Stitchville

 I have been making more masks and slid a few x/s of cross stitch in there too.

I have been making masks again since I don't see the need for them disappearing anytime soon. A fresh batch seemed necessary. I have a ton cut out and try to make a few a day. Thankful for hoarding fabric. I really didn't think I would ever use it all and here we are with it being needed. Now, I will say that my selections has been whittled down to what my family might call..."Sandy fabric." No more cute leopard prints, just a lot of stuff I thought was cute but not quite sure what I planned to do with it.

 I also did some purging in my cross stitch pattern bin and sorted through and organized all the bits and pieces of leftover linen which really sent me on a wild hare trail of stitching this past week. 

That sorting and purging guided this week's stitching. First up I will tell you that I stopped on my acorns and that is what led to the clean up. I love the pattern, but on closer inspection I am not sure I love it as much as I thought. It was an impulse purchase of which I am doing so much better. 

The acorns are supposed to be whimsical, but I am not sure I like the acorn top color. It calls for a silk I didn't have so I tried to just wing it with stuff I had. It did not work. It is just too monotone. I looked back at the pattern picture and I am pretty sure there is no need to order that silk because it has too much dark in it. I stitched quite a few tops around to see if it would grow on me and it did not. 

The picture on the pattern and the real life colors are not matching up. It will take some time and effort to put it all together in a manner that works for me. So...it got set aside.

Oh and the other no go was that I did it on 40 count hoping it would be small enough for a project I had in mind. It was not. When I do go back to it down the road sometime I will do it on the called for 28 count because I think it will look better larger.

All that led to cleaning out patterns and I really got off track trying to use up a small piece of 40 count linen. I found a black cat the October 2016 issue of Just Cross Stitch magazine. It will be finished into a small pillow with that candy corn fabric. Not sure how just yet, but I know I will use that fabric.

Then I started thinking about school and how I was going to make a little sewing counter display for back to school in September and that led to another quick stitch and another impulse purchase which fortunately wasn't too expensive. I found a very old Just Cross Stitch magazine and did the stitch to place on the wood. 

The hornbook thingie came from an Etsy shop called Homestead Needleworker. 

Now there will be no more buying!!! That is it for me.

That is also it for me on fall stitching or at least I think. I have plenty of smalls and no where to put more, so I think I am just going to ADMIRE everyone else's fall stitching and move onto Christmas and continue with my large pieces.

I am back to work on my flowers. I don't think I shared the book that I am using for the flowers. It is an old state flower book. I plan to do four of them and group them together. They turn out to be about 4 inches or so on 28 count.

I have a few Prairie Schooler Santas that I want to stitch. We will see.

That is it for my stitching this week. I am back to being focused on the projects at hand and no more rabbit trails. 

I know everyone thinks this. ....but blogger is killing me. I can't add labels ...I can't get comments to work which I think is a Mac thing. I have done everything everyone suggested. I am about ready to throw in the towel. Good grief...something fun should not take that much time and be stressful. Are you with me? Maybe that is what Blogger wants.

Oh well, no more whining ---just stitching.

One more thing. Here are my chicken and dumplings from last week. Jeff likes his dumplings thicker. Mother likes hers thinner. I tend to agree, but he is working all day so he gets the nod.

That's it for me today.