All Kinds of Things to Share

              I finally went to the eye doctor after it took me 3 months to work up the nerve to call and make an appointment. I'm not kidding... I have a phone phobia. And guess what... I needed reading glasses.  I knew I did, that's why a made the call. So here are my cute new glasses. My husband says I look like a sexy secretary in them. hahaha. And my daughter says I look like a librarian.

I haven't done much stitching on 'Very Scary'.  My daughter said the moon wasn't scary enough so she drew me a new one. And of course I changed the color.

I've stitched a little on my August BOM.

I used 'So September's' pendant tutorial and made a bus pendant. I think my best friend and camping buddy will be getting this for Christmas. *wink

I started the new BOM at my local quilt shop, Quilting Adventures.  I fell in love with the Earth color way. ( They have 4 color ways available I think) I was going to go with a dark brown background, but yesterday I went in to the shop and spotted this cute batik. It is cream color and has daisy flowers all over it. LOVE.  So I went with it instead.

And last on the list to show.... I finally framed the wedding sampler I stitched up for our friend. The wedding is next weekend.... nothing like waiting until the last minute. LOL

Two Halloween Ornaments

I know it seems like I just made a blog post the other day, but I've got ornaments to show.  I've done no stitching since my last post , but have done a tiny bit of sewing and traced my next HocusPocusVille block.   I made my two Halloween cross stitches into cute Halloween ornaments.  There are all kinds of cute way to finish off these little suckers, but this is the only way I know how to right now. I am pretty excited about them. They make me want to make more.

"Haunted" is from the Lizzie*Kate Mystery Sampler, it was the bonus pattern in part 1.  And "Spells" is from the 'Just Cross-Stitch' Halloween 2012 issue.

I've backed both with a glow-in-the-dark spider web fabric.

As for my Mystery Sampler, 'Very Scary'..... I still have not decided whether to rip / frog those stitches yet or not.

HocusPocusVille #7

I finished HocusPocusVille block #7.   And call me crazy, but I made a tiny change. Teehee hee....

So, the pattern has this cute tiny spider hanging from a tree, but he only has 6 legs.  Well, we all know that 8 legs is what separates spiders from the insects. So I had to give him one more leg on each side.

Don't you think he looks more like a spider now?

I have a question about my 'Very Scary'.  Here is a picture of how far I've gotten. Do you see the mistake? It's on the right side boarder. It is over one thread too many. Just one thread.

I've messed up on this much (pictured below) and would have to 'frog' this much. What I want to know is.... can you tell?  Can you tell the board is over one too many threads?  If you look at the picture above and compare the too sides, you can tell the zig zag is over two thread from the straight black line on the left side. What do you think?

If you were wondering, I did change my top row grass color. The pattern called for 'Cadet', but I used two different colors instead. One strand of 'Thyme' and one strand of 'Bullfrog'.

Below is the 'Cadet' color I didn't use. It is a pretty color, I just didn't like it for this project. :o)  I felt the 'Cadet' made the house look like it was floating in the water.

Here's a picture of the whole thing..... can you tell the mistake? Should I 'frog' it? Or just leave it?

A Saturday in September

A little progress on 'Very Scary'.  I've once again made some color changes.... teehee hee.

I've changed the house color. The pattern called for 'purple haze' (on the left), but I used 'river rocks' (on the right) instead.  I like the 'purple haze' color, for a purple it is very pretty.  It is just too bright for my 'Very Scary'.

I have gone to the dark side and joined the new BOM at my local quilt shop, Quilting Adventures.  I wasn't going to play this time, but I saw the Earth colorway being offered and I couldn't resist.  I haven't picked out my background fabric yet , but I am thinking of going with a very dark brown.

And I just need to show off  the cute minion my daughter and her best friend made.  They made up the pattern themselves following a picture of a minion on line. He even has a little cloak and a book with pages in it.

A minion is a little creature from the game 'League of Legends'. My daughter is a gamer. :o)

Spells

                               I finished stitching "Spells".  This pattern is in the 'Just Cross Stitch'  2012 Halloween Issue.

I bought 3 different fabrics so I can back my 2 finished Halloween ornaments....I hope to stitch up some more.

And I started 'Very Scary' Part III....

Question ~~ Help!

I had purchased the 'Just Cross-Stitch' 2012 Special Collector's Issue Halloween.  There are a few cute Halloween ornaments I want to make out of this magazine.  And that awesome pattern called 'Town of Halloween' that I am too scared to make at this time, but hope to make one day...... anyway... the ornament I'm working on now is 'Spells' on page 66.

Here is my prOgress.....

I took at little break from stitching today and was browsing the magazine....looking at the other things I wanted to stitch.  I really want to stitch this cute ornament 'Rotten But Not Forgotten'.... here is the finished picture in the magazine on page 63.  But I can not find the pattern in the magazine. 

So my question is : Does anyone else have this magazine that can look and see if I am just missing it?  Am I missing a page?  What page is it the pattern on?  Help me please.

Edit: I went to the 'Just Cross Stitch' website to contact them about the pattern and I found a corrections link. I clicked on the link and there is the pattern. :o)  It was omitted from the magazine.   http://www.just-crossstitch.com/images/corrections/NotForgotted.pdf

Mystery solved.

What's In My Hoop

I worked a little on my August BOM today while a storm blew through. The weather is wonderfully cool ... 68 degrees.

I have finished stitching my bonus pattern from Lizzie*Kates Halloween mystery sampler.  I'm hoping I can get it made into a little ornament to hang at Halloween time.(This will be my first Halloween ornament ever)  Don't look too close, I've messed up a bit but you really can't tell so it's all good.

I've also finished stitching part 2 of 'Very Scary' , the mystery sampler.  I am loving it!!  Remember, I have changed my colors a bit so when you see others on line.... mine looks darker. I took out the bright colors.  I also did a little change where you see the white piece of paper. There is supposed to be a little rectangle with a charm key hanging there.... it's not going to be there. I'm not ready to show off what I put there yet though..... so later.

Oh and I have to show you a better picture of my chipmunk..... really just a closer picture. Isn't he adorable!

What's in your hoop??