A Little Finish and a Little Start

 Gentle Friends, I finished up Paradise over the weekend and made a start of the Fall sampler...here's a snaperoo of Paradise...

"Peaceful Paradise" by Midsummer Night Designs

3/28 - 9/25/2021

LL 40ct Pearled Barley

Using the Recommended floss

This was a great piece to work on and I think the only change I would make would be to just use a single black as I can't really see any difference in the two blacks, but whatever, she's a done deal...

... now on to my Fall sampler.....

"Mighty Acorn"- from Blackbird Designs

36ct LL Vintage Light Examplar

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A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, stitching away this past week, and here are a couple of snaps to show...  first Fruits...

... the lighting is a bit odd, but here we are with just three months to go... 

and here is a snap of  Paradise...

... closing in on the end... all that's left are a few flowers and a couple of sheep.

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A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, I worked some on Paradise...  here's a snap...

... and then on the 1st I got September's section... and put down Paradise and dug out Fruits... and as I always do I am laying in the dark color first...  here's a snap...

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A little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends,  stitching away on the Paradise "garden"...  here's a snaperoo...

... those green lines will be green hills with a duck pond, but right now it looks a bit odd...

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edgar

A little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends picked up a little on Paradise... and here's a snap...

... working from L to R I finished up the tree, birds, and bees...  I also kitted up the two small projects I'm going to work on next.. a piece for the Fall and a Christmas piece.  They are both from Blackbird Designs.  I was very saddened when I heard of Barb Adams passing this summer.  She along with Alma Allen made up the team of Blackbird Designs.  They have brought me many hours of stitching pleasure over the years and so many lovely designs I have stitched of theirs are hanging in my home. Thinking about how much BBD has meant to me I have wanted to make a start of another BBD piece or pieces.  I have so much BBD stash I've not stitched it was hard to pick just two, but I did.  I pulled the linen and floss together easily so there will be a new start in a couple of weeks.  I'll put aside Paradise for a bit and stitch my seasonal pieces along with working on Fruits.  That's the plan right now.....

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That's about it for today.  As I wrap up the weekend I am sliding a lasagna into the oven as we are expecting some friends over tonight for dinner and a film... 

The Women, 1939... they've never seen it, and I've seen it many times... so bitchy, but fun!!

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A Little Stitchn'

 Gentle Friends, stitching away this week on both pieces... here's a snap of Paradise...

 I've blocked in the black line around the bottom image and finished up the little hill on the left... 

and Fruits is moving along...

... with a little start of the dark blue.

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A Couple of Stitches

 Gentle friends, stitching away on Fruits and Paradise this past week. I finished up the July Section on Fruits and got the border in for the bottom of Paradise... here are a couple of snaps...

                                  

... this is the entire piece as it is for the moment... it's coming along nicely!!

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I'll print off the August part for fruits and get to work on that at some point this week.  I think I want to finish up the little hill with the sheep first.

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A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, here are a couple of snaps of the stitching this week...

.. I completed the scripture part of Paradise... and...

... got busy on the dark blue parts of the next part on Fruits...

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I'm not sure how much stitching I'll get done this week as I smashed my thumbnail against the dryer yesterday morning and it's throbbing to beat the band... the little bit of stitching on the dark blue I got done was very uncomfortable so we'll see as the week wears on.

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A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends, although I would have usually switched over on the 1st to Fruits, I have kept up with Paradise this past week... here's a snaperoo...

... the color is way off in the picture, sorry.  I really wanted to finish up the Pslam before I put it down to work on Fruits... and once I set my mind to something there is very little that will deter me from my goal!   Hopefully, I'll have finished up this last section and gotten to work again on fruits before next week.

That's about it for today's sports fans, thanks for stopping by do stop again.  Stay Safe!

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edgar

A Little Stitchin'

Gentle Friends... I picked up Paradise and have gotten the checker-board border completed... and it met up without a problem... woohoo!!  Here's a snaperoo...

... it's a wrinkled mess and looks awfully blue in the picture but you get the idea...  I've already started thinking about the next piece to pick up when this one wraps... I think I'm leaning heavily towards another sampler... I do love a good sampler!!  Then there is Hallowe'en... I think I've landed on a great piece for the Fall to stitch...  so many projects so little time!

