Dragon Birthdays

Unintentionally, I have finished stitching my Green Santa, just in time for Saint Patrick's Day!  On St Paddy's Day, we are all Irish, right? ;-) He's my second Santa this year. As you can see below, I am stitching my Santas on one piece of linen stretched on my scroll frame. I have space for a third Santa (to the right of the green santa) to come before I cut the linen away and maybe attempt some finishing! Speaking of finishing, I did spend a few days last week finishing about 10 smalls! Oy, I shouldn't wait till the pile is that big! Here's a bunny pulling a cart of shamrocks - called, of course, Shamrock Bunny by Homespun Elegance.   Next up, is Thankful Heart by Heartstrings Samplery.  I left out the words as I like the clean, simple design.  Here's the fabric I used on the back. Love it. It's leftover from one of my homemade tops.  It's been raining on and off for a few days so I will show you one of my blooming orchids.  I wish I k...

Hello dear peeps! It's a beautiful sunny morning here so I am already charged up with rays of peppiness! I started on my second Santa for the SAL. In case you are wondering, it's from the Kris Kringle booklet again and it's the one holding the Canada Goose.  Since I am from Canada I had to stitch him! Other than my SAL, I am not stitching much else these days as I am back to my dressmaking spell. If you are interested, my sewing blog is A Closet full of Posies.  I do have a couple more photos of my February shelf to show you. So, the Nashville Needlework Market is happening next weekend. Have you seen the sneak peeks? What's on your list ?  I am trying to not look too hard right now. No doubt I will get caught in the frenzy (at least some) when more and more new designs are revealed. There does seem to an awful lot of goodness showing already in those sneak peeks! Thanks for stopping by. Welcome to my new followers as well! Have a great week!

Good Monday morning to you all! I'm happy as there's sunshine outside and there was sunshine yesterday too! What a mood lifter. Now onto meeting Mr Handsome Sweater Man. That's my first PS Santa of the year! I just love stitching Prairie Schooler again.  Right now I am stitching from the Kris Kringle booklet.  I think I may stitch three from this booklet then maybe move onto something else. We shall see! Since I seem to be leaning towards stitching smalls these days, I needed to add some small designs to my stash. Here's my recent stash acquisition which, sadly, took over a month to get to me from the USA! In particular I have wanted to stitch "Wintertime" for quite awhile so I am thrilled that it's finally here. For some reason I guess I have Christmas on my mind! Thanks for stopping by! Have a great week!

Hiya.  So we are a couple of Sundays into our PS Santa SAL.  I had a slow start last Sunday. Today, I made a lot more progress!  I realized today I made a boo-boo with the DMC colour for the reindeer/trees part of the santa. I used Ecru instead of 738! Ecru was supposed to be used for the hair and beard! Oh well. I wasn't going to frog so I just used white on the hair and beard. It will have to do! I am really enjoying stitching Prairie Schooler again! Here's a peek at my Valentine shelf.  That's me for another short&sweet post!  Thanks for stopping by. Hope you are all doing well and if you are caught in the deep winter freeze, I hope you are able to keep warm and stitch! Enjoy your week!

Happy Monday! I have been busy in the garden with very little stitching to show but here's my next start on my fourth Prairie Schooler Santa. As you can see it's Book # 47. It is the first PS leaflet that I bought, way back when. I have stitched the Santa in red balloon ages ago and wanted to stitch some more of these designs. You can't go wrong with any of the PS Santas I think! In the garden, some of my roses have started to bloom.  Then there's this sweet columbine. I planted it last year and was very happy that it returned this year! Bougainvilleas do not grow here naturally. I decided to try a pot of it this year and bring it in to overwinter and see what happens. Our deck is hot so I think it should be happy this season.  I've been busy on my sewing blog , unofficially participating in something called Me-Made May 2015. You can read it on my May 1 post . Basically it's a fun challenge you set for yourself. Perhaps you want to wear one hand...