WIP

This is my progress as of a few minutes ago on Rosewood Manor's Past and Present....going back to it in a few....pardon the wrinkles and dark photo....I need to play with my camera more to get good photos....I miss my 35mm ;)

The Great Scissor Scamper

Tricia had a fun idea to show off all her scissors and challenged us to do so....and someone will win something, but I think just showing them off is fun. So visit Tricia's blog and join in the fun.
These are All of my scissors (I think I rounded them all up out of project bags).

These are how most of my scissors are everyday except for my Dovos at my stitching chair and a couple of pair in stitching project bags for on the go. I got the flower frog at one Antique store and the base at an antique store in Alabama. The top I had just happens to be like the one that should go on it.

Below are my Ginghers, Dovos & small Fiskars. I started with the Fiskars(1), but wanted something smaller so I received the silver Ginghers(5), bought the Lanell ginghers(3) to go with a scissor case pattern I stitched but have yet to put together. I received the Sarah Ginghers(4) for my birthday one year and finally last year I splurged for the Dovos(2) at Celebrations. The Dovos are my favorite of all my scissors and they don't leave my stitching chair area.

Below are my pretty scissors and some of my newest acquisitions. The last 3 pair are Kelmscott scissors- Woven, Tudor Rose & Devon.
The brown/gold fob is from my friend Minnie, the name fob CyndiB made for me, JannG gave me the Christmas fob, the bubbly one is a new acquisition from Embellishing Bits(Kelmscott)and I made the green marble fob.

Pictured below are my fun and least expensive scissors. Several of them are very sharp. The top left is a project I made at Silver Needle's Camp Wannasew and they gave us the scissors, needle threader & floss holders. The top right needlebook is from an exhange which included the fun scissors. The pink fob is from an exchange, the blue one I purchased from my LNS and the tea pot one was given at a gtg. The black handled scissors are Japanese and have a curved tip. I purchased them at a quilt show in Paducah.

Needleroll

I love to stitch up needlerolls as it gives me sampler satisfaction as well as getting a quick finish in....I have several I have to sew together yet then stuff them all and tie closed. This one I got a bit further before taking a picure. I love these colors. This is Sekas & Co. Fall leaves Needleroll.

WIP

Rosewood Manor Past & Present. I am stitching this per page except I am finishing a pattern that continues instead of stopping and starting with the page break. This is my progress as of this morning. Be sure and checkout Karen's website as there are several corrections....I knew one ahead of time and reprinted the page but a few more have been added since. I caught them and corrected them correctly and was going to email her but see she has then up at the site.

Here is Teensy Weensy

This is Keslyn's Teensy Weensy. As I posted earlier, I used some of her colors and some of what I had on hand and switched around a few to mix them up a bit. I hope it doesn't show up blurry....I don't like it when a piece doesn't fit my scanner and my picture has to be from the camera....not the best that way.
I did notice my favorite Gloriana silk 'Topiary' (which I substituted for something else) is identical to Gloriana's Autumn Arbor which it calls for.

WIP

This is my wip as of Friday morning....I have finished two more motifs since. It is Keslyn's Teensy Weensy over 2 on 40 ct. I am using a lot of called for but a few colors I had on hand instead.

Sorrow

Last weekend a dear friend lost her battle with cancer and yesterday was her visitation and funeral. A friend and I went early to the visitation, glad we went together.
I have several ornaments stitched by Michelle. She had stitched Mawmaw's quilt by M Designs and I fell in love with it so she passed her chart along to me and I stitched it for my mother a few years ago. Than I passed the chart along to another friend.
Here is the beauty....being shown in memory of Michelle.

Loose feathers

I finished Winter of the 2011 Blackbird designs loose feathers, so now all 3 are finished. I used DMC for CC colors

I have some boxes to put the additional patterns on when I stitch those out of these leaflets.

Metamorphosis

I loved this design when Tracy(Ink Circles)first posted it and it showed the fabric too light. I chose to use 35ct. Parchment over 2 and love the colors.

stash purging

I've decided to do some stash clearing out. I don't want to collect anymore LOL...I'm going to keep what I like at the moment that I hope to stitch someday. Cross eyed cricket and Prairie schooler are two of my collections....I've gone through CEC but not PS yet plus some other designs. Check out my photobucket link or my 2nd page here for sale additions. Keep checking back as I'm still uploading but wanted to give a heads up.