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wanted to stitch this sampler for years so i m glad to finally get it done i just have the bottom part and border to finish i changed a lot on this sampler i substituted several of the colors and as i went along i stopped following the colors on the chart and just made things whatever color i wanted the book says this was charted from an antique sampler and there were lots of missing letters letters out of sequence etc i added in some of the missing letters and corrected the letter sequence i just can t leave things alone but i cause myself a lot of extra work here s my progress the list of things needing framing is starting to get too much on it again framing costs are so high i like to get museum glass on my pieces and it s so expensive also i ve been stitching for almost 40 years and i have about 60 framed pieces not all of them are on display because many are seasonal or holiday pieces but what am i going to do with all of this i m not going to have room to keep adding to the collection constantly so i try to figure out other things to do with some of the finished pieces my dh and i are planning to downsize to a smaller home over the next year also so i have to keep that in mind too not to mention all the quilts i have too good thing i only have 2 hobbies posted by jeanne at 10 34 am 35 comments friday april 29 2016 another ufo killed off happy friday readers i m happy to report some progress with my ongoing efforts to finish off some of my old stitching ufo s that have been sitting around my sewing room for years back in 2008 i started one of those house and garden neighborhood samplers as a member of a group blog that vonna from the twisted stitcher blog was organizing it wasn t a round robin each person designed and stitched their own piece as usual i got carried away planning the piece i had big plans to do 3 rows of houses and gardens on a huge piece of linen below is a photo showing how far this project ever got everybody was in love with a big sampler someone in france had done with a prairie schooler birdhouse sunflowers in the middle the chart with that birdhouse prairie schooler garden samplers was going for almost 50 on ebay at the time way more than i wanted to pay but i wanted a birdhouse like everyone else instead i found a 6 dimensions chart of birdhouses at joanns and added my own sunflowers to it as time went on i lost interest in this bap but i didn t want to just throw out all the work i had done i thought at one time of filling it in with more houses and stuff in order to make the piece a semi circular shape i had to save the birdhouse part in the middle but even that was too much work and never got done last year i tediously frogged out part of that tree on the bottom so i could cut out the log cabin scene the birdhouse and the little red millhouse i had designed here s what i did with those salvaged pieces of stitching the birdhouse was made into a little summer wallhanging i finished the little red millhouse with a pond and made it into a project bag i like to design and print coordinated business cards that i use as labels on my bags these cards have little willow trees across the top the prairie schooler log cabin scene i made into a cube style finish it felt great to kill off this big old ufo and i salvaged some remnants of linen i can use for other projects it s all good i m also making progress on my old teresa wentzer fruit bellpull this project is really tedious it s taken me almost 6 weeks to do my 3rd block the cherries it s been my tv project for the evenings when dh and i are watching tv this piece as designed has 6 blocks but there s no way i m going to do all 6 i ve changed the order of the blocks from the design and i m going to do one more block and call it done i think 4 blocks will be fine that cherries block was a real pain here s a photo of what it looks like on the pattern book and below it is my piece in the photo from the chart you can see a lot more color in the shading especially of the cherry stems i m using all the dmc as it s charted and i kitted this up over 10 years ago so i know it s not that the dmc dyelots have changed i m just disappointed that the shading is so muted i had to go over some of the cherry stems with another shade of brown because you could hardly see them after i stitched them thankfully the last block i ve picked to do looks easier than those cherries photo of cherries block from the book i m using in real life those brownish gold shades are muddied greens and the cherries are not reddish but more purple pink my progress 3 blocks done one more to go i ve got 2 more little finishes to share another project bag made out of a bbd freebie i recycled it had been a pincushion but i didn t like how i had finished it years back so i put it into a project bag instead and i ve finished off another ornament piece into a little pillow for the holiday bowl bbd eiffel tower freebie from a few years back now part of a project bag christmas tree is a motif from sue hillis designs my favorite things that s all for today i m off to start on my final block of the fruit bellpull but i m itching to start a new project it takes discipline to work on these old ufo s but i m getting there slowly but surely thanks for visiting posted by jeanne at 10 57 am 25 comments tuesday april 05 2016 this stitching obsession a tour of my xs world sometimes i can t believe how big of a part stitching plays in my life it s not just the stitching but the organizing storing cataloging etc but i can t help myself i use my home computer a lot i keep my inventory of charts in excel have lots of finishing tutorials in word documents have hundreds and hundreds of photos i ve saved from online that inspire me my own pinterest board i guess you d call it keep a wish list of things to buy a list of all the projects i ve done and what i used as far as linen and flosses a file of free and purchased digital patterns etc etc here s some photos from my craft room and beyond am i the only one this crazy here s some photos of my stitching obsession my dmc storage i have one drawer with all my dmc i use drawer dividers i bought online and love how quickly i can pull floss and put it back when done overdyed and silk flosses live on rings on my pegboard i need to be able to pull my rings and search for colors so i don t keep them like my dmc floss i have 2 big file drawers filled with charts in folders by designer or theme smaller charts are stored in binders i got on sale at an office supply store two drawers of linen storage why do i keep buying more some of my kitted up projects waiting their turn a box just for all those cute mill hill kits i need to stop buying more stash a drawer full of q snaps and tools another drawer with some of my finishing supplies trims pins and things i make padded storage bags for all my framed pieces that aren t on permanent display in my home mostly seasonal items i try to match the bag fabric to the theme christmas halloween etc i have a spot on the front of each bag for a label showing a photo and name of the piece so i know what s in each bag i see our dog abby snuck into one corner of the photo snoozing on one of her many beds throughout the house all the storage bags plus some of my quilts live in this armoire in my bedroom i have too much stuff to even put out in my house a box under my bed full of christmas cross stitch items don t want my stitched items living in the hot garage