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A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends here is where my two projects are at the moment... first up is "Paradise"...

.. I was ecstatic about that "unfudgable" border meeting up.  So often with a border, I've had to adjust a stitch or two but this one was spot on.  

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Since it is the beginning of the month I also received the next section on "Fruits"... 

and got to stitching on that...

,,, as I always have done I am laying in the dark blue first.

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The weekend was quiet... the City was windy and on the cool side with temps hoving in the low 50's... I do love Summer here by the Bay!!  That's about it for today sports fans.  Thanks for stopping by do stop again.  Stay Safe!

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edgar

A Little Stitching

 Gentle friends, the border met up without a hitch... and I was worried as it was an un-fudgeable type of border....here's a snaperoo of the piece as it stands...

.. it's just moving along at a nice clip now.  I'll get the next part of "Fruits" tomorrow and will get moving there next.

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A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, here's a snap of "Peaceful Paradise" ...

... I'm working away on the border for the top part...

here's hoping the border matches up when the time comes!!

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A very Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, I was less than motivated this week and only got a little further along on Paradise...

... and if you look at the left side border there is a mistake I had to go back and fix so I also did some frogging... fun stuff... 

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A Little Stitchin'

 Gentle Friends, still stitching away on Paradise... here's a snap...

... it was nice to finish up the top part of this design...now I'm putting this down for a bit to stitch a piece for a Christmas Present... so there might not be a stitching snap for a while...

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Yesterday I got my second shot ...

... and Rico gets his second tomorrow... so we will be vaccinated for the time being.

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A Little Stitchin' and a Bit'o Lolly

Gentle Friends, sweet Lolly is bouncing back quickly... we can see a marked difference in her entire attitude just since Friday when we picked her up.  She's taking quite a bit of medication... pills, oral squirts... and the shots... her regime includes both morning and evening... we are getting all the medication in her that is prescribed,  she squirms and doesn't like any of them!

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On the stitching front, I finished up the blue fill stitching, and here's a snap...

... although boring to stitch it does make the sun pop.

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A Few Flowers, a Little Stick'n and a Little Stitch'n

 Gentle Friends, we made it down this year to get a look at Queen Wilhelmina Tulip Garden in Golden Gate Park... here are some snaps...

.. although just a bit blown being so close to the ocean they are still beautiful and we so missed the garden last year it was nice to get to visit this year.

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This morning I headed down to get my first shot...

... so it's one down one to go!

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The stitching for the week... I got a bit more on Peaceful Paradise done...

...and I received the fourth part of Fruits of Plenty and so I got busy over the weekend...

... working on getting the dark blue done and this is where I left off last night.

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A Little Finish and a Little Start.....

 Gentle Friends, I finished up Little Birds at the end of last week... here's a snaperoo...

"Little Birds" Blackbird Designs

8/3/20 - 3/25/21

40ct PTP "Heartland" - Charted Floss

... you can see the fill between the houses is a garden of sorts.  I toggled back and forth between this idea or a bit from "Thank you, Sarah Tobias", from the needlebook bottom.  This bit I stitched is a recharting from "Their Song" Loose Feathers #24.  I only ever considered using a BBD design since I wanted to keep this totally inspired by or from BBD.  This is not "strict" stitching from "Their Song" more of inspired by, as most of the motifs are jangled about a bit and all are a recharting using the color palette from "Little Birds"  I'm really pleased with how it turned out.  I also got the date and my initials in there.  This will go into the stitched finished box as its a whopping 19 1/2 x 17 big and I've really not got that big of a space left on any wall to hang her up if I was to get her framed, but no matter I really enjoyed stitching this piece as I always do when I stitch a BBD design!!

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I was thinking about what to start next a while back and then I saw a piece started by a dear friend of mine, Vonna of Twisted Sticher, of a piece she is stitching for Lent called Peaceful Paradise from Midsummer Night Designs... and I knew I wanted to stitch this also.  It's been lurking about in my stash since it was released back in 2007 and now is a good time as ever to make a go at stitchin' it up... 

here's the start...

I'm stitching this on LL 40ct Pearled barley, it's far whiter than it looks in the snap, the picture makes it look pink and it really is not.  I'm also using the called for overdyed flosses.  I had the majority of them in the stash.  I've had to switch out some of the blacks but I'm OK with it and it'll look fine when it's done.

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