappy photos, I think my battery is going dead, I really like constructing these two they are so sweet

This is a Scattered Seed Sampler Club design, I do not remember when I stitched this I do love the pin cushion on the end

I used a different ribbon, I had lost one of the gray ribbons I think the cat dragged                       one away and hid it, she like to collect items for herself

I do not have a hard photo of this design, it was found in the stash reallocation pile with out the cover photo, I turned it into a pillow for my basket

not sure of the designer, I no longer have the pattern

I need to add buttons on the end of the vines, I just realized I did not do that

I stitched this last year it is a design from the Wishing Thorn, I really like her designs, she has some amazing Samplers

It was stitched as a Sampler on her site but I preferred a barrel

This is a free pattern from Hands On Designs, I was not going to stitch a Valentine design this year but Vickie over at https://astitchersstory.blogspot.com. put a bug in my ear when she asked if anyone was stitching Valentine designs this year, thank-you Vickie

I did add the ribbons they are different from the design

This is a design which is free from  https://kanikis.com

They have some very lovely samplers this was free design

I made a simple finish

This is one of my favorite designers, she has all kinds of designs from quilts to cross stitch, I did my rounds a bit different than her finish, Brenda has an amazing talent for finishing https://blueribbondesigns.com

Brenda also has a blog https://blueribbondesigns.blogspot.com

This is an Erica Michaels design, for some reason I made the tip a bit pointy, I do want to make more strawberry's for my basket of strawberry's

hopefully after Easter

I bought this from Jerome Thomas designs not realizing it is a 9x9 design, i think it is way to big for an ornament I will sew it onto a pillow form and use it on our bed at Christmas

I won this design from the Country Stitchers on You Tube

I am a big fan of Pineapple anything, will stitch this onto a small pillow for the pillow basket.

I watch several You Tube stitchers this happens to be my number one to watch, do you watch any You Tube or Floss tube videos? just curious

            Well, that is enough for today I hope you have an amazing weekend

Thank-you from my heart for following me and commenting

Catherine