It's All About Cross Stitch! Yes it is!

Hello Everyone!!! 

Yes, I am absolutely still here! I have been posting, but haven't posted here on my actual blog. I have created and been posting on my own public Facebook page that I created! I think I have found a way to link the two together so that every time I post here on my actual blog, a link to the post will be posted on my Facebook blog page! And if you would like to visit my Facebook blog page, it can be found here ... It's All About Cross Stitch! So what do you think? ☺ 

I have been very busy. I have done some stitching, and then once the holidays were creeping up on me, I did a ton of baking and also painted some plaster ornaments. It was fun, but now the new year and back to getting my stitchy butt in gear! ☺ 

I had to put my WWS Peaceful Frog aside for now to work on a couple of model stitch pieces for Connie Gee Designs. She is a new designer and coming up with some great designs. I also created a couple of new cross stitch patterns myself! They are up and available for purchase in my Etsy shop! One is a simple piece that is called Thank You for Your Service. It is designed to be stitched and given to members of the United States military to thank them for their service to our country. Also, a portion of the proceeds with be donated to the Wounded Warrior Project!!! So please be sure to stop by my Etsy Shop by clicking HERE. I hope you like the designs that I have available. 

Back to the model stitch pieces. The first one was a Yin Yang Turtle. It's a simple design and came out pretty cute. The next one is called Quirky Quartet. It is a back stitching blackwork piece. It's about 1/3 of the way done. Back stitching sure does take longer than I thought it would! But I do think it's coming out very nice. Be sure to visit (and like) my Facebook page to see the pictures! ☺

I am going to be doing a weekly rotation again this year for my stitching projects. I have created an album on my Facebook page showing the projects that I have planned for this year's rotation. The first week of course was the Quirky Quartet model stitch piece. The next project is a special piece that will be a gift for my husband for our 10th wedding anniversary in March. I hope I am able to get that one stitched up quickly! ☺ I am really excited about this piece and I wish that I could share pictures, but since my blog is a public page and so it my Facebook blog page, I cannot show pictures until after he receives it. If you are on my friends list on Facebook however, I have an album with specific privacy settings set up for posting progress pictures! ☺ He can't see that album! Hehehe ☺

Well, I think that's everything! Please be sure to stop by my Facebook page to check out the pictures and like my page! ☺

Happy Stitching! 

Until Next Time,

♥ Margie ♥

#DamnFrog

Hello Everyone! ☺

Well, I have been working on the Yoga Frog and making some decent progress and then when getting nearly done with this first color, I discovered ... mistakes! Yep, that #DamnFrog has been wreaking havoc on my stitching ... and he brought a friend!!! So now time to try and find where this green little bugger started his crazy antics in my stitching! Hopefully, I won't be having to rip out too much. Thought I'd be safe since I'm actually stitching a frog that the #DamnFrog would leave me alone for this one. No such luck. 

Until Next Time,

♥ Margie ♥

A New Project!

Hello Friends!!! 

I am excited to be starting this new design by White Willow Stitching called Peaceful Frog. The image used for this design came from an online game called Glitch. This was a really fun and free game. My husband and I played and we made some great friends during the game. Sadly tho, there were so many players that they kept having to expand the servers, resulting in having to shut the game down as it got to be too costly. It was a sad moment for all of us that truly enjoyed the game. The game was shurt down a few years ago. So imagine my surprise when a few months ago, I see a post on the White Willow Stitching group on Facebook about this new "Peaceful Frog" design! In the game of Glitch, he was known as the Yoga Frog. Everyone loved the Yoga Frog. I had to share the link to this new pattern with the rest of my Glitch buddies. One of them asked me if they could design a pattern of her house from the game. So I talked to Jamie from WWS and we did some research. We discovered that every single image from the game, with the exception of the Glitch logo, are now open source images, which means they can, in fact, be made into cross stitch patterns to be sold! After letting my friend know, she was so excited that she bought me the pattern of the Yoga Frog (Peaceful Frog)! So of course, I had to make this my new project! 

So here is what my new project looks like! ☺

Namaste!

Until Next Time,

♥ Margie ♥