Stitchy Haul and Stitchy Progress

March 27, 2023 My Time Stitching15 Comments

Hello blogging friends! It is 6:39 and it is still daylight outside! The sun is still out there, the sky is blue and the clouds are big and puffy. This makes me happy!

A few weeks ago I shopped at my Local Needlework Shop for the last time. They are closing in just a couple of days and this makes me so sad. They have been my go to shop for all things stitchy for the last 28 years. They have been open for 32 years and have decided it is time to retire. I will miss them so much, but I wish them much happiness in their retirement. So I went and picked up my Nashville Market goodies and did some shopping.

I love all wonderful stitchy stuff I picked up, but shopping that day was bittersweet. Just look at all of those luscious threads! Like I need more. Um, yes I do! LOL I would have added more, but it was a little difficult getting to everything with so many people in there shopping at a discount. I am just happy I was able to get there and say goodbye to the girls. I will miss them. The shop was about 40 minutes from my house. Not sure how far the closest shop is now. Too far. There is always the internet, right?

I have made good progress on my Spring basket. It is looking so cute!

I am really enjoying working on this little project. I am leaning towards finishing this as a little pillow to display on a table or shelf.

Today is day 4 of my Giveaway. You know how much I love hand dyed fabric! I have 2 beautiful pieces of fabric that I will never stitch on because they are not 16ct.

This one is a 28ct Jazlyn solo from Silkweaver. It is 18 x 26 and in the photo it is folded in half. The green is lighter in person and the splotches are purple to brown. I am sure I purchased this for a mermaid if that helps with the coloring. If you would like a chance to win this fabric, please put the code word Jazlyn in your comment.

This fabric is also folded in half and is a 32ct Lugana solo from Silkweaver and is 16″ x 25″. If you would like the chance to win this fabric, please put the code word Lugana in your comment. I will draw winners on March 31, 2023 and announce them in a blog post that day.

That is what I have been up to. What are you crafting on?

Happy Stitching!

Ginny

cross stitch · Fabric · Floss · Hand Dyed Fabrics · Mirabilia · New stash! · patterns · Stitch A Long

Spring Basket Progress and Some New Things

March 26, 2023 My Time Stitching14 Comments

Hello my blogging friends! How is your Sunday going? Mine was spent doing laudry, a visit from my kids and some stitchy time. Here is my progress on Spring Basket:

The design is not as small as I thought it would be. I was thinking it would go quicker than it is, but it is going well. I love the colors and have been thinking about fabrics I would like for the back if I do turn this into a small pillow. I think pink with coral flowers. We’ll see. Again, this is Spring Basket by Crocette a Gogo’ and I am stitching on 16ct Aida in color Dirty Aida.

So watching flosstubes has made me want to go through my stash and revisit my older patterns and fabrics and see what I have and what kit needs what. I do have the Xstitch app on my phone and am petty religious about putting new things in there and moving things that I start into the start section with a start date. But some of my patterns from 15-20 years or more ago are not in there. So that has been an ongoing project for the last week or so. I have the free version of the app, so there isn’t a place to put just a pattern. So when I buy a pattern and put it in the app, I have to put it in the kitted category even if it isn’t kitted. Kind of weird. But it reminds me of what I have. Do you use the XStitch app? Do you have the version that you have to pay for and do you like it?

One of my flosstube friends, Kenny, from Kenny Stitches showed some wonderful things he has added to his stash. One thing that really caught my eye was a Luca-S kit. I had never heard of this company before and had to find this kit:

This is White Santa with Christmas Tree. I immediately fell in love with this beautiful kit. I love the colors and just had to have it. I actually found this one on Amazon, so I didn’t have to wait long for it to arrive. I also love that it comes with 16ct aida fabric. Bonus for me as I pretty much only stitch on 16ct aida. And it comes with all the threads.

So beautifully laid out, too. They are Anchor threads and I don’t remember if I have ever used Anchor threads before. If I have, it may have been very little. I do have some Anchor threads kitted up for a Mirabilia conversion but haven’t started that one. The threads feel really nice on the cards and I am sure they will be fine. I think this kit is very well put together and I can’t wait to stitch on this one. I also could not resist adding this kit to my order while looking for the Santa:

Sakura. This is so adorable! I love Cherry Blossoms and the little Pixie is just so cute. It, too, came with a piece of 16ct white Aida and all of the threads.

