HAPPY THANKSGIVING

 

 

 

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

 

One of the many things I considered a blessing is my love of needlework.  So to celebrate this was my first hardanger framed and matted.



May all of you count your many blessings everyday and

May Your Guardian Angel Always Watch Over You

susieq

I have stitched a few things, but don't have them finished/finished and I'd like to do that before I post on here, but the good news at least for me is..................

 

 

I FIGURED OUT HOW TO RETRIEVE MY PAST POSTED PICTURES SO HERE ARE SOME OF THEM.

 

 

 

THESE ARE MAGNET NEEDLE MINDERS I MADE.  I'M NOT SURE BUT I THINK I EITHER MADE ONE OF THESE FOR NANCY HERE IN THIS GROUP OR SHE GOT ONE OF THESE.  IT'S BEEN TOO LONG TO REMEMBER.

 

 

I DON'T KNOW IF THIS WILL ENLARGE ENOUGH TO SEE THAT I USED TINY ALPHABET BEADS TO MAKE THE BABY'S NAME INSTEAD OF STITCHING IT

 

 

 

THIS WAS JUST A UNIQUE WAY TO STITCH THE BABY'S INFO ON, INSTEAD OF FILLING THE HEART, BUTTERFLY, AND FLOWER COMPLETELY, I LEFT IT OPEN AND STITCHED THE INFO OVER 1

 

 

 

 

 

 

THESE WERE SMALL METAL PCS I PICKED UP AT HOBBY LOBBY(OF COURSE) AND STITCHED THE SIMPLE DESIGNS FOR CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THIS ALSO IS ABOUT 4" SQUARE AND YOU ARE SUPPOSE TO PAINT OR USE WOODEN LETTERS ON, BUT I MOUNTED STITCHING INSTEAD

 

 

 

 

THIS WREATH HANGER WAS PLAIN WOOD AND YOU WERE SUPPOSED TO PAINT IT AND MOUNT WOODEN LETTERS ON, BUT I STAINED IT AND STITCHED "I BELIEVE" AND HUNG MY WOODEN SANTA WREATH ON IT.

 

 

 

 

 

 

THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITES, I COMBINED SEVERAL PATTERNS TO COMPLETE THIS. WITH THE LHN SHEEP VIRTUES

 

 

 

 

 

CURTIS BOERINGER AMERICAN SANTA PATTERN STITCHED ON 10CT TULA AND MADE INTO A SANTA BAG THAT SITS ON MY FLOOR.  IT IS ABOUT 3 FT HIGH

 

 

 

 

THIS WAS THE ORNAMENT THAT I MADE LAST YEAR(2015) FOR STITCH GROUP EXCHANGE.

 

 

Well until the next time

 

 

May your Guardian Angel Watch Over You

 

susieq  (70.2)

I've been stitching....

This post is going to be brief with just some pics of stitching. I finally got some of my stitching mojo back now, and have stitched some things. The 1st thing is "Count Your Blessings" I plan to finish this and hang it on the same wall that I have some sheep pictures. Next is "Sergei". I saw this on Jill Renzel's Blog and just had to have it. I started it many months ago, but put it away. I decided to bring it back out again and finish stitching it. It is framed in a simple black frame and I haven't decided where it is going to hang yet. I saw the "Winnie" on FaceBook. It is so colorful that it caught my eye. I didn't really want the sampler or a picture that long, so I just stitched the top part. There is a spider stitched in the bottom half that I may stitch somewhere or I could just use a small black button and stitch legs. Last but not least is one that I finished stitching a couple of years ago, but was unsure if I ever posted it. Since it is Autumn I thought I'd just add it to this post.

"Count Your Blessings" La-D-Da

                                                 "Sergei" Plum Street Samplers

 

"Winnie Oct. Sampler"

Amy Bruecken Designs

 

 

                                                                               
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Until I have more

May Your Guardian Angel Watch Over You

 

 

susieq

Newest Member of My Family

Back in February I wrote a post dedicated to the passing of "THE BOSS".  All my friends and family kept asking me when and if I was going to get another pet.  I told them that when I got another one it would be because I wanted another one, not because I just wanted something to fill the void losing my furbaby caused.  Well, I found an organization called Hospice Hearts here in Illinois.  This organization takes in cats and dogs when they can, from situations like their humans have become ill, gone into a nursing home, or have passed away.  They foster them until the can find a forever home.  They had a picture of a 10 yr old cat whose human had died of a brain tumor. They were very close and she was having a difficult time adjusting.  She wasn't used to being around other cats so she needed to be in a home that was a single cat household.  My heart went out to her, and since I am 64 yrs old myself, I really didn't want to get a kitten and run the risk of having something happen to me and someone else having to find a home for my pet.  So I contacted Hospice Hearts and applied to take MiMi.


Meet MiMi...........

 

When they brought her, she would have nothing to do with me.  If I got close to her, she hissed at me and swatted.  So I left her alone and in a couple of days, she came into the living room and jumped up into a chair across from me, then the next day she was on my lap and allowing me to pet her, but when the phone rang right by my chair she ran back into her hiding place.  Now it has been about 5 weeks, and she definitely isn't afraid of me anymore.  She sleeps on my lap and follows me all over the house including into the bathroom, like most cats do, and wants me to pick her up all the time.  She purrs constantly when you pet her and wants to climb up and lay on your chest if you are laying down. 

