Seasonal Stitch-a-Long

Little Happy Dances

2010-08-30T11:43:00.004+01:00

Hello dear stitcher!
Nobody posting here anymore?
Anyway, this are the two latest finishes on my big seasonal project, Calendar Cat: March cat (finished from some time now), and August, just finished last saturday.

March cat, with January and February

August cat

This is how the entire piece is looking now.

Since I really want to finish this by the end of the year, soon new pics will follow of the unfinished cats: April, May, July and December.

Happy stitches to all.

It's not winter anymore!

2009-08-20T16:18:00.006+01:00

Hello dear stitchers!
I see this blog has got stuck in winter! Well, now that I think of it, we are in winter now, but on the other side of the globe!
Now here in Italy it's summer, and a boiling one!
So I think I'll bring the blog a little bit up to date!

First, spring!
My big project (Calendar Cats) is still unfinished (shame on me), and this can be also said about my spring cats, March April (really just an orange blur) and May.

Calendar Cats so far

March cat

May Cat

While Spot of Spring by the Drawn Thread is finished

Spot of Spring

I'm making it as a bellpull as Nicky already did!

As for summer, just a cat to show you, June

June Cat

And Spot of Summer is nearly completed

Spot of Summer

That's all for now, I'll try stitching July and August cats before September 21st!

Hope to see you all back here!

Happy summer, and winter, to all!

Valentina

Winter Whites finished & framed

2009-02-25T17:45:00.001Z

I've joined the SAL on the Fallen in love with LHN and CCN patterns blog.
I've finished and framed it yesterday night.
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

Winter progresses

2009-02-24T09:10:00.003Z

That's my lastest progresses on my seasonal wintry patterns:

Winter Whites, by Little House Needleworks

Winter Sampler, by RicAmare

Winter Whites WIP

2009-02-21T09:41:00.001Z

I've joined the SAL on the Fallen in love with LHN and CCN patterns blog.
That's my progress.
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

January Baubles

2009-01-22T01:39:00.003Z

I've decided that this year I want to finish up my baubles (SamSarah Designs) - last year I only managed to stitch March and April and wasn't able to completely finish up the cubes. Hopefully this year will be better. So here is January, mounted on its half of a cube (February will get attached to the back next month). It was stitched straight, but got a bit wonky when I laced it to the box, and since I only noticed once the cording was sewn on, it's not coming off! It's only for me, and now I know I absolutely need to lace rather than glue together, so hopefully Feb will be straighter.

I'm also hoping to work on my monthly house sampler (Grilles de Maryse) so if I'm lucky will have some more pics for the blog.

New SAL

2009-01-21T12:54:00.006Z

I've launched a new SAL on the Fallen in love with LHN and CCN patterns blog.
It's Winter Whites from Little House Needleworks.
How wants to join?
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

Boo!

2009-01-21T12:52:00.000Z

I've finished my Boo!, by Stoney Creek Collections .
I changed something in the pattern and the color threads.
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

Christmas Stitching...

2009-01-08T14:21:00.007Z

Good Morning and Happy New Year, Dear Stitchers! I thought I'd share with you all an ornament I stitched and finished in December for my dear daughter and her dear hubby for Christmas... :-)

A Christmas Blessing...

By Full Circle Designs...

2005 Just Cross Stitch Ornament Issue

Stitched on Vintage Autumn Blush Cashel Linen

With GAST and WDW threads...

and this is the back of the ornament...

I hope to be busy as a bee with loads more *Seasonal Stitching* this year and a lot more finishes to share with you all... And I'm looking forward to seeing more of your Seasonal Stitching... :-)

Wishing you all a Blessed and Joyful Stitchy New Year!

Blessings and Love in Stitches...

Lizzy

A Stitching Faery's Ramblings from under the Willow Tree...

Two belated pieces of Autumn

2008-12-31T15:10:00.006Z

Hello dear stitchers!
I'll show you my latest efforts on seasonal stitches:
Season of Plenty and Autumn Harvest I wish everyone a happy new year!

And speaking of new year, someday in febrauary '09 I'd like to start stitching Royal Holiday by Mirabilia and have it finished by Christmas Eve. If anyone of you wuold like to make a SAL with me I'd love it!

Valentina

Twirling through the seasons

2008-12-02T18:17:00.002Z

I've finished my Twirling through the seasons, by Tina Wenke .
I love them!
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

Quaker Floss Tag

2008-11-02T15:12:00.006Z

This is an autumn-themed floss tag with a squirrel from the large Quaker freebie "Six Mains," by A Mon Ami Pierre. It's stitched with DMC on 28-ct. white cotton Monaco and finished with a glass bead edging.
Marie W.

My second Season of Plenty

2008-11-01T16:16:00.002Z

I've finished my second Season of Plenty, by Little House Needleworks.
My aunt has liked it.
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

Halloween Stitching

2008-11-01T00:21:00.008Z

I've been driven to stitch for Halloween this year and here are my Halloween seasonal finishes for 2008. Hopefully I'll have lots more next year!

