Thursday Night Stitching Gift Exchange

Dear Friends~

I hope you will enjoy the photos of the Thursday night stitching groups Christmas gift exchange. They are all amazing hand made gifts, made with lots of TLC. We also had a wonderful dinner at LaPizzeria, an upscale Italian restaurant where we get a banquet room for our yearly party. The food is delicious. We have such a good time.I didn't post many of the girls pictures, but couldn't resist this sweet picture of my dear friend, Ronda, who just opened the gift I made for her!!! Then Ronda and Linda, holding the rug Ronda hooked for Linda. 

Stay warm my friends~

Kim

Hello Stitching Friends!

Dear Friends~

I had Double Knee Replacement on Oct 3, 2013!!!!!!! OHMYGOSH, it's brutal and a long recovery. Still working on my comeback, but then I fell down the stairs and had a setback. Needless to say, I was very lucky I didn't break a bone or damage my surgery. So, I am taking one day at a time, and being very careful!!!! I want to Thank the girls for all the cards and words of encouragement and for the delicious food. So grateful for all of you! 

It has been such a long time since my last post!! Hope everyone is doing well and surviving these crazy temperatures. The gas company has been working round the clock in my neighborhood due to low gas pressure. They will be going door to door making sure everything is working properly, gas problems are never good.

The pictures posted are of the Christmas Gift exchange from the ladies in the Wed night stitching group that meet at Karen's house once a month. She has been hosting us for 20+ years, we are so thankful for her years of kindness to us. The gifts are so lovely and each one made with love!!! I am really Blessed to be a part of this group. , even though I am always finishing my project on the day of the party!!!! Every year, I tell myself I am going to do it early and then life takes over and I am down to last minute. The pictures of me are with dear Friends, Ella and JoAnn.

I have another party to post as well, check back soon~

Happy New Year & God Bless You~

Kim 

~Father's Day Remembrance~

Hello Dear Friends~

I know it has been such a long time since my last post!! Life can get complicated at times and it will steal away some things that you love to do! My DH Father had been quite ill and did pass away on May 31st. His life came full circle at 84 years old. He is in the loving arms of God now, enjoying the promise land that he so deserved! 

Knowing we will see him again and other loved ones that have gone before us brings great comfort, until then we have our dear memories, as he will never be forgotten~    

I found this lovely quote today and thought it was so appropriate for Fathers Day;

“There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s world when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”~~John Gregory Brown,Decorations in a Ruined Cemetary (1994)  

Wishing You Many Blessings~
Kim 

Bethany's~~ Country Life 1783

Hello Dear Friends~

I was with Joann Hoffman and Bethany Gallant (Mother and Daughter) and Ronda Price this past Saturday, as we went to Just Stitching, to pick up my finish and to drop off Bethany's new finish! The lovely and amazing Scarlet Letter's Country Life 1783. I promised you some photos and here they are. It is very large and very wide!!! Here is what Bethany has to share with us about stitching this piece;

As you remember, I started the CL sampler last spring when I was in Ohio visiting Mom. You girls all came over to Mom's for a stitch day! Any way, I love all my finished samplers, some were harder to stitch than others, but once the last stitch is in, you forget all about the hard times, frogging and wishing charts were perfect. We all know, the stitcher and the person reproducing the charts from antique samplers, are not perfect. We as stitchers all know this and continue on for the love of samplers!!

Thanks for visiting!

xoxoxkim

 Here is our favorite framer, Bonnie, measuring out this long sampler!! 

Here is the frame that we all picked out!!

 Here is Joann, I am adoring her! Isn't she Beautiful!!!  

Here's Ronda looking at all the goodies!!! She is such a sweetheart!!

 Bethany says; Regarding the tree, the leaves were suppose to be worked free hand, stem stitch.  I decided not to do the stem stitch and made what would have been the leaves, spiked like needles on a pine tree, then I also added brown cones in different sizes and shapes.  This reminded me of the pine trees in Florida and I think it turned out grea!.

 Love the cow!!!

 Bethany says; The sheep was supposed to be worked with bullion stitch, but I had completed, earlier, a Scarlet Letter sampler, Grazing Sheep and decided I would do something different, so I couched real lambs wool, twisting the wool as I couched with filament quilting thread.  I loved the look of that sampler so much, I decided to do the sheep on CL, the same way.  To me, it looks like a real sheep.

~Finished and Framed~

Hello Dear Friends~

I am so excited to share with all of you  my first finish of the New Year! I had started this piece towards the end of last year. It is Adam and Eve by La De Da.  I finally finished it (love the colors!) and picked out this beautiful frame a few weeks ago from our favorite framer, Bonnie. She works out of "Just Stitching" in Strongsville, OH. She does a fantastic job!

So Joann Hoffman and her daughter, Bethany who is visiting from Florida (for her Mom's Birthday!) and Ronda and I took a road trip to" Just Stitching" to pick up my finish and Bethany was dropping off a finish of hers, a stunning, HUGE sampler called  "Country Life". It is amazing, and I will post pictures soon~

Thanks for stopping by for a visit~

Kim   

Ella Dahling!!!

Hello Dear Friends~

At the Holiday gift exchange parties, I was so insane with excitement at all the beautiful items that had been made, I was taking pictures, trying to get everything on film...... in the meantime, I am told by Ella, that I had not taken a picture of the gift she had made for me!! She had drawn my name in the Thurs night group!!! Well  now, that was despicable on my part and I felt really bad, as Ella and I are good friends, we are serious shopping friends, we will pull in at any junk store, flea market, antique shop and we also love TJ Maxx, Ulta, Marshall's, Sephora, etc. You get what I am saying!!!

So here is my gift from Ella!! It is a Stacy Nash pattern, drum keep and slipper with a strawberry, have I ever told you how much I love handmade strawberries? They make my heart sing! LOL 

She changed the colors, using beautiful colored silks. Ella lined the slipper with some green thick wool, she also used a cool vintage button and stitched our initials on top. The strawberry was made with vintage velvet found on Etsy, and then she put on some black crystals, we love sparkly!!!!

Thank You Ella~~~I love the gift you made for me!

Hope you enjoy the pictures~

Best Wishes,

Kim