Wednesday, June 27, 2012
Blackbird Designs Rose Garden
I found this fabric in the shop that was so pretty that I just had to have it. But I didn't know what I would do with it, I just knew I loved it. Pink and roses. Can't go wrong!
Then I came across this pretty little chart by Blackbird Designs and thought it "could" go together somehow. So I pulled out some threads and did my best to match colors. Variegated thread can look so pretty but its challenging to work with (to me) because I don't care for the "lined look" that one can get while stitching with it. I'm not sure yet what I will make out if these, but the fabric can be a lining. Its not a small design stitched up (probably 3x5...?) That was my mini-diversion piece from my monthly Herbularius, massively large design (which I am almost finished with!)
Sunday, June 24, 2012
Chatelaine Alpine

Friday, June 22, 2012
Creative Poppy
Wednesday, June 20, 2012
Silver Lining Iris
My mother stitched this iris for me because its pink and I love pink and her name is Iris and she loves them. She has all the Silver Lining iris's.
I'm embarrassed to say I've had this in my "cupboard" for a few years now, but Mother has been in the hospital for the past 6+ weeks and I figured I just couldn't live with myself if she died and I didn't frame her picture, show it to her, and hang it up in my bedroom.
I picked out the frame last week and ordered the mat and put it together last night.
I just love how it turned out and can't wait to show it to her.
Friday, June 15, 2012
Darlene O'Stein
Thursday, June 14, 2012
Isn't she pretty?
Monday, June 11, 2012
oops!
I forgot to put the name of that design--Thistles and Flowers by Irene Fuller.
I'm still working on this month's part of Herbularius. There are FIFTY TWO of those points to stitch and I am just now starting on the last set of 13. YAY ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sunday, June 10, 2012
The origin of my "something pretty"
Saturday, June 9, 2012
JBW Squirrel
Friday, June 8, 2012
Herbularius
Part 11 already. WHERE did that year go?
Only one more part and then... ALL THE BEADS
Such a pretty design.
But gosh, there are 52 points to stitch around the border. FIFTY TWO!!!!!
I set it in my mind that there might as well be 50 million trillion. That way when I stitch it, I won't have in my mind that I can just "whip it out" really fast. Its like when I take a trip somewhere, if I think of it as a LONG... WAYS... AWAY, then before I knowit, I'm there!
I did make a little change in the outer-ist border: instead of stitching regular 'ole cross stitches with that pretty varigated silk, I chose to stitcha Long Armed Cross (some refer to it as a Long Legged Cross). It resembles a Heringbone stitch and just looks so pretty, especially up close.
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
all of it
Monday, June 4, 2012
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