Stitch An Inch Spring Orni Finishing IDEA Day #1

Good morning, 

I am going to be sharing my peeks and finishing ideas for some spring ornaments.

You are invited to come back for the next 10 days to view my finishes. There are 9 Stitch An Inch designs and I will share 1 a day, but for the first day I am sharing with you some of  the supplies  I used. 

I used some upholstery fabric that I had samples of and gathered up buttons and beads.

Matching  stitched pieces with fabric choices and fibers. 

What could I be making ?

check back tomorrow for a look at a finished ornament or ?

Section #3 flying in tomorrow evening very late :)

A little pun on words :). Yes section #3 of the "Serenity Harbor Sampler" will be sent out Monday night very late so you will have them by the 3rd. This section has the 3 seaside birds flying in for a visit :)

Here is a delivery I received last week. The delivery person left it in the snow and never knocked on the door to tell us it was there, we were home and it was a good thing we just happened to look outside.
It is a very large box with 1400 pieces of cardboard.....what could this be for?? maybe I am starting to gather things for that special kit for the end of the year :)

I have been very stitching lately.....for tomorrow evening I volunteered to make kits and teach 12 ladies from a local church some wool applique and make eye glass cases......so I have been busy making a pattern, gathering up wool, needles, threads, and samples. Should be fun, a quite relaxing time with the girls :)

I also have another "Stitch An Inch Spring Orni" chart that I worked on. Here are the samples I made.....I stitched some over 1 and others over 2, but it is the finishing that will really make them different. So that is my project to work on and should be ready by the end of the week to share photos with you.

I did finish the other square design that I shared a bit ago but I just need to make the directions on how to finish and then I will share that too. So I have busy hands working away.
More to share soon
Have a good day or night (depending on were you live)
donna

Time To Blossom new design

"Time To Blossom" By The Bay Needleart

Oh my, the sun is shining, YEAH!!

I just finished a new design called "Time To Blossom" and that is what I am hoping for. 

The stitch count is 63 x 95, I stitched her on 28ct Waterlily linen by Wichelt.

The finished size is 4.5 x 6.78. This fit in my 5 x 7 frame but it was up to the edges. 

I decided my frame needed a little something extra so I stitched the flower again on the 28ct linen and followed with my "Stitch An Inch" finishing directions (See here )

Cross stitch flower on 28ct linen, make fabric tight in hoop

Use Aleen's Fabric Fusion, apply to the back of the stitching, let dry for approx 4 hours. 

Cut out flower close to the edge of stitching, Cut 2 pieces of green wool for leaves  1( 1x2) and 1(1x1)

Cut around green wool shapes to form leaves.

Place on top of frame for a general idea of placement

Using a green marker and a ruler, make a straight line for the flower stem. And glue in place. :)
all Finished !

Thank you for reading my blog and I have one more thing to share. If you have sent me an email and I have not responded within a day or two, please email me again. I will not be offended.  I have 4 email addresses that I check constantly and my AOL acct will delete my message after I read it from my phone. I try my best to remember if I have one to reply to when I get back to the business computer but it could get over looked. I am human , prone to mistakes :).  I have been blessed, between the stitchers that have signed up with shops and people that have signed up with me, we have over 500 stitching the sampler. I spend a lot of time answering emails and by no way do I mean to disregard any one. 

Well thank you for reading my concern, and I truly am thankful to all of you. 

Have a good day and until tomorrow

donna 

Some pics of our stormy winter

Hubby wanted me to share some photos of the area. To much snow for me :( 

It has been days and I need the sun and a dry street to drive on.  But I am thankful for the roof over my head, the heat and my stitching that keeps me busy (after the housework) 

Here is a photo of a little something I have worked on this week. Check back in a couple of days to see how I finished it.  I also just finished another design called "Time To Blossom" and yes it is time to blossom, 

I need my flowers!! Patience 

I will post that photo tomorrow, I need to iron and frame it. 

And the winner is .........

The winner is Susan from Washington state, she does not have a blog or an email address that I can find so I added her ID photo here 

what a cutie 

and if she checks out the blog for the winner Yeah !! or if you know Susan please tell her for me :)

I want to thank all of you that sent me a note for the giveaway, it was fun reading all of them and you made me smile. 

We are getting ready for some snow tomorrow night and Tuesday, They say between 18 to 24 inches. 

Oh well it had to come sooner or later.

More time to stitch :) 

Having a "Chilly" giveaway

I am having a giveaway for the "Chilly Winter" cross stitch chart. 

If you would like to leave me a comment I will add your name to the hat and have the drawing on Sunday

I made a couple of more wool/feather trees last week. 

I thought a bit of spring color or actually Valentines Day colors would be a nice change. 

An 8 inch pink tree and a 12 inch dark mauve tree.

The house needed a bit of cheer and I had a package of buttons that I purchased at Camp Wool that were just calling for a use. 

I made this small wool mat for the trees.

I am loving the cheerfulness :)

For all those that have signed up for the "Serenity Harbor Sampler" and like to use Facebook 

 Mo has formed a Facebook Group.

I am thanking her for this becasue I am so new to Facebook that I still do not know what I am doing yet!

If you would like to join the Group please sign into your Facebook, look up the group name 

"Serenity Harbor Sampler SAL" and she said she would be glad to help. 

so a BIG THANK YOU to Mo 

HAVE A HAPPY DAY!!

A stitching photo share from Deb

Deb sent me an email and shared a picture of her finish of Funky Flower Meagan. She used DMC Variations and Mill Hill beads. Her fabric was a light lemon yellow. Love the beads with a bit of sparkle.

And then she finished it Yeah!! Great Job

New Design For a "Chilly Winter"

I just finished these today. A couple of chilly winter scenes along with the word "Winter"

I stitched these on 32ct Dove Gray from Wichelt Imports. The charts are on the way to the printer and will be ready by Monday. I love the way the word Winter came out. The stitch count is 81 x 37 and it stitched up pretty quickly. It think I will try to needle-pointed it on a larger canvas and hang it over a door.

Its pretty dreary here today, no sun again, maybe tomorrow :)

Have a Thankful Thursday

donna

Dont Panic .....

Dont panic if you try to find "Serenity Harbor Sampler Continued" blog, it is still there but has a name change, Here is the link  We have 3 blogs for the project :), We have so many people that want to blog and I am happy to add another but it will take me time, I am working on it and will send out more invites to more people on Thursday. So don't panic, everything is still there., but it is just inconvenient to re-link to the new address, sorry.

Stitching from some friends and the big day has begun :)

"Bird Of A Funky Feather #8" from Deb

The Free "thank You " for joining the "Serenity Harbor Sampler" Stitch A Long from Donna

I am sharing a couple of pictures from Deb and Donna, What a great finishing job on the pincushion pillow and I love the added beads to the cardinal. I would love to see your finished work. If you would ever like to share photos with please email them, and make me happy :)

The Sampler project has started and the photos are starting to come in so check out the blogs and see some photo shares and ideas. Blog links #1 and #2

Have a great Saturday and I am taking down the tree today! (I really need to)