Snowy Deer

My favorite so far...

'Snowy Deer'

This is the second block in the 'Frosty Forest' series.
I'm not using the buttons...so where the snowflake button would have gone,
I stitched a female cardinal flying.
I love her.
I love the trees in this block too. The colors are gorgeous!


I can't wait to get the next block.

In my backyard...


My sweet female cardinal!!

Our Christmas decorations are mostly taken down and I am a bit sad about that.


My Pooh Bear ornaments are put away. I've had this one since I was 7 years old.
I am happy that the house is less crowded though.
We rearranged the furniture back and I vacuumed all the pine needles up.
Now back to stitching and sewing!
I hope everyone had a wonderful New Years Eve and
New Years Day!

In My Hoop ~ and lots more

I can't show you all the things I'm working on because most of them are Christmas gifts...

but here is my start on 'Frosty Forest'. 

I had to work my way down to the raccoon because I couldn't wait to stitch him.
LOVE

My recent purchase is 'Woodland Birdies' by The Victoria Sampler.  If you didn't know, I am a little bird crazy / obsessed.


I am going to try to stitch the owl for my son for Christmas. His favorite owl is the Great Horned Owl and this little guy looks like one!

Back in November I entered a blog give-away over at 'A Whole Lotta Latte'. Jacki likes to scrapbook and stitch too and she is very sweet and generous. She gave away 4 pieces of 40 count linen.
And guess who won...  me.


I'm so happy! I can't wait to stitch all kinds of things.  Hop over to Jacki's blog (she's also on instagram)  and check out her stitching. She is working on a Quaker Christmas design that is so gorgeous. I'm going to need to stitch it too one day.

Our Family Tradition
Every year we go fetch our Christmas tree in our 1958 VW Delux bus.


This year the kids talked me into letting them have a bigger tree. It's twice as big  as the trees we usually get. The deal was that they had to put the lights on because that's usually my job (and taking them off).

They did great!!

In my backyard,


My sweet girl! Isn't she beautiful?!

What's NOT In My Hoop

Santa's Village

Santa's Village is complete!
Super Adorable.
Stitched on 32ct lambswool linen.
I've changed a few things like adding a dove to month 3 and making my elf look like 'Buddy' from the movie "Elf" in month 11.
But mostly I used the recommended threads.



The design /pattern is from Country Cottage Needleworks.
There is a new series coming the end of this month and I can't wait..."Frosty Forest".
I'm an animal lover and I can't wait to stitch up cute little woodland creatures.
I am secretly wishing / hoping for lots birds and a frog,
but I'm not holding my breath on the frog since it is called 'FROSTY Forest'... the frogs are probably hibernating.
Until it comes out I'll be stitching up some Christmas gifts. I'll post photos of those after they've been given out.  I am working on an adorable gift for my daughter and I don't think she reads my blog... so in a few days I will post pictures of that.

Happy Stitching


From my kitchen window...

Wordless Wednesday

Goodbye to 2oo9...

More of the commission quilt I am working on. The "k" on the word "back" has not been stitched yet, LOL . I ran out of thread and just haven't gotten back to it yet. The large boarder is for people to sign the quilt at the wedding.

Look what I got to fold at work today..... Yummy Kona cotton fat quarters. And this was only a few of them. Eye candy I tell you.

I spotted this little guy in our front yard this morning and happened to have my camera with me. Isn't he cute? Wouldn't this photo make a cool quilt?

Talk to you in 2010! Happy sewing.

WIPs and baby birds

Here are some WIPs I am working on.... this is the "Dream Catcher" quilt top for the shop ( Quilting Adventures ). I have a LONG way to go. :o)
This the the fabric I am using to make a cute purse. I did get the one fabric quilted and cut out.
"Under the Sea" by Melly & Me... Fish. The colorful ones are for the shop. The more fishy version is for my son. ( who is fish crazy).
I am in an on-line class with Judy Coates Perez. The class is called " color theory". http://www.judyperez.blogspot.com/. This is one of the assignments.
I had to include a picture of the new baby birds. They are so ugly, that is makes them cute.
Now, update on my back. I am still in pain, but the meds are helping. Thank you every one for the kind words, thoughts, and prayers.

What color is Spring?

I worked on "Big Footed Bunny". He isn't finished even though he looks like it. I need to add his tail and his suspenders. He was very easy to make.

I worked on my wall hanging, "What color is Spring?" I added the purple boarder. This pattern is a "Bareroots" pattern. http://www.bareroots.com/ I got it from a quilt show 2 or 3 years ago and have been SLOWLY working on it since. The purple row or boarder is the last one though so I am close to being done.
And guess what..... the baby bird flew away and the mom lay ed 4 more eggs.
I also sewed all the blocks together on my strips n curves quilt. I am going to add a boarder, but I am trying to decide if I want to hand quilt it or machine quilt it.

My back is "out". No sewing.

Well... my back has been "out" since Monday. It's driving crazy because it hurts to sew. It hurts to do anything. This is Thursday and it still hurts. Jonah and I did play with sidewalk chalk yesterday. The 3D ones. I asked if I could draw him a shark underneath the green ground....he said, "mom, there are no sharks in beautful world". This killed my back to lean over and draw this picture for him, but I needed to make my little boy happy. Later, we did add fish and a smiling shark at the bottom.

I had to water my plant again, here is one of the baby birds....getting bigger
Here is mommy, daddy, and another bird waiting for me to finish.

baby birds and block 3

Here is block #3 of the quilt along. http://crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/.

I took down the hanging plant today to water it again. And the babies have grown. The mommy and daddy watched while I carefully took the picture and watered the plant. Then I left, they flew back over to the nest.

in bloom

My roses are blooming , they are so beautiful. Here are pictures of them and of the little label I made to go above them. My husband, Jeremy , made the iron hanger to hang it on. Also I have baby bird eggs in my hanging plant. They are sweet. When I go to water my plant I try to be so careful not to mess the nest or eggs up. The mommy is still coming back, good thing. Last time I watered them, there was 6 eggs in the nest.