Another Rainy Weekend!!!!!

I guess we need the rain; but gosh darn; I work
inside all week long, and so look forward to a
sunny nice weekend. Sigh.

I worked all week on two of my stitching projects. Here is the progress so far on the
American Solider Memorial Project. I started
stitching it on Memorial Day.

I am using 32 count Lugana in Ivory, and decided to use DMC instead of the handyed floss it called for. I think it looks good, and am happy with the effect.

The 2nd project I have gotten some done on this week is the New England Sampler, by Ginger & Spice. I will have to admit this is a HUGE project for me, and I will be soooo glad when the row of flowers is finished!! I just have some lilacs to stitch in that row now.



Let's see how much I can get finished over this rainy weekend. Enjoy your weekend too.

Nikki

MEMORIAL DAY REMEMBRENCE

Today is the day we honor those that gave the ultimate sacrifice for their country. I have been blessed not to have lost anyone in my family who served in the Military. My husband was a Marine during Vietnam, and my father in law was in the Navy during WWII, so we have Veteran's in our family.



This year I decided that I needed to do something special. I chose a name from the American Soldier's Memorial Project. It is a young man who lost his life for his country, who lived in my state. I will begin cross stitching a Memorial piece to be sent to his family in memory of him.


This is the piece I chose. It is called Red, White & Blue by Vicki Hasting. I will be adding his name to it also. What better way to honor the memory of a fallen hero on this Memorial Day.


Have a safe and happy holiday.

Nikki

New Stash

Well yesterday's trip down to Wiscasset and the Stitcher's Corner with my friend Cindy was wonderful. I found all the specialty threads I needed, and a couple of charts I just couldn't leave there !! Ribbons of Hope is by The Needles Prayse. My sister in law has breast cancer, and I will stitch this for her, and maybe for some charity quilt squares. The other chart I just fell in love with the colors, and the idea of it. It is called Amish Trip Around The World from Nancy's Needle. It is done on 18ct mono canvas with Caron threads. I might just try it on evenweave, maybe with Pearl Cotton?? Or I may just try the canvas. As you can see by the colors of this chart, and my other stitchings, these are MY COLORS, and I was just drawn to the chart and had to get it.


Here's a close up of the Trip Around the World. Isn't it GORGEOUS !!!



I finished up Part 5 of the How Does Your Garden Grow this morning while I watched the finale episode of The Tudors on Demand. Boo hoo; will have to wait for Season 3 to begin now. I LOVE that series. Here are the butterflies from Part 5completed. Cannot wait for Part 6 now!!!


I think I might get out a WIP to work on for the rest of the holiday weekend. Maybe my New England Sampler....hmmmmmm, let me go look. Have a great weekend.

Nikki

A perfect start to a Holiday weekend.

Today is the first day of my long Memorial Day weekend, and I am starting it off with a trip to my LNS shop, with a stitching friend or two. It's called Stitcher's Corner in Wiscasset Maine, and I only get there once or twice a year. I am needing some speciality threads to complete my How Does Your Garden Grow project, plus I am sure I will find a bunch of other goodies that I just cannot live without!!! Look out VISA card. LOL

Here is my progress so far on the Stitcher's Wallet. This is stitched over 1 with Caron Waterlillies Silk thread, which is so fun to work with.



I have just barely begun Part 5 of the How Does Your Garden Grow from Papillion Creations. I got ONE Butterfly of Part 5 done this week!!! I will work on it this long weekend. Here is my WIP so far



I hope everyone has a relaxing and safe Holiday Weekend.

Nikki

Some pictures of our area in Central Maine

Now that a kind soul told me how to post pictures to my Blog side by side, I can share the pictures that my son Michael took last year about this time of our area near our house in Central Maine. Enjoy. Nikki

A New Project to start this weekend

I am going to finish up the Alphabet Tree today and then start my new project. It's called a Stitcher's Wallet. It is on a french Blog site, and is a SAL. You can see what it will look like here, and find out how to download the charts if you want to stitch it too:

http://tempusfugit.over-blog.com/categorie-10268584.html

Here is the fabric and threads I have chosen to use. They are 28 ct Ivory Jobelan and Caron Waterlillies silk thread in color Cherry. I took this picture outside, and for some reason the thread looks dark. It is very beautiful. I might use the floral as the back of the wallet, it certainly goes well, but not sure yet. It will be stitched over 1 thread with 1 strand of the silk. I can't wait to get started.



