Part 3 of the Mystery SAL and update of photos

This is from Arcadia in France

From Meari 

From Annika in Sweden

This is from Char

From Anna, she is so creative in her photographs

From Cemavi in France

Thank you everyone for sharing all of your work, I am just catching up on my emails. I had a great time in Ocean City MD at Salty Yarns giving a class. I will post photos tomorrow and share more.  I had to bring hubby to the hospital yesterday and came home last night and then we had an earthquake. Just enough to shake the house and make us think that the furnace exploded and the house was rumbling but all is well.  I am sure you are waiting for the 3rd part of the SAL. I am sharing some of your work first

This is from Raffaella in the Dolomiti Mountains

This is part 1&2 from Amanda in Cornwall UK

 So here is part #3 -  click on the word SALPART3 to be directed to the location for the chart.
This is fun seeing all of your work, have a good night
donna

Part 2 of the Free Mystery SAL

Happy Wednesday to all of you. Here is part 2 of the SAL for Fall. I hope you are joining us and enjoying this FALL thank you from me to you for following me on this blog. Click on the word SALPART2 to be taken to the download for this chart. Well I am getting ready to head to Ocean City MD to visit everyone at Salty Yarns and give my class. Cant wait but I still have so much left to do so I am off to get ready and send me those pictures of your progress on the SAL.
donna

more to share.......

I am finally opening some e-mails that I have had for a while and I found a beautiful surprise. This is from Lynda and she shared a photo of a freebie that I gave away a few years ago. I just love the frame and thank you Lynda for sharing this with me :)

This is from Catherine from France and she is already for another section tomorrow. It looks  great

This is from Jill and she used DMC Variations 4130 instead of WDW 2234, she also did the Rhodes stitch in the lawn . 

This is from Cemavi and she lives in France close to Paris.  She used Newcastle fabric Zweigart grey

This is from Donna and she used skylight blue perforated paper and changed the clouds from Ecru to

 DMC 168

thank you everyone for sharing these with us. I really enjoy hearing from everyone

have a good day and until tomorrow

donna

This one is from Anna, she lives in Minsk, Belarus. 

She used 32ct Belfast linen color 309 and DMC Variations for the leaves color 4130

Looking good :)

next Bird of a Funky Feather idea & progress on the SAL

This is from Char and it is her progress,I love her color choices. Here are her changes: she used steel grey cashel linen.  Substituted for the WDW 2234 to Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe - variegated peach dark.   Also changed the DMC 3371 to GAST dark chocolate.

I also wanted to share with you that the next :Birds of a Funky Feather is going to be a partridge with pears. This would be great for Christmas too and I will have a surprise for you in this chart.So watch for peeks !
Have a good day
donna

First Pic from the SAL

I received a picture from Amanda of her finished section already, I love it and here are some of the changes she made. It is stitched on a 28ct greyish linen fabric and she used a gorgeous Annick Abrial cotton floss for the leaves (Ocre de Provence) and used GAST limited edition Smores for the branches instead of the DMC 3371.
  Thank you Amanda for sharing.

New Free Mystery SAL For my blog readers :) starts today!!!

Welcome to our Fall SAL.I think everyone enjoyed the summer one so much that I said I would have one for Halloween but that changed to Fall. I do hope you enjoy this one.

• The stitch count is 84 x 56. If you do this on 28ct linen or 14ct Aida it will be a 6 x 4 and this would fit great in a 7x5 frame. This design is wider than taller.
•  I would choose a grey color fabric for an autumn sky and you want to make sure the clouds will show up,  they are Ecru. 
• Also do all of the stitching first for all of the 4 sections that you will be downloading. You will save the long stitches for the tree branches, fence, sheep, and pumpkin stems for last, This way you can tape all of your charts together and that will make it so much easier for you to do that all at once, :) 
• I also suggest that maybe for the pumpkins you could do a Rhodes stitch or maybe you could still cross stitch the area but after you could make long straight stitches over them to give more dimension to your pumpkins. 
• I also suggested Weeks Dye Works #2234 "Autumn Leaves" for the leaves in the tree and the pumpkins but if you have another over-dyed floss or fall color that you would like please substitute it. 
• In the part of the lawn that I used DMC 830 on you will notice that I have small squares with DMC 829. I did this because you know how much I love dimension and the Rhodes stitch is one of my favorite along with french knots. So maybe you could use a Rhodes stitch or if you do not like any other stitches but cross stitch then feel free to use cross stitches in these areas. 
• Here is a floss list for you: DMC: Ecru, 160, 502, 613, 742, 829, 830, 832, 834, 3371,  Weeks Dye Works #2234 Autumn Leaves
• The charts will be on-line every Wednesday for 4 weeks starting today.

I will be adding all of your pics that you send to me of your progress on our SAL page, please be patient if I do not get to them right away, I am going to be doing some teaching during this time so I am a bit busy. But I am doing this because I enjoy hearing from all of you and I appreciate you. This is not a SAL that you have to sign up for it is free to everyone. But if you are stitching along with us it would be great if you did  reply to this post and tell me so that I have an idea of how many people are with us.
Thank you for joining this SAL. I hope you enjoy it and you can send me pics to stitchbythebay at g mail dot com ,
donna

Click on the word SAL to be directed to the chart in PDF form and print from home, 

Getting Ready for the SAL, Happy news, sad news

I am almost ready for the SAL to share with you, The sad news is that it is not really Halloween. I just could not get in that mood for designing lately but it is for fall. I hope you will like it. It will be in four sections and the stitch count is 84 wide by 56 high. If done on 14 ct or 28ct linen it will fit great in a 5x7 frame.  I also used a Weeks dye for the fall leaves, I am sorry I still have more photos to add to the summer SAL and I need to catch up on that.
So I am off to do errands and drop off models for classes. Have a good day and I will post the first part of the Fall SAL tonight :)
donna

Stumpwork, wool work class for Salty Yarns,

Happy Thursday, I have been working on the class for Salty Yarns. I redid the flower once, redid the center of the flower 2x's, redid the stem, and redid the leaves. Yes, I keep trying until I find something I like. I dont give up, just pull it apart, throw it away, and start again. So I am happy with it, just a couple of finishing touches on hanging it around your neck or just leaving it for your purse. It's either for  glasses, or scissors and it even has an extra pocket inside for a little stash of cash or a money card :) I have seen some photos of blue poppies and that is what I made, I do love the orange ones but the blue was calling me. So this class has a little stumpwork and some wool too. I hope every one will enjoy it, and I am off to make kits, load models, and pack charts.
Unitl tomorrow
donna

Just opened my new By The Bay Crochet Art Shop

 


Good evening everyone. I just opened my new shop dedicated to crochet. It is so hard finding available names for blogs and Etsy to match but I did. Since this is called By The Bay Needle Art my other is called By The Bay Crochet Art. Easy to remember :). I have only 4 flowers posted so far but much more to finish fixing and adding to the shop. These are all my own patterns and designs with little accessories added. I might sell the patterns in the future but not yet. I love to stitch but I can not see so well at night even with my OTT light, so to make it less stressful I crochet in the evenings and this is my little shop to share all of my creations. So please take a look and check back often, I will be adding more flowers and other delights soon. Have a good night
donna