A Quaker Christmas is Finished

It didn't take very long at all tonight to finish up that final motif, and so here it is...

A Quaker Christmas
ByGone Stitches
Silkweaver 40 ct Newcastle Solo Linen, Crescent Colours Floss
Stitched 12/24/07 - 10/28/08

There is still time to sign up for my blog giveaway... see yesterday's entry for details... and Good Luck! :-)

Stitched on today: Finished A Quaker Christmas, and started a Christmas ornament for HoE Christmas Ornament Exchange **Mailed off HoE Floss Ring Tag Exchange today

Blog Giveaway

It is my turn now to do a blog giveaway. I have an extra issue of the new 2008 Just Cross Stitch Ornament Issue - brand new, unused, unread.... just leave a comment here in this entry and let me know you want to be signed up. I will draw a name on Thursday so that I can get it in the mail by the weekend... in time for the lucky winner to still be able to stitch up some ornaments for Christmas. Good luck!

And... a little more AQC... looks like I might be able to finish it in just one more sitting now...

Stitched on today: Finished HoE Floss Ring Tag Exchange, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas **Mailed out a gift today

Trick or Treat??

It just doesn't seem right to me to have trick or treating on October 26th from 1-5 PM. But, that is what my town did today. I am sure many others did as well, and I totally get the whole issue of safety and daylight and such... but heck, Halloween is on a Friday this year. Sounds like the most perfect day of the week for me for trick or treating... and WalMart sells those cool light up necklaces for 3/$1.00. It just doesn't feel right. As you can tell, we had our trick or treaters already today. We live in what is basically a gated community, without the gate. We had our 15-16 or so neighborhood kids, as per usual. I wonder what the neighbors would think of moving the event to at least dusk next year? Hmmmm.....

Just one more partial medallion left now... :-)

Stitched on today: Finished a gift, started HoE Floss Ring Tag Exchange, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

A little more AQC

I spent a lot of time stitching on a gift, but then I did find some time later today to add a bit more to A Quaker Christmas. Just the northeastern most point to work on now (makes sense, I live in the northeast... yep, I am a little punchy right now).

Stitched on today: Stitched on a gift and on A Quaker Christmas

Small Stuff

Time for another update of A Quaker Christmas. After finishing part two of my SBEBB Pumpkin Patch exchange, I found I had some time left over to do some of the small motifs on the sampler. Getting pretty close now - thanks to my cheerleaders ;-)

Stitched on today: Finished the second part of Pumpkin Patch Exchange, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

Honeycomb

Ah, there it is! I have been avoiding stitching this honeycomb-like motif. I just don't care for it... but there it is, finished... easy from here on :-)

Stitched on today: Stitched on Pumpkin Patch Exchange, and on A Quaker Christmas

NOEL

Ah, the final red Christmasy word, NOEL, has been added to A Quaker Christmas :-)

Stitched on today: Started SBEBB Pumpkin Patch Exchange, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

Right Back At It

After I finished up this really cute thing that I made for a Crazy Exchange (I love it and cannot wait until I can show it to you), I settled back in with A Quaker Christmas. At some points, my stitching slowed to a stop as the Boston Red Sox mounted an amazing comeback tonight in what would have been an elimination game for them :-) Where this will lead them, who knows... but it was very exciting tonight.

Stitched on today: Finished a CE Exchange, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

It's Growing

Bored with my little AQC updates yet? Sorry... just really want to get it done this year. The big motif on the right side border is growing fast now ;-)

I just put it down early, though, as I see an opportunity to finally go and read some blogs.... oh, Happy Columbus Day to my US friends... it was a nice day off :-)

Stitched on today: Finished MAW Exchange for Andrea, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

Fixing it up

I busily worked away on my MAW Exchange for Andrea today, but then had an urge tonight to fix my boo boo on A Quaker Christmas... back in business now ;-)

Thank you to those who still read, visit and comment in my blog. I really appreciate it, as you know I have been missing from yours for a while now. I am still so very busy and not finding much blog time, but I did make a commitment to myself that if I can manage to finish that MAW exchange tomorrow, I will then devote time to blog reading before the night ends... hope I make it!

Stitched on today: Stitched on MAW Exchange for Andrea, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

I earned it

I managed to finish up two exchanges today and even start a third, so I figured I earned my chance to work on A Quaker Christmas for a while again tonight ;-)

Stitched on today: Finished SBEBB Autumn House Exchange, finished SBEBB Halloween Exchange, and started Halloween Exchange for Becky

A little more...

A bit more of A Quaker Christmas... not too very much, as I was a bit distracted with surfing the internet and such to learn more about how today's political, um,.... fiasco.... will affect my already empty wallet...

Anyhow... I am so focused on this, but I really better decide on what to stitch for the Autumn House Exchange... and get it stitched up really soon too...

Stitched on today: Finished a Christmas ornament, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas **Mailed off CE Autumn Exchange and a gift today

Stickin' With It

I chose to continue to work away on A Quaker Christmas again tonight. Thanks for the votes of confidence on getting it done by the end of the year. I will, as long as I just don't let myself get too sidetracked.