I bought myself a new DMC color card, and it has the actual floss on the card, not just a picture. I just love it. It will make it so much easier to change colors on a project, and see which colors match. Now why did I never buy one before??



Part 5 of the Papillion How Does Your Garden Grow SAL is up on her site today. I have up to Part 4 completed, so can't wait to get Part 5 added. I will work on it this week during my lunch hours in the breakroom. I get a lot of stitching done there!!

I wanted to post some pictures that my youngest son Michael took of the area we live it last year, but our server is SOOOO slow this morning, I will wait until tomorrow. So check back...they are AWESOME pictures!

Nikki

I stitched all week

I got a lot done, stitching wise this week. I finished my Papillion Creations Serendipity. I just love the colors.



I started a small project from Blue Ribbon Designs, called Alphabet Tree. I already had to rip some of the stitches out at the bottom, as I miscounted, but will likely finish it up tonight. I am using Caron Wildflower threads on Sapphire 32ct Jobelan fabric.



I got some new stash in the mail today for a new project I am starting over the weekend. I will post pictures tomorrow, when I can take them in the daylight. Too dark tonight, and you couldn't see the colors well. Until tomorrow, take care.

Nikki

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY MAMA !

I hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day Mama. Even though we are on opposite sides of the country, I love you more than you will know, and miss you so much. I was able to get this picture of you from your High School yearbook from the Historical Society in the town where your High School was. They have a collection of yearbooks from area schools, and a nice lady there, scanned your senior picture for me. So for you mama, and everyone reading this, here is my beautiful mother at age 18 in her Senior year of High School.



And here are some pictures of mom and I that I have always loved from 1953



And here is mom and I when she came back East for a visit with me several years ago


I LOVE YOU MAMA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Your loving daughter,

Nikki

Preparing For Mother's Day

I helped my 2 grand kids get a present ready for their mom ( my DD) for Mother's Day today. I took their picture and we went up to Wal Mart and printed it out, and framed it as a gift.
We also went out to lunch at Pat's Pizza, and had a nice outing. It turned out that it didn't rain after all today; so it was a good day. I got more stitched on Serendipity, so hope to get it finished soon. Here is the picture of Kaleigh and her brother Zachary that they are giving to mama tomorrow. I will post a couple of "SPECIAL" pictures tomorrow for Mother's Day that i just LOVE !!!

My WIP this past week

I have been dilligently working on my Serendipity freebie from Papillon Creations this week. I am hoping to finish the rest this weekend. It is supposed to be rainy again this weekend, so maybe I can get it done. After that I would love to start on The Stitcher's Wallet from the French website I read about on the 123 Board. It is so lovely. I wanted to be able to get The Stitchers Corner this weekend, my closest LNS, but I think I will just order my threads for the Stitcher's Wallet online. We'll see.


Oops, I see I missed a little "squiggly" in the bottom portion. Better get that stitched in !!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY KALEIGH !

Today is my grand daughter Kaleigh's 8th birthday. Where did the years go? Happy birthday Lumpy !! Here she is with the cake I made for her at her request: a chocolate cake with strawberry frosting.

A Rainy Weekend here

It was a rainy gloomy and cold weekend. I was cold all weekend, and ended up in my favorite stitching chair, all covered in blankets, watching old movies on Turner Classics and stitching. I started a new Papillion design; another freebie that she put out a while back, called Serendipity. I decided NOT to do the specialty stitches on this one, like I am doing with How Does Your Garden Grow. I like the colors I chose. I am not sure what I will do with it, but am having fun stitching it, and that's what counts. Here it is so far:


I thought it might be fun to show you my stash storage that I recently got at Target. It has 21 drawers that pull out and have lids on them. I keep my different WIP in a different one and can easily pull it out to work on. They fit nicely into my closet in my computer/ craft room. This is how it looks:


Then, in the same room, I have a book shelf that holds containers with my EXTRA DMC floss by numbers one of my two Jammers Boxes with a complete set of DMC, and magazine holders for charts and magazines. This is it:



Then up on the closet shelf I have more magazine holders with MORE charts, and I have a built in bookshelf out in the hall with all my hardcover XS books. PLUS, I have plastic totes ( 3 of them) under the bed in the craft room, with all my fabrics, and a end table with magazine racks under it, and more WIP in plastic bags in there. I just cleared out my unwanted stash at the end of winter, so all this that is left is my NECESSITIES !!!! LOL

Hope you have a nice week, and get lots of stitching done. Thanks for stopping by.

Nikki