It was a relatively slow week, stitch-wise. Our church's VBS started today, and I spent a lot of the preparing for that! I did get some stitching in, though. Almost finished up the standing pilgrim on my Coming to America piece . . .
I have about 90 minutes of free time from my last VBS music rotation to the closing rally, so I'll take this project with me and work on it each night. Maybe I'll have all *three* pilgrims on the boat finished by week's (or VBS's) end.
I am still unpacking and organizing things from the move . . . especially Nook things. In doing some of that, I came across this little snowflake embroidery that was ninety percent finished . . .
What in the world? I started this in December, 2019. I know this because I blogged about it, sharing this photo . . .
I was flummoxed! It was SO close to being done. I'd pulled up the blog photo to see exactly which metalic flossed I'd used. Once I'd found that, I began to stitch up the remaining gold spires. That's when I remembered. I had used a new product—Sulky's Stick & Stitch Stablizer. The project got too close to a hot iron, and it shrunk the stabilizer, so the pattern wasn't right. I pulled out my new stitches and soaked the embroidery to get rid of the stabilizer. I left it out overnight to dry . . .
Not terrible! I'd lost the pattern, so I "winged" it. (Not to fear. I contacted Mary Corbet of
Needle 'n Thread, from whom I'd purchased it, and she emailed me the pattern file today. Thanks, Mary!!) I hosted a stitcher's group for my Sassy girls on Saturday, and finished up the stitching on it then.
It's not great, because my winging it wasn't great, but I'm glad it's finished. I don't remember what my original plans were, but I've got some great metalic Christmas fabrics that I think I'll frame it with!
Another thing I found was a bag of HST pieces from my Christmas quilt. Those weren't quite as old as the embroidery, but still date back a couple of years or so. I laid them out a couple of different ways to decide how I wanted to stitch them together. I came up with Harlequin Christmas, Jack-in-the-Box Christmas, and Pinwheel Christmas:
I'm leaning toward the Pinwheels, but all three have eye interest. It's a mini piece ... about big enough for a center table mat.
In other news . . . more important news . . . family news: granddaughter Olivia graduated from elementary to middle school *and* was awarded Student of the Year! Pictured here with my James:
So very proud of her!! Isn't she just beautiful?!
And finally, because we all know what a sucker I am for a sunset, here was the view from my balcony on Friday evening . . .
It was pretty brilliant there, but to the south it was soft pink and blue . . . cotton candy skies! The whole western horizon was glorious!
I'll spend the rest of the week singing and dancing all our Magnified VBS tunes. Crooning!
:)
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Counted cross stitch is very slow stitching. I'd forgotten how much goes into one of those projects. Yeah for finishing off the embroidery UFO. You've got some fun plans for the HSTs. Looks like you are getting back into the stitching /sewing stuff as you find it.
Agreed on the x stitch - and I'm finding it gets slower and slower all the time! :-D! Love your Christmas colors - a sucker for anything Christmas! Do you have enough HSTs to maybe do all 3 patterns for your table topper? Blessings!
Good luck finishing the pilgrims in the boat. I enjoy doing cross stitch but it always takes me so long to do.
I am impressed with your progress on both of the stitching projects.
I lean toward the pinwheels, too. But anything you do with them will be festive.
Congrats to Olivia on being Student of the Year! That must make a grandma proud!
So glad you still have a view of sunsets from your balcony!
Your cross stitch boat looks like the boat in our harbor!! Fabulous!! Your grand-daughter is darling and a big congrats to her!! And your son is not bad looking either!! Tee! Hee!
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