Such beautiful colors! Those pinks and corals and tans just jump right out to me . I can’t wait to stitch this one up some day, too. I am really impressed with these kits. I love that the floss is wound on the cards and the symbols are printed above each thread. And if you look at the card on the right, there is a little hole to the right of the symbol that you can punch out to hang your extra threads until you need them. So nice.

I have one other project that I kitted up this week. This one showed up on Facebook from Tiny Modernist and just couldn’t resist purchasing it.

Hello, there is a little mermaid there! So you see why I could not resist. I don’t think I have stitched a Tiny Modernist pattern before, but I know that I have a few in my stash. Since I am not doing any SAL’s right now and this one is only 3 months long and it is small, I just had to jump on it. So I did a little stash diving for threads and fabric.

I found this small piece of 16ct Aida Cascade from Fabrics By Stephanie and thought it would be perfect for an ocean themed project. It is perfectly sized, too, so I think it was meant to be 🙂 I decided I want to do them in the specialty threads, but there is a DMC conversion also. I think the threads go well with the fabric. The Sea Glass color may be a little iffy, but we’ll see when we get there. I already can’t wait for the first of April!

That is all I have to share today except for my giveaway #3.

Since Mirabilia is another one of my favorite designers, I couldn’t leave one of her patterns out of my give-away. I purchased 2 of this pattern, Blossom, last March. One for me and one for a give-away for last year’s blogaversary, but it got away from me. So I put it aside for this year. I started stitching this one last year and have been wanting to get back to her the last couple of months. When I go to pick up one of my WIP’s, she is the one I will grab. So use code word MIRABILIA in your comment if you would like a chance to win this pattern. I will draw a winner for this and my other 2 giveaways on March 31.

Happy Stitching!

Ginny

Knitted Sweater · Knitting · New stash! · yarn

Planning A Project

November 19, 2022November 18, 2022 My Time Stitching9 Comments

Hello blogging friends! I currently have nothing on my knitting needles, other than my travel project. But it isn’t for lack of trying. I visited my Local Yarn Shop during their Shop Hop a couple of weeks ago and fell in love with a pattern the gals there were talking about. One of the gals that works at the shop was wearing the sweater, the gal who was having a trunk show with her amazing yarns was knitting the sweater. And one of the other gals that works there and myself were busy trying to find the perfect yarns to make the perfect fade for the sweater. We decided on pinks and mostly Adelaide Fiber Yarns. This is what we came up with and what I went home with.

This is the pattern.

I am planning on adding to the bottom of this one to make it longer. Maybe an additional 4 stripes. I love the soft, elegant, cozy look of this sweater. I am not sure how I will like the sagging arm pits, but I think it will be a nice loungy sweater for at home.

I love all of these colors and was anxious to get started on a swatch to see how all of the yarns would knit up together.

Lots of yarn winding going on here. In fact, my bum shoulder was hurting for a couple of days. So much so, that later when I added a 600 yard skein to the line-up, hubby had to wind it for me ❤

Yep, that’s him. He did a great job, too. This yarn cake will be added to the line later.

This is what I caked. These colors make me so happy! They pretty much match my flower arrangement.

Something still didn’t seem right with the fade. So I added a skein of Antique Lace from The Wicked Knittah.

The fade still does not seem to be flowing. I was having such difficulty coming up with the colors that would show the fade that I had in my head.

I was taking skeins out, adding skeins in, winding more skeins, going through my stash trying to find the perfect colors. By this point I was getting pretty frustrated. But I think I finally found my fade! These are the colors that I ended up with.

So I started knitting my swatch to see how the colors would knit up next to each other. The pink mohair yarn in color “A Mother’s Love” by Adelaide Fibers will be the lace stripes in between each of the color stripes. I had started knitting with the color for the bottom. I had knitted 2 stripes of that color when I first thought I was going to repeat 2 of the colors.

So the purplish color will be the bottom color. The next different colored stripe will be moved up and the color at the top will be moved down to the second color. The light pink will be used for the neck edge and sleeves. I pretty much get gauge with my stockinette stitch as knitted. Even though the pattern calls for gauge after blocking. I still don’t quite understand that as I have no idea how to block a swatch. Do I pull and stretch a little? A lot? Not at all? Will the yarn keep it’s shape after wetting? Thankfully, I don’t think this pattern will matter too much if I get gauge or am close. I will have plenty of yarn, so I won’t need to worry about that.