 

Now onto the stitching front. 

 

I went to a stitch-in on August 2nd at a shop that is about 100 miles from where I live.  I took some of my WIPs and stitched a little on each one, but like most stitch-ins, you have to check out what everyone else is stitching and one of the ladies brought everything she had stitched and hadn't done any of the finishing(frame, ornament etc) on, and it took her about an hour to show everything, plus the projects she was working on now.  Then of course I had to do some stash shopping, and that can't be rushed you know.  But even though I didn't stitch very much, I think that I stitched enough to get some of my stitching mojo back, because I have worked a little on one of the WIPs since then and hope to get it finished soon.

 

The stitch group that I belong to "The Sassy Stitchers" meets once a month and this month we are going to a restaurant that is located in a camping park.  We went last year and had lunch, but this year we have reserved one of the rooms and are going to spend the day there.  We are meeting around 10:30 in the morning and stitching and eating lunch, then stitching some more.  It should be a fun time, but that is the most that I can tell you, because we have a motto, that "What goes on at stitch group, stays at stitch group" LOL.

 

Until next time

 

May Your Guardian Angel Watch Over You

 

susieq (69)





New Challenge

 

Have you ever felt that you are so lazy and all you wanted to do was sit and be lazy, watch tv and play games on the computer?  Well that is how I have been feeling lately.  I look at all the new cross stitch designs out there and think this one and that one is pretty and maybe I would like to stitch it.  I buy it and then it sits in the sack or envelope or I may even start it, but then lose interest because I wonder where will I hang it or sit it when I'm finished.  I have been doing crafts of some kind as far back as I can remember, but I am at a stand still lately.  I used to feel excited when an idea hits me and I run with it.   Oh I do things around the house, I get in the kitchen and try out new recipes that I found on Pinterest, do housework etc but as far as my creativity, NOTHING, NADA, ZILCH!!!!  I really miss that. 

 

 

Did you all have a good holiday on the 4th?  I am getting ready to have a rummage sale(what fun) this coming Saturday, so I spent the 4th digging through my crap  I mean treasures, making decisions as to whether I wanted to keep or sell, and if the answer was sell, how much would I put on it.  I now have a container with some cross stitch design books and one with some remnants of cross stitch fabric.  Along with 3 tubs full of books,( paperback and hardcovers) for sale.  The most satisfying to me are the 2 racks of clothes that are too big for me now and are still good clothes.  I went through my closets and tried on all the clothes and not only found many too big, but found some that I had held onto before I gained the weight that now fit.  So I have new clothes that were free and won't have to buy some for the summer.  Yay!!!!!  I am also selling some of my cross stitch that I no longer hang up or that I stitched for the shop as displays, but do not really fit into my house.  Some I left the frames on, but most I took out of the frames and am keeping the frame myself.  What doesn't sell will go to various local organizations as donations.  The cross stitch stash will probably go back into my cabinets, as a sign that maybe I shouldn't be selling it in the 1st place. LOL.

 

 

Below is a last project I finished stitching a couple of months ago.  It was my 1st Hardanger.  I practiced on a couple of small heart designs, then took a deep breath and got this from ebay and it was a fun stitch.  There is supposed to be a snowman charm in the middle but I kind of liked the snowflake that I found in my stash better. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time to bring this to a close, hope it isn't as long between posts as it was this time, but until then

 

 

 

May Your Guardian Angel Watch Over You

 

Susieq  (68.8)



This week has had it's ups and downs.  For those who have followed my blog, you may have recalled that I have mentioned "THE BOSS" my cat Jasper.  Well last year he wasn't eating very well and having other issues, so I took him to the vet like a good furbaby mom, and after running some bloodwork, which came back OK, she told me that the only think remaining was probably cancer.  He was 14 yr old at the time and I told her I wasn't going to put him through surgery or any treatments.  She told me that eventually he would get weaker and not be able to move, and that I would eventually have to let him go.  I brought him home and continued to feed him whatever he wanted to eat.  I even baked him chicken breasts.  Well to Weds. when I came home at lunch he was so weak he could hardly get up off the floor and when he did his hind legs were so wobbly, and he walked like he was drunk.  I called the vet and made an appointment, because I knew that it was time to let him go. 

This one was taken 2 years ago.

 

 

 

 

This next one was when he was 9 months old.

 

RIP Jasper 2000-2015

May Your Guardian Angel Watch Over You

susieq

WELL I DID IT.....

By no means am I a seamstress, but I do some crafts as you might have guessed from my previous posts.  Yet I am limited to sewing things by hand, having a friend sew things for me, or choosing another way to finish my stitch work.(glue is wonderful)  I do have an old sewing machine that I inherited from my Mom, that is temperamental and sometimes the thread bunches up on the underside of the seam and the bobbins don't always wind smoothly(which is probably why it bunches up).  So I have been look at sewing machines every time I go into Joann's Fabric.  I just could not justify spending the money to buy one if I was only going to be using it occasionally.  Well.......I got a $100.00 gift certificate from my boss for Christmas from Joann's and decided that I was going to use it to buy my machine.  I got a Singer Basic sewing machine, with a few different stitches, but nothing fancy.  I can't wait to try it out on something.  I finished a LHN Christmas design from a JCS Ornament issue and I think that is going to be my 1st project.  When I get it finished I will take a pic and do a little show and tell.  Until then


May Your Guardian Angel Watch Over You

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