World of Charity Stitching

Okay, one last quick post for the night...

Anyone who has been following my blog has seen my progress at various times for squares for World of Charity Stitching. This group of stitchers from around the world donate completed squares that are made into anything from quilts to bags to pillows to cards for children at Ronald McDonald House and seniors who may not have anyone looking out for them. I have contributed three squares thus far: Knotted Hearts and Have a Heart seen here with their fabrics and Birdhouse Neighborhood seen here with it's coordinating fabric. May Lily of the Valley Teacup will be my fourth contribution when it is done.

Tonight, Bonnie, one of our members who puts together these wonderful squares into beautiful quilts, posted pictures of the quilt tops for each of these quilts and I have to share them just to show you all how wonderful it is to see pieces come together to make a treasured gift for a complete stranger:

Birdhouse Quilt - My square is in the upper left corner!

Knotted Hearts Quilt - My square is the purple one, third square from the left, second row from the bottom

Have a Heart Quilt - My square is on the bottom row, second from the right

Aren't these quilts stunning? It really gives me an even greater sense of pride in my own finished projects when I see just how clearly they are just part of a greater whole! I highly encourage you to join WOCS - you pick what you want to stitch, which projects you want to join, whenever you wish to do them. It's a wonderful organization, and we would love to have you join us!

Until next time!
~Katy

August TUSAL

It's TUSAL time again! I love how the TUSAL posts and IHSW fall around the same time. It puts me in such a good mood for the weekend!

This month, I'm thrilled with my TUSAL Jar!

Lots of ORTs!

View From The Top!

This is comparison to last month and it's paltry beginnings!

July TUSAL

There are threads in there from my daughter's Daisy uniform and from the following projects I worked on and/or completed this month!

I was able to finish two projects since the last TUSAL post!

Purples from Knotted Hearts for World of Charity Stitching (WOCS)

Knotted Hearts

Pinks from Have a Heart, also for WOCS

And these are the projects I worked on that also have ORTs in my jar!

Italian Vista - As of July TUSAL

As of July TUSAL

And as of today:

Last Updated August 3, 2012

 European Bistro - A new start since the last TUSAL

Last Updated August 6, 2012

Birdhouse Neighborhood - Also a new start since the last TUSAL and a project for WOCS:

As of August 17, 2012

I also received my lovely prize from Karen at My Stitchy Ramblings today, and I'm so excited for these charts!

Yay for Charts!

And look at the lovely stitch counter she included as well! I've never had one before and I think it's just beautiful! It's so delicate and feminine and I love the colors. I fully plan on starting to use it from now on!

My Pretty Stitch Counter!

Thank you again, Karen!

Wow, this was a picture heavy post! I don't plan on posting much again until Sunday evening, most likely. I have family coming over Sunday afternoon for a house warming and meet my younger brother's girlfriend from Chicago party, so when I'm not stitching, I'll be getting the house ready for that. I fully plan on getting some stitching in, though, and hopefully finishing up Birdhouse Neighborhood. I'll be sure to come back and post my progress from the weekend!

I hope you all have a wonderfully stitchy weekend! Until next time!
~Katy

Word of Advice

In case you were ever wondering if it was fun to fall down half a flight of stairs......I'm telling you now......it's not.....ow......

My klutzy self slipped on our stairs, which made me slide/bump/crash down about 7 steps until I hit the ground, and it feels like  a mack truck has run over me. So needless to say, no stitching for me tonight...

I did make some progress on a few things yesterday, though.

First, I picked out the fabrics for Knotted Heart and Have A Heart and put both in the mail yesterday to be added to their respective quilts. What do you think?

Have A Heart With Fabric

Knotted Hearts With Fabric

 I also got the badges done on the front part of my daughter's Daisy vest...one of my followers asked about a "sew your own badge on" badge. Trust me...once these girls hit Brownies when they're in second grade, I'm putting needle and thread in hand to teach them how to cross stitch and stitch on their own badges!

Front Is Done!

I have about four or five badges left to sew on the back. I had planned on doing that tonight, but that didn't happen......maybe tomorrow......

I also picked up The World of Cross Stitching Issue 192 and The Best of Kooler Design Studio while I was out getting the fabric......I don't subscribe to any magazines currently, and The World of Cross Stitching is a UK magazine that I cannot justify the price for a subscription. I figure I can peek in it when I see it at a store and if there are at least three patterns in the magazine that I can see myself doing, I will buy it at the store. That definitely happened this time as there are several projects I can see myself doing! And the Kooler Design Studio Book is just a treasure trove! There are very few patterns in the book I didn't like!

Hopefully I'll feel more like stitching tomorrow...I really wanted to get my daughter's vest done and work on Italian Vista tonight, but it just wasn't happening. Maybe tomorrow will be better! I can hope!

Until then!
~Katy

Have A Heart - Complete!

Wow, this one took no time at all! Between chores and such yesterday, I settled in and watched the Olympics and got this project done before bed yesterday!

Have a Heart - Complete!

Sorry for the not so great quality of the picture. Today, I'm going to head out to get the fabric for both this and Knotted Hearts and then swing by the post office to put them in the mail. I'll try to get another picture of each with their respective fabrics before I send them on their way!

Today I probably won't work on my WIP's as much, primarily because I need to work on my daughter's Daisy Scout vest. She has a troop event next Saturday, and I want to get the badges she received at the end of the year put on her vest before the event.

Here's her vest:

The front of her vest currently

The back of her vest currently

 And here's what I need to put on!

She's earned a lot of badges!

Once I have this done, then I will definitely be diving into Italian Vista again! Working on these other two projects has made me miss it!

Until then, happy stitching!
~Katy

WOCS: Have a Heart

So now that I'm done with Knotted Hearts, I decided to go ahead and tackle the other WOCS piece I signed up for, called Have a Heart. The link for the chart can be found here. This is another quick and easy project, and with the Opening Ceremonies on tonight for the Olympics, I made myself comfortable to watch the show and got started!

I'm using variegated cranberry (DMC 107) for this piece as the entire quilt will be done in shades of pink and red. Between this and Knotted Hearts, I'm having lots of fun using the variegated colors!

Here is my progress as of tonight:

As of 7/27/12

I think I'm going to be watching a lot of Olympics this weekend, so I should be able to get this project done relatively quickly. I do plan on swinging by the craft store this weekend and grabbing fabrics to go with both Have a Heart and Knotted Hearts and hopefully I'll be able to send them both out at the same time for their respective quilts. There is a new theme to sign up for that was just opened tonight (birdhouses!) but it's not due until September, so I have some time to decide on a pattern and work on it, though I do plan on going back to Italian Vista once Have a Heart is done!

Hope you all have a fabulously stitchy weekend!

Hugs and Stitches!
~Katy