Catching up for the merry, merry, month of May

What is the smelliest dirtiest thing you have ever been asked to sew? This is mine:

These huge oven mitt like things with metal clips are filled with deer hair, and apparently smelled way worse than when I received them to sew closed. What I won't do for family. Here is what they were for...

These are Chris' beautiful work horses and seemingly they are to clip to the straps against the horses legs (?) to protect them when he trains them. My handy work must be holding up as I haven't been asked to repair them. I really must get around to taking my own photos to share =)

Next up...

Lots of green threads this month...you'll see why on Friday when I finally post my perfect picnic.

Did not work a whole lot on my cross stitching. Larger project took most of my time. Used jeweled effect thread here. Still need to find a tutorial for adding beads to my project. There are flourishes on top and below the words, and I think I'd like to do them up in beads. Any ideas?

I was supposed to show my project yesterday, but got yucky sick over the weekend and the picnic we had planned with our granddaughter has had to be postponed. We will just have to have a trial run without her. Showing on Friday now instead.  Here is the list of participants. We sure have been wowed to date!

Hosted by Mdm Samm of Sew We Quilt, head cheerleader is Mary from I Piece 2-Mary

Monday June 2

Sew Incredibly Crazy

How Art You?

The Reluctant Quilter at Hazelnut Deux

GrammieQ's

I Piece 2 -Mary

Pig Tales and Quilts

Tuesday June 3

Ridge Top Quilts

A Stitch in Time

Quilting in a Not Shell

Just Let Me Quilt

Creativity Amongst Chaos

Wednesday June 4

Quilt Taffy

Pampered Pettit

Creatin' in the Sticks

Miss Priss Quilts

Life in the Scrapatch

That's Sew Julie

Thursday June 5

Ella and Nesta's Little Room

Thimblemouse and Spouse

Jane's Quilting

Amanda Murphy Design

Quilting Quietly

Words & Stitches

Childlike Fascination

Friday June 6

Quiltscapes

More Stars in Comanche

Stitchin' By The Lake

Life, Quilts and a Cat Too

Kris Loves Fabric

In The Boon Docks

Living with Purpose

Monday June 9

Cherry Blossoms

The Quilting Queen Online

Mad Quilter's Disease

Daisy Days

Buzzing and Bumbling

From My Carolina Home

Sew We Quilt

And to finish up this long post, just a few extra photos for something nice to look at!

 

 

These are the newest batch of young squirrels. I have counted 8 of them and they like to play tag and chase each other through the trees. It is funny to watch them all run away, one after the other in a long line down along the same tree limb. Last month they were not long enough to feed directly from the feeders and had to knock the seed to the ground to eat it =)

TUSAL - April 29

Been quite busy sewing this month. Worked on a wonderful cross-stitch gift for my Mother-in-law, which I gave to her for Easter. I'll be showing that off (again) in my SMALLS report tomorrow =)

I'm thinking I'll put these lovely threads out for the birds, but I'll wait till next week as we are to get rain for the remainder of this week. That should clean up the rest of the snow around here, and make a great dent in the ice floe currently bobbing in the middle of my pool.

Here is my collection for this report:

Didn't think my crocuses would come up this year with the weird weather we've been having. So grateful they did!

And check out the comments of Daffy Cat's post to see the pretty ORTs of others =)

See you again...May 28...Happy Stitching!

TUSAL ~ March 30

A day late, but here are my ORTs since last posting. Most of my threads this month are grey. Foundation paper piecing threads were my greatest contributor this month, But down in the bottom are the red threads from my small stitchery of the month.

Linking up to Daffy Cat for

And a gratuitous video. Love listening to these birds, though I usually get out earlier before commuter traffic starts so I can listen to them sing longer. You also get to see how much snow we still have, but it is melting slowly. The first small tree is my cherry tree. The metal can is my ash can for the ashes from my wood stove. I will eventually spread these over the grass. The small green building is my crafting studio. Soon we will be warm enough that I will work in there rather than at the dining room table. The big maple tree to the right of my studio is one of the main areas where the tractor blows our driveway snow all winter...hard to believe the base of that tree will eventually be ringed with flowers.

Happy stitching, see you on April 29 for the next TUSAL report!

TUSAL - March 1

Whoa, the new moon for the next TUSAL with DaffyCat has come and gone...I must have been sleeping LOL

 For the story of why I (we) are posting photos of our thread trimmings please go here. I'll wait while you take a look... *smile*

And here are my trimmings since last time:

Thanks for stopping by! Oh, and check out my previous post...a call to Craft it Forward in 2014. I'm still on the lookout for 5 4 interested people.

Hugs & Kisses Day 4

Have you been 'round to see today's sew creative and sweet projects?

Feb 17th

Lady Mary

I piece 2 Mary

Lady Vickie

More stars in Comanche

Lady Anne

Stitchingbythebeach

Lady Selina

selinaquilts

Lady Theresa

bumbleberrystitchn

Lady Jane

janesquilting

Another successful day of sewing love!

TUSAL - January 30

Okay, January 30th is here, and it is time to join DaffyCat for the TUSAL. Go here for a full explanation and/or to sign up and join in the fun!

This has been a pretty productive month! Included in my jar are bits of sewing thread, dmc floss, yarn, and batting from all the various projects I have worked on since my last post.

I often take my smaller projects with me in the car, or to work, or anywhere I will be sitting for any extended length of time. I will need to find something to take with me to store my bits in while I am out and about. A glass jar just does not travel well. Right now I am using a small ziploc baggie when I bring my hand stitching with me. What do you use? Any suggestions?

Here is my jar:

Guess I will empty this into a ziploc and begin again. Next TUSAL check in is March 1. Happy stitching till then!

TUSAL - January 1

 This is my first ever posting for TUSAL...visit here for full explanation of what is considered an ORT and also to understand the fun and silliness of this stitch-along. I plan to save my ORTs for the birds later this Spring...and the rest that is accumulated for next Spring.

 I have been tossing my threads into the trash because I've been so hit and miss with my sewing, BUT, have you seen the projects I have signed myself up for? I'm going to be very busy this year...learning, sewing, knitting, and other miscellaneous stitching. Yay!

So, without further ado, here is my ORT jar for January 1. Empty, but that is only because I have been trashing my beautiful cast off threads...new year, new jar...a clean slate.

 

Here are the 2014 TUSAL posting dates...they fall on the "new moon".

January 1
January 30
March 1
March 30
April 29
May 28
June 27
July 26
August 25
September 24
October 23
November 22
December 22