Derby Wipocalypse and I'm back!

First I will make my May Wipocalypse report, and then blabber about my vacation.  That way, you can seemy progress, but not be bored with my life - with one caviat.  I was on vacation for one week of this period, so I don't have as much progress on my one main WIP. I decided to stitch all the main part of the big letters first, and then stitch the flowery vine running through them.  I think that will make the confetti stitches a little easier to plot out.


I also have come to a decision that one of my needlepoint WIP's was just not something I ever wanted to put a bunch of work into, so my new DIL has been wanting to learn stitching so I gave it to her. If she does finish it, I will post a picture. The one I gave her was Jungle Wildlife. Well, since I removed one WIP from my list, I just had to add two more - LOL. Actually, my vacation was a stitching one in Myrtle Beach, and we all worked on the same projects. So, here are the before and current pictures of these. This first one is Beach Tree by Nouveau Encore Designs, stitched on a fabric Amy from Down Sunshine Lane found for us - really perfect right? It is 16ct aida and I stitched it with DMC colors of my choice. I am pleased with the outcome, and you can see the fabric I bought in MB to finish it with. I am thinking a flatfold at this time, but that could change! The second one is Beachy Mood by Cricket collection, and I am stitching it on 16ct aida Everglades by Silkweaver with DMC. I have changed the colors of the letters because I didn't think the called for would show up on this colored fabric. I have found some gorgeous fabric (also in MB) to make this into a pillow. I will wait to show you that when I am done stitching the piece.
This concludes my WIPOCALYPSE report just to warn you that the rest is just life stories - LOL!

Okay, so now I can say that, yes, I am back from vacation. Actually, I have been back a little over a week, but that week was Derby week in Kentucky, so there was very much to do. Also, I have the great news to tell you that on Tuesday I finally got my port (for chemo) emoved, and so now another major milestone has been passed.  Whooo Hoo!!  I am just going to show you a couple of pictures of where we were in MB for you to drool over.  It was really wonderful, and I am very grateful to have been asked to join in the group there.  As you can see, we had a very wonderful spot to sit and stitch it.  The only little problem was that it was cloudy and cool all week.  None of us could get a good beach sunrise picture which was a disappointment to some and of no concern to others - LOL!  The last afternoon we were able to get out on the beach and collect some seashells, so our beach trip was complete - LOL!

I am hoping that this week I will be able to start catching up on all my online activities - visit blogs and comment and do some emailing that needs to be done.

Thank you so much for stopping by my little blog and leaving such lovely comments.  I really love reading them. Until next time, have a happy, healthy, stitchy time!

Camping out and copping out.

This last weekend we went camping with our friends and our kids and their kids at Dale Hollow State Resort Park in very southern Kentucky.  The campground is laid out in pods where there is like a mini culdesac which holds 8 campsites.  With our group, we filled all eight sites, so it was like having our very own campground.  It was wonderful, cold enough at night and early in the morning for campfires, and warm enough during the day for short sleeves.  Perfection. There were 26 of us ranging from DH at 66 to a just turned one year old.  We had our boat with us, so DH "had" to spend all day Saturday giving boat rides.  What fun!!  Here is a group of pictures going around our little culdsac.  You can see in the middle on a couple pictures where we had set up a crochet set and a group was playing.

I bet you can't guess which of the campsites were for the "elders", can you - LOL!!

Now, for the copping out.  I have been so busy with gardening and getting ready for this trip, I have not had time to do much in  the way of reading blogs.  I went on this morning, and there were over a hundred posts that I had not read.  Given that, and the fact that I am leaving on Saturday  to be away for a week in Myrtle Beach where I don't know if I will have internet access, I am bailing.  I am going to clear the blog posts that are in my reader, try to keep up this week, and see what is awaiting me after my trip.  I really do love to read posts and see all the great stitching that is being done all over the world, but life is just not going to let me do it.  So, if you regularly see me comment on your blog, and wonder if I have lost interest, the answer is no.  I will just come back in a little while.

Thank you so much for stopping by my little space here, and for leaving such wonderful comments.  It really does make my day to see that someone actually cared what I said!  Until next time, have a happy, healthy, stitchy time!!

Easter Wipocalypse Report

I almost forgot to write and publish this month's report.  I started the weekend out thinking that I could show you not only some stitching finishes, but also some finished finishes, but that is not to be.  Life got in the way.  I do want to show you a quick pix of my framed  BAP project.  I really like the way the mat looks and the framing turned out.  Now I just have to hope that DGS  likes it whenever he gets it.  That isn't on the calendar yet, but hopefully soon.

This month I did start on another of my old time WIP's but I really didn't get very far with it.  I have come to understand the term confetti


Welcome Friends as of 04/09/12



Welcome Friends as of 01/01/2012

stitches with stitching this piece.  I also was "forced" to stitch on a couple of other pieces - explanation  to follow updated pix of the old WIP:
The progress on the letters of Welcome are obvious, but there was some other stitching done on the border flowered vine that is not so easy to see.  I hope to work on this a little more this  month, but I am going to be going to Myrtle Beach to stitch with some PALS in two weeks and we will be stitching on some other projects while there.

Sew Rabbit I Stitch
Started 03/27/12
Finished 04/05/12

On to the other projects that I was "forced" to do LOL.  Michele of Just Another Stitching Blog RAK'd me the I Stitch chart Sew Rabbit.  I felt it only right to try and get it stitched up.  So here it is, stitched on sixteen count scrap Silkweaver aida of which I forgot the name.  The chart called for the entire piece to be stitched with an overdyed white floss, but I wanted it to be a little more colorful, so I used some DMC.  The letters are in DMC 503, the pink was DMC 3727.  The brown bunnies are GAST Cidermill Brown.  I really like the color combinations, and I have some great plans for finishing it - hopefully soon.