Someone asked if there is a DMC conversion for this sampler. No, it is charted only for Crescent Colours floss. But as it is only three colors - green, gold and red - it should be easy to choose colors that would work ;-)

Stitched on today: Stitched on a Christmas ornament, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

A Quaker Christmas Again

I cannot show much of what I stitched on today. I had plenty to work on as it rained all day (again). But late in the evening I did pull out A Quaker Christmas, still trying to make sure it gets done by New Year's Eve, at least :-)

Stitched on today: Finished CE Autumn Exchange, started a Christmas ornament, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

Down to the last page

It's time to put a little extra attention on to A Quaker Christmas. I really want to get this one done this year (I did already stitch the year on it), and I am signed up for lots of exchanges that need to get done in October... so this one is going to get focus over all of my other WIPs now, that is for sure. I just have the one last page to stitch now ;-) I didn't realize how dark the left side of the photo is until I took it off of my camera.

Stitched on today: Finished a gift, started HoE Halloween Exchange, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

A Quaker Christmas Returns

With the distraction of Halloween Fairy now over, it was time to pull A Quaker Christmas back out for a while tonight while I was glued to watching the Tampa Bay Rays lose and give some ground back to the Red Sox ;-) It was nice to work on it again, although when my new light comes in tomorrow (according to the shipper's website, it is almost here as of today), I think I will enjoy working on the 40 ct again. It was not hard to do tonight, but I prefer to not encourage any eye strain.

Thank you so much for the sweet comments about Halloween Fairy. I don't know if she will be framed before Halloween. Maybe. I usually get things framed for my birthday in July and then at Christmas time. This would be off schedule for me, but DH did already offer to do it anyhow. We will see. As for stitching her quickly, she is smaller than most of Nora's designs, more like her Pixie collection... no fears stitchers, you can all stitch her up easily and relatively quickly ;-) Yes, she does use an awful lot of Kreinik and beads!

Stitched on today: Finished a gift, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

A little extra birthday :-)

The birthday goodness just keeps on going! I received some more lovely gifts over the past two days...

I received this lovely package from Kathy today - wow, she sent me a pretty biscornu and a fob.. so nice on lovely lavender with a pretty variegated floss. She also made me the cutest little travelling ort bag. That is the little folded up guy in the upper left of the photo. If you pull on the top slightly, it opens up to a little square bag for orts. Love it! And... a generous supply of lovely fibers too! Thank you so much Kathy :-)

And, yesterday I received this lovely little quaker pillow from Rowyn - isn't it just adorable?? Sorry I didn't post it yesterday, Rowyn. It was already dark out when I got it. I couldn't get a good photo indoors. Thank you!!
And, I worked away more on A Quaker Christmas again today - now I have reached the right side border!

Thank you all for the lovely comments on the redwork pinkeep for Goldie! For those who emailed me about where to get the issue of De fil en aiguille, I got mine from Violarium. It looks like it is temporarily out of stock, but I am sure Leena can get it for you quickly if you want it! She is amazing!

Thank you also to all who keep nominating me for Kreativ and Brilliant Awards! I really appreciate them! It was really hard (painful) to choose five blogs when I responded to the Kreativ Award... so I want to acknowledge everyone who nominated me - thank you! I just cannot go through choosing blogs again! I love them all!!

Stitched on today: Started a gift, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

It's been a while

According to my 2008 stitching file of photos, it has been since July 4th that I have stitched on A Quaker Christmas. Shame on me!! Here is tonight's progess - glad to be back with it again!

Stitched on today: Started part 2 of Seasonal (Spring) Exchange for Cathy K, and stitched on A Quaker Christmas

Happy Fourth of July!

Happy Fourth of July to all of my US friends - and American born friends too :-)

I settled in to watch Rascal Flatts/The Boston Pops/Boston Harbor Fireworks tonight along with A Quaker Christmas... I hope everyone else had as lovely an evening too.

... Funny video, poor quality though. This is two of the Boston Red Sox's relief pitchers - Jonathan Papelbon and Manny DelCarmen remaking Milli Vanilli's "Blame it on the Rain." They made this to show on the jumbotron during rain delays at Fenway Park :-) It's worth a peek... (the video was shot by a fan at the park... and he/she got distracted by someone going onto the field... but still captures it pretty well).

Stitched on today: Finished Scissor Pocket for MAW Exchange, stitched on A Quaker Christmas

AQC and Ava

I think I have managed to fix at least some of my camera problems ;-) I worked on gifts today, but then figured, oh why not... back to A Quaker Christmas for a while...

And here is where Ava has spent much of the evening... lying atop our copy machine (this was before I fixed the camera) - why??? Gosh, she is sitting there hoping we will give her some dry cat food that is in a bowl on one of the DVD racks behind her! (Our cats only get that as a treat as one is not allowed any dry food at all due to kidney issues).... what a sad life... sitting on a copier....

And this... just because I like it ;-)

Stitched on today: Started a gift, stitched on a gift and A Quaker Christmas