Happy New Year!!!

Hello and a Very Happy New Year to You All!!! 

It is that time a year again, the New Year is just hours away (in my time zone), time to make those crafting goals! What will we get finished? What will we start? What do we want to make good progress on? For me, I have several. 

CROSS STITCH GOALS

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1. Finish Queen Bee

2. Finish Red Rose

3. Finish Elemental Cosmos

4. Start and finish Tribal Teapot

5. Start and finish Save the Stitches

6. Make some good progress on Queen of Hearts

7. Make some good progress on Transformation

8. Make some good progress on Wicca

9. Make any progress on America the Beautiful

10. Make any progress on Dark Force

11. Make any progress on Monopoly Game Board

CROCHET GOALS

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1. Make some good progress on my son's afghan

2. Make some good progress on my daughter's afghan

SEWING GOALS

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1. Make the Save the Stitches cross stitch piece into a table cloth

2. Start getting some aprons and stockings ready to be sewn and get some made

3. Create patterns for additional projects I'd like to start making

MOST IMPORTANT GOAL

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1. Finish getting my craft room completely and totally organized so that I can get back to sewing! 

That's quite the list for now. I will continue with my weekly rotations. Although with the new year starting on Thursday, I will be changing the rotations from Saturday thru Friday to Thursday thru Wednesday. Looking forward to a productive 2015!!! I wish you all the very best in the upcoming year!!! Happy New Year, One and All!!! 

Until Next Time,

♥ Margie ♥

Weekly Rotation #7 ~ Queen Bee 12/06-12/12

Hello Everyone! 

Well, I got a bit more of the apple area on Queen Bee done this week. It was a bumpy week, so I kind of had a hard time finding the motivation. But I did make some progress and progress is progress, right?! 

So here we are on Queen Bee ...

Up next in the rotation is Red Rose by White Willow Stitching. The artist is my brother! He drew the rose without any color and WWS designed the cross stitch design in several different color roses. The one that I am working on is the Red Rose, but bcuz WWS was not able to get a good mock up picture of the design in red, I am stitching it up so that she will be able to use my stitched picture for the pattern cover. Here is what the rose design looks like in black. But just picture it in red! 

I am stitching the design on 14ct aida. It seems weird to be doing since lately, I have been doing most of my stitching on 18ct and also recently 25ct. But I know the end result will look great! I hope my brother likes it! 

Until Next Time,

♥ Margie ♥

Weekly Rotation #5 ~ Queen Bee 11/22-11/28

Hello Everyone! 

Well this week's stitching rotation was Queen Be by Unconventional Cross Stitch. With the holiday this week, there wasn't as much stitching time permitted, but I did get some stitching in. The outline is completely finished and I started coloring it in! 

Here is my weekly rotation progress ... 

Also, I have decided to concentrate on two projects for the rest of this year while doing my weekly rotations, Queen Bee and Rules for Life, until at least one of them is finished.

Next week's rotation, Rules for Life by Kincavel Krosses!!! 

Until Next Time,

♥ Margie ♥

Weekly Rotation #2 ~ Queen Bee 11/01-11/07

Hello there Friends, Family & Fellow Crafters! 

Here we are after the second week of my new weekly rotation and I must say, it is going really well! Even my husband has said that I have been making great progress on my projects since starting the rotation and I'm sticking to it. 

So this week's project was Queen Bee by Unconventional Cross Stitch. Such a great design and it has been fun working on it. When I get to the color, I decided that I am going to include blending filament into the color of the wings. I'm excited to see how that comes out once I get to it! For now, I am excited about the amount of progress that I made this week! I only have one more page of the outline to stitch and then it's time to color it all in! 

Here is Queen Bee!

Next up on the weekly rotation ... Goonies!!! 

Until Next Time,

♥ Margie ♥

Queen Bee Progress Update

Hi Everyone! 

Now that I am home from my trip, I am making some pretty good progress on my Queen Bee project. It's looking good, if I do say so myself. LOL. Also this week, I have been working on making some bottle cap magnets, necklaces and needle minders. I have found a great product to seal in the picture rather than just use the epoxy stickers that I was using. Will post some photos of those soon. But first ... QUEEN BEE PROGRESS!!! 

So as you can see, it is coming along and taking shape. Lots of DMC 939, just about a full skein so far, and I think it will take a second skein to finish all of the stitches for that color. Then it will be just like coloring in a picture! 

That's all I have for now, but I wanted to be sure to get an update posted before the weekend started. Tomorrow is my local stitching get together, so there should be much more progress by the end of the weekend! 

Until Next Time,

♥ Margie ♥

So Much Has Been Happening!!!

Hello Everyone!!! 

Wow, I can't believe that I haven't posted to my blog since July! There has been a lot going on, including LOTS of stitching updates!!! First off, I haven't made much progress on the LTT Mermaid. Other projects were a higher priority, I guess. I started a few new pieces and even have a finish! So let's get to the updates, shall we?! 

First off, my new start and finish, is another Ursula Michael design, called Let's Hug Brother. I stitched this piece for my brother and gave it to him this past week when I got to see him again, after not seeing him for 4 years. He has been away and is now back home! The design called for just using DMC 310, but you all know me, and I like to do things differently, most of the time. So I used ThreadworX 1025 for the main color, which is a variegated blue. Then for a few of the phrases, I used ThreadworX 11213, which is a subtle variegated black/gray. And for the frog, I used ThreadworX 11611, which is a variegated green. I also added his name at the top, so that it looks as though it is part of the design. Below are photos of what the original design should look like, what my finished design looks like, and my brother with his gift! 

Next, some of you might know, that September 19th is International Talk Like a Pirate Day. So in honor of that fun day, I wanted to work on a piratey themed design. My family and I are fans of the 1985 movie, The Goonies. So I started a design that says Goonies Never Say Die and has a skull with crossed swords. The pattern calls for stitching black on white fabric. Instead, I decided it would look WAY better if I stitched it with white on black fabric. I haven't finished it yet, but it's looking great so far. Below is a picture of what the design is supposed to look like and a picture of what mine looks like so far. 

Next, I joined in on a cross stitch challenge by a cross stitch designer called Unconventional Cross Stitch. She has some fantastic designs! The one for the challenge is called Queen Bee. It's a cute design that is going to look great in my kitchen! The challenge started on October 1st, but due to travelling for a week, I haven't gotten very far yet. But I do love stitching it. Below is a photo of what it will look like and a photo of where I am so far. 

And last but definitely not least, although I haven't started it just yet, my next start will be HAED's Queen of Hearts. It was the first HAED design that I ever bought and it's the one that made me discover HAED to begin with. The reason that I am going to be starting this design is bcuz a very good friend of mine has been working on it. I got her to start working on the Monopoly Game Board. So she says it's only fair that I need to start the Queen of Hearts. I don't have the fabric for the Queen yet, but as soon as I do, she'll be a new start and an addition to my WISP list. Below is a photo of the Queen of Hearts. 

Well, I think that is everything that I have to report for now. Quite the list, I think. I am certainly not going to allow myself to go so long without posting to my blog from now on. LOL! 

Until Next Time,

♥ Margie ♥