PRGRESS AND "OOPPPS"

 It is good and fun to show the 'good' stuff first--

This is June's Country Hart design for this month's BOM--a fun stitch to do!!

Some more ABC blocks were completed--

Getting those fabric highlight pieces to come to sharp points take a 'minute or two"--but these have been fun to stitch--

for Junes Attic Heirloom, BOM--

I did use a different fabric for the background with the School house--but used part of the fabric they sent me for the XYZ letters back ground--

And for May's color challenge--remember I decided to do purple (rest where doing Orange!!)

but I did not get them done--so decided to wait till Junes color came out and would do all 4 of them, then--Junes color was light colors--I went out of the lane again--probably with these 2 houses--

So am all caught up with the houses--

ON the Cross stitching front--

I forgot to show you that I had gotten Mrs. Claus out of time out last week and worked on her all week and this is where she is now--

her arm and shoulder sleeve was stitched in--see she is smiling cause I haven't forgotten her!!!!

And my hope and goal is, on Sundays, to work on the outlin

ing of the counted cross stitch that my daughter gave me back in Oct when I was there, to finish--I worked on it one time right after I got back and then it sat--and I can't believe that trip was 7 months ago now--what--how--when--where did those 7 months go?????  Last Sunday I got the branch with the flowers all outlined in the lower right hand corner--there is alot of outlining to do on this piece!!!!

And here is a photo of my Peace Lily--

I am so proud of her--when I first got her a couple years ago--she would get small flowers--but the center flower always turned brown before it became a real flower--then she stopped flowering for a good year or more--and then all of a sudden--look at this bloom---!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOW for the Opps--

I thought I had my hexie project ready for the background and to do the applique to the fabric--Kathy had used a black ground--can't say I wanted black--but couldn't seem to find any thing else-so got the back ground cut--laid it out and spent an hour hand basting it together--BUT--look

how wonky this is--it was worse looking in real life too--so got the pattern and kept studying it and discovered that the 5th row was a 6 hexie row and I needed a 5 hexie row--So--I unbasted it all and unstitched row 5--then restitched the top 4 rows to the bottom piece and then added that 5th row to the bottom of it all--   

Now I think I am cooking with steam--as they say--much better--and I think I have some Navy fabric I will try for the background--??????

WELL--GUESS SUMMER WEATHER IS COMING TO FLORIDA THIS WEEK END--AND THE HUMIDITY WILL BE BACK--GOOD THING I LIKE TO STAY INSIDE AND STITCH!!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK WHERE YOU ARE--HUGS, DI

 

AND HERE IS JUNE--

 Again I say--slow down a bit--time--there is no hurry here and the lazy days of summer is here for some of us and winter--for others--we need some time to catch our 'breath'!!!

Been busy with needle and thread --

and even some serious machine work got done-- In fact--two baby quilts for the local hospital where finished--

Quilt 1--

 cute bunnies and balloons-with a bit of yellows here and there--

Quilt 2--

pink and lavender one with cute elephants on it--

And then--I actually --yep--actually went to the local quilt club meeting at the local library and turned them in and stayed for the meeting--2 gals who have a company called--M&M's--(Margaret and Mary) gave a talk on 'Color' and it was interesting!!

See here's proof I was there!!!!

Got 2 more of the Roundabouts by Melisa--embroidered--

This one is June's--

and this one is January--I have 3 out of the 6 done now!!

And here is Block 2 of the Polka Dots girls--

And here is the first 6 letters of the new ABC top--

not sure I am happy with the letter F--maybe that background is too busy and too dark???

And oh my goodness--is this not a wonderful--goody!!!!

I just LOVE-- this new line of Tilda fabrics--this is just a fat 1/8th of 20 of the fabrics--and no-- I do not have any idea what I am going to make with them--yet????????????

And here is my garden flowers--( inside on my window ledge)

I have worked on some other projects too--but forgot to take photos--hummm????

IT IS TIME TO COOL HERE AND WARM IN SOME COUNTRIES--BUT THERE IS ALWAYS TIME FOR SOME KIND OF STITCHING--SO KEEP ON STITCHING--ENJOY TODAY!!

HUGS, DI

THERE IS SQUIRRELS --OR ELSE I JUMP DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE--

 I am starting too many 'new' projects--think I need a 12 step program here!!!!   I mean I am retired--and tired--old and creaky--brain fog one minute and brain over drive the next---

So lets see where I am now--

I got the first block of the Polka dot girls all embroidered and have alot done on the second block so on Sunday afternoon I traced off the 3rd block--

Then Melisa has been giving us an embroidery block each month again--I have been 'slow' to the table with this one--thinking I had a full plan for them--I thought they were too small so had enlarged a couple--but there they sat--till--

this little rabbit joined the club--he was Aprils design--I have traced off--Jan, Feb, March, and May's designs--so will be working on those off and on with the Polka dot girls to get caught up!!

I have gotten all of Kathy Schmitz hexie designs that I embroidered all into rows now--

now to stitch these rows together and to add all the sections together!!!

And I know 'orange' was this month's color--but--I just couldn't bring myself to do orange in May--soooo---

I did purple--

And here is a few--fussy cut ones--

Think I did 41 this month with purple--oh see the dragonfly's on the bottom--the darker one is the right side of the fabric and the lighter one is the back--!!!???

