Time to Finish the Job

I love my hobby and I’m sure that most of you love to stitch too, but what I’m not so keen on is the finishing of pieces.

Framing is fine, because I just take them to ‘Frames of London’, buy a ready-made frame or pick one up at a charity shop, but it’s the things that aren’t going into frames that give me the most grief, especially if they require me to get my sewing machine out.

Tuesday and Wednesday of this week I decided it was time to make a dent in the pile of things I have sitting here waiting to be FFO’d, or at least get as far as I could with some that are on-going projects

The first thing I FFO’d is ‘Waiting for the Harvest’ from ‘The Winds of Autumn’ book from Blackbird Designs.

 I had a chalkboard pumpkin that was perfect for this.

I used a rectangle of scrapbook paper and attached the piece onto mount board before decorating it with some buttons and flowers.

Next up it was the panels from two  Sal’s that I’m working on at the moment.

I made ten little hanging ornaments with the  Jeanette Douglas ‘Mini Bouquet Sal panels.  I still have two more panels for this to stitch, and when the December one is finished I’ll be able to show how they are completed.

I then went on to finish some more of the stitched panels of ‘The Joyful World Sal from The Snowflower Diaries. 

Again, I still have the November and December panels to stitch and then I’m going to do three more frames to change out in Winter, Spring and Summer, so I still have quite a bit of work to do on this one.

And Finally, I couldn’t put it off any longer and got the sewing machine out.

Back in January I started to stitch the ‘Little Sheep Virtues’ from Little House Needleworks and I was going to finish them as pillows, on 32ct linen, two over two. Then, as you have probable seen in a previous post, I changed my mind and decided to stitch them all in piece of fabric with ‘Sheep in the Meadow from Cottage Garden Samplings’ in the centre and changed the linen to 36ct and worked them 1one over two.

The two panels I had already stitched just sat there, but today I made them into two little pillows, with some wool panels I had in my stash.

I still have one or two more things that need fully finishing and I’m hoping that I can do those over the weekend.

 Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Little Sheep Virtues - Sheep in the Meadow

 I’ve been working on the ‘ Little Sheep Virtues’ series, from Little House Needlework's since January, making it into one big project, with ‘Sheep in the Meadow Singing’ from Country Cottage Needlework's  in the centre.

The good news is that this week I managed stitch to the final two panels, ‘Joyfulness’

 & ‘Friendship’, 

Which bring this 10 month project to an end.

All that’s left for me to do is sew on all the little buttons.  

There’s no rush for that though, as it won’t be going to framers for a while yet.  I already have three pieces in there being done at the moment, so I’ll have to save some pennies before this one goes in!

It’s been such a fun project to stitch over the months and I have to thank Felicia #mousepotatodesigns on Instagram,  who is also working on the same stitch, for all her support and inspiration (hence the curly sheep) while I was working on it.

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Chart – Little Sheep Virtues – Kindness

Company – Little House Needleworks

Chart – Sheep in the Meadow

Company – Country Cottage Needleworks

Thread – DMC

Fabric – 36ct Vintage Country Mocha

Chart – Little Sheep Virtues – Simplicity

Company – Little House Needleworks

Chart – Sheep in the Meadow

Company – Cottage Garden Needleworks

Thread – DMC

Fabric – 36ct Vintage Country Mocha

 

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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Little Sheep Virtues - Gratitude

 My latest panel from the Little House Needleworks series, Little Sheep Virtues is ‘Gratitude’.

I know I’ve said it before, but boy are those borders a pain to stitch.  It’s not that they are difficult, just tedious, so while the piece was still in my hoop (and I couldn’t be bothered to sort out another piece to stitch on) I decided to go ahead and make a start on the border of the one.

I can see an end in sight with just two more panels left to stitch, so now I need to decide if I just carry on stitching this one until it’s finished or put it away and leave it until next month, as my plan was to stitch one a month………decisions, decisions!

Happy Stitching!

Sue

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 Chart – Little Sheep Virtues – Kindness

Company – Little House Needleworks

Chart – Sheep in the Meadow

Company – Cottage Garden Needleworks

Thread – DMC

Fabric – 36ct Vintage Country Mocha