Skip to main content

Cross Stitch and Quilt Goals for August 2023

 Since I will be at home for the month of August and I'll have access to ALL my sewing and cross stitch supplies, I thought I would make a goal for the month and share it here.

In my cross stitch, I have the final installment of Cross Stitch Camp to do.  I'm using the Gather Pumpkins from the Fall Gather Round by Hands on Design to meet the "try something new" requirement since it has over one stitching in it and I've not done that before.  This is being done with all the called for floss and fabric because it came in a kit LOL


I'm stitching along with Nichol Spohr's Flying Lessons Stitch Along and that starts August 16.  She posted a picutre of a conversion done on a fabric similar to what I've got and in purple.  You know I am a cutesy Halloween person so this color way was perfect for me.  I've picked mostly Colour & Cotton threads with a couple Weeks Dye Works for mine.  And aren't those floss drops adorable?




I want to finish my June Cross Stitch Camp piece.  Every Day Things by Heart in Hand.  I'm super close on this one.  I'm thinking of finishing it as a small pillow and putting it in the dough bowl I bought at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago.  I've got the bowl on the dining room table.  And yes, I realize I have not mentioned July's Cross Stitch Camp piece.  It's a rather large one that I KNOW I won't get finished this month.  It's a fall piece so maybe I'll prioritize it in September so I can display it.

  

Cottage Garden Samplings Partridge in a Pear Tree is also a goal to finish.  I'm so close!  I've already got the next two in the series.  My plan is to frame each of these individually and put them all over the house during Christmas.  I'm stitching this on 14 count vintage country mocha aida with the called for DMC and Classic Colorworks threads.


In quilting, I will finishing quilting and  put the binding on my Basket Case quilt and it will be done!  I am struggling with machine quilting on my machine.  I did not spray baste it to get it to be "glued" together, I've just pinned.  Maybe that would help me like machine quilting better.  I'll see for the next one LOL

I want to put together my pear blocks and get that going. They're all cut out, just waiting. The pattern is from Fig Tree & Co in her Fruit Salad book.


I have a new BOM that is starting this month from Fig Tree and I will put those blocks together.  This one is called Midnight in the Garden.  I am soooo hoping it uses her newest collection called Harvest Moon.

And lastly on the quilting goals is to start Manchester by the Sea by Fig Tree.  This BOM ended earlier this year and I have not even started on it.  I've seen finished ones and it's beautiful.

I better get to sewing if I plan on meeting these goals.  Until next time...

Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Ready for the rodeo?

Well, after being away from sewing and listing and selling for a couple of years, I've finally got something new up. I used an adorable cowboy and cowgirl fabric from Michael Miller and made this skirt and top that would be perfect for a trip to the rodeo. Or it would be great for western day at school. Feel free to check it out...even bid on it ;0) http://cgi.ebay.com/Custom-Boutique-Rascals-Western-Cowgirl-CBD-FCBM_W0QQitemZ280255354898QQihZ018QQcategoryZ79714QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
2 comments
Read more

Lover Unleashed by JR Ward

Are you reading the Black Dagger Brotherhood series?  If you're not, can I ask why not?  And if you're not, I'm going to tell you that I think you need to stop reading this for a few minutes and go to Amazon or Barnes & Noble or some website and either buy you a paper copy or download a copy of Dark Lover and start reading the series (This is a series that HAS to be read in order).  This can wait.  Go do that and then come back and see what I'm going to say. So this was book 9 in the series.  Payne and Manny's story.  And while we got their story, I felt it was eclipsed by Payne's brother Vishous.  I love getting lost in the Brothers' world.  When I open the book and start reading, my children and home all fade away and I'm in Caldwell with them (is Caldwell, NY a real place?).  We got introduced to some new vampires in this installment and that was pretty cool.  There was NO Lesser pov here and that was more than pretty cool.  Just between us
1 comment
Read more

Finally Finished A Year of Celebrations

Ash and Grant came visit the second week of July.  I always love having them at the house.  I miss them terribly.  So, I knew I needed to get my butt in gear and finish her birthday present. I actually finished stitching these pretties back in May, well before we left Odessa.  I even bought the frame for them in Odessa. And cut out the sticky board LOL  I had ordered a new glue gun, but the wrong glue stick size, so that is what the hold up was.  But, with Ashley coming to visit I got the correct glue sticks and got to work. This was easy to finish up and Ashley loved them.  The pattern is A Year of Celebrations by Hands on Design (one of both mine and Ashley's favorite designers). I dyed the fabric myself.  I believe it was a color called paper bag on the Rit Dye website.  I used some of the called for colors, but most of it was switched to Colour and Cotton threads. With this set being done, I am motivated to finish up my Truckin Along series b
Post a Comment
Read more