COMING BACK FROM THE FRAMER

 I sent Monet's Irises to L&M Framing in Cincinnati, OH a couple of weeks ago.  I got this picture from them the other day.  It is all framed and, on its way back to us.  She had sent me several pictures of frame choices, and this is the one we chose.  It was the last one she sent us.

It should be here on Wednesday.  At least that is what the tracking says.  I can't wait to see it in person.

Then yesterday, I got a call from Keepsakes.  SubRosa Santa is finished and will be flying back home.  That is if flying from the USPS is even a thing.  Barbara, from Keepsakes, said it turned out beautiful and if I didn't want it she knew someone who would take it.  I am planning on giving it to Carla for Christmas.  I wonder if that will happen.  Yes, it will because I don't need any more Christmas decorations.

WIPS brought into November

Designer:  Tempting Tangles - Project:  Quakers in France
This is my Gridiron Grind Project
for every point the Philadelphia Eagles score I stitch 10 stitches.
I did stitch for preseason games, but I didn't keep track.

9/13 - 24 points = 241 stitches, I stitched 241

9/20 - 24 points = 240 stitches and I stitched 240

9/28 - 7 points = 70 stitches and I stitched 89

10/4 - 20 points = 200 stitches and I stitched 200

10/11 - 17 points = 170 stitches and I stitched 193

10/18 - 14 points = 140 stitches and I stitched 185

10/26 - 21 Points = 210 stitches and I stitched 218

Designer:  The Primative Hare - Design:  A Christmas Carol:Scrooge

Designer:  The Scarlett House - Design: Pumpkin Pumpkin

I wonder why I picked 1 large, Quakers in France and 2 medium projects to stitch.  I don't have any smalls and I don't plan on starting anything else until I get one of these three finished.  I think that Pumpkin Pumpkin will be the first one to bet finished although I still have a lot of that to stitch.
 

2 Fully Finished Objects and 1 Stitching Finish

 I've been waiting for Bob to center 2 designs in hoops so I could fully finish them.  He finally did it on Sunday and I finished one yesterday afternoon and the other one this afternoon.

Curious Carrie Designs - Mini Sampler Series Winter
This was part of a series of seasonal series from Just Cross Stitch in 2025

Holiday Hoopla 4th of July by With Thy Needle & Thread

I finished the stitching on this yesterday afternoon before I worked on fully finishing Holiday Hoopla.

Pattern:  Cocoa & Cookies
Designer:  Primrose Cottage
Fabric:  18CT Sand
Floss:  Called for DMC alternative
1st Stitch:  09/23/2026 - Last Stitch:  10/05/2026
For:  I don't know, I don't even know why I stitched it other than I thought it was really cute
Notes:  I believe this was a 1st Friday Freebie from last December

WIPs brought forward from September

 I brought 3 WIPs forward from September.

Primrose Cottage - Cocoa & Cookies
This includes stitching I did on 10/1
Why am I stitching a Christmas ornament, because I thought it was cute. I think this is one of their 1st Friday freebies from last year.
 

Tempting Tangles - Quakers in France
This is my Grid Iron Grind project.  
My team is the Philadelphia Eagles.  During the preseason I stitched 5 stitches for every point the Eagles scored.  During the regular season I am stitching 10 stitches for every point they score.  This is a big project but as you can see the Eagles haven't scored an abundance of points.  The stitching is for 3 preseason games and 3 regular season games.  Yes, I only stitched half the horse because it is on a page break.   

The Primitive Hare - A Christmas Carol: Scrooge
I saw this stitched by a floss tuber, Sew Me Sarah, and thought Bob would like it.  Bob bought me the chart last year for Christmas.  I wish I had known that it had quarter stitches, I don't think I would have stitched it.  However, since it isn't as big as I thought and since I have the chart and since I have stitched quarter stitches on AIDA before I will continue to stitch this. 

I should finish Cocoa & Cookies in the next couple of days.  Then I am going to start Primrose Cottage's October 1st Friday freebie which is an Autumn design whose name I don't remember/

A Cross Stitch Halloween Display

 I don't stitch much for Halloween.  This year when I received the Just Cross Stitch Halloween issue I fell in love with a design called Free Spirit.  I quickly stitched it and fully finished it.  Love it.  Then I was trying to decide how to display it.  I remembered the 2 lollipops I had stitched many, many years ago and thought they would be neat to display together.  I went on ETSY and bought a small wooden bowl.  Bob cut Styrofoam to fit in the bottom which I then covered with black tissue paper and pushed the lollipops down into the Styrofoam.  Then placed Free Spirit in the middle.  This morning as I was pulling out a few more Halloween decorations, I found another little ghost pillow I had stitched several years ago so I added him to the display along with 2 ghosts I made in ceramics.  I think it turned out good.

Except for Free Spirit I have no idea what the other cross stitch designs are.  

2026 Fully Finished Christmas Ornament Gifts

I finally fully finished all the Christmas ornament gifts for 2026.  I have been working on them for several weeks, maybe a month.  I would do one step to them all and then put them aside for a few days, then do the next step until yesterday when I finally finished the last 4.  I am so glad to have these done.  Now comes the hard part, deciding which one goes to which person.  You will see I have names after a few of them.  That is because I knew when I was stitching them who they were for.  Baking Spirits Bright is for a niece who does a lot of Christmas cookie baking.  She makes trays and gives them to her fellow employes.  The Burgandy Frosty is for a friend who moved to Florida to remind her of our Pennsylvania winters.  The Blue Noel is for Kayla.  I knew I wanted to stitch it for her the moment I saw it.  It just looked like something she would like.  There are several ornaments that will break my heart to give away.  Winter Night and Baked Goods I would love to keep.  Unfortunately, I have so many Christmas tree ornaments I just can't keep them.  What I am going to do is write the name of the ornaments on a slip of paper, one for each ornament and they write the recipients names on other pieces of paper and have Bob pick names, and I'll pick the ornament name or the other way around.  

Barefoot Needle Arts - Baking Spirits Bright 
for Lori

Luminous Fiber Arts - Frosty
Stitched in Burgandy
for Linda

Luminous Fiber Arts - Frosty

Stitched in in Red - this was what the design called for

Luminous Fiber Arts - Stitched in Green

Lizzie Kate - Got Snow

Little House of Needleworks - Tree Farm 

Little House of Needleworks - Gingerbread Cookie

Little House of Needleworks - I don't know the name of this design

Little House of Needleworks - It's Snow Cold

Grandma's Kringle - Winter Night

Caron Collection - Blue Noel
When I first saw this design, I knew it had go to
Kayla

Little House of Needleworks - Seven Pines

I don't know the designer for this 
Baked Goods

 

A Fully Finish

 

Designer:  Sam Breir Stitches (ETSY) - Design:  Peanut Butter Cookie

 

          Nothing fancy about this finish.  Just glued to a piece of cardboard with felt on the back and a hanger.  This is the 2nd one of these I stitched.  I ruined the 1st one.  This will be a present for Bob when we decorate the tree.