It's Hermit Weekend!

Gosh, time is flying by so fast this month.  I have a new xs to start this weekend.  I have a very tight deadline to complete it.  I also have a scarf to knit as a Xmas present.  Plus four xs ornaments.  (sigh)

IHSW progress

I've added more stripes to my splashy flag piece : Starbursts and Stripes Forever by Cherry Wood Designs.  I'm off tomorrow to enter the state fair.  I have 3 pieces to bring. Wish me luck! :)

I am planning to work on my xs some more.

 

 

The picture above is the before stitching IHSW began.

 

Below is after the weekend ended.

 

 

 



IHSW for July

This is my starting point on Starbursts and Stripes Forever by Cherry Lane Designs for this weekend.  The picture is sideways.

 



This is after the weekend!  Now you can see the stripes going the right direction!  I still have quite a bit of white eyelets to add among the blue starbursts, but I'm going to hold off on them and move on the long stripes.



 

IHSW for June + Some Gettysburg pics

Here's a finish from 2010 that I recently stumbled across.  I still need to finish it into a scissor keep.

 

This is Make Do V: French Scissor Keep designed by Shakespeare's Peddler.  Like others have said, I don't know why this photo orients sideways!

 

We took a day trip to Gettysburg, PA the weekend before last.....deliberately ahead of the 150 year activities.  It was getting quite crowded, but there was no one at the penny squish machine!  This one is outside Ghost Tours and I picked up all four designs.

 

 

Outside the Diorama, I took my turn at being Lincoln. :)  I didn't realize that I had bangs, much less that Lincoln did!

 

So my day trip is why I didn't get much stitching done on IHSW weekend. 

 

However, I used the next weekend as my IHSW.  This is what JBW's Alphabet Heart looked like at the beginning of the weekend on my Q-Snaps.  Silly me, I didn't take a photo at the end of the weekend.

 

Here's another before picture I worked on.  This one is Time Flies by Bent Creek (one of my favorite designers).

 

Here's a bad kitty photo.  He's on a piece attached to Q-Snaps that I've misplaced the chart and threads for.  Ah, well.  It'll show up some time.

 

For the first week in July I did my nails in red, white and blue stripes.  I put the white on first over the entire nail then swiped the blue and red stripes over it.  Not bad for a first effort IMHO.



 

 

 



 

It's IHSW weekend

I'm not cross stitching this weekend...I have a baby blanket I'm crocheting and I need to get it done by Tuesday night.  Ack.  At least this morning I began the decreasing.  What's that you say??  A coworker told me it should be bigger so I kept increasing until that skein ran out.  Now I am decreasing for real!

Finished!

I finished my Prairie Schooler Bremen Town Musicians yesterday!  I decided to add the year finished in the alphabet/numbers area as there was a huge blank area that just cried out for filling.  I chose the color of the animals so it would stick out from the letters, but not be out of place. 

 

I've started the JBW Alphabet Hearts on the lined fabric.  More on this as I get a chance!

IHSW: My first weekend

I missed the actual weekend by several days.  I used the Memorial Day weekend instead to work on Bremen Town Musicians by Prairie Schooler.  I made a lot of progress.

Here is what it looked like before stitching this weekend:

 

Here's what it looked like at the end of the IHSW weekend.  I'm pleased!