Retreat update with finish.......

I have been on retreat since Thursday afternoon.  

Here is a picture of some of the girls in our stitching room.

This is my stitching nest.

In my previous post I mentioned that I had received my stitching project from the Old Mill Stitchery.

The Seasons of Chessie series.

Well I started this on Thursday afternoon and just finished up with it today.  

Turned out pretty cute.  I will do the finishing when I get home.

 Days of Liberty by Chessie and Me.  Stitched with supplies provided in kit.

Started June 6th 2013.

Finished June 8th 2013.

I leave you with this pin pillow I stitched for Jackie one of the birthday girls in which we are on this retreat for.  The pattern is by The Primitive Hare. It is such a cute design.

Happy 50th Birthday Jackie and Lori.

Fun Mail:)

Look what arrived in the mail today. 

 I joined The Seasons of Chessie club by Chessie and Me from the Old Mill Stitchery shop in Liberty Missouri.

This is the first project.  It arrived is this cute little bag. 

This is the contents of the bag.  

The pattern is called "Days of Liberty".

I just love that it is mounted on a hornbook.  

I can't wait to get started on this!!!

I will be leaving tomorrow for a 50th birthday retreat for two of my close stitching buds.

It should be a great weekend.

I didn't plan on stitching this---but I may have to:)  

I have so MANY other projects to stitch already, what's new.

 Here is some progress on a group project that I am doing with two of my August retreat buds.  We decided  last August to stitch With Thy Needle and Threads--Strawberry Hill Sampler.  Here is the finished pin pillow.  

The Huswife is stitched and just needs to be finished.  Hope to get to that sometime this month.

I also have the sampler piece stitched that will be mounted on a box.  

This will be a very cute project when it's done.  It has been fun to stitch too.

I just bought a new laptop last week and this is my first post using it and I have to say it is working out well.

I hope to post again after this weekend about my retreat.

Thanks for stopping by.

I Love it!!!

I just did the finishing on my Stitchville--Chessie and Me retreat sampler.  

I just love the way it looks.  I have been wanting to the a hornbook finish for awhile and I decided at retreat that is how I was going to finish this sampler.

I have had the the sampler done for at least a month now but had to wait for the hornbook and then I had to find the felt.  This sampler was from the Chessie and Me retreat that was in April--the 5-7.

It was a great time and I really like all the pieces we did.

Check out the April 7th post for the retreat info.  

I have been stitching and quilting, just not doing much posting.  

I stitched this piece as a model for Country Sampler in Spring Green Wisconsin.

It took me a month to stitch.  It was a pretty fun stitch.

This piece is from Stacy Nash.  It is Spring at Hollyberry Farm.

Thanks for stopping by and have a fun and safe Memorial Day Weekend.

 

Remember all those who fought and died for our freedom. 

May 2nd?????

This is what we woke up to this morning.  

We seem to be in the winter that will not end.

I will let the pictures speak for themselves!!!!

Stitchville's Spring Fling 2013 Retreat

Our local needlework shop Stitchville has put together this annual retreat now for the last four years.

This years designer was Linda Lautenschlager of Chessie & Me.

Again it was a GREAT retreat.

 Here is what greeted us in our room.  There is only one caramel in this picture--the other two were very tasty!!!!

 This was our welcome bag.  It had a really cute wooden tag for a zipper pull and inside the bag was a note pad, a very cute luggage tag and a finger nail file. 

 These are the wonderful gifties that we had waiting for us at our tables.  A scissors with a 2013 fob, a wooden box, a wooden pin cushion, a insulated cup and of course a table favor.

 Here is a bit of a close up of all the wood goodies.

 I just love this little wooden tag. 

 We did some pre-stitching and this is the end result of it.  We painted this box and then attached our stitching to a piece of wool and then glued it to the outside of the box.  The strawberry is a gift from Linda.  She made one for each of us.  I think she said she made 53!!  She also painted the first coat of paint on each of the boxes so we would have time to finish them. 

 

 A view of the inside of the box and the fob we stitched and put together.

It is always great to leave retreat with a finished piece.

On Saturday we received this wonderful sampler designed by Linda for our retreat.  

It is called Springtime of Youth Sampler.  This is my progress so far--sorry for the wrinkles.

I had a great time with friends, familiar and new.  

Can't wait until next year.

Designer for next year is Cynthia Zittel of The Drawn Thread.

I didn't have my camera with me but I am sure you can see some pictures of the retreat on 

With Needle and Thread's blog and on Thread in Hand's blog later this week.

Thanks for stopping by. 

Snow Country Sled Ornament

 Here is a cute and quick stitch.  It is a Foxwood Crossings design.  The pattern is called Snow Country Sleds.  There are three different designs.

I stitched up the church design and mounted on the little sled.  It is such a cute ornament.  

I will be stitching up a few more of these:)

Stitched on perforated paper with DMC threads.

Started 3-12-2013

Finished 3-13-2013

Here is a side view of the sled.

Visit the website to see all the designs--www.dixiedarlin.com.

Thanks for stopping by.

Happy "V" Day!!!!

First I have a quick little story to tell about the title of my post.  

Nine years ago or so our daughter Kelsey went to Marine Corps boot camp and she was there on Valentine's Day.  Well she wished everyone in the series(two platoons)  a "Happy V Day" and the series Commander  was not amused by her good wishes and promptly disciplined her for that comment.  In fact she was the first one in the series to be disciplined!!! So she had to stand in front of everyone alone and do IT--( incentive training).   Got to love an over achiever:)  So needless to say I always think about that experience on Valentine's Day.  Kind of makes me chuckle.

So here my one and only Valentine finish.  I did the stitching a couple of weeks ago and just finished it today.

It is a freebie by Lady Lexi Designs called True Love.  I stitched it on 28 count Natural gingham with Cranberry Sampler Thread. 

I also stitched this up the other day.  It is a Prim Sister Kit by Pineberry Lane called Wrought by my Hand.  It was stitched on 30 ct. Confederate Grey Linen with Sampler Threads as provided in the kitl.  I just ordered up a frame at JoAnn's yesterday.  Can't wait to have it framed.

Started on 2-9-2013

Finished on 2-10-2013

Thanks for stopping by and Happy V Day!!!!!