The second piece I was "forced" to work on was Easter Bunny by Victorian Motto which I won in one of her amazing giveaways.  I have started it, but I don't have it finished yet, so it will go into the WIPocalypse report next time.  Oh!  I almost forgot I did do another piece which could be used as my monthly seasonal piece.  The picture is pretty dark, but it is Lizzie Kate's March Block.  It is stitched on pale yellow 14ct aida with the called for overdyed floss except for the black which is DMC 310.  For some reason overdyed
black flosses and me don't get along.  They seem to shred on me.

Well, this is my WIP ocalypse post for April.  I hope  everyone is still having as much fun and getting as much out of this SAl as I am. 

I want to thank you for visiting my blog and for leaving such lovely comments.  They really do give me a boost and more motivation to keep on stitching! Until next time, have a happy, healthy, stitchy time.

Easter Treasure Hunt

Joanne, from http://www.serendipitousstitching.blogspot.com/ is having a blogversary/Easter Treasure Hunt.   Should be a lot of fun.

My letter is:
                                                                        U

My Easter/Spring picture is Spring Basket, an exchange piece I made last year

The next blogger to visit in the Treasure Hunt is Deb at

http://threadgather.blogspot.com/

Hope everyone has a wonderful Easter!

I have been RAK'd and I have won..

This has been a fantastic last couple of weeks for me.  Besides the major HD, I have been acquiring much in  the form of new stash from a number of different places!

I was so excited to be RAK'd by my good friend Michele from Just Another Stitching Blog.  I met Michele my first time to go to the PALS retreat in Myrtle Beach in October.  She has possibly the kindest heart I have ever known.  Anyway, she sent me a chart from I Stitch which is so neat.  I love the chart, and I had no idea you could do this - leave it to Michele to find a way.  Isn't this the cutest little chart?  I am going to try to stitch it up next week as I need to finish the small I am working on this week plus some UFO stitching time!

And then, wonder of wonders, I won not one but two giveaways from Nancy at Victorian Motto Samplers!   I have loved Nancy's floss since I got my first skein at a PALS retreat.  They have such rich color and they stitch beautifully and her skeins are HUGE!  You get so much in each hank.  I have also used her trims which I got at another PALS retreat. (Do you see a theme here)  The trim is beautiful, and makes some really fun finishing.  But, I had not stitched any of her charts - until now!  I won first the Merry Christmas Sampler and then I won the Easter Collection.  I am thinking that I am going to stitch the first one of the Easter Ornaments on the Perf paper just to see how I like it.  I will let you know what I think.

Lastly, I did some stash shopping - surprising right?  LOL  I am going to be in MB next month with a group of PALS, and we are all going to stitch on two different projects.  I am sorry about the lousy, blurry picture for this first chart, but it is a Cricket Collection Beachy- mood.  It is really a cute chart, and a great rememberance of a good time.  This other project is cute to, but what I really love is the fabric that Amy found to stitch it on.  I don't know if you can see it or not, but the fabric is dyed in a beachscape.  How cool is that?  I haven't decided what colors I am going to use on the tree, but I know I am not going to use the ones in the model.
 

Well, the dryer is bussing and I have a ton of stuff to get done today before I head back up to Louisville tomorrow.  As a side note, please hope that we all here in Kentucky survive the next week culminating in Saturday evening's Final Four basketball game pitting the Univ of Louisville (KY) against the Univ of Kentucky.  For those nonbasketball fans (but if you live in KY that is impossible) this is a MAJOR rivalry.  The big Louisville newspaper's headlines was CIVIL WAR!!  That might indicate the "inportance" of this game.  In the interest of honesty, I have to clain Univ of Kentucky as my team.  Both my DH and my DS, Matt graduated from there.  I went there after high school and met my DH there.  But, I also have taken classes at Uof L so when they are not playing UK, I cheer for them.

Thank you so much for visiting my blog and for your kind comments.  They really mean a lot to me.  Until next time, have a happy, healthy stitchy time!

OK I am really embarassed.....

I am really pleased that four people have wanted to award me with the Liebster Award.  I  really do appreciate the honor, but I am a posting imbecile.  I do not know how to do links or to attach the award, so I didn't know what to do.  So, what I am going to say is that  Katie, Lesli, Nikkin, and Miamina are very nice bloggers and they were very kind to me.  I am just very sorry that I cannot continue with the award.

Thank you all for visiting my blog and your kind comments.

Until next time, have a happy, healthy, stitchy time.

Just a short note to show you

the framed Peaceable Kingdom!  I picked it up from the framers on Friday, and I am really happy with the way it looks.  I went with a metal frame because I really don't know the color of his furniture and what he will have in the future if he wants to have it then.   I am not sure when I will be giving it to him.  If we can't get together some time this year, I guess I will send it to him for Christmas.

I have done a little stitching on Welcome Friends, but just a little.  I have about half of Lizzie*Kate's March Block finished, and I hope to finish it this week.  Not sure if I will be able to finish finish it until next week though, we are having a big crowd here for this coming weekend.  Much March Madness, and good food!

Thank you all so much for stopping by my little blog and for leaving such sweet comments.  Until next time, have a happy, healthy, stitchy time!