So this will be my color line-up…I think…I’m pretty sure.

Now I just have to figure out which size I want to do. Not sure when I will be starting this. I am planning on knitting this as a KAL with Kristine and she is waiting for the light pink to be dyed by the dyer. I think this was the most intense project I have planned for yet. Have you had a project that just seemed to take forever to plan out?

Happy Stitching!

Ginny

Bella Filipina Designs · cross stitch · Fabric · Hand Dyed Fabrics · Knitted Shawl · Knitting · New stash! · Nora Corbett · Project Bags · storage bags · yarn

Crafty Progress In January

January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 My Time Stitching16 Comments

Hello my blogging friends! It seems like I blinked a few times, and now January is just about over. Wow! But I was productive. So grab your coffee or favorite beverage and I hope I don’t bore you too much 😉

Early in January, I was reluctant to make a New Year’s Resolution list. I know that there are things I want to accomplish this year, but I didn’t want to call them Resolutions. So that first week in January I decided to go with a “word” for 2020 and that word is “conquer”. I want to conquer all of my started knitted, crochet and cross stitch projects. I want to conquer all of my scrapbook kits and photos. I want to conquer some things in my personal life also. So conquer is a good word for me for 2020. And I have made some progress. On January 16 I finished a cross stitch project that has been in the works since 2016.

I have to apologize for the photos of her. They are from my phone and are not the greatest. For some reason I forgot to photograph her before I put her in for framing.

Just look at that large, beautiful bead that was made in Italy! So beautiful. It is quite bulky and I wasn’t going to add it, but then couldn’t resist as it is beautiful.

Here she is at my Local Needlework Shop, looking to find the perfect frame that is also deep enough to accommodate that bead. I think I chose well 🙂 Can’t wait for her to go to the framer and come back. I will be sure to take photos with my camera 😉 She is stitched on 16ct Aida Pink Impatiens from Silkweaver. All the threads are hand dyed The pattern is Wherefore Art Thou from Nora Corbett.

I almost have a knitting finish. I am so close. Like tomorrow I will probably finish it.

This is the Rainbow of Hope shawl from AJHC Wools. It is the advent shawl that I started on December 1. I have 1 1/2 more leftover micro skeins to add and it will be finished, aside from blocking. It is so big and so beautiful. The colors are so scrumptious! The pattern is available on Ravelry and some kits are available on her Etsy at http://www.ajhcwools.com

A couple of months ago I knitted a baby blanket for a friend, but didn’t want to post it until it had been gifted. Then I forgot to take pictures. I do have one photo of it all folded up:

This was made with Plymouth Encore yarn, held double. The pattern book said all the patterns could be made in 8 hours. Not true. Not for me anyway, and I am a pretty quick knitter. Maybe it could have been made in a weekend if that was all I did. But it is a blanket that could be made pretty quickly if you were in a pinch to get one done. I love how it turned out. It is soft and cuddly and I do love how the striping came out on this one.

Back in November, I went to my LYS and Clevergirl designs was having a pop up shop there. I just love her bags. She had 1 bag that she was introducing that day. Just one of them. A flat project bag with a clear front. Perfect for my cross stitch projects! So I snatched it up and told her I hoped she would make more in the future. Here is the bag I purchased:

Here is the back of the bag. Lots of squares sewn together. So cool.

I love these bags so much! And Hubby was with me when I bought this one. So guess what I received for Christmas?

Hubby asked Kristene of Clevergirl Designs if she would do a bag a month for a year and she said yes. I was so surprised when I opened this on Christmas morning. Hubby also gave me this for Christmas:

This one holds my current cross stitch project that I am working on. And on my birthday last week, I received my January bag.

I just love these bags. the clear window in the front allows me to see what is inside without having to open the bag. And they are so pretty and Kristine does such a great job on them.

Here is the next WIP project I have picked up to work on getting finished.

This is Aquamarina by Bella Filipina Designs. It feels good to be stitching on her again. I am hoping she will be my first Bella Filipina finish, soon. I am stitching her on 16ct aida, a one of a kind fabric from Fantasy Dyed Fabrics. I love it and think Aquamarina is going to look amazing on it.

