Be Well - Finished

I am happy to be finished with “Be Well”.  This design is a freebie from Needlework Press. I used regular and variegated DMC, Valdani threads, and variegated silk threads. 

I will eventually finish this one in one way or another. 

Thanks for stopping by today. 

Another Finish!

Last week I finished my Houses of Hawk Run Hollow. Instead of completing 12 blocks, I decided to just do four of them. I renamed it HHRH Quartet.  I did change some of the wording.  I started this one in 2016 and it is stitched using DMC threads.

I also had another finish a week ago of a smaller project, and yesterday I was glad to have  finished another older one.  Hurrah! I am now down to seven WIPs.  I will share my other finishes on a different day.

I do plan on starting a new Satsuma Street one in the very near future.  I had quite a bit of the colors that are needed, but yet I did have to order a few from 123 Stitch.  Those items should arrive soon, and I am looking forward to that project very much.

Here is the quartet which will be professionally framed down the line.

I changed the wording here, deleting 'dead' and 'grave' and making it a bit more gentle.

I slightly changed the color of the flag's red stripes on this part.

I would love to live in one of these four homes. Most likely it would be the yellow-toned one, which is similar to our outside paint color now, in fact! 

Please take care of yourselves, and thanks for stopping by today. 

Variegated Sampler- Finished!

I recently finished this project.  I started it a few years ago, and it comes from the magazine Cross Stitch and Country Crafts. (March 1988 issue)

It is called the Variegated Sampler.

It was a joy to stitch, and I look forward to having it framed after the 'shelter in place' orders are behind us.


Thanks for stopping by today.

Finishes During this Time at Home

I have had some finishes lately, starting out with one of them today. 

It seems trite to speak of stitching at a trying, sad time like this across the country and globe, but nonetheless I will do so today. 

I started this tea towel in the end of February. I bought the kit at a store in Los Angeles called French General.  The pattern consists entirely of french knots and lazy daisy stitches. I was able to finish it in a month, although naturally I did not work on it daily. 

For the first time ever, I  used Cosmo thread. I loved how it glided so nicely.  I could see early on that I would run out of one of the pink colors.  At the time, I was researching where to buy more of the Cosmo thread. 

Down the line, our 'shelter at home' order was in place and having to have a matching color seemed less important and very trivial.  Thus I finished it off with some variegated pink that I already had at home.

I have had two other finishes in the past few weeks, but I will save those for a future post.

Thanks for stopping by today, and please take care of yourself and yours. 

~~ Sue