Summer Breeze

 

Hello, everyone, it's been a few weeks since I have posted but I have gotten some stitching done!  This is an old chart from Sheepish Designs that I finally decided to do.  I didn't use the suggested DMC colors, instead, I stitched it with Belle Soie silk floss except for the peachy color, that's Branch Coral from Gloriana.  I've put some of my vintage doilies to use for hiding the raw edges around the sides.  I don't make doilies, but I love to collect them and use them around the house.

Oh, by the way, Summer Breeze is the name of the design which explains the title of the post.  And of course, I also made another purse:

I stitched this design so long ago I'm not even sure where it came from, possibly an old Just Cross Stitch magazine.  It's done with good old DMC threads, back then I wasn't yet into the wonderful world of overdyed threads, things have sure changed in recent years, haven't they?

I was given some bits and pieces of some fabric with nice sampler designs recently, so one of the pieces was perfect for a pocket on the back.

And another bit of the fabric worked nicely for an inside pocket, too.

That's just about it for now, I've been back to work this week, school starts up again next week, so my nice, long wonderful summer vacation is just about over.  I'm not complaining, though, I've had more time off than anyone that I know and the weather for us has been fantastic this year.  I'm sorry for anyone of you that has had to deal with terrible weather from the hurricane.  Thank you to everyone who left comments on recent posts and thanks so much for your kind thoughts for our son-in-law Joe, he is doing much better now.  He has been able to get into a motorized wheelchair and go for rides outside which helps his morale quite a bit.  Thanks for visiting again, I will leave you with a kitty picture, Tigger and Harley having a naptime together.

I hope you will have a super nice Labor Day weekend!

Hodgepodge Purse

Why? Because I started putting things all over it and I just couldn't stop!  There's a little bit of everything, but the main part is a sampler by Dany called Marquoir Dany.  I stitched it with my favorite DMC red--666.  I love that color but I always feel vaguely guilty when I use it, you know, it's the number of the beast!  I made one change to Dany's design by adding a cat just under the alphabet.

Here's the back side with a large pocket featuring an embroidery that I did.  It was really fun putting this one together!  On another subject, I would like to thank every single person who left comments with well wishes for our son-in-law Joe after his accident.  Your kind thoughts and prayers mean more than I could possibly say.  He's doing a bit better now, he's been moved into a nursing home until he heals enough for physical therapy. The extreme pain he had been in seems to be less intense now.  Our daughter Jessie is of course under a lot of stress but she's coping well because she is a very strong person.  Thanks again, we appreciate your thoughtfulness so much!  Now, a couple of silly kitty pictures:

Cricket who forgot to put his tongue back in his mouth before he posed.

Harley--Ok, I'm ready for my close-up now!

Thank you, friends, I'm so glad you dropped in for a visit!

Brigg's Cottage Embroidery and My Tattoo

I've been working on this embroidery the last few weeks and am glad to have it done.  There is a lot of thread piled onto this piece of fabric, it's so thick on the area of the cottage that it almost won't fold over!  I used a lot of different brands of threads, including a lot of over-dyeds and thoroughly enjoyed the stitching of it!

Ok, in my last post I showed a picture of me with some  family members and you could see a little bit of my tattoo.  I promised to post a better picture of it, so was able to get hubby to take a good picture.  But first, I want you to see the old one that's underneath the new one, because I think the tattoo artist did such a good job of hiding it.  I never really liked the old tattoo and you can probably agree that it wasn't all that nice.

It was supposed to be a cat but people were always asking me what it was.  A badger?  A fox?  A goblin?

Here's my new one and I really love it!  It was done by Erik at Lakeview Tattoo here in Petoskey.  I think you can agree that this one looks like a CAT!  I love the roses, too, and my favorite part of the kitty is his eyes, don't they look real?

On a less happy note, my son-in-law Joe was badly injured on his motorcycle last week and is in the hospital.  He was going 60 mph when a car pulled out of a driveway in front of him.  He has many shattered bones and will be a long time healing so any good thoughts or prayers you could send his way would be appreciated! 

Thanks so much for visiting again, I'm always so happy to have you drop in!

Project Pouch and This and That

I have lots of stitching bags already, but I thought that a large flat pouch type thing would be convenient to carry my current project with me wherever I go.  I just open the flap and everything's right there, no digging down to the bottom of a bag!

Inside there's a pocket for thread and scissors and a place for pins and needles.  I used a package of sewing theme buttons to decorate it inside and out. 

I thought the picture I embroidered for the front was very appropriate!

Now, here's a couple of family pictures:

This is my brother, my dad and me celebrating Dad's 90th birthday.  My hubby, sister-in-law, daughter and son-in-law were there, too, just not in this picture.  The cool thing about this restaurant is if you go there on your birthday you get the percentage off your meal the same as your age.  Since Dad is 90, his dinner was nearly free!  Did you notice my new tattoo?  I'll show you a better picture of it some time.  And speaking of my daughter, she had a chance to go ghost hunting in Detroit recently with some of the Ghost Hunters.  She was pretty excited about visiting this spooky looking place.

Here she is with Steve, one of the Ghost Hunters.

I really love that show, don't you?  But then I love most every show about the paranormal, maybe my daughter got that from me.  No, actually, she believed in ghostly things long before I did, I was skeptical for a long time.  How do you feel about these things?

Tigger says, Who cares, as long as I have a full dish and get plenty of naps!  Thanks for stopping by!