Since last week was my birthday, Hubby took me to my LNS where I belong to their stitchy club. Included in the membership is a 20% off birthday shopping spree during your birthday month. So I picked up a few things 😉 Hubby went next door and bought me chocolate and then took me to dinner. The Clevergirl bag in the back ground arrived in the mail when I got home that day. I thought it was a nice background for my photo.

And I finally had my white birthday cake last night 🙂

I also have scrapbooked 20 pages this month. So I think I have a pretty good start to conquering the things I want to do in 2020. Do you have a word or a list for what you want to achieve in 2020?

cross stitch · Knitted Shawl · Knitting · Mermaids · mystery sampler · New stash! · Sampler · yarn

Happy Valentine’s Day!!

February 14, 2019 My Time Stitching31 Comments

Hello my blogging friends, and Happy Valentine’s Day! I hope you have a wonderful day however you celebrate this loving day. I can’t believe it’s February! I have been so busy and the days have just gotten away from me. I had so many days I wanted to post, and just didn’t get to it. So, this one may be a long one. Grab your favorite beverage and get comfy.

I suppose I should start with my birthday, that happened near the end of January. To celebrate, Hubby took me to a winery about 1 1/2 hours from our house. They just so happened to be having a Winter Wine and Wool festival the weekend of my birthday and I had decided that is what I wanted to do.

I was so excited to get there after the drive. If you know me, you know I don’t like being in a car on the highway. So nerve wracking.

This was my first time to an actual winery. This one was a very sweet, inviting place. Once inside, I made my way to the yarn and bag vendors. It was a very small place for an event like this. There was almost no room to get up and down the hallways. So I searched out the 2 main booths I wanted to shop at.

So many scrumptious yarns! See that yellow/orange and red cowl on the left? I picked up some mini skeins to make that. And a few other skeins to make a shawl.

Then I found the MidMitten Designs Project Bag Booth and purchased a bag and some small notions bags.

Love this new Sassy Style bag! There is already a project in it 😉 Then is was time for some wine tasting.

This was a Raspberry wine, perfect to pair with chocolate! Hello!! I came home with a bottle of this one and a Meade wine. Hubby spoiled me so much for my birthday. It was not so bad turning 55 😉

If you remember from one of my previous posts, we found out that we have to have our basement waterproofed. So hubby and I have been going through things, donating things, pitching things and putting things aside for our boys and hauling it all up and out to the garage. We have done quite a bit, but we are not going to be ready for the end of February, so we have moved it to April 1 with the contractor coming to remove the drywall and carpet the last week in March. I can’t believe how much we have accumulated in the 23 years we have been here. So we are still working on that a little at a time and in between, I am still stitching. So, lots to show you with that. First, I finished the Treasures of the Deep SAL.

Sorry about the blurry photo. Just couldn’t capture it right. But it is finished with all the hundreds of tiny beads. I have to admit, that looking at it from a certain angle, it looks a bit gaudy, but then from another angle it looks beautiful and sparkly.

I stayed up until 1:00 in the morning to finish it so I could take it to the cross stitch shop to put it in for framing. Here is the frame I chose for it:

I was not going to go with a gold frame, but nothing else seemed to work. I think this one will be perfect. And while I was there, a framing was ready to be picked up.

I absolutely LOVE how this turned out!! So beautiful. The frame is so perfect, too.

The weathering on this one matches perfectly with the variegated threads. Now I will need to find a place to hang this one, so I can see it all the time.

While in the cross stitch shop, I was inspired to start a new project; the 2019 Mystery Sampler. I had already ordered a piece of Graceful Gray 16ct Aida by Wichelt, which was there for me to pick up. On my last trip I had picked up a smaller piece of the fabric and a pink silk thread. I started stitching the peacock, but the pink was too light for the fabric. So I hadn’t thought anymore about color, until I was in the shop. And I saw the beautiful variegated thread that I thought would be perfect for a “Peacock Garden”, which is what the new sampler is called. The thread is Gloriana, a silk and the color is called Rain Forest. How perfect!!

I will use it for the borders. So I picked out a color that matched for my peacock. And this is what happened:

And look at that! I am using a Q-snap frame :O I am cringing that my aida fabric will be pretty wrinkled. I am not used to that with using a scroll frame. But I used this for the beading the last half of my mermaid SAL so I didn’t roll over the beads, and it worked pretty good. So I thought I would try it for this Mystery Sampler. Here is what the January and February sections will look like for this sampler:

It is different than the last 2 samplers. This one reminds me more of a Round Robin. I can’t wait to see what will end up in all of those squares. If you want to get in on this sampler (or the last 2) they are all FREE and put out by Linen and Threads. So sweet of them to do this. There is also a Facebook group where people from all over the world are stitching this and sharing and connecting. It’s awesome.

