I Have Been Making Progress

I wanted you to see that I have been stitching on my Christmas stocking. A little every day...
Here is where it was last time:

And here I am now! I know I made a counting error somewhere long ago and I have decided to work from right to left to complete this. Hopefully I won't have to rip that huge staff that I started on the left. We shall see!

A Little Stitching, A Little Ripping

Well, I pulled My Beloved out to start working on her again. I love it, but I always seem to need to restitch part of every band.
Here is where you last saw her:

 I have been excited about this grape band since I decided to purchase the chart. I changed the colors of some to the grapes to purple and decided on green for the others as I had enough shades in light values to make it work.

 But I made a mistake in the first green cluster. I thought I could make it work, but when I went to put in the next cluster, I realized the whole band would be off. So out it came!

I think it took me three nights to get the cluster stitched. Sigh. It will be so nice when it is stitched!

Some Finishes

I posted these on Facebook and Instagram but never posted here.I spent an evening stuffing these little pillows that I stitched earlier this year. Or was it last year?

I'm a little early for Thanksgiving but it is nice to have fall decorations up.

Something to Add to my Art Quilt

I decided (with the help of friends!) that my quilt needed another layer under the doilies. I am making strips of fabric that I will slow stitch onto the piece. I also wanted to add cross stitch or needlepoint pieces to the piece too.
Here is something I hope to add:

I keep my stork scissors in my Gay Ann Rogers Townhouse Needle case. I may add more stitched scissors to the piece, but we will see. I am stitching on a cocktail napkin that I hand dyed and am using DMC 08.

Sampler September

My EGA has brought back the yearly challenge and I decided to join. The project has to be 50% or less stitched (Christmas stocking would not work) and the guild voted on the piece they wanted you to finish. It has to be framed or FFOed too. I had them choose between Autumn Abstraction by Joni Stevenson

 and MH 1656 by Hands Across the Sea Samplers. By my title, you can guess what they chose.  So, I am trying to work on it in the evening after I put a thread or two in the Christmas stocking. It is really a lovely piece.

WIP Wednesday

I wanted to start something new, or at least pull out a different project, but I feel like I am so close on this silly thing. So I am trying to put at least one thread in a day. Can I finish before Christmas? Maybe. But make it into a stocking? Not so sure...

I am getting another sheep....

Hooray!

Life has been a little busy or so it seems.
A friend gave us grapes. Lots of grapes. So what did we make?
Grape gelato.

My hubby loved it. Me? Not so much.
And grape jelly. I have another batch to make and then on to the apples for applesauce!

And I finished something! Well, not fully finished, but it is all stitched!
This is where you saw it last:

 I decided I really didn't have that much left and worked on it every spare moment over the Labor Day weekend. I love the flag!

 Not a great photo, but here it is stitched.

I changed a few things and used the threads and embellishments that I had. Love it! Now to figure out how to finish it so I can display it next summer.