Mystery Monday HOW #5

Mystery Monday Hexagon Ornaments of the Week (HOW #5)

see below for link

skinny legged reindeer

reindeer with hexagon ornaments and a button nose

click HERE for link to google docs for a PDF of stitch patterns. and don't forget to register on my 100th post giveaway if you'd like to recevie a set of the HOW ornaments in reds or blues along with a set of Frosty Flakes blocks.  Sorry I was late, just got stuck trying to think of something to draw.  Nothing looked cute, new and fun out of the 30 something sketches I did.  I finally just picked a couple and stitched them........ have fun!! I am going to go work on the crown royal quilt for other daughters friend.  Black with purple, black and even more black!

ornies and a quilt

These are some of the things I've worked on in the past week.

I made some of the Frosty Flakes #5 from this week
 into Frosty ornaments!
They are designed by Dawn Hay of As Sweet as Cinnamon, her newest project a BOW(block of the week), she's only on week 5 plenty of time to catch up!!

and I finished the quilt below........... but I had to roust out Cami from her reading chair before I took quilt pictures......I painted the tree on the wall of my granddaughter's toy room the same day we painted the walls a different color other than construction "cream" that was 20 years old ( the former owners never painted the room just used it for storage.)

amazingly enough the tree is only one color of brown paint.  one brown.............what?  no I am not lying........... I drew on the wall with the big sidewalk chalk so I would basically know where to paint the base color.......but there was some sort of chemical reaction with the wet paint and the chalk and this is the result........Once I realized what was going on added some extra chalk on top of the wet paint figuring if it didn't look okay when dry, I could paint over it with more paint.  once it was dry looked  good enough for a toy room so I added the leaves in green.  Has not come off and that was 7-8 years ago.

the baby quilt my daughter needed for good friends of theirs.

here's the back

I have to go back to stitching now or I won't have any thing ready for tomorrow...............

first I need to go draw something and then stitch it out lol!!!!!

plus I still have to do my Daisy Do block from Jenny of Elefantz and Flowers of Love-Free BOM by Fiona from Mother's Cupboard..

until tomorrow.......or later tonight maybe............have a good one!

more instant downloads for sale

I just got some patterns uploaded for those that want to buy them as instant downloads.  I had a few requests that were not honored at the retail shoppes. These include the redwork sunflower pillow, the redwork angel pillow, the redwork santa pillow and all of the individual snowball blocks for those who don't want all 16.  Check the side bar or bottom if you were wanting these patterns and the quilt shoppes would not want to mail them to you!!!  If you have any trouble with them please email me and I'll get it fixed.

 

 

bees a buzzin' around the mystery stitch

mystery stitch alternate center bee

For those of you wanting the alternate center here is a scanned copy of my work and a drawing.  Click on  the words under the drawing to get the link to google docs for download. 
Did you guys check out the back side of my redwork mystery stitch yesterday?  Not too bad, not quite up to great-grandma's standards, but not bad.
For those of you who may be unfamiliar with the vast array of stitches out there check Mary Corbet's Needlework n Thread site.  It is filled with oodles and boodles of anything that has to do with all things about embroidery.  A master stitcher she provides drawings and videos, pictures of lots of stitches, and  free patterns too.  Anytime you need an embroidery question answered, start there.  Don't be confused by the ads etc all over her site, just scroll around, down the sides and the bottom for the goodies.  The SEARCH box is all the way at the bottom in the red footer.  here are sone links

Mary Corbet's video tutorial on french knots, a pistol stitch is just an elongated french knot.

Mary Corbet's fern stitch tutorial video, how to do the center portion of the leaf.  Note, my stitches are long and could be snagged you may want to do outline for all???