Cross Stitch Update

I didn’t get a lot of stitching done on the weeknights but did get quite a bit of time over the weekend.

I’m really getting the want to push and get A Changed World finished.  I am going to hosting the Blessed Stitch Along starting on March 1st.  I have so many other projects going on…it would just be nice to have one more finished.  I’m not a girl that likes too many projects going.

This is where I left off with A Changed World by The Scarlett House.  This is stitched on 40 count Vintage Meadow Rue by Lakeside.

I’ve been working on that row of houses near the church…

Last week I only had a start on the church.  This week it is finished, the tree is stitched, the house stitched and athte grass below them is all stitched.

Every time a few more stitches get in this, I get more and more excited.  For a bit, I had lost interest.  It was easy for me to set it aside when I worked on Anniversaries of the Heart last fall.  Now…this is the piece I really want to stitch and get done.

Here is the ending picture for the week.  It’s starting to look like I might get this finished someday.  Fingers crossed.

This is where I left off with… All Creatures Great and Small by Barbara Ana Design.  This is stitched on the called for Vintage Country Mocha with the called for Anchor thread.

I was in a push to get that barn stitched.  You might remember that I decided to replace the called for barn color that was a little pink colored with Anchor #20.  I originally saw Cynthia from Stitching in the Light on Youtube do that…then I saw CarolCrago on Instagram switch to a darker color of red and I knew for sure I wanted to do that.  Here is her’s.

Oh my…that’s an inspiration to keep stitching on this and to use the darker red.  I love it!!

If you’re an Instagrammer, Carol is the perfect person to follow.  I just love her work and if you’re looking for a floss tube, I love Cynthia from Stitching in the Light.

So where did I get on mine…This far.  Not too far at all.  I only had an hour to stitch one night on this over the week and all I got done was this much fill-in on the barn.

Not a lot of progress but I only had one short evening to stitch.  I’m having company over the weenend.  Buck’s kids are coming.  So I am saving this for then.  If I need to sit with one of the kids to get them to fall asleep, filling the barn in will be the perfect thing to do.

If you read a blog post earlier this week, you might know that our daugther, Kayla, was home and we started out Consider the Lillies piece by Beth Twist of Heartstring Samplery.
I stitched on this on both Saturday and Sunday.  Much of my stitching time went into this.

If given my own devises, I wouldn’t have started this as I have other things going but being Kayla wanted to stitch it, I wanted to join her.  It’s always been on my list to stitch it.  In fact, I had the floss and chart already here.

My sister came for a visit on Tuesday.  It’s been a long time since we’ve been able to visit.  She has five kids and over 20 grandchildren-10 of hers have graduated from high school so are on the dating scene.  I have five kids and 9 grandchildren.  We are both so busy keeping up with our families that we don’t get time to keep up with each other!!

Anyway, she was curious about my cross-stitching.  I showed her what I was stitching and what I’d already stitched.  I showed her the cute tin of Anchor floss Kayla got for me…This one.

Then I showed Judy this cross stitch…A Saviour’s Praise by Shakespeare’s Peddlar (find it HERE).  She loved it.  I told her I was starting it on Good Friday with Judy at Patchwork Times.

My sister, Judy, hemmed and hawed.  She was a cross-stitcher back in the day.  She is really tempted by this chart.  I just might talk her into cross-stitching again.  Hmm.  We’ll see.  She took a picture of the chart with her camera so I’m hopeful that maybe that means she’ll go home and order the chart…

I had a fun haul at the thrift store.  There was a bag of floss. It said $1.50 on it.  I was in a big hurry and quickly looked at it.  I flipped the bag over and on the opposite side, it said “silk”.  I looked again.  Yes.  This was silk floss for cross stitching.  I would love to grow a collection of silk for projects so this was perfect.

This isn’t a brand that most cross stitchers use but I can imagine myself using a piece on the occasion when I don’t have the particular silk that is called for.

It was well worth the $1.50.  If they’d have had more, I would have bought it too.  But…I’m going to be thankful for this.

My goal for the week is to focus most of my time on A Changed World.  I really want to get that one finished and up on my wall.  I ordered a frame and I’ll be lacing and framing that myself once a frame gets here and once I have the stitching done.  I can’t wait…

Other good news, Liz from The Stitchery Nook contacted me.  She has my “Heaven and Nature” laced…next up she’ll get it in the frame and then I can go pick it up.  I have my fingers crossed that she’ll call before she’s off to the Needlework Market in early March.  I can’t wait to have another piece on my wall.