Now for my last project. On February 6, I started this project and was so excited:

By the end of the day, I was so frustrated with this project. It is the Floral Shawl from Woolenberry. I was just not coming up with the correct amount of stitches at the end of row 7. I knitted back several times, ripped out several times, and then just gave up. Then I decided to leave a comment on Ravelry for the designer to see if there was an update or to figure out what I was doing wrong. So after several emailings back and forth with the Sweet Janina Kallio, I kept trying. I arrived at row twenty something and thought I was doing well. My floral pattern didn’t really look right and I was still concerned about the yo ssk knit 3. It just wasn’t feeling right. I was ending up with a yo after the ssk. Anyway, a light bulb finally went off in my head yesterday and I finally figured out what I was doing wrong. I was knitting the ssk on the front needle instead of the back needle. What was I thinking? I knew better. All I can say is that it was a very senior moment. And after a week of frustration, I am happy to say that I am all straightened out and I have the correct stitch count and my floral pattern is looking lovely. I am using AJHC Wool’s Rhea.

If you look in the bag, I am almost up to the frogged strands.

So there you have it. I told you it would be a long post. I think I am all caught up now. If you are still with me, thank you 🙂 That is just about everything I have been up to. So now I want to hear what you have been up to? Have you started a new project? If not, what are you working on?

cross stitch · Hand Dyed Fabrics · Knitting · New stash! · Passione Ricamo · Uncategorized · yarn

Extra Hour of Stitching

November 5, 2018 My Time Stitching19 Comments

Hello my blogging friends. This last weekend we turned the clocks back an hour for Daylight Savings Time. So now it will get darker earlier and be lighter earlier in the morning. I used my extra hour wisely. By stitching 😉

In between laundry yesterday, and with my extra hour, I was able to finish the bottom half of the dress, minus the beads. This piece is so wonderful to stitch on. I am loving every stitch and do not want to put it down. But this morning I put her away so that I can get to stitching on the November section of the Mystery Sampler. For those seeing this one for the first time, it is Dawn, the Fairy Spirit of Grace by Passione Ricamo. I am stitching her on 16ct Aida Tintagel from Fabrics by Stephanie. It truly is a gorgeous piece of fabric. The next time I pull her out, I do hope to finish her. I plan on stitching her without the wings, just because I think she looks like a Princess. My Pink Princess.

This weekend, I also fell off the wagon 😦 After going through all of my knitting and crochet projects and writing them all down and organizing them, I put myself on the “Do Not Buy More Yarn” list. Well, my local yarn shop was celebrating their 1 year anniversary and having a trunk show with AJHC Wools yarns and a bag show. I couldn’t resist either! Here is what I purchased:

The yarn is from a gal in Michigan who dyes her own yarns. There were so many beautiful yarns, I had trouble deciding. But I settled on a peach yarn with orange to rust speckles called “Rhea”. I will be using it on the shawl pattern which I have been eyeing from Janina Kallio of Woolenberry called Floral. It is a beautiful lacy shawl with a sweet picot edging. It is available on Ravelry if you are interested. Woolenberry has the most beautiful shawl patterns. I can tell this one will take my undivided attention. No tv watching on this one! And this makes #62 in my stash of projects! I do have a serious problem, but no judging!

The bag is from Mid Mitten Designs, and I just LOVE the clear window in the front. There were 3 different size bags, this one being the middle sized one. They are a bit pricey, but are very well made. It is perfect for holding this project until I am ready to get started on it. My husband says I can’t start it until I get the other 61 projects done. Ha Ha Ha! I am so tempted to start it now, but I will have to wait a bit as I am still having issues with my elbows. I am trying to be patient, but it is taking so long.

So, how much yarn is in your projects or cross stitch projects are in your stash? I’d love to hear about them 🙂

Craft projects · cross stitch · Fabric · Hand Dyed Fabrics · Mermaids · New stash! · Passione Ricamo

Did I Stitch in November?

December 9, 2016 My Time Stitching23 Comments

Wow, I barely remember November! Where did it go so quickly? Well, I do remember stitching some. Still working on Mermaid and here she is after last night.

