Last Finish, First Finish

Hey Blog Buddies,

How's your January been going?  Mine is "so far, so good."

I realized that I never showed a photo of my last finish for 2015.  I finished stitching it last year, but it was finish-finished this year.

This is Winter Strawberries by Theron Traditions.

The cost of this kit was subsidized by my EGA chapter.

The finished project is all bundled up in this photo.

If you're wondering what it is...

It's a needleroll.

The project came with a pincushion and scissor fob,

but I chose not to stitch the fob.

You can see it has a pocket for scissors on the bottom.

And if you lift the top flap, you'll find a little needlebook.

Here's a close-up of the pincushion.

All the stitching on the pincushion was over 1,

with the exception of the Palestrina knots on the sides.

This piece was finished to perfection by my friend Averyclaire.

Thank goodness for her, is all I can say.

And now, for my first finish of 2016.

It's Tanja Berlin's Eastern Bluebird.

I'm very happy to have this guy finished!

Working with one thread of cotton floss

was pretty challenging.

I've been very good about sticking
to just the projects in my rotation this month.
I have a few kitted-up projects 
that are calling to me,
so we'll see what happens with those
next month.

That's it for now.
Thanks for dropping by!

Three Starts and Two Finishes

Happy Tuesday!  Hope August has been treating you well, with a little time to stitch, too.

Here are my new starts that have kept me occupied for the past month or so.  First, there's Catherine Theron's Winter Strawberries, an EGA chapter project.

This is the photo of (hopefully) how it will look once it's finished.  There is the main piece which is a needleroll, a pincushion, plus a cute little scissor fob.

Here's my start.  The green background for the word Scissors is stitched in "petit point" over one on 32-count linen.  The instructions were to do it in tent stitch, but you can see the telltale slanted pattern in the overdyed floss that says "basketweave."  I've actually added a couple more rows of strawberries since this photo was taken, but you get the picture.

I started and finished this next project.  The hardanger heart is attached to the metal tin using double-sided tape found in almost any craft store.  This may look familiar to some of you--I stitched one of these last year, but it went to live elsewhere.  This one is mine, I entered it in the local county fair and...

...won second place!  I was gobsmacked because I truly was not expecting any kind of a ribbon.  Believe me, the winning entry was much larger and more intricate than this little piece.  This was a freebie designed by Roz Watnemo that was given out at the last Nordic Needle retreat.  For more Fair results, check out the Flying Fingers Plus blog.


Finally, I started Count Twice by Plum Street Samplers. 

And it's finished, too!  I added the scissors and spools of thread on either end to give the piece a little more width, since the plan was to have it finished as a drum pinkeep by my GF Averyclaire. 

  I love, love, love the way this turned out!

That's it from here.

Thanks, as always, for visiting!