Camelot Sampler progress after week 2

I didn't have nearly as much stitching time this week as I've had in the weeks past but I still got a fair bit done on Camelot Sampler considering all the confetti stitches with blended threads.  The bottom part of the castle is visible!

Next I think I'm going to start a Halloween piece to get back to having a rotation of 3 projects.

Happy Stitching!

Harry Potter mini piece

I found a french blog that has free patterns of the Harry Potter characters.  The first one I stitched up was Harry, of course, and he'll go in a birthday card for my mom.

Happy Stitching!

A Victorian Xmas update and Feb Stitching from Stash summary

I worked 5 days on page 2 of A Victorian Christmas Eve to finish my 4th week of working on this piece.  (It took about 2 days to finish page 1 in my last update of it.)  I wasn't really motivated to work on this piece in my rotation and wanted to skip to another piece but I really got into it as I was stitching because it went fairly quickly, except for the confetti of the pine tree.  So here's where I am after week 4:

And for my February summary for the Stitching From Stash challenge:
Rollover from January: $9.09
Amount spent in Feb: $23.13 (after spending $9.09 above)
Stash purchased: I used the rollover amount to buy another qsnap, I also bought TW's Camelot Sampler and everything I needed to get it started (fabric, some floss & needles)
Rollover for March: $1.87

Happy Stitching!

Pure Michigan is finished!

I finished the MI piece by MM Waldock Designs (aka Oberlin Samplers).  I'm so glad that the border words I changed worked out as far as spacing.

Close-ups:

Details of the items in each letter:

M - State of MI with Lansing Capitol bldg marked & pictured

I - Big Sable lighthouse

C - MI apples

H - Mackinac Bridge with sailboat and Great Lakes freighter

I - Henry Ford Museum

G - MI cherries

A - Model T, Fort Michilimackinac, and a morel mushroom

N - White Pine tree and skiers on a ski lift

Next up is another week of stitching on Victorian Xmas Eve.  

Camelot Sampler

I've been working on Teresa Wentzler's Camelot Sampler for a week now.  Here's what the finished piece will look like:

 There are 94 colors, most used as blended threads:

 And here's what it looks like after a week.  I opted to stitch parts of the border as I work on the central pieces so I'm not doing the whole border at the end.

 The twisted vine border has over 2 and over 1 parts.  The inner most backstitched line is a wrapped backstitch.  There's also and inner and outer border either side of the twisted vine border using ecru perle cotton in a 4-sided (square) stitch.

Tomorrow I'll go back to working on my Michigan piece for a week.  Happy Stitching!

Victorian Xmas Eve update & a new TW piece

I finally finished page 1 of A Victorian Christmas Eve by Sandy Littlejohns.  Only 5 more pages to go!

Last week, I visited eBay for some unknown reason...maybe a sly itch to add to my stash? I only placed one bid but I won the auction!  At least I only spent $4.99 but the item arrived today in the mail and I know I'm just going to LOVE this piece!  It's Camelot Sampler by Teresa Wentzler.  

My "to stitch" list was already substantial for the year but of COURSE I can squeeze in one more project!  Here's to hoping Camelot Sampler doesn't take me as long to finish as the other big TW piece I've done: The Guardian.  I've included the finished Guardian picture below since I haven't shown him off on the blog yet.  He's still the piece I'm most proud of and he has a place of honor in my daughter's room.

Party Penguin

Here's February's contribution to Christmas ornaments & cards for the year.  This is "Party Penguin" from Issue 93 of Cross Stitch Card Shop (nov/dec '13).  He's so cute and stitched up very quickly!  He'll be going into a Christmas card for a friend who loves penguins.  I just need to add a Christmas message underneath him.

Happy Stitching!