Cross Stitching, Embroidery and Quilting on My

Put about 20 stitches in my Mary Wigham last week. 

I am embroidering on Block 31- Blossoming

Finished a top for a carry around quilt for Brentley, he loves Kevin. 

Got my Grand Illusions back from the LAQ, now I need to make the binding and get it sewn on. 

I also made and sewed together 208 half square triangles and made this quilt top for one of my Nephew in law's birthday in July. 

Wee I think this is enough for a while. Oh wait I am also working on my Tumbler quilt in between.

Only 7 or 8 more rows to go.

Almost caught up

I am back to the pool in the mornings and back in the quilt room. I am also working on my Mary Wigham sampler. 

I have done all of the blocks for The Splendid Sampler but block 29 and it will be done tomorrow. I am finding some of the techniques use in some of the block pretty hard but I have made up my mind to do them as they come. I have done 10 blocks since I got home. I did blocks 23 to 28 and the 4 bonus blocks that I didn't do when they came out. 

 



 

 

 

       Happy Stitching Everyone.

Cross Stitch UFO

I have pulled out my next UFO to work on. I have promised myself to finish a UFO before I start anything new. Yes yes I have a couple of cross stitch patterns with quilts that I want to do for the quilt room but I am going to wait.
This one is called Mary Wigham, it is a sampler that was made by Mary Wigham in 1790 at the Ackworth School in England. I am doing the sampler on 25 count over 1.

This is the original sampler, as you can see I am changing some of the colors around. I will most likely tea dye the whole thing once I have it done. I am also going to put my family initials in it and my name will replace hers in the middle.
I am glad that I have picked up my needles and magnifer again. I have enjoyed Cross Stitching since 1987 when my friend Jan B. taught me the art of stitching.

March's WIPocalypse for April

My WIPocalypse this month is my finish for the Celtic Wedding Sampler

 

Before

I worked on Pot 4 Dickie and finished another band.

After

I moved Mary Wigham to my new stitching frame and put in a couple of hours stitching, stitch part of another Quaker emblem. I do like the new stitching frame and it was very easy to take Herbie off the bars and but MW's on.

Before 

Sorry for the different colors but lighting sure makes a difference when your taking pictures doesn't it. 

After

Wipocalypse 2/2013

OOPS I forgot yesterday was the day to post Wipocalypse so I will go ahead and re-cap for the month. I'll just use small pictures instead of the larger ones I use all the time. 

I worked on the Celtic Wedding Sampler

after

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I worked on and finished a traveling pattern, "Count your Blessings"



I worked on Mary Wigham Sampler 

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I worked on my Quaker Welcome Sampler

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And last but not least I started working on Family Treasures III by Told in A Garden. I hope to have it finished in a week or two. 
Happy Stitching Everyone

WIPocalypse 1st Check in for 2013

For this the first Wipocalypse report of 2013 I have a finish a some progress to report on my Celtic Wedding Sampler. 
I finished my Celtic Table Runner that was started a few years ago. 

I worked on the Celtic Wedding Sampler for my Nieces wedding in May. Here is where I ended in December.

Here is were I ended this afternoon. I find listening to an audio book really helps me get a lot of stitching done. No I find that out :-)




 I will be adding the MaryWigham sampler in to my WIPocalypse list for the rest of the year. Here is the sampler and where I am starting with Mary in this round. As you can see I have made some color changes and will be making more I am sure.

 Happy Stitching Everyone and Welcome to all my new followers.