FO Friday 139

Hi everyone! I hope you had a good week. I was super busy so I'm very excited for the weekend to come, especially since it's a long weekend here in the US. Monday is Memorial Day, which is always the unofficial start to summer. This weekend is the start of grilling, watermelon, deviled eggs and tiki drinks in the backyard. I can't wait!

This is the finished May square of my Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery Woodland Sampler cross stitch. I've also finished the frame section for June, so come June 1st, I'm ready to rock. I'm having so much fun with this cross stitch and was just telling my husband that if it continues the way it's going, I want to get it nicely framed. Each month gets better and better in my opinion.

That's it for me this week. Have a great and safe weekend!

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FO Friday 125

Happy Friday! I hope you had a fabulous and fun Valentine's Day if you celebrate. We rented a Redbox movie (they sent us a coupon for a free rental!), had steak, potatoes and wine. It was a nice quiet evening.

I wanted to thank everyone who used the coupon code I offered yesterday for the holiday! You should be receiving an email from me (if you haven't already) regarding your order's shipment or timeline for shipping.

Today I have more cross stitch to share! As far as my knitting, I'm still trucking on my Color Affection shawl, but it's the only knitting project I'm working on right now since I have a time limit on it. I don't think I'll finish before Stitches, but I'll bring it on the trip and maybe I'll finish it there!

So, for my FO today, I have February's block for the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery's Woodland Sampler. I love this little guy!!! I finished March's frame and now just need to wait for the new month. :)

That's it for me today. Have a great weekend.

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FO Friday 124

Happy Friday! I hope all is well in your neck of the woods. I've been busy working on my Color Affection shawl and Woodland Sampler cross stitch and working away in the Candy Skein studios. I don't have too much to share today, unfortunately, but I did finish the January cross stitch! This pattern is part of the Woodland Sampler by the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery!

Isn't it adorable!?! Again, this is my first time using linen, and though it takes more concentration, it looks awesome! This is also 28 count which is a very very small weave. The lines might look crooked in the picture, but they are straight. The linen is being pulled oddly in my snap frame. :)


I hope everyone had a great weekend! Happy crafting.

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Work in Progress Wednesday 129

Happy Wednesday! I hope you're having a great day and week so far. My Monday didn't go so great, but my Tuesday was much better, so let's hope Wednesday continues the trend. I have even more to look forward to, as this weekend is TNNA! I'll be going with a friend of mine on Sunday and I can't wait. Is it too nerdy that I'm super excited to meet a lot of the "celebrity" knitting community?

Anyway, let's talk about work in progresses!

As you can see, I've been working a little on my Color Affection shawl. The pattern goes a lot faster than I expected, to be honest. I feel like I haven't work on it very much, but I'm halfway through the second section of the pattern. So far so good. With every stripe, I'm falling more in love with my color choices. As mentioned, I'm doing it in Candy Skein Sweet Fingering (coming this week to the CS shop!) in Fudge Brownie, Brain Freeze and later to be added, Pumpkin.

As most of you seemed to like how I shared my last cross stitch pattern, I decided I would share this one as well. I'm super excited about it, as this is my first time using linen!! I love it, despite having to concentrate a lot more than with the Aida cloth. The picture looks a little wonky, as my lines look crooked. They aren't, rest assure, it's just my snap frame pulling the linen uneven. What I'm working on is the January square for Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery's 2013 pattern, Woodland Sampler. On the 2nd of each month, we receive a pattern in our email to do the next square. I'm a little behind, as you can see. I wanted to finish my previous cross stitch before starting this one. That's right, I finished the other one, but that will be for Friday. Once I finish this square, I'll move onto February and hopefully finish that early so that I can continue on and do all the frames for the year.

Just a reminder, only a few more days of the Yarniacs 15% off code at Candy Skein! Just enter the coupon code YARNIACS during checkout to receive 15% off of your total purchase. The code ends February 1st!

That's it for me today. I hope you have a great rest of the week. I'll see you Friday!

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