"Batty Jack"

by Just Nan (JCS Halloween Ornament issue)

32# Vintage Belfast linen

DMC threads

"Poor Jack"
by Just Nan (freebie - no longer available online)

32# Vintage Belfast linen

DMC threads

"Smell my Feet"

by La-D-Da (JCS Halloween Ornament issue)

32# Dirty Belfast linen

DMC threads

(finished as a wall hanging - there is a wire cat hanger at the top, not a good photo!)

Halloween Finish

2008-10-27T16:25:00.002Z

I finished this this weekend for my Sister-In-Law. I know it's rather simple, but I had to do something on the fly.

Another seasonal WIP

2008-10-23T12:29:00.001+01:00

Following the UFO project, my next UFO to be finished will be Boo!, by Stoney Creek Collections.
I've started it October 19th, 2005. Too much time passed...
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

The Christmas Elf Fairy

2008-10-23T12:16:00.002+01:00

I've finally finished a seasonal Christmas piece, I've started it January 21th, 2007.
That's The Christmas Elf Fairy, by Mirabilia.
I've stitched it on a 32ct Belfast linen opalescent Treasure Trove by Silkweaver.
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

A seasonal WIP

2008-10-19T09:46:00.004+01:00

I'm currently stitching my second Season of Plenty, by Little House Needleworks.
My aunt has seen mine and letterally fallen in love, so she has committed one for her.
It has very glorious colours, hasn't it?
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

Welcome in my garden...

2008-06-20T12:45:00.003+01:00

The garden is ready :)

I've made a couple of photos, to show you how lovely it is:

There are two rows of tiny pearls:

Have a nice day!

Rita

Hello from Chicago!

2008-06-19T13:32:00.002+01:00

Hi, I'm Gillie, I'm British but have lived in the US for nearly 20 years - good grief! Love to stitch, have just come back to it full time after a few years quilting. We live, at the moment, just north of Chicago, with our children spread out across the continent, in Idaho, Pittsburgh and DC - we rack up a LOT of air miles!
Off to decide what seasonal chart to choose!

gillie

Summer garden

2008-06-13T13:07:00.003+01:00

Hello everybody!

I'm really happy that i could join to this SAL. I'm from Hungary, (so my blog is in hungarian too :( ), and I stich as much as I can in my freetime. My personal favourites are the seasonal patterns and the special stiches.

Now I'm working on on this summer sampler: Victoria Sampler: Summer garden

I hope in a couple of days I'll be ready with this!

I've already made the Spring garden from this series, and i've got the threads and fabric for the Autumn garden :)
This is the spring garden:

Have a nice day!

Rita

Season of Hope

2008-06-07T13:15:00.000+01:00

I never got round to sharing this! Season of Hope by Little House Needleworks. I am going to make a pillow with it - just haven't got round to it!

Spot of Summer

2008-06-07T12:52:00.003+01:00

Here's my first bit of seasonal stitching for the summer - Spot of Summer by Drawn Thread stitched on 36 ct Pipi from Countrystitch.

And here are all four Spots stitched together. I did the first one last autumn and I've been doing one a season since. The seasonal SAL has really kept me going! I'm going to make a bellpull out of them when I have time.

A few more Spring Finishes...

2008-05-31T02:50:00.003+01:00

Trilogy's Secret Flower Bed, Vegetable Garden, and Shamrock stitched as charted with WDW and GAST threads and recommended fabric and JABCo buttons (The exception is the yellow parts in Flower Bed because I ran out of WDW Sweetheart Rose and replaced it with GAST Buttercream:

An Autumn Finish

2008-05-27T07:12:00.000+01:00

I've finished Autumn Leaves and am very happy with it, I enjoyed it so much I was about to dive right into Winter Wind but restrained myself :(

Luckily, winter starts this Sunday ;)

Autumn Leaves
Designer: Prairie Schooler
Fabric: 28# Vintage Country Mocha
Threads: DMC

I made a few changes to the design, I left off the bird above the house and the numbers on the grass and added the moon and pumpkin motifs from other parts of the chart.

Happy Bunny Bunny Day

2008-05-06T11:45:00.002+01:00

Happy Bunny Bunny Day

pattern: The Trilogy
fabric: Zweigart 32 count Belfast mushroom/gold metallic
threads: Weeks Dye Works, Gentle Art and Needlepaints (I've changed some colours)
buttons: Shelley's

I still have to finish it into a needlekeper.
Veronica

An Autumn Start

2008-04-29T07:54:00.006+01:00

I've started Autumn Leaves for this seasons project and it's stitching up faster than I thought! I think I'll finish the stitching this season, but I don't think I'll be able to finish it off to display though (those skills still need work!).

It's worked on 28# Vintage Country Mocha linen with the recommended DMC threads and I changed the centre to picture to one from the Autumn Foursome on the same chart as I like it better.

