Last day of the month means last day to finish my February...

Last day of the month means last day to finish my February ornament!

If you don’t already know, I am participating in three different blog groups this year. Stitch from Stash over at Epic Stitching, One Ornament a Month over on the cross stitch forum I belong to and Finish a Chatelaine. I’m doing well on two of the three… I haven’t gotten around to my Chat yet. I have until December anyway!

Here’s month 2’s ornament. It’s called Snow in Love by Little House Needleworks. I’m really quite pleased with how it turned out. I did unfortunately get a little bit of nutella on it, but if I don’t point it out I don’t think anyone will notice!

Do you have any crafty goals this year? How are you doing on accomplishing them?



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Stash you say?

 

I never considered myself to have a lot of stash, but I join the Stitch From Stash Challenge anyway. I think because of this challenge I have become more stash orientated. 

I won this piece on ebay last month ($8.50) and it arrived earlier this month. I am always a little afraid when I buy colored things online because you aren’t really sure what you are getting, but my LNS doesn’t stock hand-dyed fabrics so I took the challenge anyway. 

This Plum Blossoms is a lovely shade of purple with some nice light and darker spots on it. I’m still trying to decide what I am going to use it for, here are some of my current ideas:

Square Damask from Ink Circles

This, but all in a solid color
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This design is from A rainbow of stitches (it’s a book). I think I’m leaning towards the Ink Circles design, but I don’t know if I want to do it with a white or a pink or a purple color! Decisions decisions. Any suggestions?

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Romantic Weekend

This weekend my husband and I went on a romantic trip to Columbus. I call it romantic because it was Valentine’s weekend.

We managed to do a ton of things on our 4 day weekend, including the Franklin Conservatory (for wine & chocolate night) and the Columbus Zoo (in the snow, we had the park to ourselves basically, it was wonderful)!

Of course I had to look up cross stitch shops and lucky for me there was one! I called ahead to make sure they were in before we made the trip on Saturday (since the Nashville market was this weekend too, I wasn’t sure if they were going to be open). The picture above shows what I purchased!

The beads are for the Glendon Place project I posted about not too long ago and the threads were all on the suggested colors list for a bunch of Little House Needlework patterns I have hanging out in my stash. I needed some new needles so I picked up the Bolin ones (new to me, I’m loving them so far, they have a HUGE eye which is great).

For February’s stitch from stash challenge I added $16.20 this weekend (the needles don’t count against me since I did actually need them, and I would have had them on hand anyway).

I have two more posts in the works so I will leave off here with the question on how you are doing on the stitch from stash challenge? It’s only month 2, 10 more to go!

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