2012 Finishes!

The Tree Club: Seven Trees Stitched

in Early Months of 2012

January 2012

Elegant Rebekkah Pilgrim

May 2012 

Indian Scout

October 2012

Witch's Tools

November 2012

Dark Star Little Present

 

December 2012

Christmas Crazy Quilt                                

2012 Work In Progress Projects:

The WIPs...these took alot of my time, writing lessons, stitching, working

out the threads and stitches, etc.  The only thing left to do is background 

and a bit of work on the Garlands!

Jonathon Pilgrim

Indian Squaw:

Elegant Turkey

Sweet Pea Sampler

And so into 2013, 

I will continue to work on the

WIP's!

Happy Stitching, All!

Kelly

Kelly goes Stumpwork Crazy!!!

Hello All!

I am on a role with the stumpwork!  

I just COULD NOT WAIT to SHARE these images!!!

 A Fancy New Cauliflower!

Which began as a small piece of felted wool,

scrunched and couched in place:

The wool is covered with Knots in 2 shades of Cream:

Now we move out a bit and add Silk Ribbon:

(Notice there is a gap between the silk and the padded knots)

Now we expand the knot brigade outward to reach the ribbon

and start to fill in crevices.  Also we picked up three additional

shades of Cream...ranging from Celadon Shoot to Vanilla Bean to Dried Thyme:

A bit more silk, and another crop of Knots:

The finished work is a Vegie Delight!

Wait!  There is more to Show:

A Fabulous White Winter Gourd!

Working on the Cauliflower with photo images on my lap-top.

Google Images...my handy reference!

Our gentleman holding his Rifle...his handsome Hunt Satchel

And the magnificent Wild Turkey!

Stay Tuned!

Happy Stitching!

Kelly

Pilgrim Gent & Indian Brave

Well Hello Stitchers!  I had every intention of blogging last night.  In fact I even told Colleen,
"I'm fixin' to blog here in a little bit!"  (Can y'all hear the Texas?  What has become of this Ohio Girl?)  Anyway, somehow I got completely distracted and didn't.  Now, for the life of me, I can't figure out why, or what happened?  Could it have been my three swimmers all having time trials at different times all evening from 4:30 'til after 7?  Could it have been hubby calling at eleventh hour to say he was working late?  Could it have been my 6th grader coming to me in tears and saying I had forgotten to turn in her paperwork for next school-years volleyball team, and she didn't get her uniform yesterday like all of her friends?
(Never mind that she didn'texactly give me the paperwork, and it's her job to turn in the paper-work...I am not a middle-schooler!!)  ARGH!!!!  Nah, couldn't have been any of that!

I am so thrilled with how well he is turning out.  He is the perfect counter to our Elegant Rebekkah!  Although he is not fancy, by any means, there is a simple Classic Elegance to his costume.  The jacket actually looks like a gorgeous brocade cloth, which would have been woven in Belgium and purchased in London.  His bride would have hand embroidered the silk leaf treatment around the hem of his coat.  The rifle looks so Cool!  It was an item that had me stumped for a while and yes, I did rip it out twice before arriving at the perfect thread and stitch combination!

Adding the final button-hole wrap stitch to hat-brim.

Hat Finished, with buckle and scrunched silk hat-band.  Gorgeous!

Some of you may be wondering why you don't see any garland or background stitching?  Well, I am trying

something a little different than my normal stitching method.  In order to stay on the established Lesson schedule, it occurred to me that I would just focus on 'new stitching' for the next 2 characters.  In other

words, stitch the characters, their costume & accoutrement, then go back and stitch the backgrounds!

To finish up this post, I thought I would show a few close-ups from Indian Brave

Beaded and wrapped moccassins.

Corn silks added to beaded field corn.

 

Look at all of his beading!

So Elegant Thanksgiving Fans, until next time,

Happy Stitching!

Kelly

Invitation to Stitch Along!