THERE IS SQUIRRELS --OR ELSE I JUMP DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE--

 I am starting too many 'new' projects--think I need a 12 step program here!!!!   I mean I am retired--and tired--old and creaky--brain fog one minute and brain over drive the next---

So lets see where I am now--

I got the first block of the Polka dot girls all embroidered and have alot done on the second block so on Sunday afternoon I traced off the 3rd block--

Then Melisa has been giving us an embroidery block each month again--I have been 'slow' to the table with this one--thinking I had a full plan for them--I thought they were too small so had enlarged a couple--but there they sat--till--

this little rabbit joined the club--he was Aprils design--I have traced off--Jan, Feb, March, and May's designs--so will be working on those off and on with the Polka dot girls to get caught up!!

I have gotten all of Kathy Schmitz hexie designs that I embroidered all into rows now--

now to stitch these rows together and to add all the sections together!!!

And I know 'orange' was this month's color--but--I just couldn't bring myself to do orange in May--soooo---

I did purple--

And here is a few--fussy cut ones--

Think I did 41 this month with purple--oh see the dragonfly's on the bottom--the darker one is the right side of the fabric and the lighter one is the back--!!!???

I worked on the first of 2 baby quilts I am doing--

I have the fabric for a border ready and the binding fabric--

In cross stitching--

I have kept up with the Summer sampler that Melisa is doing for us--

This block was a quilt block--only--I did one of her earlier ones--the one with the strawberry as a remembrance to my Grandmother--who loved to go wild strawberry picking with us when I was growing up!!  

and here is this months--tiny house--

Again--a change in plans--needed to do a pink house as May is my birthday month and pink is my very favorite color--and I have a problem with tomatoes--so I kept mine all about sewing things and I just loved loved the tiny lamb we did a couple months ago on one--so added one here--I just love making these tiny houses--thanks Melisa--

And now to a Rabbit hole---I found these on the Stoney Creek site as their special pattern for the month of May--each pattern was only $1.50--so $6.00 for the set--I had been kinda looking for a bird pattern--and I have--well--sorta-- have the chickadee and the cardinal (more was done on the cardinal since the photo earlier today--there is one problem I have discovered--they are all sitting on pine greens--and well it does say--ornaments--only I want mine to be year around--so--for now am leaving off the greens till I decide--may come up with nests under them --instead--?????

And here is my new 'squirrel' I am chasing--I have had this pattern for about 10 years or longer--just sitting in the wings waiting--decided it was time when I seen the Brie fabrics from Tilda--I so love me Tilda designs--so I am gonna see if I can applique these letters with the tiny points at the top-- and the bottom photo is the fabrics I found to use for back grounds--

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And of course we have to talk Nascar--

and death of Kyle Busch--totally unbelievable--can't say he was my favorite driver--but when I first started watching Nascar in 2010--I had '3' blog friends and the housekeeper at the senior apartments in NY who were huge--huge Kyle fans--Melinda would even bring her big cardboard display cutout of Kyle and set it up in the second floor hall way every time he won and hand out M&M's to all of us--and back then he won alot--so I was always happy for them--I was probably more of Dale Jr fan back then--actually--I would see who the top 4-5 were at the end and then pick who I wanted to win that race--it would drive my friends crazy cause I didn't have one favorite guy!!!!!!!!  I am heart broken for his family and so so many of his teammates and fans--

SO ONCE AGAIN WE SAY--HUGS THOSE AROUND YOU AND TELL THEM HOW MUCH YOU LOVE THEM--

HUGS TO ALL, DI

 
 

NEW ADVENTURES AND MOTHER'S DAY

 It's been a couple busy weeks--Started last week on Wednesday with a day out with my son and lovely daughter in law--to celebrate my birthday--a week early--

We went to the Zoo first--and got there around 3pm--it was a perfect day-- Sunshine and beautiful blue skies and a light breeze--

there was alot of changes to see--

They have added 'tons' of metal decorative pieces though out the Zoo and I believe most of them light up at night--

We spent a couple happy hours looking at animals--first time to be at the zoo so late in the day--but it was lovely--hardly any others there --so got to see alot with no crowds or crying kids--(they all go in the morning--like I used too!!!)