I've just joined the blogging world at http://athreadstale.blogspot.com/ . I've enjoyed seeing other people's work so much in 2007 I thought maybe I should share a little bit of my own.

Karrie

Autumn Medley

2008-03-30T08:18:00.003+01:00

I was going to change the frame colour to Black like the sample photo of this chart.
But this is a ready-made frame and there were glass which I couldn't take off, so didn't change the colour...
So this frame colour is just as it was...
Actually this ready-made frame is for Japanese art, like below...
It says... "Go for your dream..." something like that in Japanese, with 8 small birds. isn't it cute??

By the way, there were blank areas at both top and bottom of this stitched piece, when I put it into this frame.
I thought a lot what to do next... and a few ideas were floating in my mind, I didn't know whether it would be sucseed or not, but I have just tried!

There were about 3cm depth in this frame, so I made the two lines with small pine cones for these blank area .
Why didn't I just put (glued) them on the stitched piece???

I'm typically a fickle person (lol), so I will definitely change my mind someday in the near future!
That's why I made this as easily attached or removed. LOL

I know myself well! lol
I added them this time, but sometimes I felt like attaching linen laces on it, I can easily remove these pine cones! (lol)
It's a nice idea, isn't it?!

Well, here is a close up photo of this "Autumn Medley".

I wanted to change the frame colour, but it's still nice in a natural colour frame, don't you think so? There are so many kind of oblong designs © Heart in Hand, so I think it would be nice to add some seasonal designs and change it when the next season has come!

"Autumn Medley" © Heart in Hand
32ct Belfast Linen (Platinum)

Progress on Happy Bunny Bunny Day

2008-03-28T10:06:00.000Z

My progress on Happy Bunny Bunny Day, by The Trilogy.
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

A St. Patrick's Day Finish

2008-03-28T05:36:00.002Z

I stitched up the HIH St. Patrick Bird and the BC St. Patrick Snapper. You can find the HIH one on my blog here. Here's the BC one:

March Finish

2008-03-24T07:44:00.002Z

This is my first spring finish. I have to look for some more. Ideas always welcome

February Finish

2008-03-24T07:38:00.002Z

This is a mitten that I plan on making into a ornament.

March Baubles

2008-03-16T02:14:00.004Z

Here is my latest seasonal finish - March Baubles from SamSarah. It is stitched on the recommended fabric (28ct Newport ??) with the recommended GAST and WDW threads and the JABC buttons that came with it. When I get April done, I'll finish them together as a cube, with the SilverNeedle finishing kits.

Being that we still have tons of snow here, I'm going to do one more winter piece, I think, and then switch to spring to encourage me. I'm loving the spring/Easter pics everyone has posted though.

WIP Happy Bunny Bunny Day

2008-03-14T18:26:00.004Z

I'm currently stitching Happy Bunny Bunny Day, by The Trilogy.
It could be considered an Easter project, couldn't it?
Veronica
my blog: Purr-Stitch

Easter stitching anyone?

2008-03-09T10:59:00.002Z

Sonda's Easter finish has given me a little inspiration. Is anyone else planning on stitching something for Easter?

I have a Shepherd's Bush needleroll kit I'm going to try to get done. It would be so nice to have a little Easter display.

Still on cats

2008-03-08T10:26:00.004Z

Hello there!
First of all I want to thank Nicki for moving the blog in here, since I think Blogger is the best platform for blogging and I use it also for my own blog (even though I update rarely, sorry about that!).
Talking about stitching, during Febrauary I kept working on Calendar Cats: I realized the February Cat, half the heading and I put some stitches on the October cat which is still unfinished.
I havent started the March cat yet, I think I'll do it on Monday evening.
I leave you with a pic of my last progress, see you!

Glad to be on blogger...and some Spring-y things...

2008-03-07T23:05:00.005Z

Thanks for switching to blogger, Nicki. It's good to be able to really share my pics.

I will admit I was sick of winter and started Spring early. Here's a couple of my most recent Spring finishes. They are "Easter Snapperville" by Bent Creek, Heart in Hand's "2007 Collector's Heart", "Valentine Bird", and "Favorite Hearts". I also stitched a Martina Weber freebie "Kathy's Violets" for my Fair & Square exchange.

Winter stitching

2008-03-07T13:13:00.000Z

I never got round to showing you my winter stitching, so here's some of what I've done in the last few months!

Winter Welcome by Country Cottage Needleworks

Winter Wonderland by Little House Needleworks

Spot of Winter by Drawn Thread

I've started my spring stitching - I'm stitching LHN's Season of Hope right now and have Spot of Spring to do as well!

A new home!

2008-03-07T12:52:00.001Z

Welcome to the new home of the Seasonal SAL! I hope you like it here and feel more comfortable posting pictures.

We'd love to see what you've been up to, so please show off that seasonal stitching!