My House Back for the Gingerbread House is finished! The Hardanger, too!
I made a start on one of the roof panels, too!
(The beads got a bit wonky when I pressed the pieces on a towel - but they are attached straight!)
Thanks to all of you for all your wonderful comments on my projects! It does help to keep me inspired! :))
That's right! I dropped everything and started working on Victoria Sampler's Gingerbread House immediately....well, as soon as I unpacked and organized everything that came with the chart. ;)
I started with the little chimney (which is not yet outlined with the perle cotton thread):.jpg)
Sorry about the funny angle of the picture - lots of little beads, big beads and buttons on this project!
Then I started with the House Back section:
It was then that I realized why I was having such
a difficult time stitching with the two strands of thread...my fabric was 32 count, not 28. I restarted the top of the roof with one thread...and I liked it and the coverage was fine.
Not too shabby for about two hours on Thursday and maybe a few more than that yesterday! ;)
My little gingerbread house will just be a wee bit smaller than all the others. As long as I do all the smalls on the same fabric, I should be good to go!
May I present my February block for A Tisket, A Tasket by Bunny Hill Designs:.jpg)
February~A Tisket, A Tasket
Now I did stray from the regular "pink, red" hearts for February on this one. I just happened to pick out the fabrics for the little hearts before I remembered I was doing the month of February. :>
I picked up my little Queen Sheep picture that was framed by The Stitching Post the other day. Isabelle reminded me that I forgot to post a picture!
She's just too cute! Now to decide where she should hang!
OK ~ the entire time I am stitching all these little guys (and I am assuming they must be sailors), all I kept thinking was "What the heck are these bubble-butted aliens doing on my ship?"....plus, if you look closely, there is a lady one, too!:))
BTW ~ this is Page 7 of the mystery.
Christmas and mermaids have absolutely nothing in common except for the fact that I worked on projects with both themes the past couple of days. First ~ my first block for the Bunny Hill Vintage Christmas quilt. I will have three red buttons at the top between the clusters of holly leaves.
Second ~ my Mermaid Sampler by Weihenburg Designs. There are three choices for this design: A very large sampler with a verse, a band sampler or the one I am doing, the square one without the verse.
I decided to use DMC color variations 4030 since the blues, turquoises and greens reminded of things related to the sea. It is stitched on 32 count Belfast Flax linen.
Now, tell me, are those two little critters, octopus or jellyfish? :)
Of course, it's not January! But what I worked on yesterday and the day before is....the January Block from Bunny Hill's freebie - a Tisket, a Tasket....
and yes, there are so many other things I should be working on right now....but I had cut and traced the pattern pieces for a few of the blocks a week or so ago...and finally decided it was time to start! The quilt blocks are not very large - only 8 1/2" by 8 1/2" (or 8" by 8" when finished). My favorite one so far is the one for my birthday month (August) - cupcakes, too cute!
Anyway, here's the picture of my January block (it's really not crooked)..jpg)