After we left there they took me to Hobby Lobby, near there for some much needed baby yarn--

Here is the nice bright cheerful colors I got--

and here is 2 more skeins I got and nice start on this sweater is in progress-

And before I made it all the way back up front, to the cash out--look what jumped into my cart!!!!

(My popcorn shrimp came in this cute little bag--but it held alot of shrimp also got 2 other kinds of shrimp!!)

Then we went out to Red Lobster for dinner--though we don't eat Lobster--mostly I eat 'shrimp' and they eat shrimp or salmon--had some good food and 'slow' service--but pleasant service!!

Ok--so what have I been doing stitching wise--

I got my 2 pink houses built for April's color--

Got these 4 cross stitches made into little pillows--the 2 bottom ones I did back in the early 90's--

And here they are in my shadow box--along with a couple new birthday gifts from my daughter--the little pots in the top row that says m o m--and the pot of crochet tulips in front of the bears--Also the third shelf down on the right is my new tea cup and teapot salt and pepper set from Cracker Barrel where me and 4 friends went to lunch on my Birthday on Wednesday!

And here is '5' old ladies a rockn away out side in front of Cracker Barrel--only I am a good 10 years older that the other '4'--

And here is the first 3 rows of the hexie wall hanging--

I have the 4th row stitched together now--

And here is May's wool bom project--she is already working in her garden!

And May's embroidery block from Country heart is all done--

And I finished block 2 and 3 on the Summer cross stitch by Melisa--

Now block 2 is different--but is still one of Melisa's designs--I needed chickens in my summer one--not sure why--but needed chickens!!!????

MOTHERS DAY--

Oh my--us mother's had a 'hay day' raising our kids--but we did it in an age of wonder and beauty--without cell phones and gaming equipment in their little hands--so we did good--and I believe we brought up kids who respect us and all we did for them in their growing years and now most of them are in their years of raising kids of their own--so

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY TO EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU

KEEP YOUR NEELDES FLY'N AND ALWAYS ENJOY A BIT OF NATURE EACH DAY--

HUGS TO EVERYONE--DI

TOO MANY 'WANT' TO DO'S---

 We will discuss this issue in a minute--

but first--what got worked on this week--

on a blog site last Sunday--I believe someone showed this cross stitch that she was working on and said it was a free pattern--and as it's a word that is important to me--I found it--

And I just fell down that Rabbit hole and stitched this up--I added tiny red glass beads to the wreath instead of using embroidery knots--But then--I wanted one that I could leave out all year--so--

and did a second one in Blues and did the wreath to look more like a grapevine wreath--remember when they were sooo popular??????  Well--I still like some country stuff!!!  Need to do a little bow on the wreath yet--these will probably be little pillows this week--

And here is where I left Mrs. Claus--before she popped back into 'time out'--

All the brown stuff is all stitched in, now--yea!!!!

And the next 'rabbit hole' I jumped into is--

Melisa's Summer sampler--we will have '9' blocks of summer squares when we are done--I am doing good in getting caught up--yea!!!

And yesterday--I happened to pick up my embroidered hexies I did in Feb and March and started to stitch them together--

Those little triangles, are paper pieced--and they are small---but love how this is coming out!!

And yesterday I went to put my Easter stuff in my storage unit and could only but the small tote and one other item in there--it is full--(remember these are very small units--like 2ft by 4ft--and half of it is my Christmas tree and Christmas stuff--) but I still have 2 tote bags of Easter and they will have to go  up on the top shelf of my clothes closet--so to make room up there I had to bring done the box of my quilt patterns, with knitting books and cross stitching patterns in it--so I decided to go through them all--now that is where ---TOO MANY' WANT TO DO'S --happened--

I bought this pattern booklet back in 2011--and it cost me $50.00 just for this one pattern--I am shocked I paid that price--but take time and look at the patterns--aren't they so cute--and there is cats in it---all embroidery--so

this morning I traced off Pattern #1--need to see how many floss colors I have for this one--there will be alot of stitching in each one--wonder if I should do them all in 'one' color like--red or blue---but then I tell myself--what fun would that be?????????????

