Wine Bags and Pickle Ornament

Wine Bag #1

Wine Bag #2

Ok this blogger is giving me lots of grief!!!!  It won't let me stick the pictures where
I want them to go!  But anyway here are two of the wine bags and a picture showing what it looks like with a bottle in it.

Happy Thanksgiving 2011

Wow I cannot believe how time is flying by and how long it has been since I posted on my blog.  It is definitely time for an update!!!   Well one reason for no updates is because I have not had anything to show cross stitch wise.  I fell in July and hurt my foot, shoulder and arm really bad.  The foot has pretty much recovered but can't say the same for my neck, arm and shoulder.  MRI is showing 3 bulging discs in my neck which are pressing on the nerve that runs down my arm giving me all the symptoms of carpal tunnel.  So because of my arm going numb I have not been able to hold a needle to be able to stitch.  I have just started stitching again within the last month and I have three finishes to show.

 I am going to Connecticut for a baby shower on Black Friday so no shopping for me.  These are the bibs I made for the shower. Sorry the Care Bear is sideways.  I don't know why my camera on my phone does that!

On another note it has been three years since I started my blog.  So much has happened in my life since I have started this blog.  I have been through a divorce, almost lost my house to foreclosure and many other things have gone wrong.  But I think the worse is over and by the grace of God I will be able to move on to a much better life.  I have so many things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving.  My girls, who have stuck with me through all of this, my family, my health, a roof over my head, a job, good health (except for trouble with my arm) and a great new guy in my life!!

Updates in my Life and Stitching

 I started this Kustom Korner Stitch a Long called Sunlit Irises around the end of March.  A new page comes out on the 15th of each month until the design is done.  There are 12 total pages but pages 10, 11, and 12 will come out together as they are not full pages.  Last weekend which was the first weekend of April I stitched in a Virtual Stitch In.  The photo on the left was before I started stitching for the weekend and the picture on the right was what I had accomplished.  It doesn't look like a lot but I did manage to get about 1000 stitches accomplished.  I am hoping to have page 1 finished this weekend.

Here is a picture of my new truck.  My van decided it didn't want to run anymore (transmission went out) and I had to get home last Friday on the back of a flatbed.    I really didn't want to have a vehicle payment but I didn't have much of a choice.  At least now I have something that is reliable and I won't be stuck alongside the road.

Duck

Pig

 

Rhino

 

Here are three more squares for the baby blanket I am working on.  I really got to get busy stitching on this again as baby is due in about three weeks.  I now have 11 squares done - 13 more to go.  They look really cute but I sure hate stitching over 2.  That is why I had to take a break and started working on the  Sunlit Iris SAL. 

For those of you who follow my blog my niece loved her wedding sampler!   

Wedding Sampler Finish

Here is the finished and framed wedding sampler for my niece.  I don't know why my pictures are coming out sideways.  It happens when I take pictures with my Iphone.  I download them and they look normal but when I put them on the blog they are side ways. So frustrating!!    Well anyways the wedding is this Saturday, March 5th.  We are leaving for Georgia on Thursday and coming back on Monday.  I am so ready for a vacation!!  Especially to get away from cold weather and snow!!

First Finish of 2011 & Sweetheart Exchange

Here is my first finish of 2011.  This is a quilt square for Quilts for Older Children.  This was hard to stitch as it had lots of 1/4 stitches in it and I don't like to do those. 















This is the bookmark that I received from Carein in the Sweetheart exchange.  Isn't it beautiful????   I just love it and am going to use it in my Bible.

Blanket Update

Blanket w/7 squares completed

Here is an update of the 1st blanket - have 7 squares completed.  Sorry this is so jumbled - can't get the pictures to go where I want them to and the picture of the blanket is sideways and I don't know why.

Dolphin

Mouse

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Parrott

Happy New Year 2011

Wow so hard to believe it is 2011 already. The year started out great but is going downhill in a quick hurry.  I have caught a cold and now its moving to my chest.  I think I either have the start of bronchitis or pneumonia.  All I do is cough, cough and cough.  It sure makes it a little hard to stitch when you are coughing.

For 2011 I have 3 major projects that must be completed by May.  I have a wedding sampler to be completed by March.

I was able to accomplish a lot on this yesterday.  I went to a Browns/Steeler football party.  Since I am not a football person I took this with me and stitched.  Since all I have to do is fill in the border this was the perfect thing to take with me cause I was able to stitch and talk to everyone at the same time.

Here is the first square out of 24 squares to be completed on a baby blanket.  This blanket will be for great niece / nephew that is due in April.   I have another great niece / nephew due in May so I will be doing two of these blankets.  It is a lot of stitching so I really need to get busy on these.  They are being stitched on Anna Cloth Afghan 18 count.  I am stitching them over 2.

Here is square #2.  This giraffe gave me a really hard time.  I had the hardest time with his legs.  He almost became a legless giraffe.

Here is square 3 and 4.  There are a total of 24 squares.  These patterns are from the EMS site and they are baby animals and baby zoo animals.