Finished Cross Stitch Smalls

August Cottage of the Month by Country Cottage Needleworks

Finished: April 2nd, 2025

Materials: Aida fabric and DMC threads

Notes: left "August" out, rearranged the sun and clouds

Reading by Little House Needleworks

Finished: April 12th, 2025

Materials: PTP Aida fabric / Called for and a couple of subs. threads

Notes: minor design modifications 

These two projects were started a few years ago, so glad to have them done. Thanks to the encouragement and motivation of a very special group of friends! 

In April, thanks to the sweet enabling of my new group of friends, I started on my first ever full coverage project! A kit from Luca-s : The King of Flowers (link to their website here). Did changed the fabric to a light grey Aida instead of the white that came in the kit. 

Have not made much progress yet.

PS: Was missing for a couple of months... March and April are always busy around here with celebrating wedding anniversary in March and increase time on volunteer work in March and April.  In April we experienced the unexpected loss of a loved one. 

Stash Enhancements: Printed Fabric and Embroidery/Sewing Pattern

 

  In the last couple of weeks these, in the picture above, made it to my stash!  

  The Spoonflower printed fabrics are by Kathy Schmitz. I have both of her booklets; Simply Sweets and Tiny Treasures. Now I will not have to spend time tracing all the cute little designs in the booklets. When I first got Tiny Treasures (blogged here), I was tracing by hand. However, life gets busy and I prefer to stitch rather than trace. Maybe will prewash the fabrics to reduce shrinking. In that way if I need to  wash the final product then the embroidery will not pucker. 

  The "Wildflower Eyeglass Case" pattern is designed by Alice Makabe sold by Zakka Workshop. It comes with one clasp, and the embroidery design already printed onto water soluble stabilizer ready to be applied on your choice of fabric. The embroidery design drawing is also provided in the pattern. I also ordered an extra clasp.

  Not sure when I'll get to these, but is nice to have them within reach!

Notes: Non-affiliated links. Kathy Schmitz's booklets on her Etsy shop, and her printed fabrics on her Spoonflower site.  Alice Makabe pattern on Zakka Workshop Store on Etsy.   

Hand Embroidery Threads Organized... Finally!

 

Yes, it took me FOREVER to get this done! Why? Not sure. Maybe because the task seemed daunting and boring? Perhaps. However once I started, it was hard to stop. Very satisfying! Got it done the last week of December 2024.  It made me so happy to finally have most of my embroidery threads in one place, and organized in groups by number. 

Much easier to find and was able to make lists of those I'm missing. 

The threads that are in project bags I still need to take inventory of. There should be enough room for those once I'm done with them, and for the ones that I'm missing. Of course, there were a few double or triple skeins or bobbins of the same color. However, from now on I do not think that will be a problem.

I could have gotten more containers so each color could have its own place, but I rather have one unit. Much easier for me to keep up with.

This organizer also comes with the drawers arranged in a couple other styles and sizes.

Notes: I used this spreadsheet here, and the container is from Amazon.