YOTA January 2015

Hi there World, how’s your new year going?  It’s time for the first YOTA post of the year.  Is it only me, or is it really easy to let the smallest thing distract you sometimes? (So many questions)  Anyway, I decided when I signed up for YOTA this year that I wanted to finish what I call my Retro Cat picture.  Here is what it looked like as of January 1^st.

 

What it looks like today is pretty much the same.  Of my many choices of starting places I decided I had to do the purple.  Only to discover that I had apparently run out of 209 and completely forgot.  Then I found some in another box and put a few stitches on.  But it’s a different dye lot naturally.  So today I finally picked up some more.  Tomorrow, when I have enough daylight to check it, progress may commence.  I did check the orange I had and it looks good.  That means more chair next month if nothing else.

Be sure to go to Pull the Other Thread and check out all of the other YOTA participants.

Happy stitching World

Happy New Year

Christmas magic!  I finished these in time to give away.

 

 

Mickey is from an issue of Cross Stitch Card Shop and the cactus is from Cross Stitcher’s Countdown to Christmas.

The end of another stitching year.  I think it was a pretty good one overall and hope 2015 will be just as good for me and everyone else.

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Happy New Year!!

Stitch from Stash December 2014

So here we are at the end of Stitch from Stash 2014.  I’ve been spending more time making plans for next year than stitching.  But there was still shopping.

 

Actually, this was all purchased with the gift certificate I won from Pull the Other Thread. Outside of that I’ve picked up some fabric pieces from EBay and a couple of magazines.  I’m using December as my exemption month.  That gives me room for that and whatever else comes along.  Like the sale at Artecy or the next issue of Cross Stitch Collection.  The CSC would be good because it has the last part of the Maria Diaz pattern, which is what the fabric in the picture is for.

Happily the month hasn’t been completely stitch free.  I have a finish to share.

 

I call it Penguin and Snow penguin.  It was designed by Lucie Heaton.  I’m hoping for one more finish by Christmas.  Of course it’s one of those last minute things that I just decided to start on Friday.  Still, it could happen.

Happy stitching World

Smalls SAL November 2014

In preparation for Sprite Pattern December, I give you this.

 

The 9^th Doctor as designed by Dork Stitch.  Her annual pattern celebration starts tomorrow, so be sure to check it out.

Happy stitching World.

Stitch from Stash November 2014

So November seems to have more about shopping than stitching.  I’ve started a little Christmas tree piece but it’s not much more than a blob of purple right now.  Also I’m saving a sprite finish for my Smalls SAL post later.

Shopping though, I’ve excelled at shopping. J  While I was waiting for these.

I picked up these.

 This one my daughter bought for us.

 

It has the first part of this really cute piece by Maria Diaz.  Why they split this picture into three parts I don’t know, but they did.

 Just for fun one morning, I picked this up from the clearance bin at ABC Stitch Therapy.

 

I kind of think the Prairie Schooler pattern could have been cheaper, but it wasn’t full price.  The Santa’s Village piece came with the button so that was nice.

What was the total of all this shopping?  $70.45. So, I guess I’m using my bonus this month.  Next month I may go over, depends on how many more magazines come in.  J

Happy stitching World

MMMM #5

Funny, you’d think anything would make white stand out and yet.

My final post for the month and the SAL adds a little blue to the white.  Soon it will become something more.  Thanks to Pull the Other Thread for hosting the SAL, it’s been fun.

In the meantime

 

Happy Halloween!

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Smalls SAL - October

Here’s my finish for the month.

 

It was part of a free kit that came with the July issue of Cross Stitcher last year.  Angela Poole’s design has a little more backstitch than mine, but I like my funky flower.

Happy stitching World