Stitch from Stash - February Update

In February I made some progress of my oldest WIPs

"Summer Sun" from "Stitcher's World" January 2006 is my oldest WIP.

Here is where I started -

And here is where I ended up -

I pretty much hate working on black fabric, I did a bunch of flowers on black fabric years ago and more than had my fill of working with it.  Sometimes I wonder why I even picked this up, ha ha.  Also, in progress the face is a bit creepy, it is looking less creepy as I go though.  I will be happy when this is complete!  I have had my fill of working on this one for awhile.

This one is probably my next oldest WIP "Fall Trees" from "Cross-Stitch & Needlework" November 2010.

I started with the mostly filled in bar on the top and filled in everything below.

This was my new start of the month Lizzie Kate's April Flip-It, Blocks with Charm.  I finished all the stitching just need to add the charm and put it in the frame.

My stash addition was a new Lizzie Kate flip it.  I came in the month at $4.04.  Ironically I misplaced it so I can not share a photo at the moment.

Stitch from Stash January Update

From my Stash this past month I completed three scenes from The Prairie Schooler's  "Starry Night".  I have two left. They will all be for my Papa's Christmas gift this year.  I had previously finished two, one each for the past two Christmases.

I also completed Mt. Rainier Santa, from a Mill Hill kit I picked up a few years ago.

I did increase my stash by the Lizzie Kate Pattern below.  It was $4.04 not including tax or shipping.

My Birthday was the end of December, I received a gift card for Hobby Lobby, this is what I picked up with it.

 
This month a couple of things took me away from stitching, I also did some cake decorating. The tree cupcakes were for a friend who just adopted three children. The tree is honor of their family shrub growing into a tree. The Olaf Snowman, was for the daughter of a friend from work.

 

Stitching of a Different Variety

Each of my nieces received a doll from Grandma for Christmas 2013. One of them has birthday this week. She absolutely adores Miss Minnie so I decided to put this together for her this weekend. I am pleased with the outcome and hope she is as well.

First Finish of 2014

So it has been a while.  While the blog has been neglected my stitching has not.  I'm working on a catch up post.  In the mean time here is my first finish of the new year.  It is a Mill Hill Kit - Mt Rainier Santa.  I worked at Mt Rainier several years ago, so when I saw this kit I knew it needed to be added to my collection!

New Starts

2011 was not a good stitching year for me.  Due to many factors - some within my control and some out of it.  I stitched very little, and don't think I started or finished any projects.  So far 2012 is a much different (and better) year.  Below are projects I already this year :)  I'm re-arranging my priorities to include more stitching time - my happy meter appreciates it!

First Big Projects

I can't remember in what order these were made, but these are the first two "big" projects I remember working on.  I think Sleeping Beauty was the first, I did not do a very good job of keeping track of such things back then.  I should have listened to my Mother - ha ha ha :)  Both were found from cross-stitch magazines my Mom had, don't know the name or issues though.

In the end the quilt turned out alright, but I learned an important lesson about frogging from this project.  I should have done some right after I started and chose not too.  I ended up paying for it for the rest of the stitching.  Lesson learned!

Finding a First

My Parents have recently been under going a major clear out of the family home.  Here is one of the treasures found.

I think the fabric count is 7.  This was one of the first things I ever stitched.  It was fun to see it again.  Within each vertical line the crosses are going the same direction but not all the lines are the same - I laughed at that :)