May SALs - Smalls and Stitch from Stash

Do you know what happens when you spill cherry kool-aid on white cross stitch fabric?  It turns pink of course.  Fortunately it’s far enough down that I think it can still be used.  Handy since I was making this at the time.

 

Cyberman by Dork Stitch.  That and L*K May earlier make for 2 completions this month!!

Stitch from Stash was good this month.  Or maybe I should say I was no worse than normal.  I spent $17.09.  Early in the month I bought “Surfing the Web” by Randall Spangler during the HAED 50% off sale.  Last weekend I hit the floss sale at Joann’s.  Restraint came from their limited stock and my lack of time to go to any other stores.

At the end of April 123-Stitch had a sale that enticed me to use my Christmas gift certificate.  This is what I decided on.

 

American Flag Quilt Sampler, Quaker gone Tropic and Faith (love the little black sheep).  I really want to start the Quaker piece.  Just need to decide if I like the color variations floss I picked out.

Here’s a nice surprise.  I finally worked on something larger than a small. J

 

This is my Ballroom picture by Sandy Littlejohn.  I took it out one day to put a few more stitches on it and went a little farther than that.

So that’s May all stitched up.  Here’s hoping June is as nice or nicer to us all.

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Just Because

Because I couldn’t let May go by without this seeing the light of blog. J

 

 

This is Lizzie Kate’s May Flip It done with DMC variegated and color variations floss.

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Small SAL April

Here’s my entry for the month.

 

This little turtle was designed by Fiona Crouch. It was from an issue of Cross Stitcher last year.

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Stitch from Stash April

Bought this month: 2 DMC Color Variations sets. Reason: I want to use them in place of the hand dyed floss in Lizzie Kates and similar patterns.  And because I was dying to use these half off coupons for JoAnns. J So, total spent: $10.

Projects worked on: I finished the rune which I posted earlier this month.  In a day or so I’ll post the Smalls SAL piece for April.  Since I still can’t seem to get back to working on my big projects I’m jumping in to the small ones.

 

More news on these when they’re farther along.  But joining them sooner rather than later will be these.

 

To prove that when I’m not stitching I’m looking for more things not to stitch on. J Not to worry, I’m only starting one new thing (from each).

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A finish to share

It’s late Sunday night and there are the usual million things to do.  But I wanted to end the weekend by sharing my latest finish.

 

This is the Angelic Rune designed by Dork Stitch.  The inspiration comes from the Mortal Instruments books and movie.  I did this on 11 count Aida with 3 strands of purple “craft” floss.

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Stitch from Stash March 2014

So I splurged this month too.  My LNS was having a St. Patrick’s Day sale – you know, 17% off.  I went there to look for one of the Little House sheep and came away with this.

 

This is far more impressive than it looks.  The Lizzie Kates were full price, less the 17%, but all the other were 50 cents each.  I know!  It’s amazing what you can think you need at that price.  Which came out to be $14.52.

On the plus side, I did resist a sale on some Disney patterns on Etsy.

Not a lot of stitching this month.  I finished a Santa piece for the Smalls SALL and started a rune pattern Dork Stitch made.  I’m aiming for more stitching and less shopping next month.  Unless there’s another splurge weekend of course.

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Small SAL March 2014

My life has been taken over lately by extraordinarily mundane things.  But I see a light at the end of the tunnel when Anomaly Con rolls around this weekend.  Before the mundane attack there was what has to rate as a perfect cross stitch day.  I was sitting by the window watching it snow and playing some Martin Denny (think Tiki musicJ). Then I managed to finish this.

 

It’s called Relaxin’ Santa from Tropical Christmas by Stoney Creek.

I haven’t decided what to do for next month yet.  But I’m sure something will turn up.

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