December Smalls SAL

Hi Blogger Friends.  It's the last Wednesday of the month and time for the Smalls SAL.  This is being hosted by Heather of Stitching Lotus.  We pick a small project to stitch on and post a finished picture on the last Wednesday of the month.  I just finished this at 11 pm.  But, I did it.  I actually finished 12 small pieces this year. Go me!!!

Flip-It Stamp - Lizzie Kate

14ct Beige Aida

Started 9-14-14

Finished 12-21-14

HAPPY NEW YEAR

Thanks for looking.   Linda

Have a great stitchy new year.

Dec. TUSAL, 2 Finishes, Stash

Hi Blogger Friends.  I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas filled with stitchy stash.  I have been buying Christmas stash for the last couple months.  lol

It's time for the Totally Useless Stitch-a-long.  This is being hosted by Sharon of It's Daffycat.  We keep our floss scrapes for the month and post them on the New Moon.  I'm a little late.

I finished 1 lapghan.  I still need to crochet 5 more.  My hair dresser ordered this one.  When I delivered it, another hair dresser ordered one in the same colors.

I finished another Turtle Trot picture.

Dog Lessons for People - Lizzie Kate

14ct Summer Khaki

Started 2-19-12

Finished 12-25-14

My poor old brain is only thinking about cold turkey sandwiches.  It wasn't thinking about the 7 cross stitch SAL's that I joined so it decided to join a crochet a long.  

These are the colors I'm using and its all from stash.  It is being hosted by Kate.

Look at the new stash that the awesome, wonderful Kaye sent me.  Thank you so much Kaye.  I'm looking forward to starting them.  More starts for Jan/Feb.

I will have one more small finish for the year.  A total of 28 finishes.  I wonder if I can beat that next year.

I'll leave you with a picture of Sparky and Missy.  (I changed the new kittens name)  Isn't she getting big?

Thanks for looking.   Linda

Linda's Turtle Trot SAL Dec. Final Update

Hi Blogger Friends.   It's time for the final Turtle Trot update for the year.  This is a SAL being hosted by Claudette of BAP Attack.  We pick 10 projects to work on throughout the year and see how many we can finish.  I'm quite pleased with the amount I got done on them this year.  I managed to get 3 and 1/6 done.

1.  Mitten Friends - Diane Arthurs

2.  6 Fat Men - Lizzie Kate - This is my 1/6 finish.  Gee it's only going to take me 4 more years to finish.

3.  Disney Hero's #16 - Alina's xstitch

4.  Pretty Little New York - Satsuma Street

5.  Mermaid Myrna - Diane Arthurs

6.  Dog Lessons for People - Lizzie Kate - I would like to try and finish this one this year.

7.  Autumn Season - Sandra Cozzolino

8.  Spring Alphabet - Lizzie Kate - FINISHED
14ct Marbled Antique Sage
Started 2-29-12
Finished 12-9-14

9.  March Sampler - Waxing Moon Designs

Summer Season - Sandra Cozzolino - FINISHED

Happy Camper - Diane Arthurs - FINISHED

That's 26 finishes for the year.  I will have another small finish and hopefully Dog Lessons.

Looking forward to next year's Turtle Trot SAL.

Thanks for looking.  Linda

PS  I want to say a great big THANK YOU for all the wonderful comments you all leave.  I'm still horrible at replying to them, but I'm trying.

December YOTA SAL

Hi Blogger Friends.  It's Year of the Acronym time again.  This is where we pick a project and work on it during the month and post a before and after picture on the first Saturday.  It is being hosted by Pull the Other Thread.

12-6-14   I'm almost done with Santa's bedroom.  I didn't think I got much done on this one this year.  But if you look at the bottom picture, I guess I have.  Hope to get a bunch more done on this next year.

11-1-14

11-2-13



Thanks for looking.  Linda

Lots of stuff...

WARNING - Very long post.

Hi Blogger Friends.  Did you all get full-filled with turkey?  I only have enough left for one more sandwich.  (Note to self - buy bigger turkey.)  I wanted to mention that I am still reading all your blogs that are in my sidebar and leaving comments.  I am still getting alot of Delivery Status Failure.  The comments post on your blog but they don't go to your email.  Anybody know how to fix this problem?

First up is a tad bit of progress.

Santa's 12 Days of Christmas - Prairie Schooler

Candy Cane Christmas - Ursula Michael

Progress on the lapghan.  This is about 1/4 of it done.

I was sorta bad again.  I went shopping at Love My Stitch on Etsy.  If you buy 12 charts at $48.00 you get 6 free.  Can you guess how many I bought? - (more than this)

I decided to get the floss for 7 of them.  Joann's had them 3 for .99 and I had a 25% off coupon.  You can't beat .25 a skein.

486 skeins plus about a 100 I need to pull from my stash.  I didn't buy the 60+ skeins of black.  The round stained glass ones are suppose to be filled in solid with black.  I'm not sure if I'm going to do that.  As I was just on the site, I see she has added more of the round stained glass ones which of course I will have to get.
Last time the floss was on sale I bought about a 100 skeins to kit up 3 other projects.  Its going to take me months to bobbinate all this floss.  Helpers needed!!

My husband and I spent all day Friday and Saturday putting up our outside Christmas display.  Saturday night we're out there with a flashlight plugging everything in.  (We were still putting stuff out)  You can click on any of the pictures to enlarge.

I need to take some better night pictures.

If you made it this far, thanks for looking.    Linda