I haven't posted much of anything over the last year, but I'm trying to get back to it.  Here are the most recent pics of my current WIP in rotation.  I'm focusing on 'Quaker Sampler' by The Workbasket and 'Winter Queen' by Mirabilia.  Some of you may remember that I had a good bit of the queens head, shoulders and some torso done and then realized that I'd started too far to the left and had to rip it all out and start over.  This is a picture of my progress to date and as you can see, I'm nearly done with my quaker.  However, after 4 weeks of steadily working on it, I was getting tired of the same colors, so have now switched back to queen.

It's been a long time - WIP update

It's been a while since I've posted, but I'm finally getting back into my stitching after DH's heart attack last November.  I've been working on Papillon "Castles in the Air", Mirabilia "Winter Queen" and The Workbasket "Quaker Sampler".  I've mostly worked on Quaker Sampler and am 3/4 of the way done with it I believe.

Here are some pictures of where they are now.

Castles in the Air

Winter Queen

Quaker Sampler

Oh, and almost forgot this one that I'm working on.  LHN "Trustworthy & True" - I bought this one to make and give to my daughter & son in law for their 2 year anniversary this year and I also bought the "Strong & Beautiful" and "Soft & Sweet" from the Little Women Virtue series to give to my daughter and grand-daughter respectively.

Trustworthy & True

Speaking of my grand-daughter, Emma has grown like a weed and changed so much over the last few months.  She is now 2 1/2 and definitely becoming her own little person.  My son in law with his parents have a farm where they raise alpacas, Dexter cattle/beef, and Jacob sheep, in addition to his Dad running a recycling business.  Emma loves to help feed the animals (including their own egg chickens), and work in their "shop" with mommy and daddy helping them sort the metal.  Here's a few peeks at our precious girl.

Mommy & Emma 2nd birthday

Emma Easter 2012

"winking" while goofing with Uncle Devan

On our way to church

Thanks for visiting!

iStitch SAL

I was fortunate enough to get in on Carol's Mystery SAL over at iStitch. You have to complete Part 1 before she'll send the next part. So here's my picture of Part 1. I have not completed the border as I prefer to wait for the next Part before I do that as I tend to mis-count long borders like that. LOL

I'm using a mystery piece of linen that I got from Ebay a couple of years ago, but I believe it's 30 or 32ct and I'm stitching it over 2. I'm using a spool of SSP HDF that I got in a detritus bag earlier this year. I love this thread as it reminds me of a peacock and I think the blue and green are just lovely together.

I can't wait for the next part!

Tusal update and WIP update

Happy February!  It's been a windy and wild February for us in the Midwest.  Wednesday we got socked with quite the winter snowstorm - lots of snow and high winds made for getting out of work early, having the next day off AND being paid for it.  Yippee!  Thursday morning we woke up to a foot drift in front of our back door and 4 foot drifts at the bottom of our driveway.  Fortunately, my wonderful brother in law brought his snowblower over after he finished his own clearing and then cleared our driveway and our sidewalks.  He spent over an hour on our place AFTER spending an hour doing his own.  He looked like the abominable snowman when he was done, complete with icicles in his beard.  I really should have taken a picture, but I didn't.

I worked for two weeks on my daughters birthday present, Winter Queen and here is where she was as of Sunday this week.

Next, we have Quaker Sampler from The Workbasket.  I just started working on this again after a 3 week hiatus and here's where I ended last night after Glee was over.

And last, but not least, is my Tusal for the new moon.  I did change the container as I found a little bit bigger one.  It doesn't look like much, but it's about a quarter full.

Well, that's it for now.  I'm going to be working on Quaker Sampler for the next week and then I'll switch off to my Papillon Castles in the Air.  I decided to rotate each piece and work on each for a week so that each one gets a solid week of stitching.  In between, I'll work on any smalls I want to do.  I've just about finished up my piece for the Yahoo ILCS froggy exchange in honor of our moderator Rene who passed away in January after a very sudden cancer diagnosis.  After the recipient has received it, I'll post pictures.

As Porky Pig would say....That's all folks!