Happy 4th of July!

 Hope you are able to spend this holiday with family and friends!

Did I Ever Show This?

I did finally finish this little owl. The heart seems to go with the owl and I love seeing it from where I stitch:

Need to stitch something for spring to put up when it finally warms up.

People's Choice SAL HEARTS!

I love it that Jo has so many great SAL's during the year. This one is to be posted the first weekend of every month and we vote on the themes. This month is hearts for Valentine's Day, I am sure.

I have quite the collection of hearts that I stitched  from   Gay Ann Rogers . Here are a few:

But since I enjoy them so much, I have a few more to stitch. I kitted this one up that I hope to start as soon as I finish the row for MH 1656:

Yes I have more, but I will save them for another day!

Happy Valentine's Day!

Gay Ann Rogers is having her annual Hearts sale. You can find it HERE
I love stitching her hearts. I have one on the frame, but not much work to show. Hopefully before the end of the month I may have progress...But here is a set that I think I bought last year.

No one to stitch them for YET!

Gay Ann Rogers Challenge

 The photo above was taken January 30. Has it been that long since I worked on this?

I was trying to get some of the 4 sided stitch in, but made a mistake and needed to rip.
Gay Ann Rogers is challenging us to stitch a little each day on one of her pieces. This is the one I have to work on currently, but it needs an hour at a time. Some times that is difficult to find. I MAY have to frame up a heart....

R is for Russian

 I missed out on getting Gay Ann Roger's Catherine the Great portrait,but I have picked up every single heart from the collection. (And a few other things that I did not post too!)

Some Finishes

This is my dd Brazilian Embroidery Purse. It was a group correspondence course that we took through EGA.

This is my ds Candy Cane Santa. He had it stitched a while ago, but I finally took it to the finisher.
These are my Gay Ann Roger's ornaments. I was going to finish them myself, but .....

Green

Sorry these pictures are so dark. We have been stuck in a rainy pattern here in Illinois and I decided to take a picture inside. My local EGA meets once a month on Saturday to stitch a small project. The idea is to learn a new technique or try a new thread or fabric. This month we worked on Fanciful Fob by Roz Watnemo of Nordic Needle fame. It is a nice little piece but I had a horrible time working on black! I need to get my eyes checked again.

The kit included instructions, fabric, thread, beads, metal box and scissors. Quite a steal! Now if I can just see well enough to stitch the thing!

Gay Ann Rogers had a month long creativity challenge and one day the topic turned to shades of green. I never got to comment on that, but this piece has lovely greens in it!

Jane of Chilly Hallow had a post about keeping a tally on using up thread stash. My stash is no where near that of some of my friends, but I think I will try to keep count of the threads I use out of my stash. Especially if I use it up!