Friday Progress Photos 11/9/18 I Love You AKA The Princess Bride

Hello :)
I am trying to follow in my footsteps of when I first started this blog over 6 years ago and share some progress photos today.  I'm not sure if anyone reads blogs anymore when we have Facebook Cross Stitch Groups and Flosstube, but lately I have felt that I miss posting my progress here on my blog.

I have been working on my current WIP for a few weeks now after a recent finish which I will share with you soon.  This design is called "I Love You" by Love Thy Thread, but I prefer to give it the nickname of The Princess Bride which has been one of my most favorite movies since I was a child.  This was a Stitch Maynia 2016 start and it is a full coverage piece.  It is almost all yellows and oranges which are not really my favorite colors but I was really drawn to this design.

This is what it will look like when it is finished.

Here are some photos of where I was with it...

Here you can see my awesome Prince Bride needleminder from the now defunct Minding my Minders.

And here is where I am as of today Friday November 9th...

I am trying to concentrate on finishing a few WIPS but I think I will try to finish all of the black on these pages before moving on.  I chose to do both pages at once because I don't want to get a line where you can tell the columns that I stitched on like you can sort of see with the yellows due to using the Parking stitching method.  What do you think?  Are there any other Princess Bride Movie fans out there??  If so I have another special story to share...later.

Until the next time...Happy Stitching!

Needleminders from Needleminder Factory AKA Finn Stitcher on Flosstube

Back in December of last year I was watching Finn Stitcher on Flosstube and saw that she was making and selling needleminders in her shop on Etsy called Needleminder Factory.  I decided to check them out and she had some cute ones at very reasonable prices including her shipping charges coming all the way from Finland.

They were very well protected for shipping, as you can see below.  I have heard a few horror stories of the magnets getting stuck in the machines at the post office but I had no such issues with mine.

And these are the lovely needleminders that I bought!

I chose the green swirly oval because it reminded me of "The Heart of Te Fiti" from the Disney movie Moana.  I chose the sparkly teal ones because teal is my favorite color.  I have stitched many owls including this one.  And I bought the Moose to use on my Norge WIP.  I am really happy with all of them and enjoyed supporting a fellow stitcher in her business.

See you soon and Happy Stitching!  

2018 My Fifth Continent...Australia!

Hello out there if anyone is still reading this!  I can’t believe I have gone almost a whole year without writing here.  That makes me really sad, but I finally decided to just do it.

In 2018 I decided to make my health more of a priority so I cut back on my stitching time quite a bit. I have also rediscovered my love of reading, but there is still something that keeps drawing me back to stitching and I don’t feel like it was a good day unless I was able to get in a few stitches.

So much has happened this year.  I’ve had a few finishes and some new starts.  But the biggest thing that happened to our family was visiting our 5th Continent Australia in July!

We loved it so much! We spent a little over a week in Sydney and took advantage of all of the amazing sights.  I even was lucky to find a LNS!! I will write more later but I will leave you with a few photos from Sydney...

Happy Stitching!