Boro

 I went with friends to see the Boro Exhibit at the International Quilt Museum in Lincoln, NE.

Inspirational!

A Little Obsessed

 Alice Ellen Usher by Sassafras Samplers has been calling my name. A single thread, a single color - I love stitching on her!

A Finish and A Start

 I finished Red, White and Blue by Primrose Cottage.

So I started Patriotic Quaker by Primrose Cottage.

Well, actually I have two starts.

On Flag Day- June 14- I started The Pledge of Allegiance by Plum Street Samplers.

Some people are trying to finish before the Fourth of July. I hope to also but not this 4th of July!!!

Patriotic

 I couldn't help myself and started this small from Primrose Cottage -Red, White and Blue 

Started May 24

Need to finish it soon!

Trying to Finish

 I think I have 5 rows left.

Wool Bowls

 

These are so much fun to stitch! I just play with threads. Hopefully I can start a large bowl soon.

Poppers

 

Trying to get this done.

Bargello

 Phoenix Band Sampler by Northern Expressions Needlework 

Fanny Johns by the Wishing Thorn

 This looks so good on BeStitchMe Dirty Chalkboard 

Alice Ellen Usher

 This will take forever but I love stitching on Alice.

Lots of Progress

 So close to getting a framework for Tilos Primrose by Avlea.

Travel Project

 I always have a project for traveling. Or simple stitching if I am waiting or talking a lot! 🤣

Right now it's this Avlea project, Tilos Primrose:

I think my counting is ok despite the marking lines being off. I will move up the right side and see what happens.

April Calendar

 

The Right to Change my Mind

 I started Fanny Johns on the fabric in the kit. But I kept thinking about it on a black/dark fabric.

Here's as far as I got:

Then I decided to put it on Dirty Chalkboard by BeStitchMe:

Love! I am enjoying working on it.

WIPocalypse April 2026

 This is Melissa's brain child and I just tag along for the fun of it 😂

Question for April - what is your oldest WIP? Mine is Venetian Delight by Ro Pace . I have a picture of it somewhere... 

I have worked on a lot of things in April. The bad thing was I started two big projects! What was I thinking?

North Carolina Sampler by Northern Expressions Needlework.

And Fanny Johns by the Wishing Thorn 

Phoenix Band Sampler is moving forward 

As is Poppers 

Harmony of Nature Casket - making wings for my oxen 

Progress, I guess.

This is going to take a while...

 North Carolina Sampler by Heart's Ease Exampler Works 

Moving Forward

 Phoenix Band Sampler by Northern Expressions Needlework 

Next step is the bargello section.

Stitching with Friends

 I spent the day with my local EGA and made progress on Poppers by Kathy Rees.

I didn't take any pictures of the stitching going on around me. But take my word for it!

Fanny Johns Workshop

 Tudor Rose Sampler Guild had Birgit Tolman of the Wishing Thorn teach an online workshop.

So another new start! 40 count coffee stain linen by Cedar River with Crescent Colorworks Belle Soie.

More Colors

 Poppers by Kathy Rees 

These squares are so much fun to stitch. My colors are a little wild, but it makes me happy 😊.

Love the Colors

 

But each flame takes a while.

Working on Stash

 Rise Above the Waters by Jackie du Plessis from Sassy Jack's Stitchery.

A Finish!

 This should have been done last Christmas but it will be done by this year.

Flames!

 Phoenix Band Sampler by Northern Expressions Needlework 

A Start of a Thistle

 North Carolina Sampler by Heart's Ease Exampler Works 

March 2026

 

Well, I Shouldn't Have

 But I did. I started the North Carolina Sampler by Heart's Ease Exampler Works.

60 pages of beautiful charts . I am using 37 count Russian Tea Cake and Vikki Clayton silks 

Not much of a start, but that's okay.