For some reason I’ve become quite dissatisfied with my latest WIP and will have to put it aside for a while. I think perhaps it’s the fabric I chose…I’ve decided that I don’t like it after all. Hmmm…well, instead of sulking any further about it I’ve switched to doing a quick stitch project to lift my spirits. 🙂 With my favorite design of a little beehive, of course. 😉
A Prairie Year
When I moved I found this very old project of mine in the closet rolled up in a tube and long forgotten! Judging by the date I’d stitched on it, I completed this 13 years ago (!), and just never got around to framing it. Time does fly, doesn’t it? Maybe someday I’ll figure out exactly what I want to do with it. Decisions, decisions. I just hope it doesn’t take another 13 years for me to decide.
Prairie Schooler “A Prairie Year I” 1986 OOP
Love
Stitched this sampler for my nephew’s wedding in March. I changed the pattern slightly by adding seed beads for the heart instead of using french knots, eliminating the border, and personalizing it, of course, for the happy couple.
Bent Creek “Love Sampler”
Found my missing cross-stitch stand!
Yay! This makes my life so much easier. 🙂 It was tucked away in the very BACK corner of my walk-in closet behind a large hanging canvas dress bag. This was the perfect hiding place for it as I haven’t touched that bag since I moved in eight years ago! LOL
Two more ornaments
I didn’t include these two in my last ornament post as I forgot to take photos before I mailed them out. The pieces I sent were finished as pillows, not as flat ornaments as shown, but you get the idea. Next time I make some I think I might try finishing them this way, it looks a heck of a lot easier than all that sewing and stuffing! LOL
The Prairie Schooler 2008 Freebie “Noel”
The Prairie Schooler Designer Series “Forget Me Nots” From My Garden
The Prairie Schooler Designer Series “Forget Me Nots” From My Garden
Earth laughs in flowers
I did this little chart at the same time as last year’s Christmas ornaments, but haven’t decided just what to do with it yet. That’s the trouble with cross stitch, there are so many pretty patterns that I want to do, but not enough time to find uses for them all.
Prairie Schooler Designer Series “Forget Me Nots” Earth Laughs in FlowersDMC on 14-count Potato Aida cloth
Quartet of Santas
Back when I used to collect Santa figures (which I don’t anymore, as I have around 200 of them and that’s more than enough!) I also used to collect the annual Prairie Schooler Santa charts. These four fellows made a nice grouping, I thought. Click on the image for a larger view.
My sister and I both love craft shops and when I visited her we used to frequent The Primitive Sampler, a needlework store in Frederick, MD now long since closed. Sis still sends me patterns she picks up from time to time on her travels, the sweetie. I lost the pattern for the Sunflower Santa in my last move eight years ago though, which is sad as he’s out of print now and I’ve always wanted to stitch another one of him.
Left to right:1989 Prairie Schooler Santa – Lantern & Wreath Santa
1988 Prairie Schooler Santa – Toys & Gifts Santa
1994 Prairie Schooler Santa – Sunflower & Birdhouse Santa
1993 Prairie Schooler Santa – Poinsettia Gardener Santa
The kiss of the sun
This cheery sun and sunflower piece on 14-count white Aida cloth hangs in my kitchen. I did another one for my sister on 18-count, which I think turned out even more nicely on the smaller weave. I revised the saying slightly more to my liking around the border and removed the french knots (I hate french knots!) from the chart, so it differs from the chart. 🙂 This was stitched back in the early 1990s as well. (Sunflowers are another favorite motif of mine.)
American School of Needlework “Sun, Moon, Stars” by Linda Gillum
7.5″ x 10″ stitching / 11.5″ x 14″ frame
7.5″ x 10″ stitching / 11.5″ x 14″ frame
Sympathetic Threads 