Farm Girl Vintage Start

These are the first four blocks of my Farm Girl Vintage quilt.  My local quilt shop is offering it as a Saturday Sampler.  I'll bring these 4 finished blocks back to them on the first Saturday of February, and I'll get the fabric for the next four blocks for free.

I love the stack of bowls with the wooden spoon.  I'm not a country girl, but I love the colors and playfulness of this quilt.

Day 2 of my 15 day cross-stitch challenge is "Haunted Hotel" by Mill Hill.  I forgot how fun it is to work on perforated paper.  Makes a nice change from fabric.

I suppose I should have planned ahead which projects I would work on each day this month but I'm sort of flying by the seat of my pants instead.  Not sure what I'll pick up tomorrow.

Thanks for stopping by.

New Year, New Starts

This is the beginning of a Jane Austen quote from the book "Persuasion."  The first of 15 projects I will be working on in the first 15 days of January.  Some of them will be new, some will be unfinished projects from last year.  I'm joining in with a group on facebook.  If you are up for the challenge, search on facebook for "crossstitch crazy 2016."  I learned a lot doing this last year and it made the craft fresh for me.

I finished my 2016 bowl filler and set up my January display in my front hall.  I couldn't find my nice wooden bowl - it must be stashed with the items that were put away for Christmas.  So I used an abalone shell I have.  All of the items were made from free patterns I found on the internet.

I hope you're enjoying the new year!

Slow Sunday Stitching: 2016

I like to keep a bowl full of small cross stitch projects in my front hallway.  This is today's project to add to my January display.  There are a few more borders to add.

This was my bowl last January.  You can see I found the same designer's freebie last year.  I love switching around my display for the seasons.

Linking up today with Slow Sunday Stitching at Kathy's Quilts

Animal Advent 15

Just finished this little guy.  # 15 in the "Animal Advent" series of free patterns from Brooke's Books.

I have a stack of these now to turn into ornaments, and I'm trying to decide how I want to do them.  Hopefully I can finish up the whole series in 2016.  For some reason, I ended up stitching some of these out of order, so I'll tackle #14 next.  That one features the animal that is baking cookies.  Very cute.

I have signed up again this year with a facebook group to work on 15 different projects in the first 15 days of the new year.  It was a fun challenge last year and I ended up finishing more than 15 and getting to some projects which had been on my wish list for a long time.