So I am not sure where this all began, the madness of blogging, however I am not very reliable! Here we are 7 months from the last post and it is a new year. I stitch every Sunday morning with my best friend Leslie via Skype. She lives across the Atlantic Ocean and I cannot tell you where for her safety. But she did move to her current home from Edinburgh Scotland. We yak and stitch for 2 to 5 hours every week. She is my sounding board, my cheer leader, my sister from a different mother.
So on October 5th. 2019 I posted this to Facebook:
This is the needlework project I am working on this weekend. Be Scary from Just Nan. I stitched this maybe 15 years ago or more and it disappeared. I have no idea what happened to it. Even the chart disappeared. So I found the chart on eBay for a fair price and here I go again. This time around I am stitching it on a one of a kind colored Silkweaver's 28 count evenweave in a cornflower blue color with DMC floss. There are Mill Hill beads in Antique Silver, which may or may not be the same which came in the original embellishment package. I love Just Nan designs. I am thinking about also starting one of her Christmas stockings too! We shall see. Orin's at church and I am watching Glenn Beck as I stitch. I am making an old fashioned tuna casserole for dinner....yummy! Have a Blessed Saturday!
This was the picture that accompanied that post:
November 5th: I am really enjoying stitching Just Nan's "Be Scary". I stitched it long ago but have no idea where it went to. I am stitching very slowly but really having a wonderful time stitching it. I am well half way done but the witches are quite fiddly and seem to take forever. I did purchase the year SAL from Sugar Stitches on Etsy and just received the first design November 1st. I want to start on it but won't until I finish up Be Scary. I love the color pallet on the first installment and hope the rest are the same colors.
November 12th: So here we are at the beginning of another work week. It was a lovely 3 day weekend for Orin and I. We had snow yesterday, maybe an inch or two, that is still on the ground and it is very cold this morning. My bestest bestie and I Skyed 4 hours on Saturday morning, we had scads to talk about as we stitched. Sunday evening Orin and I joined the family celebration, Mom turned 83! It was nice to see Ginger and Jason, Jeff and Lillian. Here is my progress on Be Scary. You can see that we have twins and soon we will have witches three. Have a blessed week all.
November 17th: The weekend is almost over once again. We had a lovely weekend here. This is a progress picture of Be Scary. Yes I finished the triplets! I thought I would never get those girls done. My ghosties are so cute with their eyes and mouths ready to scare us all. So I have one row left to complete this sampler and it is a row of Daddy Long Leg spiders and maybe 7 beads. I hope to have this done at the latest next Saturday so I can start my Sugar Stitches Christmas SAL. I want to start it while I visit via Skype with my bestest bestie, Leslie. We spent about 4½ hours this morning solving world problems, stitching, discussing books we were reading and the absolute highlight was a live concert from Orin Lynch singing off key Stevie Wonder. Life doesn't get much better than that. God Bless all of you and enjoy the week.
November 24th: I have a wonderfully spooky finish. I finished the last band of Just Nan's Be Scary on Saturday morning at 2:30 in the morning. The spiders looked very easy and I thought (arrogantly) I would throw them on quickly. Well the hairy monsters legs are interlaced and you can't fudge on them because they would look wonky with one misplaced stitch. I had to stitch a baseline to make sure all the legs hit the same bottom row of holes. Hairy One went in slowly and then the rest were quit easy. I am thinking I might finish it as a stand up but not too sure. Halloween fabric will have to wait until next year, however pondering is one of my strong suites. I can't pick a favorite band, I think they all are special in their own way. I thank you for letting me share my stitching journey with you.
