August FFG

The fantastic Rachel has given us the SAL most of us really need...a Fully Finished Gallery SAL. Yeah we stitch. We finish pieces.....well hopefully sometime. Then what? I know I tend to throw them in a drawer and those beautiful pieces hide until the day I pull out the drawer and look through them. How sad. So now the 10th of every month we have a push to finish our pieces. Not only the current ones we are stitching but those old dusty sad lonely pieces in our box of shame. I have just a few *cough cough* so I'm sure the SAL will continue the rest of my life haha.

Stop over to the check in post to see what lovely pieces others have created this time as well.

Let's see what I've finished since the last time...

12th of July found me finishing up my July Lizzie Kate Stamp.

16th of July I finished up Flip Flops Mill Hill Kit.

6th of August I finished up Mom's Nautical monthly piece.

8th of August I setup my sewing studio and got busy on 3 box of shame pieces.

Let's talk about these a little more in detail...

Dragonfly Heart was from Sekas Hearts. I stitched this up in 2005! It didn't even make it to my box of shame actually. I hide these away in a cabinet and totally forgot about them till we had a heart themed People's Choice. I remembered stitching them and started digging around to find them. Everyone demanded they be finished. They sure deserved to be finished. This one is finished with the blue fabric you see under the pillow.

The 2nd one of the set I'm talking about is this one...

I stitched this one in 2006. It was called Patriotic Heart from Sekas. I stitched it for Jeremiah since he is very patriotic. He picked out the fabric for the back. It again is laying under the pillow for the picture above.

Last I grabbed a cute little nautical piece from 2015...

The pattern is called Seas the Day from Silver Creek Samplers. I finished the stitching for it in 2016. Finished with the fabric under it again.

I love the way all 3 turned out and they are proudly on display instead of hiding away in shame. Thank you Rachel for the push to do that!!!

So according to my calculations because of this SAL I've finished...

February -- 5

March -- 6

April -- 5

May --  2

June -- 4

July -- 2 

August -- 6

Total of  30 Now!!!!

 

So many more to go but I'm very happy with these. So nice to see them when I look around.

March Smalls SAL Post

Today is the last Thursday of the month so it's time for a Smalls SAL check in. I picked out this chart for this year's challenge...

My goal is to stitch each month during the month it's for this year. So far so good. Here is March all finished up...

I'm cutting them out and displaying them on cork board by my calendar. I'm going to start April's tomorrow and work on it. Even though Easter is already over it's a cute little bunny rabbit. These have been a lot of fun to work on. Let's see what other small things I've worked on this month...

This piece is definitely small haha. I finished it up Feb 29th. It's called Seaside Squared from Erica Michael's. It's done on 40ct and I just LOVED working on it.

These designs are from Just Cross Stitch Dec 2015 Issue. I used some Jodyri Threads I had received in a giveaway. There are 4 of these. They are 74x74 so meet my idea of under 100 threads size for this challenge too.

Here is my last one to report. I just finished it right before this post...

Finish # 13

Seas the Day a PALs Retreat 2015 Exclusive

Designed by Silver Creek Samplers

Started for DUCJC 2016 Day 10

Finished March 31st. Took 3 Days.

Used DMC threads. Fabric is 36ct Silkweaver Molo Evenweave.

This makes 9 of my 31 DUCJC projects marked off the list.

DUCJC Day 10

Another Christmas present from the PALs Retreat. This one is from Silver Creek Samplers. It was another exclusive for those attending the retreat. Here is what it will look like...

Here is where I got today...

I'm using DMC and I changed it a little bit. The suggested one for the words was so light I couldn't read the words at all. So I made it darker. I'm stitching it on a 36ct Silkweaver Molino Solo piece.