Jolly July #5

Day 5 of Jolly July ornament challenge. It's sad in our family right now because we put my brother-in-law on hospice care yesterday, and it hurts my heart to see my sister and nephews and nieces going thru the pain of losing him. Is it ok to say I'm glad he'll be out of pain? But we will miss him dearly.

I did a little stitching just to keep on track. Today it's a Mill Hill kit called Winter Holiday. It's a panda, which is for my nephew who came up with the nickname "panda" when he was a kid and still uses it. I saw this ornie and had to stitch it.  Happy Stitching all!
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July 4, 2019

Jolly July #4

Happy 4th of July!  It was a beautiful day here, with cloudy skies, about 78 degrees, and a light breeze. Great for sitting out to watch a hometown parade! Met at Mom's place, with Aunt Doris, cousin Gary and my sister Lori all watching Parade Marshal Uncle Myron go by! This was part of the Derby 150th year celebration, and since he was born here, so is one of the eldest Derbyites and certainly has the longest history in the city, he was selected as Parade Marshal. Pretty neat I think.

Today I'm stitching on Val's Stuff "Jingle My Bells", an ornament kit from a couple years ago. One of those projects that I thought would be fun, but brought home and put away instead of stitching. So, here we go for 2019!

Have you noticed I seem to have a "type" in my ornaments this year? Something about that checkboard border must really draw my eye. I promise this won't show up on every ornie!
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Jolly July #3

And...to continue the first two posts, I stitched on the June pattern from Crazy Annie's 2019 Country Christmas series.  I know, they all look a lot alike, but I promise they are 3 different projects! The checkerboard border is the same on all the ornaments in this series. It's kinda fun, and makes it easy to stitch the borders on each pattern when they come in. I didn't make much progress on this one.  today. But, any progress is Progress!  Happy Stitching!

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Jolly July 2019 - #2

July 2nd - Jolly July continues with the bonus project that was in the Crazy Annie's May packet. This  is the beginning of Jolly Ornament. (posted on the 3rd - family concern came before posting yesterday, but I did get some stitching done on it!)  Need the white on the border, then add the Ornament and it will be done!
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July 1st!  The first day of Jolly July, the challenge to work on an ornament a day for 31 days.
Here we go!

I enrolled in the Crazy Annie's 2019 Country Christmas Ornament Club, and am loving it! I'm a bit behind, so will be working to get caught up this month.
From #5 - "25"
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Update time!

I found a beaded star pattern that looked like fun, and I had to try one.  It was fun! I want to make more now. Those will be going on the 2018 List O' Stitchy Fun!

I'm helping my LNS with a class using the With Thy Needle and Thread's O Tannenbaum pattern. We have painted the boxes, and talked about the pattern layout, and I think everyone is comfortable with their start now. It's been fun getting a group of stitching friends together! This week we are going to stretch one of the designs so everyone can see how this works.  We have had a few discussions about the number of finished items we each have that need to be finished. I hope this will give more people the courage to try their own finishing.  Or, they may decide to give them to me to finish!  Fingers crossed for their success.

On a sad note: Mom has been in the hospital since last Monday.  If all goes well she will be transferred to a rehab facility tomorrow morning. The medical team will powwow in the morning to decide. Her kidneys gave us a scare but everything looks better today.  Yea!

Happy week everyone!  Stay warm.

Happy New Year!

I'm looking forward to a fun year with needlework projects and reading challenges. I'm off to a good start!

I joined the NYE Mystery SAL with Gildra Stafir. She set up a 24 hour stitch-along, posting a pattern update every 3 hours. I got started, then stopped for a few winks 😁then stitched some more. And I  finished! Then actually stitched it together as a biscornu. First finish of 2018! Done Jan. 3rd, still smiling that it's DONE! Woo Hoo!

Today I did the finishing on 3 Mill Hill beaded ornaments. Backing and hangars added, ready for the tree. I love these kits and playing with beads.

I have a new needlepoint project to work on this year, a gorgeous Santa. I can't wait to get started on it, probably in Feb, after a shop project ends. (For Heart's Desire)

I found a couple bead patterns to make and I went overboard on buying beads .

And, I have a hundred and one cross-stitch projects are waiting to be worked on! I have some major goal-setting to do this month... we'll see how it goes!

This past week was a frozen wonderland here. The lows got to -5 F. It's been over 20 years since we had that kind of weather. And this doesn't begin to touch how bad the East Coast got hit this week. I hope they are getting thru it ok.

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2018!