Finish #12 for 2024

I continued to work on my Sunday Stitch from the weekend thru last night and it’s finished. Here’s the chart cover – This Happy Morning –  so you can see what changes I made compared to my version.

I had originally stitched three of those berries in the border but as I’ve said before I’m not fond of stitching berries.  And when I started to fill them in on another part of the chart, I stitched just the bottom color of several (they are two shades of red) and decided – hey, I like that look.   I ripped out the three I had done and stitched them all the same.  I also changed the direction on some of them.  Along the outside they all pointed away from the vine but I kept them going in the direction of the inner side of the vine – basically straight in line with the vine.

As you can see, I left off the peacock, urn and fines above it.  I added the tree on the right of the barn, based on the tree designs within the large grassy area (which I also left off along with the bottom border and just added three rows of grass).  And then added another deer and star and some other doodads.   I haven’t measured my finished stitch yet but my adjustments made it turn out smaller than the original chart which is what I wanted so mission accomplished with this lovely barn.

updated:  6:49 pm – CHART HAS BEEN CLAIMED BY Cathy H. 🙂

Anyone interested in this chart, email me by midnight CDT tonight at my personal email address (not in the comments) and first come first serve will get it, but you must be in the United States.  I’ll put it in the mail next week since I’m working from home tomorrow (and Sheryl T if you read this, remember how I told you I put the chart in my bag to take to work — well it’s been going back and forth to work all week in that bag but didn’t get pulled out to be mailed …DUH, so it will get mailed Monday as well.) 🙂

Sunday Stitch – afternoon progress report

Progress since yesterday – got all the words in , ran a basting stitch up the right side so I knew where I could bring down the border on that side since I didn’t want to make it as wide as charted with a lot of space to the right of the barn to fill in.   In looking at this photo go I do need to check the last couple of leaf sections I stitched.  It may just be the way the fabric is laying, or I may not have stitched enough stitches in the angled section so they line up properly.   Will look into that.   So I’ve made up for lost time stitching on this for a couple days rather than just on Sunday since I had not worked on it the past couple of Sundays.   I may continue to work on this the next day or two or go back to one of my other WIPS – will have to see what tomorrow night brings.

This Happy Morning – update on plans

First – I called this chart by the wrong name in my last post.  It’s not “This is the Day” it is “This Happy Morning” by Plum Street Samplers.

I had originally planned to change some things on my version of this – like leave off the peacock and urn and that leafy fine above them.  The words are charted over one for linen, so I pulled out my Ultimate Sampler Motifs book by Brenda Keyes to find an alphabet to use to rechart it for Aida once I found the graph paper book.

Here’s where I am at the moment – there was a nap that interrupted my stitching time or those words would be much farther along!     Since my words will be larger, I moved them to the top where those vines are.   And as I was stitching those, a new plan of attack for this piece was formulated.

I had originally planned to duplicate the deer and some of the trees on the other side of the barn where I was removing the peacock, etc.  But, depending on where the words end, I may just add the berry vine up the right side next to the barn.   Also – all that grass below the barn -likely not stitching more than a couple rows of it depending on how I want to adjust that bottom border.  That also will make it a smaller, more frameable size project if I decided to frame it.   I only brought down the left side border to meet the bottom of the barn row and after I get the words in, will make decisions on how I want to do the rest of it.

Time to make some dinner first before settling in for an evening of stitching.

This Is The Day – progress

Here’s the last photo I had shared of my progress.  But I had worked on this after the photo was taken prior to my picking it up again yesterday and all the main darker color “floral” motifs I had finished on the side of the barn.

So when I picked it up again yesterday, I filled in the lighter shade of red on the barn side which took a while.  That’s a deceivingly big barn – it must measure about 5.5 – 6″ wide.  I’m actually thinking I may make this one into a throw pill for the couch rather than framing it.    I’m working my way down that vine.  The windows in the barn are supposed to have backstitched light color windowpanes but I’m going to leave those off.

It’s sort of a cold, very windy, dreary day here – the temps have not even hit 40 degrees yet which of course with the high winds we had yesterday and today, makes it feel even colder.

My immediate task for the morning  is to get that fridge cleaned out – I hate that job.  But grocery order will be delivered in a little while and the fridge is a disorganized mess.  Must hop to it.

Row Houses in Snow updated 4-19-24

I pulled this out either last Sunday night or on Monday to work on and have been working on it this week.    I filled in the six window areas and door area on the blue building.  The roof of that one is mostly snow and I wasn’t in the mood to stitch that so I moved on to the building next to it and made some good progress.

I worked from home today and was able to punch out early so have paid the bills, started a load of laundry, and will figure out a grocery delivery for tomorrow and then I will just relax and stitch.  Although, I think I will switch to something else for tonight – those houses require a lot of counting and I think some fill in work is more my mood for today.  So maybe I can get that side of the barn filled in on my Sunday stitch.

