Winter Wool Applique from Years Past

This polar vortex has been rough!

We were without internet, tv and our landline for almost 48 hours!

You don't realize how much you rely on them until you can't use them ;)

This is a sweet Maggie Bonanomi design from several years ago - 

part of the Maggie Club with Country Sampler.  

I think that this was also a Maggie Club kit with the Country Sampler. 

I smile when I pull them out each winter.

I love the graphics of this pillow.

I have to share the sweet snowman that my sister-in-law, Joy made.

Thank you for your continued prayers as Joy continues her chemo treatment.

She always says that crafting is the best therapy and I agree! 

Joy's daughter (and my niece), Dana, made this great snowflake sign!

I love it! You should see the fabulous Christmas tree that she made, but I packed it away before I took a picture - darn! You will definitely see it next Christmas.

I've been working away on "Snowy Days" by Heart to Hand.

My #stitchfrommystash project for January.

I finished this block on my surprise *cold* day of from work.

Wind chills were at -55!

Now I am stitching my blocks together.

I know that tomorrow is February 1st, but I am so close that I want to finish this one up.

I have picked my February #stitchfrommystash projects, but they will have to wait for another day...

Lord, listen and answer me,

    for I am afflicted and needy.

Protect me, for I am faithful;

    My God, deliver your servant who trusts in you.

Have mercy on me Lord,

    for I call on you all day long.

~Psalm 86:1-3

Blessings, Patti

Feathered Nest Pin Book

Another finish!

"Feathered Nest Pin Book"

by Stacy Nash

for Country Sampler's Girls Club ~ May 2017

I'm so happy with this finish!

I stitched it right away, but took a year to finally "finish" it.

The back is as pretty as the front.

I decided to add some wool pages to my needle book.

Now why did I wait so long to finish it? ;)

I changed the colors of the bird as I love robins!

“Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.

~Jeremiah 32:17

Blessings, Patti

Pennies from Heaven ~ Volume 20a

Gosh, I have visited Mom twice since my last Pennies from Heaven post 

and Mom has so many finishes to share!

Mom received this wonderful silver tray from my sister for Christmas and got started right away making mats for it.

This one contains excerpts from Primitive Gathering's Flower Garden Crazy Table Mat

Such a wonderful variety of flowers!

Mom created this one using shamrock's from my own

Winding Vine Design's March Mat

This one is an excerpt from My Red Door Design's Love Pillow.

I bet that Mom will have one for every month before the year is over ;)

Mom has also completed all the kits from Country Sampler's Maggie Club for 2017.

Yikes! I haven't even started one! I better get going on mine.

This is Spring.

 Country Sampler's Maggie Club  Summer 2017

 Country Sampler's Maggie Club  Autumn 2017

and  Country Sampler's Maggie Club Winter 2017

I love them all and really don't know why I didn't get mine done.

So much to stitch and so little time!

And believe me that Mom has more finishes to come...

 Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for whoever loves others has fulfilled the law.

~Romans 13:8

Blessings, Patti

A few final finishes of 2017

Thanks to my good friend Jan, I have two more finishes to share!

Jan framed this piece for me!!! I am so thrilled!

This was truly a work of heart - it took 18 months on and off 

and has many memories stitched into it along with prayers.

I'm sorry to say that it is not yet hanging on my wall. It measures almost 2 feet by 3 feet and I haven't found just the right spot for it yet...

I love the frame! It is made by Yellow Creek Quilt Designs, who also designed and kitted the quilt. It is made of old barn wood and I love the age and history of the wood! 

"Stone Flower Sewing Pocket"

by Stacy Nash for Country Sampler's Girls Club

Jan also finished this beautiful piece for me!

It was definitely beyond my hand stitching skills. 

Thank you ever so much Jan for your beautiful finishing!

I love the subtle colors of this piece.

Of course the dogs morphed into dachshunds as they tend to do on my stitches :)

I have lots of finishes of my Mom's to share too. 

I think I will break them up into some shorter posts, too.

You greatly rejoice in this, even though you have to suffer various kinds of trials for a little while, so that your genuine faith, which is more valuable than gold that perishes when tested by fire, may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.

~1 Peter 1:6-7

Blessings, Patti

A Finish, A Start and A Getaway

"Flowers for the Table"

designed by Rebekah L. Smith

kitted by Wheaten Woolens

using Rustic Moire Wool Threads

I am so excited about this finish! 

I am thrilled with how it turned out. (Although now I see that I should have made sure all the tongues were laying nice before I snapped the picture.)

Beth Anne did a lovely job kitting it. My favorite part? She used hand dyed velvet for the tan background! I love the combination of textures, it adds so much.

And I continue to enjoy using the Rustic Moire Wool Threads. 

Another wonderful rememberance of Rebekah, Beth Anne, and the wonderful times at Wheaten Woolens. You can find this kit and more here. 

So you know that I had to immediately start something new:

"Autumn's Choice"

design by Maggie Bonanomi

for Country Sampler Girls Club 2016 

What a perfect design for September as Summer turns to Autumn.

I don't think that I will finish it in September with only two days left...

I've finished a few more diamonds for my Temecula Quilt Co Insta-sew-along.

They are going quickly!

And I don't think that I will be able to sleep at all tonight!

Tomorrow morning it is time to hit the road and meet the Bittersweet Stitching Sisters!

It has been an entire year since we have been together. 

I am sure that I will be back with much to share about our adventures.

Several of the sisters have already started their adventure and I can't wait to hear all about it!

If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing.

~1 Corinthians 13:1-3

Blessings, Patti

On the road again!

I'm hitting the road first thing in the morning!

This time for Stitch Camp at Country Sampler in Spring Green, Wisconsin.

This year the teachers are Stacy Nash and Needlework Press.

We had homework for our Needlework Press class - an antique reproduction sampler.

Happily mine is done and ready to go!

I also had a finish this holiday weekend!

"Peacock Peacock Needle Keep"

by Stacy Nash for Country Sampler Girls Club

http://www.sgcountrysampler.com/girls-club/

I finished mine a little differently ~ as a thread board.

I have to say that I overdosed on the color pink in the 1980's and haven't been a fan since.

But this piece changed my mind about pink!

I stitched this in the spring and loved it! I even added some pink mother of pearl thread rings ;)

And here is the back:

A soft red velvet needle keep tied to the thread board for safe keeping.

I'll be back to share about Stitch Camp ~ I don't think that I'll even have time to get homesick ;)

“Give praise to the Lord, proclaim his name;
    make known among the nations what he has done,
    and proclaim that his name is exalted.
Sing to the Lord, for he has done glorious things;
    let this be known to all the world.

~Isaiah 12:4-5

Blessings, Patti

Holly Days ~ Part 3

"Country Sampler Winter Tidings"

Design by Stacy Nash

for Country Sampler Girls Club

I'm still leaving and coming home in the dark, so still struggling with photos.

I truly enjoyed this sweet stitch.

I added a linen rickrack trim to the seam.

Isn't she sweet? I love her "toffee" dress and sprig of holly.

I had fun with the little red holly berries.

I had some wool leftover from my most recent Maggie project,

so I thought I would add a sprig of holly to the back.

Now it matches my wool mat :)

Since there are a few days left in January, I thought I would continue on with my Holly fest and pulled out this WIP.

"Holly" by Notforgotten Farm

Let's see how much I can get completed before February 1,

when Valentine stitching will be my theme of choice...

In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus:

Who, being in very nature God,
    did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage;
 rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant,
    being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man,
    he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross!

Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name,
that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth,

and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

Philippians 2:5-11

Blessings, Patti