I swear when I go to bed at night, her hair grows a few more strands! Just a tad bit more hair and I will be done the stitching. Hopefully that will happen tonight and I can move onto the backstitching and beading. I am glad I have stuck with her so far to almost finishing. She is going to be so worth every stitch. I already have my next project lined up. Just waiting on fabric. I will share it when I get a start on it.

So let me share what I have acquired lately. First, some beauties from Fantasy Dyed Fabrics:

I don’t have anything in mind for them, I just really liked them and had to add them to my stash.

Next, my newest bag set from Deanna’s Frame Covers and Storage. I found this fabric while at Joann Fabrics and new it had to be a bag set.

I love birds and pink so this fabric jumped right out at me. This set includes a bag for 11 x 11 Q-snap frame, a little zippered pouch, perfect for threads and things and a grime guard for my 11 x 11 Q-snap frame. I will use this set with my next project.

And this beauty arrived in my mailbox the other day:

It is Ceridwen, November Fabric of the Month from Hand Dyes Fabrics by Stephanie. It is 16ct Aida and I LOVE the beautiful pinks and grays in this one. Not sure what I will stitch on it, but it will be something special.

This year, hubby let me do a themed Christmas tree, not the hodge podge of ornaments we usually do. I wanted pink, and while hubby really didn’t want pink, he was willing to drive me over an hour to Bronners Christmas store, but I declined. I decided we would go shop together, locally. I fell in love with the black, white, gold and silver gift wrapping and bows and boxes. So while I was drooling over all that stuff, hubby disappeared only to return with the ornaments for our themed tree-Silver, gold, gray, dark gray and glitter!

We found some additional ornaments, but couldn’t find a tree skirt we liked. And the traditional red and green one we have is not going to work. So, next stop, Joann fabrics where I found all of these sweet fabrics so I can make a new tree skirt:

I think all of these fabrics will be beautiful together (minus the blue with snowflakes, LOL). I am hoping to get a start on it this weekend. I will be sure to post pictures.

So that is what I have been up to. I still have decorating to finish. Yesterday I made 50 Christmas cards, so I still have to sign and address those and get them in the mail. I also have shopping to finish up and sewing to do. Hopefully I will get it all done soon so I can relax and enjoy December while it is still here. What are you up to these December days?

cross stitch · Knitting · Mirabilia · New stash! · Uncategorized · yarn

Near To a Finish and Some New Stash!

July 26, 2016 My Time Stitching36 Comments

It’s been a busy couple of weeks. And I have been working pretty hard on Aphrodite. Her hair is amazing, but is taking me so long to finish!

Just look at that gorgeous hair! There are many gorgeous colors in that hair. I’ve worked on it the last 2 nights and I am hoping to finish that hair tonight and get to the backstitching and hopefully to adding some beads! She is going to be Fabulous!!

So this last weekend, hubby and I took a day trip to Port Huron in Michigan. We went to a craft place that I have been wanting to visit for years!!! Mary Maxim. Have you ever received one of their catalogs in the mail? I have, for so many years. And finally, I went to see the store. Love their sign out front.

Isn’t that just the coolest sculpture to hold their sign? Love it! I spent quite a bit of time in there. Looking at yarn and afghan and baby blanket kits. I couldn’t decide what to get! Lots of other craft items there, too. But I was obsessed with all the yarn 😉

Look at that long aisle of yarn!! So many skeins to feel and squeeze and so many colors! This is what I actually ended up getting:

2 skeins of a scarf yarn (yes I am addicted to scarf yarn) that I have never tried before. They will be fun to knit. A skein of Lion Brand Shawl in a Ball and pattern. Maybe I can actually knit this one up since I am still at a stand still with the other 2 shawls I started. The Knit Pink book really caught my eye 😉 It is full of fabulous patterns (yes in pink) and I fell in love with a knitted afghan that I want to make for my younger son and his girlfriend for X-mas. I couldn’t find a tweed yarn at Mary Maxim, so I ordered some this morning from LoveKnitting. I also LOVE the scarf on the cover, but can’t find the yarn called for…yet 🙂 I think it is an Italian yarn. But if I can’t find it, it is a bamboo yarn, so I may find something else I like.

I also found some scrapbook paper and a small bobbin box for my cross stitch threads. Can’t seem to find the little boxes at the craft stores anymore.

