Thursday, January 20, 2011

January stitching

Last night, while it was snowy and blowing and icy as all get out, I stitched by the fire, curled up in my nice blanket sitting near my favorite husband. As I sat there, I thought that I'm a very lucky girl. What is better than a nice fire, and being toasty warm, with your favorite person on a cold wintry night? Oh, and stitching!

Now, this little guy is not what I stitched on last night, this is one I finished over break. He is "EduCATed" Stitched on some scrap linen I had. The pattern suggested using Weeks floss, but I didn't have any and I was not about to invest in any just for this little 3" x 6" project. Fortunately, they gave DMC floss colors as an "alternative". I have oodles and oodles of DMC floss, so that's what I used. He's now living in my office. Framed.
In many of the stitching blogs I read, folks participate in a TUSAL (totally useless stitch along) and share pictures of jars containing thread ends and scraps. Each month, all these gals post a picture of their jar of thread scraps.
I don't participate in that stitch along, but I do have a jar by my stitching spot for ends and pieces. This is probably 6 months worth...excluding the Kleenex at the bottom...
This is what I stitched last night:
It doesn't look like much yet, but just using pretty pastel colors makes me think of spring. And these colors are nice and cheery when it's crappy outside. I started this project on Sunday. I'm using the fabric that came in the kit--Aida, 14 count. The only reason I'm resorting to the Aida fabric is because I didn't have any better fabric in my stash that was big enough for this project. I debated waiting until I could get to Hobby Lobby, but decided I'd not be wasteful and use the darned Aida. Besides, the darned old eyes are struggling even with this right now. (Never fear, I went to the Eye Dr. yesterday. And new glasses will be ordered tomorrow. The weather was crappy enough after my appointment that I didn't order glasses then, and I left my script at home today, so I'll have to order new lenses tomorrow.)

And, finally, I'll just leave you with a taste of spring...the picture of what my latest project will look like when finished.




2 comments:

Megan said...

Your favorite husband??? How did the others feel about that? lol. Your projects look great!

Shelljo said...

What they don't know, won't hurt them! And...we have a good friend who we jokingly refer to as "my boyfriend" or "my other husband". So, Kev actually does qualify as my favorite one!