🦋🦋🦋A lovely fully finished gift!🦋🦋🦋

 

Design: Butterfly Bookmark from Artecy Cross Stitch

Link: Butterfly Bookmark Cross Stitch Pattern to print online.

Started: Saturday, March 1, 2025 at 1:30 p.m.

Finished:  Wednesday, March 19, 2025 at 6:46 p.m.

Fabric:  Ivory Jobelan 28 count

Fibers:  Called for DMC.

Notes:  I love working From Artecy's patterns!  They are full coverage but they are a pleasure to work from!  I gridded my fabric with Sulky Sliver Metallic.  It makes it so much easier for me to keep my place plus this Sliver fiber pulls like a dream from the back of my stitching when I am done.  After I washed and pressed the bookmark.  I ironed on a lightweight interfacing. I buttonhole stitched the edges before I cut the bookmark to the finished edge.  This will be a gift in bird identification book for my mother for Easter!  I love how it turned out! I had hoped to stitch an Artecy bookmark featuring a bird but didn't care for the ones were offered.  This is truly a work of love, not only for my Mom, but I loved every moment I was working on it!

A fully finished bookmark!

 

A fully finished bookmark which was a gift to my husband on our 13th wedding anniversary 24 June 2024.  The edges are blanket stitched and it turned out beautifully.  I ironed on interfacing on the back to prevent threads from raveling.  I was quite pleased. This is an Artecy design.  The pattern can be found here: Artecy Cross Stitch. Praying Hands Bookmark Cross Stitch Pattern to print online.

Finishes 3, Lost Finishes 1

The Praying Hands bookmark was a free Artecy design that I had started a decade ago.  I put it down long ago and picked it up in April of this year.  I found I had made a mistake and went to start over but couldn't find the pattern.  I went to Artecy's website (http://www.artecy.com/) and purchased it because it was no longer free. In April I restarted the bookmark with the called for DMC floss on 28 count mushroom lugana.  I finished stitching it on May 24th 2023.  I need to finish the edges with a rose gold "metallic yarn" which I bought at Amazon (Amazon.com: Garbo Metallic Embroidery Thread, Rose Gold #55, 3050 Yard Spool). I am going to give it to my husband for his birthday in September.  It is meant for his Bible.

So the photo above does not show a completed design but there is a story behind it.  This is Pinker 'n Punkin "Ophelia Manor on Punkin Holler Lane". It is a free design here: Pinker n Punkin Quilting & Stitching: Ophelia Manor of Punkin Holler Lane- Companion piece to Willowisp Manor of Holler Lane- A Fall Freebie .

I started this darling project on Wednesday March 1, 2023 at 9:45a.m. on 28 count Dirty Cashel linen with the called for DMC floss.  I finished stitching it on Friday April 7th at 9:37p.m.  I rolled it up into a cylinder to reverse the curl in the fabric. The next day I began reorganizing my WIPs.  The last time I saw the cylinder it was on my love seat.  I have no idea what I did with it next and today it is still MIA!  Ugh!!! I had not photographed the finished project yet, hence the "in process" photo.

The most recent finish is Pinker 'n Punkin "Mollie William's Homestead" pictured above. Darling, darling, darling. On Thursday May 25th, 2023 I started this project on Zweigart 28count lugana in the color New Khaki.  I finished this project Wednesday July 19th at 2:50p.m. I do intend to finish this into a stand up. The link to this free design: Pinker n Punkin Quilting & Stitching: Mollie William's Homestead- A House Freebie

So that is a short, but truthful story of my finishes and I hope that all of your stitching is enjoyable and prolific.