all summer another one of the drawers with bags of finished items grouped together by theme patriotic etc sometimes it seems that xs is taking over my house i have had some more finishes since i last posted and i want to thank all of you for your nice comments on my previous post i was having some email issues getting my comments mailed to me so i didn t answer most of them but i appreciate them i did finally finish my old nantucket sampler from little house needleworks took me about a year since starting it with some breaks when i got tired of working on it sometimes most of you may have already seen it if you re a member of the lhn facebook group one of these days i ll get it framed but i need to save up a bit i stitched it on the recommended wdw cocoa linen but used 35 ct instead of the 30 ct called for as i didn t want it to be so big i used most of the charted flosses with a couple of substitutions below is labor for learning by plum street sampler this is a petite sampler about 6 x 6 it was fun to stitch a couple of ornament finishes below from jan feb trying to get at least one ornament stitched every month but sometimes i get behind on the finishing the top one is by lizzie kate the bottom is a motif from the favorite things chart by sue hillis designs here is a little stitched piece i did at the spring 2015 pss retreat in williamsburg va it was from a class taught by lori brechlin instead of making the necklace pouch lori designed i decided to make my stitched piece into a pincushion instead and i added a little stitched remembrance on the back i m making progress on my bag of stuff that needs finishing work lol i also picked up 2 quilts that i had quilted by a longarm quilter i use she does beautiful work and really makes my quilt tops look good the first one below is a t shirt quilt for my husband he has tons of t shirts he s saved and enough to make 3 quilts this is the first one i ve done for him which has a places i ve visited theme i m currently working on a second one for him that s going to use up the miscellaneous t shirts and the third t shirt quilt will be sports themed i m getting better at these with all this practice close up of the geometric quilting pattern i love how this quilt turned out this is a little lap quilt i made for myself the pattern is called friendship braid it s a fun quilt to make i had a hard time getting a decent photo of it but it s pretty colors and very feminine i just got back on from a weekend quilting retreat will have photos of those projects on my next post i wasn t able to go to the 2016 pss retreat in georgia that s a long way from arizona and i didn t want to spend the money this year but i had fun at my quilting weekend with friends here instead i m hoping next year i can go to the pss annual retreat so i need to start saving for it meanwhile i m plugging away on a couple of stitching ufo s and some more ornaments i feel good about the progress i m making on reducing the pile of old projects lying around and i m almost done with the backlog of items that needed finishing work it s all good have a great stitching week everyone i m off to go visit some of your blogs now posted by jeanne at 11 25 am 32 comments tuesday march 15 2016 a few finishes to celebrate enjoying a nice quiet tuesday today with no errands or appointments to go to time to update my blog and get some good stitching time in recently got 2 more pieces back from the framers both of these had been sitting around for months waiting i always get museum glass on my framed pieces but it sure increases the price that s the one thing about stitching that really adds up i m very happy with how both of them came out and glad to get them off the framing pile here s strawberry fields forever by blackbird designs and finally got this big one below done this is frosty forest by country cottage needleworks i took some liberties with the design on this piece i modifed the blue house block to make it into a millhouse with water wheel designed my own center block using some trees and bears from an lhn chart i had and i charted my own border using a snippet of pine bough from a lhn chart and adding random snow love the frame as it has a brighter silver tone on the part of it that goes well with the white floss in the piece i added a closeup photo of one corner i also recently did some finishing work for a stitching pal thought you might enjoy seeing these cute pieces this is a prairie schooler piece made into an ornament a cute scissor fob and a christmas bird made into an easel finish did everybody enjoy the downton abbey finale i thought they did a great job so happy that there were so many happy endings edith finally finds love anna mr bates have their baby and even daisy on the verge of having a new beau i hated to see the series end but guess it was time a few years back i received a boxed set of seasons 1 4 for christmas so now i need to pick up seasons 5 and 6 to complete the set i think i ll wait until the prices come down though i saw season 5 in a store and the price was more than the entire 1 4 seasons set prices on dvds and blu rays are trending downward as more people use streaming and on demand for viewing that s good for me as i ve been picking up lots of cheap movies on clearance lately i ve been working on this quaker sampler over the last week and making some good progress this was a piece that was on my wish list to do for years and i finally started it last year i think i kind of went through love hate phases with this piece for awhile i was sorry i even started it as i wasn t liking it that much but now that i m just about halfway through i m liking it again i m stitching this with silks on 40 ct mystery linen from my stash odd thing though this linen looks like a neutral beige by day but at night it looks light green must have some greenish tones in the dye i guess emblem of love by with my needle i m also making a little progress on block 3 of fruit bellpull doesn t look like much but i m happy every time i can hilite a little bit that s done on my chart all the leaves take forever to do in a zillion shades of green keeping busy as usual with appointments for this and that got new glasses and i m getting a series of 5 injections for my knee arthritis so far i m not feeling any improvement yet and this treatment is very expensive but i m hopeful the doctor says some people don t get any relief until a month or so after the injections are finished dh is heading out of town tomorrow to go see some of the ncaa basketball tournament games in denver i plan on having a 4 day marathon of stitching sewing and movie watching the weather here is beautiful and hope the rest of you are starting to get some nice spring days posted by jeanne at 11 13 am 28 comments tuesday february 23 2016 long time no post well there went my 2016 blogging resolution but i ll try to catch up a bit here life has been busy dh and i went up to las vegas for a weekend in january to see john fogerty in concert at the venetian hotel casino it was a terrific show and we really enjoyed it we re heading up there again in april to see george strait in concert i ve always wanted to see him but never got around to it and i m so glad he s come out of retirement to do some shows in las vegas fortunately for us it s only about a 4 5 hour drive so we enjoy going up there for weekend shows i didn t finish this in time for christmas but got it done about a week later this is merry christmas by all through...