quick little jig...

I really loved the Goode Huswife's Pennsylvaina Alphabet, so much so that I decided to stitch one of the motifs from it into a scissor fob for myself... I added my initial to the back...

I like the way it turned out, though I think I may have left the cording a little long, but that's okay I'll just have to get used to it!

dancing in the streets...

Well okay, not quite the streets, but dancing nonetheless...

I finished off my Pennsylvania German Alphabet by Goode Huswife last night.

Stitched on 28ct ivory jobelan with the recommended DMC threads

I really enjoyed working on this and it went quite quickly when I did stitch on it. And now since its Sunday, I'm off to work on Molly...

TUSAL, WIPS and a 2010 stitching review

We weren't home yesterday until late, and then I was tired so I didn't post my TUSAL yesterday. I did remember to take a picture of it, so I'll show you that now...

I also thought I would show you my progress before last night's late stitching session on my PGA by Goode Huswife...

And after last night's stitching session:

Next up, is are my 2010 finished stitching projects... not as many as 2009, but I think I did pretty good if I do say so myself.

Also since being on holidays, I've completely forgotten which day it is, so I missed my Sunday SAL with Barbi and forgot to work on Molly... however, come this Sunday, I will pull her out and put a few stitches in for sure!

Till then... happy stitching and happy new year!

a mini little dance...

Seems that now that I'm on holidays and the hustle and bustle of Christmas is over, my stitching mojo has returned!


On the Goode Huswife's Pennsylvania German Alphabet, I managed to finish off the borders yesterday, and now just need to fill in the squares.

I decided to take a little break from working on it today, and while I was blog surfing, I saw that Carol of iStitch Designs had a new little New Year's freebie, so I printed it off and stitched it up. I still need to finish it up as a little pillow or ornament or something but it was a fun quick little stitch.

I don't think I'll have any other finishes to share for 2010, since the end of the year is almost here, but I'll keep stitching and who knows maybe I'll surprise myself and you!

Christmas stitching update

We had a wonderful Christmas, it was both quiet and busy at the same time. I'm still quite behind, my Christmas cards didn't get out in the mail, and I still need to put together and mail a couple of packages, but I'll fill you in on all those details later, right now let's talk stitching!

I did manage to do a little stitching before Christmas, I managed to make 4 small ornaments, but they never actually got finished finished. They are still missing their hangers... normally I put them on while stitching them together, but I thought I would try something different this year and so far haven't gotten around to actually doing it.

But here they are! I used the patterns from Bent Creek's Winter Arches

I decided to stitch last night, but none of my WIPs called my name, so what is a girl to do, but start a new project! I started Goode Huswife's A Pennsylvania German Alphabet. I originally saw it and fell in love with it on Karen V's blog last year, and so I went off in search of it, only to find it was OOP! (Actually I fell in love with a few samplers on Karen's blog and even manged to acquire a few! Now to just stitch them!)

However, I was very lucky in that I was doing some stash shopping straight from the designer herself before she closed up shop and moved to Belgium, and asked if it was possilbe to still get that pattern? I was in luck! She still had a couple and added one to my order! So that is what I finally decided to pull out and start working on.

I'm loving every stitch so far. I've only worked on the border, and as I said I only started it yesterday, so I think I've done pretty good on my progress.

I'm using the reccommended DMC colours on 28ct ivory jobelan.

And to end this post, I thought I would share a little Christmas with you.. This is our tree this year.

My nieces helped decorate it, and though you can't tell from this picture, both red and white lights are strung around the tree, making it look quite festive!