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Finished stitching FEBRUARY Truckin’ Along by Stitching With The Housewives! Stitched on 14ct black Aida using DMC threads. Changed the chickens out on the February sign, put in a 4 heart and the little love envelope. Filled in the trucks’ door heart with the hot pink color and made one of the roses pink as well. Now to pick fabrics, trims, ribbons and bows, oh my! I can’t wait!
🖤💕🖤
Elizabeth
Good Morning!
I saw a sneak peek on Stitching With The Housewives flosstube this past Saturday ~ Chelsea kept winking her eye and Priscilla showed a black and white checkered stitched heart. Suddenly I had visions on pink fabric, so I’m ready to see what’s coming on Wednesday!
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The color comes next! This cute little rose truck will start to come alive in the next stitch session! This chart is the FEBRUARY Truckin’ Along by Stitching With the Housewives. Stitching on 14ct black Aida using DMC threads. I can’t wait to show you the final finish from this chart! Stay tuned!
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I’m up early stitching on FEBRUARY TRUCKIN’ ALONG by Stitching With the Housewives. Stitching on 14ct black Aida using DMC threads. All the 3865 is almost done hopefully I can start with some color later this morning.
Working later today (major southern grocery store chain), store has early closing hours so will be home early.
Have a great day and a wonderful new year!
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Wow~ I can't believe I haven't posted in approx. 2 months! It's not that I haven't been busy, I've been traveling with my kids (by car) and stitching up a storm! Where do I start to catch you up!?
Let's start with the completion of the last post...I have stitched all of the Hometown Holidays by Little House Needleworks over the past few years and decided that this would be the year that I fully finish them and display them this Christmas season. Here is the final finish and display!
I've decided to finish up some of the 'series' pieces that I have started ~ Hands On Design A Year of Celebrations (I just have December to stitch), Crazy Annies 2020 Gift Tag Ornaments (just have #12 to stitch), Stitching With the Housewives Truckin' Along (February - July), Shannon Christine Christmas Club Ornaments (part 5).
I have started to stitch Hands On Design A Banner Year (Snow Much Fun) seems to be a quick stitch so far. Still working on (and need to finish) Country Cottage Needleworks Ho Ho Ho and Away We Go.
I recently stitching the December Truckin' Along (Stitching With the Housewives), What's in my Cup Silent Night and Hello Winter by Stitching With the Housewives too. You see I've been busy but just can't find a few moments to update my blog, sorry!
I'll get pictures up with I fully finish the pieces...stay tuned!
I've changed my Etsy shop from finished stitched pieces to fully finished pieces. It seems that no-one wants un-fully finished cross stitched pieces. So I will go throught what I have and see what I can fully finish and perhaps sell some of this pieces from the dresser drawer storage area!
Come and visit and see what's new...limited quantity pieces! www.etsy.com/shop/LizziesXStitches
♥Elizabeth
Good Afternoon!
It's been a busy week following my nine (9) days off from work. A nice stay at home vacation trying to get things done around the house...there's always something to do around here, how about where you live?
I got ALOT of stitching done while I was on vacation so here we go...
My first project that I wanted to work on was my HOMETOWN HOLIDAY series by Little House Needleworks.
I've got all the buildings stitched and now it's time to put them together! I decided to do flat fold stand-ups using this material for the backing:
with mini white pom-pom trim. All the chip boards are cut and batting is attached, fabric is cut and everything is ready to assemble.
Hopefully I can get upstairs to the finishing room sometime today and start the assembly. I can't wait to show you! Stay tuned!
Other things I finished stitching are:
SURRENDER the treats by Hands On Design. She published this complimentary chart in her latest newsletter, it stitched up quick. I made an ornament for my halloween tree and will assemble another stand-up version and put it in my etsy shop.
I finished stitching....
BASIC WITCH by Stitching With the Housewives. Such a cute stitch for halloween. I changed the spider color and the color of the mug to make is more 'Halloweenie'. Am going to try to finish it into an ornament for my Halloween tree.
My October marker was this collage of previously stitched pieces that hang around in my home all year.
