September Unspoken

I was very unfocused in September so no page finish yet :D  Maybe next month.

I did do a very few stitches on page two to keep a line from forming and/or to finish off a length of floss.

I don't decorate for Halloween - it's too rural where I live; the schools have Halloween parties and we don't get trick or treaters 'cause they are all at the schools.  I save my energy for the Christmas decorating!  It's a big thing to drive around and look at people's Christmas decorations and last year I finally had a few cars stop to look at mine.  So silly but so fun!

Tama

Dede's September Progress

I use to decorate more for Halloween but as I get older I don't like the hassle of getting out and putting away so just decorate for fall.  A few stitched Halloween pieces are hung but that is it.

Not a large amount of progress this month but I had a start and finish of another piece.  I have a small house done and working on the large house in Sparrow. Previous months progress and as of today:

I stitched Hands on Designs -Everyday Sampler Banner for one my nephews and his wife.  This is the second time I have stitched it.  I love the design and plan to do the actual sampler for myself. 

Keep stitching! Dede

Susan's September Check-in

My stitching mojo went on walk-about this month.  I did little bits here and there but there wasn't any real quality (or quantity) stitching time.  Not to say there wasn't progress, just not as much as I had hoped.

When last you saw Shakespearean Fantasy, it was here:

and when I put it away a week or so ago, it was here:

 

That is half and a little bit more of page 1.  I am getting my rotation back on track starting this week, in the hopes of kick starting my mojo.

 

Oh yes, this month's question.  I don't decorate for Halloween.  I never really have.  I have two stitched Halloween pieces, Scardey Cats by Lizzie*Kate and a Jack-o-Lantern that was part of the Secret Needle Night from The Silver Needle and most of the time I forget to put them out.  I do have three others: Sleepy Hollow  by Gledon Place; Sleepy Hollow by Crossed Eyed Cricket; and, Skelton Crew also by Cross Eyed Cricket in my stash. 

September.

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★ Ana Cristina ★

September posts

Ready  to start posting your updates for September?

Tammu

September's Progress

I have started to get the outline of the Emerald City tower!  I am really enjoying seeing this progress bit by bit and I am really psyched to see more and more. Here's to everyone enjoying their projects and enjoying this wonderful hobby!

Happy stitching!!
Trina

Halloween!

I totally celebrate Halloween.  I love getting dressed up and making Halloween drinks.  The only problem is that I never know what I'm doing.  One year I threw a party, we would sometimes buy tickets for the Disney party.  This year I don't know since we're in a new state.  But I love Halloween stitching and decorating.  I only have half of a Halloween stitch done so far but I divided the pattern into 4 pieces do I can still decorate.

Hi Everyone

Well fall is upon us and Halloween and Christmas is around the bend.

Question for this month: Do you celebrate Halloween? If so what do you do and how do you decorate? Do you like to stitch Halloween patterns too???

I have a 3 almost 4 year old spiderman wanna be so I will be taking him out for Halloween this year. Last year he was to afraid to go out but now I think he is a little more aware that he will get candy.

My stitching bug has flew away again, I have been trying to put a few stitches in my tiger but I am struggling.

Tammy

Linda's Cinderella Castle

Again, I only stitched on this for 3 days.  I'm always surprised at how much I have gotten done.

8-31-15

7-31-15

Linda

Ouch!

Not a great month stitchy-wise.  We've been mostly focused on moving so I don't have much to show but I did finish a page which was all confetti and started the next bit.

Last time I was here:

Now I'm here:

 It's hard to see the first pic because that's my setup in the car but I got a few orange stitches in and the rest of the word.  

Today we're in New Orleans so I'm off to have some fun :)

Cinderella's Castle by Kate

I filled in quite a bit this month, adding several more shades of blue.

Where I was last month:

Where I am now:

Very soon I'll be stitching on the castle! 

Happy Stitching!

Kate

August's Progress on Wizard of Oz

Well, I managed to do a little bit on the Wizard this month. I'm getting very close to the Emerald City tower - I can hardly wait!

Happy stitching!
Trina

Sarah's August Update

I only made a little progress on my HAED. But I'm hoping that as soon as my new stitching frame gets here my needle will begin to fly.

Letting Go

July 30, 2015

August 30, 2015

~Sarah

August Update Leonore

I didn't stitch on Dark Force this month, but it's okay as I hadn't planned to, I have reached my goal for the year, so everyhing else is a bonus, and I really need to finish some brithday/christmas presents first. I am still checking in, if only to talk about the monthly questions, of which there are two this month.

The first is about our first cross stitch project. Well my very first project was a bread cloth I made for my dad (in pastel pink, I'm sure he loved it lol), which was a stamped cross stitch. I'm not sure if he still has it and sadly, I don't have a picture, but I do have one of my first counted cross stitch, which was a trio of strawberry plants - they were actually supposed to be stitched seperately and finished as a pair of potholders and a jam lid, but seven or eight year old me chose to ignore the instructions and made this instead :D

The second question of the month is about colours, and while I do have favourites (I really like autumn colours, especially gradients from green-yellow-orange, and purples), depending on the use and situation I can gush about nearly every colour. I'm currently stocking up on DMC, going for a full collection, and they are all so nice and shiny!

August - Unspoken

Here is my progress - two more columns done and only the last two of the page to go.  I already started the confetti in them. (Can you call it confetti when it is only about six colors? lol!)

The first cross stitch I ever did was in High School Home Ec class - they always taught a craft once a year and that year was cross stitch.  We got ONE lesson and that's all the instruction I ever really got that I learned from a real, live person :D   But she was a good teacher, made sure all the stitches were crossed the same way, no knots, and not to carry colors too far.  We all stitched a little owl.

I added the 'A' later, because I really loved doing cross stitch but the one thing they didn't tell us was where to get more stuff to stitch!  So I really wanted to do more.  The 'A' was my baby sister's initial.  Then I didn't stitch for a couple years until I found some kits in a discount store and was like 'OH! I know how to do that!' and I've never completely stopped since :D

Tama