Finally Doing An Update

Hello Everyone,  Finally an update,  Things have been rather busy here my DH has passed 4 kidney stones within the past 2 weeks and just before that I had surgery.  So that is part of the reason I have been quiet. It has been really super hot here too  highs in the 90'sF and even one day 100.  The heat isn't so bad but the humility has been awful, like walking into a blast furnace even at night.    I have been busy stitching I've  stitched 4 small samplers by Homespun Elegance.  Really fast to stitch the all have charms on them but I still need one for the sampler with the flag. I have now gone back to my Coca Cola Santa at least until I decide that I am going onto something else.  The Santa is one stitch of this and 3 stitches of that!  Anyway here are pictures of the samplers and Santa.

Finally Finished...................

Well here it is Sunflower House is finally done!  I changed it,  I didn't like the way the blanket stitch looked around the edge and it was also supposed to have blanket stitch and lazy daisy stitch in the flowers above the house.  anyway here is the finished project.  Now I have to decide what's next on my stitching agenda.  It has been too hot and humid here to do much of anything else.  Today is cooler than it has been in days, only 86F or 30C  Over the weekend and the rest of next week it will be 92F or 30C  I hope you like Sunflower House I will look forward to your comments.

Back Into Stitching Again

Well it has been a long time since I have updated my blog.  For some reason I haven't been doing much stitching.  I seem to have been having a hard time getting myself to pick up my needle but once I do I seem to get a lot done.  I did most of the stitching on Sunflower House the past couple of weeks.  I would really like to get it done so I could move onto other things.

Hopefully my next update will be a finished Sunflower House

Update Sunflower House By Cathy Jean for Victoria Sampler

Hello Everyone,
Here it is finally an update on Sunflower House.  It is going slow but sure. I haven't been feeling my best and neither has DH.  Seems like this Spring has not been kind to us.  But things have to improve don't they? LOL  I had to go for a doctors appointment in Indianapolis last week and to make the day better my friend and I went to LNS and I purchased all the supplies to do "Singing Free"  By Cathy Jean here is a picture of it http://www.victoriasampler.com/Catalogue/Cathy_Jean_Designs/cjvs13.aspx I have seen others at the site that I really would like to stitch, so I might be spending more money:0)  I am doing "Singing Free" for my cousin as she has donkeys.  I also got "A Patriot's Sampler"  By Midsummer Night Designs.  This one is for me for a change!!  the Lady that does these designs has a really nice blog with some free charts too.  So if you get a chance check it out.  http://stitchingandscribbling.blogspot.com

Armed Forces Day

Hello Everyone no stitching update right now maybe later today.  Who knows??  I have not been feeling my best but I am going to try and do some stitching this afternoon.  I have to have surgery this coming Friday it is out patient so no big deal really.

Anyway today us Armed Forces Day and my DH is retired Air Force so decided it would be a good time to try and honor our troops even if only in a small way.  Hope you enjoy my background and the music.

Hugs
Mary Louise

Blog Moderation

Hello Everyone I had a nasty comment on my blog and they told me I had sent something unwanted but they didn't post their name so no way I would know who they were.  So I have changed my setting to moderate comments.  Sorry for this and I didn't send the email to this person.  I did receive it but didn't forward it.  Wish people if they send something like what was posted would be brave enough to reply with their name!  Sorry I have had to do this.

An Update Finally

Here it is over a month since my last update, I was hoping to have more done on my current stitching project but just seem to be having a go slow:0) For one I have been reading a lot, I am reading the Cape Light series by Thomas Kinkade.  Back to my stitching.   I'm working on a Victoria Sampler chart and really enjoying it.  It is a design by Cathy Jean called "Sunflower House".  It has some specialty stitches but nothing too hard, except for I'm not sure about the center of the Sunflowers around the house, they are blanket stitch done in a sort of circle and I have never tired that before.  The floss used is a combination of Gentle Art Sampler Threads, Weeks Dye Works, Dinky Dyes Silks, And Vikki Clayton Silks.  The silks are a lot of fun but you most certainly have to make sure your hands are smooth because the silk will catch on the lest little thing.  Good reason not to wash dishes by hand! LOL