Category Archives: Cross-Stitch

The Haunted House is done. and so I moved to the July Country Cottage Needleworks. I finsihed up the first half completely, both people figures and started on the second red house. Progress.  

Remember I said that the house looked grumpy or cranky?  The update at the end of today – So now we have “two faces” and I am not sure what excuse the upper face has for being cranky. Now at … Continue reading →

Not just the spam calls, of which, as far as I am concerned, are all wrong numbers. But inserting 729 in place of 927. Now, obviously if you are a fellow dyslexic, that mix up seems obvious. Same numbers, different … Continue reading →

It is about all I had the energy to accomplish today. So we have more progress on the Lighthouse (Cottage Garden Samplings) which is on the standard Smoky White Zweigart 18 ct and the threads are (splurge) silk from BeStitchMe … Continue reading →

Is complete! The pattern is from LongDogSamplers and is stitched on a 16 ct something or other printed by Fabric Flair. The thread is 12wt Sulky # 4016. It was only about 17k stitches plus a few hundred. The only … Continue reading →

Well actually the name is something like Extraordinary Birds. Which is really a mouthful so I am just going with Birds. The vertical bits you see are part of the cage. The spoonbill was the last section and the bluefooted … Continue reading →

and I mean the pattern from Nora Corbett. Not my one daughter’s dog who is named Flair.. who I usually call Claire anyway. the thread is hand dyed black (not me) silk from Dinky Dyes, it is took about a … Continue reading →

Finished it up today – (1252 stitches) of a total of 3266 give or take. This is the first of four on the new piece of fabric… and back to more of the bird cage for this year’s LolaCrow Sal… … Continue reading →

and for the rest of you – today’s bad pun – snail mail. Bundled up and let it grow,,,,, the fabric is more of the Zweigart vintage smoky white in 18 count. The floss in the green one is what … Continue reading →

The Frame for the new LolaCrow SAL is looking more and more like a bird cage. Similar to the three previous SALs of hers that I have stitched, the frame has a lot of black and has about 6k worth … Continue reading →

There I was, happily stitching along for the second day on the May mini-village. The first tree was done, the first house and almost done with the second. Then I took a close look at the roof of the first … Continue reading →