Gwen: May O is for Ocotber

I stitched early in May. Don't know why I'm late posting. It's mostly FFP's just need to add the stuffing to make a small pillow. Still trying to decide if I want to take it out and redo the shape. 

Ocotober 31

Lizzie Kate Tingles

Steph's Free Choice - Boo Club finished!

Hello friends, I'm popping in to share my Boo Club which I finished December 26th with a few buttons (as included in the charts) and brass charms (my addition).

Here's a close up of the bottom section.  That bottom border was a lot of fun to stitch!

It's been lovely participating in this SAL.  Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Steph's October Monster

I had so much fun stitching this piece at my retreat, StitchFest, last weekend, in Virginia, USA.  If you ever get a chance to attend a retreat, please do.  There's nothing like enjoying the camaderie of stitching friends when you have nothing to do but relax and stitch.  The WDW Guacomole floss stitched up nicely in Frankie's face.


He looks a little funny without eyes; those will be black buttons attached later.  Happy stitching everyone and enjoy a spook-tacular Halloween!

Steph's Witch

I love Witches!  This little piece took 2 days to stitch and it was lots of fun.

Boo club is getting close to finished...

Steph's Haunted House(s)

I definitely have a thing for haunted houses... so I'll share 2 pieces today.
The Boo Club Fright line took a few days to stitch this month.

The larger piece in my rotation is Spooky House, by X's and Oh's.  This is a major project with all the good stuff (blends, fractionals, metallic, backstitch etc).

Happy haunting friends!

Steph's Pumpkin

Hi friends, it's July and I'm feeling like stitching Christmas, not Halloween, but I'm staying on track with my spooky rotation.  Pumpkin turned out pretty cute, though the jack o'lantern is missing his eyes (tiny black buttons, I will sew on later).


Next month is the haunted house, I'm looking forward to that!

Steph's Creepy Tree

Hi friends, I'm back to share my creepy tree.  Creepy took a day to stitch, not bad.  The little detail in this piece is so fun.. the gravestone and the owl turned out super cute.  I also went searching for brass charms to embellish this piece and found some spooky ones.  I will use some of the buttons as included with the charts, but I like charms as well. 

I'm pleased to report Boo Club is now half finished!

Steph's Green Frog

May was a super busy month with Maynia, visits, travel, etc, but luckily I was able to squeeze my Boo Club piece into one day.  The frog was a fun stitch and I like that you can see the variegation of the Weeks floss in the frog's belly.

Hopefully this guy will keep all the bad frogs away!  

Stephanie's Spiders

Here's my update on Boo Club... only took 1 day this time.  Though, I nearly lost motivation when backstitching the spider legs!   Those are a lot of tiny stitches, some over 1.  And the "empty" spiders will be filled in with black buttons.

Boo Club remains a fun diversion from some of my BAPs.

Stephanie's Black Cat

Here's my March Boo Club stitching... cute little black cat, it will have tiny white buttons for eyes but I'll add that later.  Black cats are my favorite, btw.  It took 3 days to stitch this, because.... life.  We booked a vacation for later this year and I got sucked into the vortex that is Disney trip planning. And I lost one of my DMC's... (the purple).  Quite maddening because I had it in hand last month.  Oh well, hopefully next month will be better!

February - Candy corn - AnneS

Here goes my choice for February's theme of Candy corn.  Spooky Time freebie by Lizzie*Kate.  I'm terrified of spiders, so stitching that charm on wasn't much fun ... I have a feeling that'll be giving me nightmares in the future when it's on display ;)

Stephanie's Candy Corn

"Treats" by Lizzie Kate, a super fun & fast stitch

I do wish the hand dyed thread (GAST Tomato) was a bit more variegated!  Oh, well...
~Stephanie / Ms. OhSewCrafty

Gwen: January Winged Creature

It seems Ana Christina and I were of the same mind. My winged 'creature' is a raven.

Lizzie Kate

Nevermore

Anchor 403

Stephanie's Winged Creature

Hi, I'm Stephanie, aka Ms. OhSewcrafty on my blog, YouTube, and Instagram.  As it's my first time posting here (thank you, Jo, for the invite), here's a brief intro: I'm a longtime stitcher and crafter, jack of all trades.  January's stitch was super fun and it became apparent that I will love stitching Lizzie Kate's Boo Club, it is a nice break from my BAPs.  The bat silhouetted against the moon is pretty cute.  I am using a mix of overdyed threads (the ones that seemed variegated) and the DMC subs, on Dirty belfast linen.

September - Spook Words.

SpookyTime, a free cross stitch pattern from Lizzie Kate.

11 count fabric Dohler originally white dyed by me with fabric light grey paint

Anchor Cotton Thread

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Yearly catch-up -AnneS

Well I had such great intentions at the start of the year, until I started a HAED challenge and got addicted and that's all I wanted to stitch for a while ... then work was mental busy and I was barely stitching at all. Anyway it was always my intention to work a bigger piece this year instead of doing all ornaments and a few weeks ago I decided 'what the heck' I still want to do it. So here is my year to date, primarily working on Halloween Markings by Heart in Hand.  I stitched everything in order of the monthly SAL themes :)

January - Winged creatures

February - Mummies and monsters

March - Pumpkins

April - Ghosts - it't teeny, tiny, and hiding behind a tree, but there is a ghost in there ;)

May - Spiders - a freebie by Lizzie*Kate (then I realised after I'd stitched it that I'd stitched the exact same design last year - doh!!)

June - Free choice (the geometric border)

July - Witches' accessories

August - Spooky words - unfortunately I can't find the photo I took with the words completed, but without the black cat block stitched :(

September - Bad fairies - no idea what to stitch for this one, so it was a bit of a fail ...

October - Black cats - and this saw the end of Halloween Markings, with all the blocks and border completed, just in time for Halloween itself

November - Skeletons and Skulls - Halloween Ornament 4 by The Floss Box (the skulls are hiding at the bottom), I just love their Halloween designs, they use lovely and bright colours (and great to see DMC as the threads of choice instead of overdyeds, as much as I love the look of overdyeds)

So, just December left to go now - hopefully next year I'll be able to keep up and keep on track ... although if I can I'm going to continue doing a larger project with multiple elements present, it's great to see some of the bigger projects get stitched up gradually bit by bit.

Noni's Spooky Words...

I'm late... but I did manage last night to put the final stitch in my spooky words piece for August

Double Double - Lizzie*Kate
Just Cross Stitch Halloween 2013

Now it's time to find a bad fairy.... looking forward to seeing what everyone comes up for Sept's theme!  So far I haven't managed to find anything that fits the brief but I will keep looking.

Til next time, happy spooky stitchings
Hugs xx

Noni's September Spooky Words

Eek!! Spooky Words.... wow what a great theme for September.

I had this one planned right from the start of the year!  Even though I knew exactly what I was going to stitch for September I did also have a look at some other "spooky" word designs just in case... after all we can never have too many spooky charts in our stash!!

So what did I stitch for September's theme?  Well, it just had to be Lizzie Kate's "Eek!"

"Eek!" - Lizzie Kate

This chart/kit is a Limited Edition Kit and was given to me a couple of years ago.  It included the fabric, beads and buttons but not the threads, so I stitched it with DMC threads which is why it does look slightly different to the model piece in the chart pack photo.

See you next month!

Happy Spooky Stitching

September - Spooky Words.

I can drive a stick!

Lizzie ★ Kate

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May - Anne S

A quick one today to catch up on May's theme of pumpkins ...

"Eek" freebie by Lizzie*Kate

Stitched on 32ct Thunderstorm Belfast linen

with recommended GAST threads