Month: April 2016

WIP Wednesday

A little late but I had to write my WIP Wednesday post. As I mentioned in an earlier post, I haven’t been following my rotation. I did work on Fergie and Fergus which was also the one day SAL for the 24th of April called “Purple Haze”. Purple Haze is a one day SAL, part of Stitch Maynia Facebook group, which we had to stitch using only the color purple.

This was my starting point:

This is where it stands right now:
Not much but there are stitches there. Anyway, that was my WIP Wednesday 🙂

Stitch Maynia

Hola Stitchers!

I’ve been a bad stitcher lately. I haven’t been following my rotation because I’m excited about an event that will start on May 1st and I’ve been getting ready for it. Stitch Maynia will start this Sunday! For those of you who don’t know what that is, Stitch Maynia is an event in the Facebook group that I am a member of: Stitch Maynia 🙂

Well, this event started last year where a group of stitchers got together doing something crazy: 15 starts for the first 15 days. However, others got even crazier and started 1 project every day of the month. That’s 31 starts!

Personally, since it’s my first year in Stitch Maynia, I’ll start small and do 15 new starts the first 15 days.

This is my plan for Stitch Maynia:

May 1st: Pumpkin Passport by The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery (yes, I’m joining the fun)

 

May 2nd: I Love Coffee by Soda Stitch (Freebie)

May 3rd: May – The Potting Bench by Erica Michaels (Freebie)

May 4th: Bathtub Luxury by Susan Bates (Cross Stitch Gold)

May 5th: I Love Cross Stitching by Michaela Learner (Freebie)

May 6th: Merry Christmas by New York Dreamer (Just Cross Stitch 2014 Ornament)

May 7th: His name is Jesus by Joyful Expressions (Freebie)

May 8th: Satisfaction by Elizabeth Almond (Freebie)

May 9th: Snowflake Frost by Country Garden Stitchery

May 10th: Stitcher Sayings by Rhonda Norrie (Freebie)

May 11th: Coffee by Barbara Ana (Freebie)
You can see the pattern here.

May 12th: Let it Snow by Dames of the Needle (Just Cross Stitch 2014 Ornament)

May 13th: Keep Calm and Stitch by Maria Diaz Designs

May 14th: Tea by Barbara Ana Designs (Freebie)
You can find the pattern here.

May 15th: Believe in the Magic by Angel Stitchin (Just Cross Stitch 2014 Ornament)

Bloghop: Subscriptions

Bloghop question: What stitching subscriptions do you currently have and love?

This question was posted back in February and I’m a little late answering as I just found this bloghop event in Stitching the Night Away website. To answer this question, I’d have to say that the only subscriptions I have is Just Cross Stitch Magazine and Cross Stitch and Needlework Magazine. I just signed up for the latter one and I’m still waiting for my first issue. These two magazines are my favorite ones by far.

My plans are to sign up for fabric of the month, thread of the month, and stitchybox. I’m actually looking forward to that.

Visit all the blogs in this round of the Stitching the Night Away Stitching Blogger Blog Hop:
Find the instructions on how to participate in this round by clicking here.

Stitching the Night Away Stitching Bloggers Blog Hop

New Stash

I just got new stash for the big event next month. Stitch Maynia will start May 1st and I’m ready to do 15 starts during this month; one per day for the first 15 days. The rest of the month I will be working on my WIPs. One per day; and, so far, I have 16 WIPs (without counting the new 15 starts). Anyway, I will be writing about it in a different post.

For now, this is my new stash to kit up 15 charts:

I just got fabric and DMC threads. Now I’m all ready. 
I also got my very first needle minders. This is the first time I get to work with them. So I got three gorgeous minders from Gina’s Unique Boutique. Gina has a Facebook group and an Etsy store. 
I also got 4 old magazine from a friend who didn’t want them. She also gave me a crochet magazine; I don’t know what I’ll do with them but I’m kinda curious to learn how to. 
Anyway, that’s all the haul I got. I’ll come back tomorrow with more posts.
Gracias!

Pink and Blue Flower SAL

Hola again stitchers!

This is my update for my April Showers Bring May Flowers SAL. I had a little bit of an issue with the fabric for Pink Flower: I cut it too short! It was my mistake mainly because I didn’t think of the border. Sometimes my mind takes a vacation and only leaves the excitement I’m feeling at the moment.

So, I will only have one little square left over which is obviously not good! Therefore, I will have to change that border. Don’t know what I will do but I’ll figure it out. I still feel a little bummed though. Anyway, this is how they look like as of today. I got these patterns free when I bought the new DMC colors. I decided to stitch them as part of the April SAL at Stitch Maynia. Pink Flowes is stitched on 14ct ivory aida and started on 3/13/16 and Purple Flower is stitched on 14ct oatmeal aida and started on 4/1/16. I’m almost done with both vases. My next step will be figure out how I’m gonna do the borders.

New Facebook Page!

I just wanted to let you know that I have a new Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/latinstitcher/. Please help me out and like my page. Comment on here and let me know which one is your page/instagram/twitter/blog and I’ll go like/subscribe.

Muchas gracias!

Lucy

Advent Animal SAL

Hola stitchers!

So last week I mentioned that I did not like the way Katie Kitty from the Advent Animal SAL came out. This was mainly because of my poor choice of fabric which was white aida. Yesterday I spent almost the whole day trying to decide. I had a blue aida that I chose for another project. So, I swiched fabrics. Now, this SAL will be done in 14ct blue aida (as opposed to 16ct white).

In addition, I changed the border and chose to do a border that a fellow stitcher in the SAL Facebook group designed. It is of a cute little christmas stocking:

This will be the new home for Peter Polar Bear

My intention, once I finish the whole series, will be to make it as a pocket ornament. I will be starting Peter tomorrow.

Gracias for reading! Happy stitching!

Lucy