Dusting Off This Thing

Anyone miss me?

I'm back!

After taking a few months break during which time I've been dealing with craziness with school, summer, Girl Scouts, work stress, home life, etc., I've decided that it's time to come back!

Stitching is a stress reliever for me, and goodness knows with the stresses I have to deal with lately, my blood pressure could use some relaxation!

I've updated my fabric stash link and I'm still deciding how I'm going to start my rotation again. I think I'd like to finish something sooner rather than later, so I will likely look through my WIP's and pick up the one closest to being done and finish it. Get back into the stitching routine a bit before determining the rotation schedule again...

I've missed you all! Can't wait to start sharing again!

Until next time,
Katy

This weekend...

I'm going to try to pick up a needle again...

Wish me luck...

~Katy

Missing...

One stitching bug...if found, please return...Thank you!

~Katy

Easter Treasure Blog Hop

Happy and Holy Good Friday to you! This year, I'm participating in the Easter Treasure Blog Hop hosted by Jo at Serendipitous Stitching! If you've found my blog from the hop, welcome, I hope you enjoy it here! My letter for the blog hop is.....................

F

And here is my picture! Not Easter themed, but definitely spring themed! I stitched this as a gift to my sister for being my maid of honor in my wedding almost 1 years ago!

 I hope you have a wonderful Easter holiday! To continue on the blog hop, head on over to visit Cheryl at Today I Found...

Until next time!
~Katy

WIPocalypse - March Edition

It's time for another WIPocalypse update! I feel both good about my progress this month and at the same time disappointed I haven't done more!

The theme for this month is:

March 27 – Themes: Designer – Chatelaine, Style – Springtime, Colors – Green and Yellow

I currently don't have any Chatelaine pieces in my WIPocalypse rotation, but I used this as the perfect excuse to add my first Chatelaine to my stash - Alhambra Garden!

Alhambra Garden

Isn't it just beautiful! I will need to find the perfect hand dyed fabric to stitch it on, but I think this piece is just gorgeous! So thrilled to have it in my collection!

The other two themes this month I definitely have made progress with, as every single one of my WIPocalypse pieces were touched this month, some more than once!

Italian Vista - This covers both the Springtime theme with it being so full of life as well as the Green and Yellow theme. Here it was at the start of the year:

And here is the progress up to this point:

 

Next is European Bistro, which also has the month's theme colors! Here it was at the start of the year:

 

And now:

Flames of Desire - There is definitely a lot of yellow in this piece! Here it was at the start of the year:

 And here it is now:

Christmas Countdown - Doesn't fit the subject theme, but definitely the colors as I worked a lot on yellow and green borders! Here it was at the start of the year:

And now:

My Witch's Brew - This one is a stretch for the theme...but there is green smoke in the cauldron, and yellow helps to make the orange colors throughout when you mix with red...yeah...that's it!! At the start of the year:

And now:

And finally, Beauty and the Beast Falling in Love definitely falls into the spring time theme with all of the flowers in it, and there is a lot of yellows and greens in the piece as well! Before:

 

And now:

Not bad, not bad at all!

Until next time!

~Katy