Gifted Gorgeousness Update for September

Bothy Threads Cut Thru' Haunted House

I'm a bit late for the September Gifted Gorgeousness update ... but better late, than never.  This stitch-along, hosted by Jo of Serendipitous Stitching, features projects that in some way have been gifted -or- are being stitched to be given as gifts.

I didn't have much stitching time this month, but I did make progress on my favorite project, "Bothy Threads Cut Thru' Haunted House" (shown above).  I just love this one so much!

I also stitched the September section of the "Linen and Threads 2019 Mystery Sampler".  October's section should be released next weekend.   I am quite proud of myself for having kept up with the schedule of this project.

I started another section of the  "Rose Lap Quilt" (8 duplicate sections).  It's fun to change things up and do embroidery stitches once in awhile.  This is a printed embroidery piece that was given to me by a friend.

I stitched a bit on my "To Everything a Season" sampler, but there's not enough noticeable progress to photograph ... so I will update that one next time.

Happy Stitching!

My August Gifted Gorgeousness Update

It's time for another Gifted Gorgeousness update.  "Gifted Gorgeousness" projects are projects that were made to be given as a gift -or- in some way or part received as a gift. 

This month I stitched a Lab Puppy ornament for my sister and attached it to a card for her birthday.  I used a free pattern that I found here: http://www.jessica-tromp.nl/crossstitch/.  I stitched the puppy on 14 count plastic canvas, added a satin ribbon loop, and backed it with felt. 

This was a pretty good month for stitching progress.  I had a nice finish: Quaker 2 - (freebie) by Claire aka: Gazette94

I love to stitch Quaker style charts!

I also made a lot of progress on my Cow Sampler:

This should be a finish before too long.

To change things up a bit, I pulled out one of my printed embroidery projects, "Rose Lap Quilt".  This was a project gifted to me by a non-stitchy friend.  A project photo, 4 printed fabric panels, and a few skeins of floss were included.  There are no stitching guidelines - so I am winging it.

I had finished assembling the panels and stitching the center motif the last time I worked on it.  This time I started embroidering one of the rose motifs (there are 8).  I mixed in some of my color variegated floss that actually matched the colors of the included floss and used lazy daisy, split stitch, straight stitch and stem stitch so far.

 Here is the project photo that came with the panels:

Whew!  This one is going to take a long time to finish!

That's all I have this month for Gifted Gorgeousness projects.  I am working my way through my WIPs and should have some new progress on old WIPs for my next post.

Happy Stitching and Happy Gifting!
 

Wipocalypse Update

This month's WIPocalypse themes were Chatelaine, Springtime and the colors green and Yellow.  

I don't have any Chatelaine ... so instead of starting a new project, I worked on my Spring Sampler and focused on projects with lots of green and yellow.

I made good progress on my Spring Sampler this month.  I completed the word "Spring" ... but I still have a long way to go!

Shown here is my before photo.








I also worked on my Berry Patch Rooster.

before:

after:

And I worked on my BeeHive Sampler.

before:

after:

And completely off theme, I worked on my Halloween quilt.   I spent an afternoon on it and I went ahead and sewed the border, even though I still have quite a bit of hand quilting to finish.  It did feel good to make some real progress on it ... maybe by next Halloween I will have it finished.


If you are looking for the Easter Blog Hop & Treasure Hunt, please see my previous post.  Happy Easter!

a Quilt Update and a Halloween Giveaway

My Halloween quilt is coming along nicely. I finished piecing the top and have started the quilting. The quilt is 63" x 75" and will likely take me all Fall (and maybe Winter) to quilt. I will post photos when it is finished.

Doing a bit of random surfing, I stumbled upon Pumpkin Patch Primitives Quilt Shoppe, where I found out about Brenda's Halloween Giveaway! It is a surprise giveaway ... so enter if you dare.

The drawing is being held next Thursday.

a black cat and halloween quilt

My latest project is a Halloween quilt. It is my first "big" quilt, so I am keeping it simple - squares of Halloween prints, machine joined and then quilted by hand. I have just about finished joining the squares into strips. As you can see, I had the strips laid out over the top of the sofa, when they were "sleep tested" by a friendly neighborhood black cat. She really isn't my cat ... she just pops in for a visit now & then. Anyhow, what is a Halloween quilt without a black cat on it?