Stitching Friends are the Best

 Last week I was browsing thru the Facebook group for finding cross stitch unicorns, i.e. out of print charts.

I saw that someone was looking for this, the Charland Designs Welsh sampler. I currently have this in progress and will pass my chart on if the searcher doesn’t find it before I finish mine. I don’t have this high up on my priority list as I’m trying to finish two samplers.

But this made me remember that I don’t have a photo of the Charland Design chart that I want, the Thistle sampler. So I start searching google for a photo. Eventually I refine my search one more time (I have done this before without luck). What should appear but the Stitch Bitch blog where she’s posting about her finish in 2014. 

Within the hour I’ve messaged her and she’s located it! 

And now I have it. Thank you ever so much, my friend. 

Making Progress

 Bit by bit. I’ve got the hard part finished. Goal is to finish before the end of December. By then I’ll have some pieces to pick up at the framers and I can drop this off. 

Current Project

There's a plethora of designs, projects, and classes available online. One I stumbled across this past year is the Stitching Book Club on Instagram. This is run by Kristin Ashley of Sapphire Mountain Handcrafts.

I've purchased a couple of her designs and I just started Frankenstein. 

But Little Women I started with the book club. I'm using the called for DMC floss. And paired them with this pinky/lavender fabric that reminds me of the Scholastic Books edition of Little Women that I bought in third grade. I think it cost 95¢. I always regretted leaving that book behind when I moved out of my childhood home. (Along with about 500 other books.)

Signs

Background 

Back, way back, July of 2020, I was running our EGA Chapter's Zoom meeting and one thing we usually do in July is show our pieces that meet our President's Challenge. And then we announce our new challenge. 

So it being my second year as President, I got to pick a challenge. And I decided that the challenge would be signs. 

I knew what I wanted to do from the beginning and I ran out of time to do it. So instead to meet my own challenge I stitched this Kate Dickerson canvas. 

A little bit of bling, some beads and this totally in my wheelhouse color pallette. Love it. 
 

Framed

 Well, well, well. I let six weeks go by without posting. Here’s my Oh Canada framed by Total Framing.