And here is some other projects I would love to do--many--I again have had for a long time--

And I found this series--

I did do a couple of these--back when I still lived in New York--so have had them at least 10-12 years or more--Would like to do them now--but stitch them all my hand and use brighter colors--

there is a set of 5 of these--or at least that is what I have here!!

At Walmart last week I found these--

Clue in a card game--hummmm???????  I remember when I was like 7-9 or so--we always went to my Aunt Judy's house for picnics and big dinners and the adults always  played the game Clue--us 'young'ns ' weren't allowed to play!!!

I see next month's color is 'orange'--well--I need to change that for me--will tell you all about it in the next post--and anyone want to guess what color I will be doing????  remember we did my favorite color this month--pink--so it's not pink!!!!

KEEP YOUR HEAD DOWN AND THOSE MACHINES AND NEEDLES BUSY--

THINKING OF EACH OF YOU--EVEN THOSE WHO READ MY POSTS AND NEVER LEAVE A COMMENT AND I PRAY FOR EACH OF YOU EVERYDAY--

HUGS, AND HAVE AN AWESOME WEEK--DI

GOT ME SOME FINISHES---

 I spent a couple days this week--just doing some total finishes--mostly on Counted Cross stitching projects--

First up--is this month's Tiny House monthly Cross Stitch from Melisa--

I changed the color of mine--Melisa used a clay color--I believe--but I was in a Spring/Easter mode--so I did purple and lavenders--Thank you Melisa--I love my Easter tiny home!! and she has joined the January, February, and March, on my lighted tree!!

While I was waiting on cloth to stitch the New Spring rain pattern I stitched up this Easter piece--

And I finished it off into  a little pillow--

and before I did this one--I had stitched this piece up--

I found this cute little thin black chalkboard hanger at Dollar Tree and decided it was perfect for this Easter piece--next Spring when I bring it out--I do need to add a button or ribbon to the top center piece where I glued the 2 ends of the braid together--

And then here in all her glory is Mrs. Rabbit the protector of baby chicks during a rain storm--

I loved stitching this piece--and yes--you know me--had to do a couple color changes--the umbrella is a different color as is the '3' tulips--again --I need a button or ribbon on the center bottom to cover up where the 2 braids are coming together--I did get better at joining them in the next '2' projects--

Here is to finishes for these 2 older cross stitches and they got some braid trim around them too--the bottom one's fabric background is much lighter color in primitive blues--these are ready to hang on the wall now--

And so--while I am in the waiting time again for a couple pieces of cloth in yellows to do Melisa's Summer stitch along--guess who got to come out of --Time out--???

Mrs. Claus--

I worked hard on getting the rest of that rocking chair in--I still need to do more stitching on that bottom runner--then-- I can play with some colors besides ---browns---I am really tired of browns!!!!

but as you can see--I still have lots of stitching to do--I am thinking of doing a blue rug --instead of green--what do you think?????

Did get a few more pink jewels done--

These are pretty much done--except when I find new/more pink fabric in my stash or such--

And I am finally back to hand quilting--seems --I took about 3 months off--not sure why--???

Lots of hand quilting on this one!!!

And two more baby sweaters are ready for buttons--

My bag of finished sweaters is full--so need to take a day and sew on buttons--think I will call my local quilt club to see if there is a local organization here in FL-- I can give these or some of these to--shipping is gotten so expensive--to ship a box of them to PA--would be around $30--I can get some more yarn for that money--these sweaters I am using up odds and ends of skeins of my cotton yarns!!

WELL--THIS IS MY FINISHES FOR NOW--FEELS GOOD TO HAVE SO MANY FINISHES FOR A CHANGE---HAVE YOU GOTTEN ANY FINISHES LATELY--SHARE THEM WITH ME--

AND--I AM DELIGHTED TO THE FEW WHO ALWAYS COMMENT--MY COMMENTS DO NOT GO TO MY EMAIL AS IT IS SUPPOSE TO--AND I AM TRIED OF TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHY--NEED TO KEEP STITCHING INSTEAD--SO A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO YOU!!

HUGS, AND ENJOY THE WEEK AND THE SPRING WEATHER--DI