11th finish for 2024 – Maple Leaf

Here it is all stitched. I have this 6″ frame in the stash which I may or may not use but it would fit in this nicely. I usually have a stash of 6″ frames in various colors so I my see what other colors I have that I don’t have slated to go with some other project. This will go in the “needs to be fully finished” stack for a little bit since I don’t need it to gift for a couple months.

Maple Leaf by KiraLyn’s Needlearts- S 4-7-24/F-4-14-24 16ct PTP Doubloon

I’m thinking I may switch back to Soar for the rest of tonight but it’s one of those days where I can’t really settle on what I want to do so maybe I’ll flip thru the WIP bags to see if anything else catches my fancy.

 

I had hoped to get the stitching finished on this one last night but didn’t quite make it.   I was tired and I also spent some time staring at it to decide what my final changes would be to this design.

Like that little checkerboard thing next to the cat on the shelf.   I think it’s supposed to be a bird cage.  There’s a rather indistinct yellow shape in the bottom of it that is supposed to be a bird I think but that would be a bit cruel to put a bird next to that cat and I didn’t really care for that motif.   I also didn’t want to stitch the two pumpkins on the shelf next to the cat.  Two pumpkins was enough for me on this one and I had stitched the two on the lower left.

As I as pondering what I wanted to do, I worked on the little bit of flowers/plant that is hanging off a peg under the shelf.  What is stitched under the middle of that shelf is a little vine of orange flowers – maybe supposed to be bittersweet but it ,ooked rather sparse to me?   I wanted a bigger plant/flowers there in all the various colors that are used in the top white area of the basket.  So I just created my own larger bunch which took a while with just a couple stitches in each flower color – lots of thread changing.

Since this will be a gift for a cat-loving, book-loving friend, I decided to add books laying down and stacked up next to the cat on the left and have a few of those stitched, and I’m also adding more books on the other shelf.   So lots more colors changes as I add more books in each spot but I think it will be perfect for this stitch.  Then I think I just need to add the cats’eyes and whiskers and one cat his little white paws.   I’ll get this finished off later today.

Stitching progress – April 13

It’s been a busy week.  Things were busy at work – not crazy – but there were some computer issues that slowed me down which is so frustrating.  But we were also talking at work about the days before we had computers because we were talking about how long I have worked at the law firm and someone pointed out they were in grade school, another in high school, when I started. LOL   This week it was my 38th anniversary of working at the law firm. Now I did work there a few years, left for a couple years, but then came back for good in 1994.    So total of 38 years, and one of my attorneys (who I came back to work for in 1994) I have worked with for 30 years (although he said it didn’t seem like a day over 29). 🙂

Today I have been doing the usual weekend chores (who made all those dirty clothes?)  I also got a couple cupboards and drawers cleaned out so a little Spring cleaning being done….slowly… but heck, it wasn’t until yesterday that it really felt like Spring outside and it’s apparently a good year for daffodils because they are blooming like crazy all over the city.

But I ramble – I just popped in to show my progress since last time I posted this.   All that white quilt background took a bit of time to stitch.   I decided that instead of the black and white checkerboard bottom on that basket (it looks like a basket to me) I would make it blue.  I haven’t decided what the background color will be yet for that basket.  I may make a couple other changes to the remaining motifs to stitch too.  I’m hoping to get it finished off tonight.   Then tomorrow, I will likely switch to my Sunday stitch, and next week pull out my April Fool’s (Row Houses in Snow) to stitch on for a few days.

A new start

Hmm I hadn’t planned a new start but at some point Sunday afternoon I was bored with stitching on my Sunday Stitch. All those red flowery shapes to fill in the side of the barn. I wanted something different and had pulled this chart out a couple weeks ago because it is going to be a gift.

 

 I pulled some similar colors (and I’m changing some of them).    And can’t remember at the moment what my fabric is but I’ll post it when I posted the finished item.

I started this late Sunday night and have been stitching on it the last two nights.  It’s a fun stitch and  I love leaf design quilts.

 

Here’s my progress so far.

 

Sunday Stitching – April 7, 2024

I got this far last night before putting away Row Houses in Snow for a while.

Judy had commented when she saw the chart about the people walking in the snow in front of the buildings.  I told her they are just a few stitches that give the illusion of people – not detailed people.   Can you see the person walking into the middle building doorway?

When I look at the photo above I just want to get back to stitching it.  But I have other projects I want to get some stitches into.  I will pick Soar back up later this week which I’m pretty close to finishing.  And late last night I pulled out my Sunday Stitch and will continue to work on that today, which is This Happy Morning.

I got started on the side of the barn last night.  I think I only had a single petal in place  on the side barn when I pulled it out.