Prairie Schooler Exchange received

Goodness gracious, it has been a long time.  Along the way I lost all my desire to stitch.  When the HoE Prairie Schooler exchange came along, I caved and joined.  My partner has not received her exchange yet, but I can show you what I received from Lisa S. The design is taken from the leaflet Acorns, stitched on 28ct antique white evenweave using DMC threads.  I love it because the finishing is so unique.  Thank you Lisa, I can't wait until fall!

Tired of Snow? Here's Jamaica, January 2011

If you have snow on the ground like we do in Oklahoma, here's a few photos from my Panamal Canal trip last month.  Hard to believe I went from the tropics to the artic!

HoE Reindeer from Tricia

It was a great day Saturday for mail.  With all the snow we've had, I've been pretty much homebound.  So this little ditty from Tricia  brought a smile to my face.  It's part of the HoE Reindeer exchange.  If you look carefully, you see that the reindeer are really sheepdeer!.  So cute.  I really love it.  Thank you Tricia.

Another Humbug and a giftie

I finished another humbug for my youngest great-niece.  As I said, these are so much fun to do.  So, without further ado, here it is:

My stitching friend Julianne sent me a great little ornament with....Reindeer on it!  You know how I love reindeer.  I haven't seen this design before.  Anyway, thank you Julianne.  I love it bunches.

Hope you all have a very Merry Christmas.

Humbugs

I thought I'd try my hand at putting together a couple of humbug ornaments.  The design I chose if from the 2010 December issue of The Gift of Stitching.  When I started the project, I thought I wasn't going to like them, but, they rank right up there with my love of biscornu stitching.  So, here's my foray into the world of humbugs.  The ornaments are for my great-nieces that live in Kansas.  If I can get my self in gear, I might make it to the PO to mail them tomorrow.  If not, then I'll have to wait until Monday.  Either way, I'm sending them to their Nana's house so they will have them on Christmas.  I stitched them with good ole DMC in their favorite colors.  So, here they are:

Well, my friend It's Daffycat has done it again.  She's gifted us with another reindeer freebie.  I have already printed it off and hope to stitch it this weekend for my great-nephew.  I stitched Daffy's first reindeer for him last year.  I'm also working on another of the humbugs for my youngest great-niece.  They are such fun.

Guess I'll go stitch some more.

HoE Exchanges from Gwen



Gwen had me as her stitching partner for both the HoE Christmas Ornament Exchange and the HoE Christmas Smalls Exchange.  She said she didn't mind stitching for me because she had a theme she could follow.  She captured my love of reindeer perfectly, didn't she?  Thank you so much Gwen, I love them.  Loved them so much that I immediately displayed them in the house and forgot I needed to post to the HoE blog! 

I've been busy stitching little ornies for my great-nieces and nephew.  Whee, I hope I get them finished! 

Time to get my day started.

Catching Up

I have been a bad blogger, however, my part-time job has cut into my computer time.  Stitching is still on my to-do list though.

Halloween brought three finished pieces for my friends Diane, Lynn and Mary Ann.  L&M are stitchers so any stitched gift I give them is welcomed.  Diane does not stitch, but does do alot of handwork, so she appreciates my efforts also.  Here's what I gave them:

I also completed two exchange pieces.  I'm going to go ahead and post them, since I'm pretty sure the recipients do not read my blog.  Here they are:

These are from a Lizzie Kate design I've wanted to stitch for a while.  I liked the way the ornament turned out so much, that I stitched the tree and made it into a small pillow. I used bugle beads for the candles on the pillow.

My traveling buddy wanted me to stitch an ornament for her great-niece and great-nephew. How could I resist stitching Daffycat's little reindeer designs?  I couldn't, since I absolutely love them.  Here's my finished ornaments:

I stuffed them with ground walnut shells and used the background fabric on the backs.  They were stitched up using the sewing machine, which I find very challenging, but I think they turned out really cute.  The fabric is an blue iridescent jazlyn.  When I saw it, I thought of snow.

Finally, when I was about two years old, my grandmother crocheted a little dress for me.  All the girls in my family have had their photo taken in this dress.  My great-niece Olivia is the latest.I think she's a real cutie.  The dress is over 60 years old!

Guess that's about it for me tonight.  I can't believe it's almost Wednesday already.