I worked on the first of 2 baby quilts I am doing--

I have the fabric for a border ready and the binding fabric--

In cross stitching--

I have kept up with the Summer sampler that Melisa is doing for us--

This block was a quilt block--only--I did one of her earlier ones--the one with the strawberry as a remembrance to my Grandmother--who loved to go wild strawberry picking with us when I was growing up!!  

and here is this months--tiny house--

Again--a change in plans--needed to do a pink house as May is my birthday month and pink is my very favorite color--and I have a problem with tomatoes--so I kept mine all about sewing things and I just loved loved the tiny lamb we did a couple months ago on one--so added one here--I just love making these tiny houses--thanks Melisa--

And now to a Rabbit hole---I found these on the Stoney Creek site as their special pattern for the month of May--each pattern was only $1.50--so $6.00 for the set--I had been kinda looking for a bird pattern--and I have--well--sorta-- have the chickadee and the cardinal (more was done on the cardinal since the photo earlier today--there is one problem I have discovered--they are all sitting on pine greens--and well it does say--ornaments--only I want mine to be year around--so--for now am leaving off the greens till I decide--may come up with nests under them --instead--?????

And here is my new 'squirrel' I am chasing--I have had this pattern for about 10 years or longer--just sitting in the wings waiting--decided it was time when I seen the Brie fabrics from Tilda--I so love me Tilda designs--so I am gonna see if I can applique these letters with the tiny points at the top-- and the bottom photo is the fabrics I found to use for back grounds--

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And of course we have to talk Nascar--

and death of Kyle Busch--totally unbelievable--can't say he was my favorite driver--but when I first started watching Nascar in 2010--I had '3' blog friends and the housekeeper at the senior apartments in NY who were huge--huge Kyle fans--Melinda would even bring her big cardboard display cutout of Kyle and set it up in the second floor hall way every time he won and hand out M&M's to all of us--and back then he won alot--so I was always happy for them--I was probably more of Dale Jr fan back then--actually--I would see who the top 4-5 were at the end and then pick who I wanted to win that race--it would drive my friends crazy cause I didn't have one favorite guy!!!!!!!!  I am heart broken for his family and so so many of his teammates and fans--

SO ONCE AGAIN WE SAY--HUGS THOSE AROUND YOU AND TELL THEM HOW MUCH YOU LOVE THEM--

HUGS TO ALL, DI

 
 

NEW ADVENTURES AND MOTHER'S DAY

 It's been a couple busy weeks--Started last week on Wednesday with a day out with my son and lovely daughter in law--to celebrate my birthday--a week early--

We went to the Zoo first--and got there around 3pm--it was a perfect day-- Sunshine and beautiful blue skies and a light breeze--

there was alot of changes to see--

They have added 'tons' of metal decorative pieces though out the Zoo and I believe most of them light up at night--

We spent a couple happy hours looking at animals--first time to be at the zoo so late in the day--but it was lovely--hardly any others there --so got to see alot with no crowds or crying kids--(they all go in the morning--like I used too!!!)

After we left there they took me to Hobby Lobby, near there for some much needed baby yarn--

Here is the nice bright cheerful colors I got--

and here is 2 more skeins I got and nice start on this sweater is in progress-

And before I made it all the way back up front, to the cash out--look what jumped into my cart!!!!

(My popcorn shrimp came in this cute little bag--but it held alot of shrimp also got 2 other kinds of shrimp!!)

Then we went out to Red Lobster for dinner--though we don't eat Lobster--mostly I eat 'shrimp' and they eat shrimp or salmon--had some good food and 'slow' service--but pleasant service!!

Ok--so what have I been doing stitching wise--

I got my 2 pink houses built for April's color--

Got these 4 cross stitches made into little pillows--the 2 bottom ones I did back in the early 90's--

And here they are in my shadow box--along with a couple new birthday gifts from my daughter--the little pots in the top row that says m o m--and the pot of crochet tulips in front of the bears--Also the third shelf down on the right is my new tea cup and teapot salt and pepper set from Cracker Barrel where me and 4 friends went to lunch on my Birthday on Wednesday!

And here is '5' old ladies a rockn away out side in front of Cracker Barrel--only I am a good 10 years older that the other '4'--

And here is the first 3 rows of the hexie wall hanging--

I have the 4th row stitched together now--

And here is May's wool bom project--she is already working in her garden!

And May's embroidery block from Country heart is all done--

And I finished block 2 and 3 on the Summer cross stitch by Melisa--

Now block 2 is different--but is still one of Melisa's designs--I needed chickens in my summer one--not sure why--but needed chickens!!!????

MOTHERS DAY--

Oh my--us mother's had a 'hay day' raising our kids--but we did it in an age of wonder and beauty--without cell phones and gaming equipment in their little hands--so we did good--and I believe we brought up kids who respect us and all we did for them in their growing years and now most of them are in their years of raising kids of their own--so

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU

KEEP YOUR NEELDES FLY'N AND ALWAYS ENJOY A BIT OF NATURE EACH DAY--

HUGS TO EVERYONE--DI