Hand Stitched Finishes 2024

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Redwork Noel

Joan Elliott - Imaginating #2798

28ct White Luguna

GAST Cranberry Threads

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 12/14/23

Finished 01/03/24

Days Spent Stitching on This - 19

Barnyard Buddies

Stoney Creek Collection Magazine Spring 2020 (Leaflet 565)

16ct White Stitchband

DMC, Glisson Gloss and WDW Threads, Embellishments

Stitched 2 over 1

Started 01/02/24

Completed 05/08/24

Total Number of Days Worked on This - ? 

Winter Snowfall

Shannon Christine Designs

28ct Whisper Lugana

DMC Threads, Embellishments

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 12/29/23

Completed 07/08/24

Number of Days Worked on This - 62

Top half.

Bottom half.

New Dawn

Stoney Creek Collection POM Series, January 2024

28ct White Jobelan, DMC, Creeks Colours and Glissengloss Threads, Embellishments

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 07/14/24

Completed 07/27/24

Number of Days Worked on This - 9

Blessed

Stoney Creek Collection Magazine Summer 2023

28ct Mushroom Lugana, DMC and Creeks Colours Threads, Embellishments

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 07/27/24

Completed 08/03/24

Number of Days Spent Stitching on This - 4

New Day

Stoney Creek Collection POM Series, Febuary 2024

28ct White Jobelan, DMC, Creeks Colours and Glissengloss Threads, Embellishments

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 08/03/24

Completed 08/07/24

Number of Days Spent Stitching on This - 5

New Life

Stoney Creek Collection POM Series, March 2024

28ct White Jobelan, DMC, Creeks Colours and Glissengloss Threads, Embellishments

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 08/07/24

Completed 08/13/24

Number of Days Spent Stitching on This - 7

Grateful

Stoney Creek Collection Magazine Summer 2023

28ct Mushroom Lugana, DMC and Creeks Colours Threads, Embellishments

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 08/18/24

Completed 08/21/24

Number of Days Spent Stitching on This - 4

Butter Believe It

Silver Creek Samplers

25ct Oatmeal Floba, DMC, GAST and WDW Threads

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 08/14/24

Completed 08/31/24

Number of Days Worked on This - 14

Finally framed and ready to display.

Autumn Bell Pull

Stoney Creek Collection Magazine August 2006

32ct Antique White Jobelan, DMC Threads

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 10/11/20

Completed 07/29/21

Number of Days Worked on This - 59

A - 9, U - 13, T - 11, U - 11, M - 9, N - 7

Mounted and Framed by - Myself

Blessed

Stoney Creek Collection Magazine Summer 2023

28ct Mushroom Lugana, DMC and Creeks Colours Threads, Embellishments

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 07/27/24

Completed 08/03/24

Number of Days Spent Stitching on This - 4

Grateful

Stoney Creek Collection Magazine Summer 2023

28ct Mushroom Lugana, DMC and Creeks Colours Threads, Embellishments

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 08/18/24

Completed 08/21/24

Number of Days Spent Stitching on This - 4

Schoolhouse in The Round

JBW Designs

28ct Antique White Jobelan, WDW Threads-Lancaster Red and Merlot

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 09/07/24

Finished 09/21/24

Autumn Quaker

Primrose Cottage

28ct Antique Ivory Lugana, GAST Pumpkin Pie Threads

Stitched 2 over2

Started 09/22/24

Completed 10/10/24

Winter Quaker

Primrose Cottage

28ct Antique Ivory Lugana, Sulky 12wt Color 4056 Thread

Stitched 1 over 2

Started 10/10/24

Completed 10/15/24

Cornucopia - ? Official Name of Design

? Designer

28ct Ivory Lugana, GAST and Colour and Cotton Pumpkin Pie Threads

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 10/15/24

Finished 11/05/24

The Shelter of Thy Wings

Imaginating 3490

28ct Star Sapphire Lugana, 23 DMC Threads

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 11/15/24

Finished 11/28/24

Spring Quaker

Primrose Cottage

28ct Antique Ivory Lugana, StitchyStuff - Green Apple and Threadworx - Tropical Green Threads

Stitched 2 over 2

Started - 11/29/24

Completed - 12/04/24

Summer Quaker

Primrose Cottage

28ct Antique Ivory Lugana, WDW Squash Threads

Stitched 2 over 2

Started - 12/05/24

Completed - 12/12/24

Seasonal Samplings - Winter

Primrose Cottage

28ct Light Ash Gray Lugana, DMC Threads

Stitched 2 over 2

Started 12/13/24

Completed 12/27/24

Embroidery

My embroidery project had been ongoing for several years in that I would embroider a block or two and then set it aside.  I bought the stamped squares several years ago.  One of my favorite flowers is the royal purple iris.  I also like the yellow iris.  There were 6 squares in each package and I purchased 5 packages giving me a total of 30 quilt blocks.  I originally intended to embroider all 30 blocks but that changed when two things happened.  First, the blocks are 18" square.  Second, the person that does my quilting told me her machine can handle up to 90" or so wide.  Any length is okay.  So in doing the math, using all the squares, accommodating the long arm quilting machine, it would make it a longer quilt with a narrow width.  I want to sash the blocks with a purple fabric and have yellow and green pinwheel blocks as cornerstones.  I want to draw on the colors used in the embroidered blocks.  So having come to that conclusion, I passed on one full package of the blocks to another quilter along with a few blocks from another package.  I have completed embroidering all the blocks that I want to use for my quilt top.  Would like to cross this off my to do list. 

In doing the first couple of blocks, I used just my embroidery hoop.  Than I had the idea of using my Lowery floor frame and a q-snap frame.  I did the X's and then put the fabric in a hoop to finish the embroidery outlining stitches. I liked using a floor frame because I could stitch using both hands.  Made it easier and quicker for me plus the stand held my hoop or q-snap frame.