Have a great stitching week and I'll post again next Sunday!
♥Elizabeth
Good Thursday morning!
I'm on vacation this week, pumpkin bread is baking in the oven and autumn has arrived. The day's are cooler, however still humid here in So. Fla., but I'll take it! We had a few low humidity days with a beautiful breeze, I was able to get the front yard re-planted for fall. Been out miracle-growing everything this morning as it looks like we have afternoon rain storms in the horizon.
I've finished stitching a few pieces since the last time I posted and I wanted to share them with you. First up is....
Prairie Schooler 2020 Santa! Stitched on 14ct Fiddler's cloth using DMC threads. I had to outline the rabbits because you couldn't really see the little wind-blown bunnies on this fabric choice. Will finish as an ornament for this years' Christmas tree.
Next was....
Let It Snow and Stay Warm by Shannon Christine Designs, Christmas Club 2020. Both of these were stitched on 14ct navy blue aida using DMC threads, Mill Hill beads (00161) and DMC E5200 on the stars, mitten rope and edging of mittens and hat and also the fringe of the scarf. I love how pretty these turned out on the navy blue fabric.
Finally was...
Mistletoe by Shannon Christine Designs, Christmas Club 2020. Stitched on the same 14ct navy blue aida using DMC threads. I substitued the gold krenik with DMC 729 as I don't like stitching with krenik thread. Mill Hill beads 02013 are also used on this piece. Can't wait to finish these as ornaments.
Here's an autumn/fall reciepe for you all to bake and enjoy (the house smells SO good today)
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PUMPKIN BREAD
3 cups sugar, 4 eggs, 2/3 cup water, 2 cups pumpkin, 1 cup oil, 3 1/2 cups flour, 1/2 tbsp. salt, 3/4 tsp allspice, 1 tsp. nutmeg, 1 tsp. cinnamon, 2 tsp. baking soda, 1 cup nuts, 1 cup raisins.
Stir and mix together all liquid ingredients, and then add in dry ingredients, nut and raisins. Pour into a greased and sugared loaf pan (2). Bake @ 350 for 1 hour.
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Before I sign off...come visit my etsy shop (www.etsy.com/shop/LizziesXStitches) and see these two items and more....
Also a shout out to my daughter who opened up her own etsy sticker shop. Come and visit her and see all her hand designed stickers for any occassion. www.etsy.com/shop/SmashCoStickers
Have a great day! Remember, you matter!
♥Elizabeth
Good Sunday Morning!
Hope you all had a good week, filled with lots of little XXX's! My week was busy...let's start!
Started and finished stitching Hello Pumpkin by Stitching With the Housewives. Changed the word PUMPKIN to Autumn to fit in with the Autumn decor of my home. Changed the colors of the big top pumpkin to ____ and changed the blue pumpkin at the bottom to an orange pumpkin as we don't see blue pumpkins down here in FL. Stitched on 14ct black aida (Etsy ~ Annabelles). Used DMC threads.
Next was:
October ~ Truckin' Along by Stitching With the Housewives. I changed the left and right motifs from chickens sitting on a pumpkin to the original pumpkin from white to orange, DMC 921 and then a smiling, viney mini pumpkin (from the truck portion of the chart). The candy corns were SO easy and fast to stitch, finished in a few days. Stitched on 14ct black aida, once again from Etsy ~ Annabelles.
Then...
Little House Needleworks ~ The Post Office from the Hometown Holiday series. Remember, Diane is only doing a yearly Hometown Holiday chart from here on out. I changed the mailbox from a red one to a common blue one that we have down here in FL, DMC # 311. I adjusted the POST OFFICE words at the top because I didn't follow the pattern and had extra room on the right so I added a # as most post offices are numbered.
I'll start finishing this series while I am on vacation next week and I will post my finishes. I can't wait to have this series up to date, finished and displayed this Christmas. Just a note...a bought a horizontal ladder shelf a few years ago to display this on, never opened and can't wait to get it out of the attic this year! EXCITING!
I have just listed the following items on my Etsy shop this morning...www.etsy.com/shop/LizziesXStitches.
