Three working projects!

Rosewood Manor's Something Blue is a gorgeous sampler which I have barely started.  The fabric is a lovely blue frome Picture This Plus in 28ct Alchemy color.  It will use 15 skeins of Weeks Dyed Works in the color Parchment.  The design is 288 stitches by 177 stitches.  It is a stunning sampler design.  I have the right upper most flower completed.  I will work on this when I just want to stitch one color rather than other pieces that have multiple colors.

The Steady Thread is having a year long stitch along.  It is a blackwork project and each week a different blackwork pattern is released for a hexagon cell.  It is a gorgeous piece and you choose your colors and the shape of your cells.  It has a gorgeous botanical theme to it and a wandering vine border. The photo below is the work of  Crocettando from her blog here: More advances on Prairie schooler Santa and blackwork. | Crocettando (wordpress.com)

I chose a large pink evenweave I had in my stash and am using black floss and the highlight color The Gentle Art in Red Grape for inside of my cells.  As you can see I am not very far along.  I am numbering my cells to match the correct cell pattern when it is released.  I think it will be a masterpiece when I am done. Read about this stitch along here: Modern blackwork embroidery charts and blackwork embroidery kits – The Steady Thread

I am currently enjoying The Stitching Book Club's July free design found in the July Newsletter here: @Stitchingbookclub | Linktree   It is called Stars and Stripes.  I am stitching it on 28 count white Quaker which was in my stash.  I am using DMC floss in 321 and 3712 the called for reds.  The blues I am using DMC flower thread in 2826 and 2800. I was unsure about mixing the 6 strand floss with the flower thread but they look great.  I wish I had the red in flower thread. 

So that is what I work on at the moment. Happy Stitching!

 

Shamrock growing & Something Blue showing †

I have been stitching on Curtis Boehringer's 3 for $2 Shamrock Sampler. The fabric is a hand dyed 28 count cashel linen in the color Lagoon.  I don't know what company but I had purchased it years ago at Stitches 'n Things.  I am using white Silks 4 You silk floss.  The green dotted Swiss cotton fabric you see behind it is a lovely cotton quilting fabric that I purchased at 1-2-3 Stitch!  I am going to use it for one of my Irish designs I am stitching. I have stitched 2 of the lobes of the shamrock and I am working on the 3rd.  I love this and intend to stitch the 3rd design in this little leaflet also.

I did receive my fabric and floss for my intended start Rosewood Manor's Something Blue. The fabric is Picture This Plus 28 count cashel linen.  The color is called Alchemy.  It is so beautiful!  Also received is the 15 skeins of Weeks Dyed Works in the color Parchment.  Looking forward to starting that.

I hadn't been feeling well the past several days.  I believe this crazy back and forth weather is killing my sinuses.  I have been reading the Left Behind series again for the I don't know how many times now.  The events in the world are so dark and I need to focus on God more closely.  I also listen to the Bible in a Year podcasts from Father Mike Schmidt produced by Ascension. I love Father Mike and have learned SO much from him.  I need to keep God close in these troubling times, we all do.  So for this moment I will sign off with God Bless you my dear friends.