Favorite Colors giveaway at Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe

Nancy's hosting another drawing for a favorite colors giveaway.  See her blog for details and good luck!

Favorite Colors giveaway at Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe

Happy stitching!

Hinzeit Sweet Land of Liberty....finished!

I really enjoyed working on this piece and glad it's finally finished.

Happy stitching!

Stitching progress

It's pretty much too hot to do anything else but stitch lately...although I have done a few other things.

Here's my progress on Hinzeit's Sweet Land of Liberty.  I think I just might finish this one soon.

I took a short break from this to stitch what I thought was July's Halloween ornie theme.  I just noticed that I transposed themes...this one (black cat) is actually the theme for Aug.  DUH....  Oh well, it's early enough in the month that it's possible I'll stitch July's theme too (Haunted House). 

Majestic Cat by Homespun Elegance (I love Sandra's designs!)

Keep cool and....

Happy stitching!

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe Contests

Nancy's doing it again...with her Christmas in July contests.  One contest is for 1600 yds of her beautiful hand-dyed floss and another for a gift certificate for her shop.  Check out her blog for details:

VMSS Contest 1600 yds hand-dyed floss

VMSS Contest...gift certificate

Good luck!

Christmas in July contest from Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe

Nancy at Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe is hosting a Christmas in July contest.  Click below to read all about it:

Christmas in July

Good luck!

Happy July 4th!

I hope everyone enjoys their July 4th celebrations.  As for us, we're having a quiet, relaxing day and most probably will go to a friend's house to view the fireworks tonight.  I made a patriotic trifle to take with us and these individual ones for us to eat here at home.  I'd intended to use an angel food cake but only found pound cakes at the store.  Since I had some of my here in our freezer (that probably tastes better than store-bought anyway), I chunked up some of that to use in the trifles.  My original intent was to bake another blueberry galette but decided it's way too hot to turn the oven on. 

I've been working more on Hinzeit's Sweet Land of Liberty and making some progress.  I really think I can finish this one soon if I keep working on it.  (I'm itching to start something else, though...my stitcher's ADD kicking in.)

I also finished and "cubed" LHN Old Glory for a patriotic LHN sal:

I took some time out of patriotic stitching to stitch a Halloween ornament for the Halloween ornament blog.  It's Trick or Treat by Plum Pudding Needleart and published in the JCS 2013 Halloween issue.

Happy stitching!

Hinzeit Sweet Land of Liberty Update

It's hot and humid here in SE TX so I've been spending a lot of time working on this old wip of mine.  I think the amount of frogging I had to do is about equal to a small-medium project and I'm pleased that I've finished all the frogging (unless I make more mistakes, that is).

As you can see, there's a little staining from the red of the flowers that I frogged out but since I was only off by 1/2 stitch, I'm hoping it won't be seen when it's restitched.

Happy stitching!