sunday

 One more round!!

Finished the angels with gold braid and blue beads, Camel and Wise men, Mary and Palm trees. They take about 2 hours each to finish. Mary did not take as long because of all the braids and beading but still took some time to tuck all the satin edging under.

Here is my sea horses made when I first started crazy quilting in 2007. The big one is all bullion stitches and the baby is back stitch. I was showing the ladies how to work the bullion stitches but the young 12 year old I worked with her doing a back stitch.

Renee..http://monkeyandmutt.blogspot is working on her 2015 Under the Sea Block Step 4: Seahorse Motif.  She has a great Tutorial on satin stitching a seahorse.  I will have to make one using her directions, the treasurer chest is satin stitch.

 

Hubby says  Hi!  With all the rain we purchased a riding lawn mower to mow weeds. The weeds are above the mail boxes. We are on the border of TX and not as much rain and flooding as Central TX. We shudder every time a thunder storm comes by and hope no hail. It still floods in the garden and driveway. Have one red tomato we will share today and a few raspberries.

I received a new magazine this week and have not subscribed to any cross stitch or quilting magazines for the past 5+ years. This one is amazing packed full of patterns on primitive cross stitch and punch needle. I have my punch needle just need to find time to learn. I do rug hooking so it isn't that hard to figure it out.
Here is what one reader wrote.....
Check out Lori's "Olde Goat"! The magazine is definitely a 5~STAR magazine...each page is fantastic! Blessings from Scattered Seed Samplers

 

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Thank You for visiting me and love your comments. Looking forward to seeing all the beautiful projects people are working on at Kathy's Quilts    

Slow Stitching Sunday ...http://kathysquilts.blogspot.com

 AND 

 Susan Flemming's Super Mom No Cape, Embroidery and Cross Stitch  on Monday....http://www.supermomnocape.com 

 

Please stop by and see them.   

Nativity and Lace Mat Doily

This week I started work on the Advent Nativity. The cows, sheep (with bells) and Manger  are finished.  The angels and shepherds need some more embroidery work.  I stitch on the top layer and then cut the backing with Heat and Bond on it. This is fused to the top. Makes a nice stiff but pliable figures and will add a small circle of Velcro to back.

Sister has a birthday in 15 days so I will tat this up and have it on its way  in a week. It is The Lace Mat....Pattern by Norma Benporath and chart drawn by Jon Yusoff. The doily is tatted with size 20 Lizbeth 153 Taffy Thread. The next round I might have a plain yellow for the chain stitch.

These are projects waiting for their turn to be worked on!!  LOL

 

 

 

Thank You for visiting me and love your comments. Looking forward to seeing all the beautiful projects people are working on at Kathy's Quilts    

Slow Stitching Sunday ...http://kathysquilts.blogspot.com

 AND 

 Susan Flemming's Super Mom No Cape, Embroidery and Cross Stitch  on Monday....http://www.supermomnocape.com 

 

Please stop by and see them.      

 

Doily and CQ Finished

 My CQ Wall hanging is finished! All hand quilted on the seams of cq and the outer border.

Back ofCQ

Round 4 and 5. This took 8 hours and thought it would make a nice tablecloth. I will have to think hard on this. It will most likely be a beautiful big doily!! I still have 6 more rounds to go.

 

Mother's Day gifts from my children in New York. Sean sent Roses and Annette sent a Taste of home! The best gift of all were the phone calls.

 

Thank You for visiting me and love your comments. Looking forward to seeing all the beautiful projects people are working on at Kathy's Quilts. Please stop by and see them at   http://kathysquilts.blogspot.com .    Thanks Kathy for hosting this event every Sunday.

On Monday I will be linking up with Super Mom No Cape at http://www.supermomnocape.com   On this link up it is all about embroidery and cross stitch.

 

Doily, CQ Quilting and Advent Calendar

Round 4 and 5 of Renulek's Doily. This will take some time going all the way around. I followed Muskaan's blog and tatted all the daises  and connect them as I tat Round 4. She has lots of good tips on this doily, Thank U Muskaan. 

 

I have hand quilted this section and down the one side.  Below is the pattern I will quilt in.

The start of the Nativity Advent Calendar for my great nephew. My niece asked if I would make one. It took a few tries to get the right numbers on 2 1/2 inch squares. I thought about tatting, crossstitch, backstitch and the chain stitch is what looked the best and easiest.

I have knitted the sock down to the start of the heal and have been hooken the rug around the border.

We had a lot of rain with small hail but no tornadoes this week. Friday had to go to Amarillo, TX , dh has blocked artery. During all the testing a storm was raging outside with a tornado watch, just hoping it wouldn't hail and one set down. Thankfully most of the bad hail storm was South of the city.

 

Looking forward to seeing all the beautiful projects people are working on at Kathy's Quilts. Please stop by and see them at   http://kathysquilts.blogspot.com 

Tatted Doilies, Knitting and Hooken

Cherub Doily by Ann Wilson was tatted in memory of Cousin Bob who passed away from ALS. The bright colors to celebrate his life and will be mailed to his spouse. It is Lizbeth 20 153 - Rainbow Taffy

 Round 3 of Renulek Doily. An easy round of rings and chains, just make sure there are 3 rings before joining to the previous round. It's tatted with Lizbeth 40 163 Blue Ice.

 

My second pair of socks. The first sock is finished but ran out of yarn,  will knit  the second one later. This pattern is designed by Kim Goddard and is for beginners. To dress it up I knitted the rib and then did an Eyelet Ridge. They are knitted on size 2 with knit Pick Peruvian Highland wool. Love working with the yarn.

 

Adding more flowers to the Hook Rug.

 

The African Violets are blooming. They are all started with a single leaf 4 years ago.  In front are my herbs and need to get them planted in the planter.  Echinacea, Parsley, Sage and Thyme.

 

I stated all my seeds this year and really grew with my new grow light. In this state people do not know what broccoli or cabbage is! I have lots of tiny tomatoes.

 

 

This year I have started to grow most of my flowers in pots because of all the critters like the one below. Boy is he fast. Went between DH's legs this morning to get in to the crack of the wood fence. LOL He has doubled in size from last week. What we thought were gofers are ground squirrels. They run through the gofer holes and dig to the top and eat my plants. Look like a giant chipmunk.

 

 

I am linking up with Kathy's Quilts at   http://kathysquilts.blogspot.com