After leaving Mary Maxim, hubby took me to Fort Gratiot, where I saw my very first Lighthouse, Ft. Gratiot Light. It is actually the oldest lighthouse in Michigan, built in 1829 and stands 86 feet tall.

The light was automated in 1933 and still guides ships today on Lake Huron into the St. Clair River.

Beautiful Lake Huron. This was on Saturday, and the temperature was a muggy 98 degrees. There were lots of boats on the lake and the beaches were packed.

This is the St. Clair River. The bluest, most beautiful water I have ever seen! It actually took my breath away. This river flows under the the bridge from Michigan to Canada, rightfully called the Bluewater Bridge.

My sweet husband. Posing in front of the beautiful blue waters and Bluewater Bridge.

Just a stone’s throw away from our neighbors in Canada. I love this photo.

So, if you are still with me, thank you for re-living my weekend to Port Huron. I hope I haven’t bored you. It was a wonderful day and I have some great memories and some fun new stash. So now I am going to go work on Aphrodite and hopefully have a finish to show you next time. What are stitching today?

Black Forest Pixies · cross stitch · Fabric · Hand Dyed Fabrics · New stash! · Nora Corbett · Pixie

A Pixie Finish and More Fabric

May 31, 2016 My Time Stitching21 Comments

Isn’t she a sweetie? I finished her Sunday night. She was a pretty quick stitch, taking me only 19 days! I just love her and can’t wait to get her framed. She is Blossom Collector by Nora Corbett. She is one of the Black Forest Pixie’s and my first Black Forest finish. I stitched her on 16ct Aida one of a kind by Fantasy Dyed Fabrics. Here are a few more pictures of her:

Speaking of Fantasy Dyed Fabrics, I picked up a few more of her beautiful fabrics:

This one is a beauty! 16ct Aida in Blues and purples with a hint of brown and cream. Love it! I have plans to stitch Nora Corbett’s Sweet Pea Pixie on this one. I also picked up this one:

This one is 28ct Monaco, beautiful blue and white with a hint of purple. I do love the colors, but this fabric looks like linen to me and not sure I would ever stitch on it. I do not like linen at all.

I also special ordered this one:

I think that this has to be my most favorite color combination; pink, blue, green all in pastels. I do keep coming back to this combination. This 16ct Aida piece was a bit small for what I wanted, so I have re-ordered a 2nd piece 🙂 And I am keeping this one. I just couldn’t send it back! I LOVE it too much. This one I plan on using for 2 of Nora’s beautiful Pixies: Lily and Rose. The other larger piece that I will receive is for a Joan Elliott mermaid. If you haven’t checked out Fantasy Dyed Fabrics, or haven’t visited this week, check it out! She is always adding more beautiful fabrics and this week she added some gorgeous Opals!

So now I am back to stitching on Aphrodite mermaid and still loving her and her colors. I will post an update photo of her this week. So what project are you working today?

Crochet · Fabric · Hand Dyed Fabrics · New stash! · yarn

New Fabric and Yarn Stash

May 20, 2016 My Time Stitching21 Comments

I recently told you about a new dyer come to town; Fantasy Dyed Fabrics. I received 4 beautifully dyed fabrics from her yesterday and just have to share the beauties with you.

Just look at those beauties!! All 4 are 16ct Aida and about 14 x 15 in size. Perfect size for Mirabilia Pixies or fairies 😉 I have an idea what I will put on the top left one, but will have to test that out at a later date. The others will be ready when the right Pixie comes to mind. If you are looking for one of a kind hand dyed pieces, check out Fantasy Dyed Fabrics on Facebook and on Etsy. What you see is what you get, great prices and quick shipping. And check back often as she is always putting up new fabrics as she dyes them. I have 2 more pieces on the way and can’t wait to see them in person. I already have designs in mind to stitch on them both. I will share when they arrive.

My next stash share is a ton of yarn!

I ordered all of this Stylecraft yarn from Loveknitting.com for a special project; a Faded Painted Rose Blanket by Sandra Paul.

Isn’t it just gorgeous? I just swoon every time I see it. I have never crocheted a granny square and have only ever made a flower or two, but I really want to tackle this project. If you want to read more about it and where to get the pattern, you can read about it on the Cherry Heart Blog here. Now that all my yarn has arrived, I hope to get started on my first square next week. Wish me luck 🙂

What new products have you added to your stash pile recently?

Category: New stash!

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