HAPPY NEW YEAR!

I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year. I have been busy stitching on my Just Nan Ice Garden piece. I am on the last band, then just the beads to attach....hmm...maybe a finish in my near future. I also managed to start and finish The Sweetheart Tree's teenie tweenie #12...Poinsettia On Parade. Now to decide how I'm going to finish it.

The Sweetheart Tree

Poinsettias On Parade

As a New Year's Wish to Everyone I will be giving away this chart [ this is the chart only, as I used the charm on my piece]. If you would like to enter please leave your name in the comment section and I will draw a winner on January 1st! Good Luck to All.

Happy New Year!

Susan

Merry Christmas!

Finishing Party!

Well, today I had myself a finishing party. I pulled out 3 ornaments that I had previously stitched plus the 2 I stitched along with the Seasonal Ornment SAL.

Here's the photos I took of them. The first 4 are Victoria Sampler designs and the last one is by The Sweetheart Tree.

Victoria Sampler

Charity

Victoria Sampler

Faith

Victoria Sampler
Poinsetta



Victoria Sampler
Christmas Rose

The Sweetheart Tree

Snowflakes in Abundance

I really enjoyed myself, but will be glad to get back to stitching:) I want to wish everyone a MERRY CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Till Next Time,

Susan

Christmas Mailart

I received my Christmas Mailart from Joanne the other day. Joanne stitched me a lovely envelope with a Chritmas tree on the front and Santa, a reindeer,and snowman on the back. Thank you, Joanne for the envelope and all the goodies you sent along.

Susan

WOOHOO! A Christmas Pillow

JBW Christmas Purse

I finally had some free time today and was able to turn JBW's Christmas Purse into a pillow. This is the first time I've used my stitching and made it into a pillow. Since I found all these lovely stitching blog I've seen all kind of neat ways to finish my stitching...instead of the standard picture frame. This has open a whole new world for me. I know I have a pile of stitched items I need to dig out and decide how to finish them. I have 2 weeks off over the Christmas holidays, so I hope to be able to tackle them then.

Weekend

A busy weekend. I spent most of sunday cleaning up the living room getting it ready for the Christmas decorations. Which we'll put up later this week. To reward myself I pulled out a Lizzie Kate that I piece I stitched a few weeks ago for an exchange I'm in and finished it into a cube. This is my 1st time using this finishing technique. I think it turned out cute. I substituted a flower charm for the called for heart charm {since I didn't have it}...it goes well with the fabric I used for the backing, so I was very happy that it worked.

I also started to piece together the fabric for the pillow I want to make out of the JBW Christmas Purse piece. B ut my body decided it has had enough work today, so I hope to work on it tuesday or wednesday since I have both days off from work. Hopefully, then I'll have a finished pillow to show you. Now I'm off to watch The Amazing Race on TV.

Susan

PIF

Just a reminder that I'll be drawing 3 names for the PIF on tuesday, so if anyone else is interested please leave your name in the comment section. So far, I only have 1 taker, Robin. Will email everyone on wednesday. Thanks for joining in.