Just a couple more finishes ..Patriotics of course!!

What can I say??? I love the red, white and blue~~

Here are a couple more goodies I finished this month that now need to fitted up in the perfect frames..

Liberty ~ 1776

Little House Needleworks

32 ct Flax Belfast

specified overdyes

And....I couldn't resist stitching up this beautiful design.....

Flag Day

With thy Needle & Thread

32 ct Limestone Belfast

DMC flosses

I just HAD to stitch up this design because of this chubby guy....

tee-hee....Isn't he the cutest????

Ok, that's it for now........

Its suppertime~~

Faye

My last day in the craft room......very Patriotic~~~It's a GOOD thing!

Is that title mysterious enough????  Well, today is actually my last day in the craft room at its current location....Tonight and tomorrow we will be packing, loading and moving my dear son to Charlotte to his new apartment to ready himself for college.....I will be an empty nester! YIKKEESS~~ The upside to all this, is that the downstairs rec room, that he has been using as his bedroom, will now become the new and larger craft room~~ I am excited and terrified all at the same time! Packing stash into boxes kinda shakes you to your core..... Moocho stuff!!  So, I will be taking the next month or so to unpack, organize and get things just like I want it.....I'll keep you posted!

Today, I had 2 orders to finish up for a couple ladies....One has asked to not post the photo since it is a gift for her sister that probably will be reading the blog....The other finish made me laugh....Check out this verse.............

I have no idea who the designer is, but I had to laugh!!  I will show the rest of her Christmas ornaments I finished for her another time.....I wanted to get to showing you my patriotic finished finishes.....

Happy 4th

Threadwork Primitives

36 ct coffee stained linen

WDW and DMC specified threads

Liberty House

Twisted Threads Ewe&Eye&Friends

40 ct light exempler Lakeside Linens

DMC threads as specified

Victorian Motto Faded Red Chenille

Wee Hope

Heart in Hand

32 ct Flax Belfast

WDW as specified

Doubles America

SamSarah

40 ct Exempler Lakeside Linen

Northern Lights Midnight&Old Grinkgo silks

Victorain Motto RobinsEgg Pale Blue & Faded Red

 rickracks~~ intertwined~~

I enjoyed sewing today....It really gives me great feeling of completion when those finished stitched pieces finally come together~~ I plan on using alot of my older patriotic ornies to decorate my craft room tree once I get set up....These will be put in another Patriotic basket for display...

Well....better get back to boxing up things....cross your fingers!~

Happy stitching,

Faye

Wonderful news and a few patriotic finishes.....

I have absolutely wonderful news to share......I am so so so happy to let you know that my dear friend Barbara has let me know she is now in remission...She has tackled breast cancer and won~~~ Can you believe this????  I got a call from her to share this wonderful news...She also wanted me let ALL of you know that she has felt your love, your prayers and your sense of lifting her above this awful dreaded disease.... I want to personally thank everyone who has emailed me, prayed for Barbara, asked about her over these last many months and sent me wonderful designs to stitch and put in my pink basket...Truly,there is power in prayer and the love from stitch friends cannot be matched!

~~~Way to go Barbara~~~

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Next, I wanted to show you a little of what I have been stitching here lately....If you know me, you know that I often sneak in a small design if I am working on larger projects....I got on this "patriotic" streak lately and here is what I have finished stitching....

40 ct Lakeside Linen light exempler

specified overdyes

This was the design I worked on and completed Saturday at the French Hen at the stitch-in...Fun pattern~

36 ct linen, coffee stained by me

Weeks threads as specified

Patterns by Nan Lewis of Threadwork Primitives are hard to beat...Her instructions in the design packet are so easy to follow! I especially like the flag in this pattern.....

40 ct Mocha linen

npi silks, npi overdye silk

This design actually called for Watercolors threads, so I converted to npi and npi Northern Lights..I like the faded red shading....It really makes this flag look worn and tattered... Thanks Patti for another stunning design!!

An angel gifted me one of my now favorite photo props.... A pewter "F" that you see in the above photos... Isn't it the neatest thing???I just LOVE it~~ Thank you, Thank you!

In closing, I will share one of my patriotic displays..... I have my favorites, but really love them all...Each has a story in my head of what I was doing when I was stitching it.... I hope to finish off the 3 new finishes next week and either add to this bunch, or perhaps start a new Patriotic basket...We will see!!

Phillip and the golf team flew out for NY on Saturday and are doing fantastic in their practice rounds in the Junior College National Golf finals... We will be joining them tomorrow and I cannot wait! It has been so long since I flew anywhere...I am so excited!!

And, I hope to sneak in a trip to a local cross stitch shop...More about the when I return....

Hope everyone has a fantastic week and Happy Stitching!

Faye