Two Projects at once!

I started this one.  This is Blue Ribbon Design's Sweet Simple Samplings.  It looks large but it is stitched over two on 40 count with a single strand.  It is a good start.

I also set up the class project from Jeannette Douglas' Isle of Hope.  I have it ready to go in the craft room so I can go stitch in there.  Just getting it all set up takes time so I hope get a few more stitches in this one soon.

Good News to share:  DH and I went out to lunch today.  It is the first time in about 3 months!! 

The eagle is done.

This is the last piece of the sewing set.  I am done!! Happy Dancing!!  This is a side for a pin cushion.  I am contemplating how to do the finishing.  I am thinking it might have to be a flat type pin cushion.  My mind is spinning with ideas.  What is next?????

Finishing Can Be Fun.

Yesterday I took three projects to the hospital.  They all needed hand stitching towards their finishing plans.  I posted the Drawn Thread piece yesterday.  Today I show the other two.  They needed a bit more work today. 

Sweetheart Tree's Halloween Quadrille.  It was fun to put together.  I added the ribbons today.

Then there is the Shakespeare's Peddler's Gentle Stitches which I put around a plastic tube for transporting projects.  I think it looks great.

Ten Years in the Making??

This is a design by Drawn Thread.  I have been working on it for many years.  It has a history.  I decided at the start that the fabric was too long so I cut it in half.  Then I stitched the top half and as I rolled the scroll bars, I realized that I was about to run out of fabric, exactly half way through the design.  Horrors.  So it was put away for many years.  Then in 2009 I stitched the bottom half.  I have spent a lot of time trying to decide how to put the two pieces together and then how to do the hemstitching around the center design, and inside the outer border.  Well, I did it.  Today I did the hemstitching.  I also ironed a heavy interfacing on the back.  It is done. 

Meanwhile we saw the doctor today.  The most recent scan doesn't show any change.  Darn.  It is great  that Jack can now eat as much as he can but the scan didn't show any shrinkage in the tumor.  So for now - more chemo and another scan in two months.  It isn't bad news but it isn't great news either.  Continued prayers are most welcome.

Finishing crackers and a pillow.

There was not a lot of stitching going on.  Instead it was a finishing day.  I spent the day in my craft room working on the final steps  of several projects.  It was a rather productive day. 

Four Victoria Sampler Christmas crackers.  Santa, Snowman, Gingerbread Man and Angel.  Remember that I do the hemstitching while at the hospital.  So today it was time for a bit of interfacing, the seam up the back, ribbons and stuffing.  Then I also pressed and interfaced the back of the Bird of Happiness project bag.  

This is not done.  This is a project that has been hanging around for many, many years.  Perhaps a dozen years.  Someone cut the fabric in half and had to figure out how to finish it with two separate pieces of fabric.   I have been puzzled as to how to put the two pieces together and used a four sided stitch on both sides to merge the two together.  Today I worked at pulling the threads and pressing for hemstitching all the way around.  I will work on this at the hospital.  I can't believe this one may actually get done.

Finally the Little House Needlework pillow complete with hand dyed ric rac around the outside.  The backing is a lightly flowered quilted material. 

E Pluribus Unum

I stitched a lot today and this is what I have to show for it.  This will be the backside of the pin cushion.  The front will have an eagle.  One more part to stitch and I can move on to something new.  It is chemo week coming up so I generally have a lot of time to stitch.  I am thinking it might be a pretty Blue Ribbon Design.  I was drooling over it earlier.

Two finishes today!

Home of the Free sewing set has a scissors fob.  It is so tiny.  30 x 30 stitches over one on 28 count.  Then there is four sided stitch around it to help with finishing later.  They look like postage stamps!

Bird of Happiness by JBW.  This has been a 'hospital project' and only needed a few more stitches.  I decided to go ahead and finish it up.  That means I have to find some more smalls to work on next week.  DH is doing great.  Thank everyone for continued prayers. He is adding new foods every day and that is a good thing. Today he ate some egg salad.