Merry Monday

Mondays have become the most dreaded day of the week for me, so I decided to add a little holiday spirit to the day that marks the end of my weekend!

Merry Mondays will be reserved for holiday stitching, which will mostly be consumed with my 2017 ornament, but hopefully I can finish this long languishing peice from the Cricket Collection. I started it on 36ct which was too challenging even before my accident so it sat untouched. Maybe 1 day a week is just what this project needs to see a finish! The maiden 

Poisoned Plans

I have jumped on the posionous plant bandwagon! The Crone has purchased Nora's 2 new posionous pixies, the Mother Chatelaines Hortus Venenum the Poison Garden, and I have started Hellebore by Veronique Enginger a French designer who used antique prints as inspiration.

I am entranced by her designs and agonized over which one to do, until I decide to throw out all my plans and stitch the majority of them!

Her designs will become the backdrop to my stitching for the next few years, so in order to get some of my previous projects completed I created Finish Friday.

I will also devote 1 day a week to seasonal stitching, but more on that tomorrow! The Maiden

Stashing Saturday

Didn't I  mention I  was  stashing like there was a Stitchers Apocalypse? 

The Mother found this OOP chart for me and I was so excited!

I bought Snow Angel to match Halloween Resurrection. 

Who can resist a cat tart?

I love little house needleworks hometown holidays! I had to limit myself to pie diner, bookstore, florist,  railway station and sweet shop but there will be more to come!

As soon as I can obtain the threads this Twin Sampler will get a start!

Ghoul Tidings ties things up!

The Maiden

Finish Friday First

I pushed so hard to finish this project and now I feel so forlorn at it's completion!

Let it Snow by Barbara Ana Designs stitched on 28ct Jobelan Dusty Green.

 

 

I modified the flower in the vase, the charted version was 2 large blooms and I thought it was too heavy for the tip of a scissor!

I love the detail of the tiny pair of scissors she holds.

 

Finish Friday

 

I currently have 40 WIPs, am stashing like there is a stitchers apocalypse and have recently come across a series of projects that will take years of focus to complete (more on that later). As my primary focus will be this mystery project I have devised a plan to rotate in other WIPs.

 

Finish Friday was born from the idea that I will work on the project in my pile that is closest to completion.

 

Next Friday I will resurrect the Kiss for beading and then plan to tackle Night Creatures.

The Maiden

Swiftly Done

 A Taylor Swift obsessed coworker has a birthday this week so I was asked to cross stitch something inspired by her latest video. It's an inside joke really, because I loathe this song, so "look what you made me do" is appropriate!

Designed using elements from Hinzeit's Last Stitch Cemetery and Alessandra Adelaide's Bat Banner (over one).

The Maiden

Let it what?

 Let it Snow!

One quarter left! The Maiden

Snip Snip

 I have reached the halfway point on Let it Snow by Barbara Ana Designs and am really loving the change of pace from all that Halloween stitching! It has also been fun to dust everything in Snow!

I was going to rechart this to read 2017 as the date, but then I realized by flipping 2 numbers I could make it my birth year!

Switching Holidays

The mother started this earlier in the year and somehow I missed this project entirely! The Nutcraker by CloudsFactory is well on it's way to a finish!

New addition to the Gossip

According to Spernatural Collective Nouns a group of Mermaids is called a Gossip!

The Crone has been busy preparing her guest bathroom for a new addition to her household, her oldest grandaughter!

With the Mother's daughter comes the mermaid made for her!