🌸 Spring Yearns for a Spring Urn Finish! 🌸

Design: Spring Urn, a free design by Ewe & Eye & Friends

Link: Newsletter-April-2025.pdf

Started: Sunday, April 27, 2025 @2:15 p.m.

Finished: Thursday, May 29, 2025 @9:30p.m.

Fabric: 28 count linen in Dusty Green similar to DMC 523

Fibers: DMC stranded cotton as called for with the exception of 3740 for the coiled flowers.  I used DMC Flower Thread number 2724.

Notes: This took much more time to complete then I anticipated.  I stitched a total of 27 days on it.  There were a few days I just didn't stitch on it. I wanted to stitch it so I could include an image of the design on a daily entry on my Facebook group "Needle Free For All".  The chart is a bit of a challenge to read but I did accomplish that with a good deal of accuracy.  I love how this turned out.  I had never stitched Kam's coils before and they are certainly not perfect but I love the effect they have in the hanging flowers on the left.  The alphabet did not come with the chart so I winged it on my own!  I love the primitive feel.  I would like to make a cushion with it, I think.  I believe a trip to Hobby Lobby is in order to see if I can find another option.  I mean when is a trip to Hobby Lobby not appropriate? I went out on the front porch to photograph this on this rare day of sunshine this May day and I hung it on my mailbox and thought it looked darling there. Fun, fun, fun!

A primitive vintage free design finish!

Design: Ewe and Eye and Friends "Alphabet Heart"

Link: newsletter-j-f25.pdf

Started: Saturday, February 1, 2025 @ 11:40a.m.

Finished: Wednesday, February, 5, 2025 @ Noon

Fabric: Heatherfield 26 count in "Hickory"

Fibers: Weeks Dye Works in Juniper, Kudzu, Lancaster Red and Red Pear, Gentle Arts Sampler Threads in Presidential Blue

Notes: I love the way this turned out.  I enjoyed stitching on the Heatherfield. I did start this piece using the Kudzu but ultimately did not like the way it was showing up on my fabric color.  I left it in the center of the right heart but then used the Presidential Blue for the letters and the left heart.  Also, the little red square to the left of the left heart was to be satin stitched and I didn't care for that so I horizontally I wove in 3 lines to give it a patch looking texture. It was a fun little stitch which challenged me. I kept miscounting and had to rip out to redo several times. The red outline wouldn't meet up perfectly if the alphabet was not perfectly placed.  I would someday like to finish this in a shabby chic type of pillow for a bowl on my dining room table.