Friday Finishes

Hello friends.

Today I have a couple of finishes

that I want to show you.

First is this Quaker House Sampler.

I started this on New Year's Day.

In the stitching world,

they say if you start a new sampler on 

the first day of the year, you will be blessed

throughout the year.

I am not a superstitious person, 

however I thought it would be nice to do one...

and maybe see if it is true. :-)

 

I stitched this on 32 ct Milk & Honey linen

using all of the called for DMC floss.

I was not really happy with the gold

as I purchased this pattern because I liked the

colors in the photo.

There is a bonus pattern to this,

so if I do the other one,

I will try to find the color in the pic.

I did a few other changes to this pattern.

The bird was supposed to be the lighter blue color.

I chose the darker blue. 

The motif on the left was to be in both blues.

I went for blue and gold.

Then the initials were also suppose to be stitched

 in the lighter blue.

I did those in the last color to be used for the

second pattern...I should have used this color

for all of the gold. Oh well.

I also changed the initials to represent Bob and I.

JU for the month we were married in July.

09 for the year we were married.

AU for Bob's birthday month of August.

DE for my birthday month of December.

MI for Michigan,

which ironically was already in the pattern.

Finally JH for my maiden name initials,

and RA for Bob's initials.

One more change was the initials were 

to be completed one over one.

I chose one over two to make them bigger. 

I finished this on January 17th.

Will send this off to be framed for my wall.

My next finish is this heart.

Well actually I made four total.

The other three are in the store for sale.

Once again I used what was left 

of my vintage quilt.

Hand stitched using both

a quilt batting and Warm & Natural.

The finished heart.

This one I am keeping for myself.

Also each one is different.

I loved how they turned out.

In other news,

mantle year 2020 won your votes.

2021 came in second.

2023 came in third whilst 2022 came in last.

Thank you to all who were able to vote.

I know it was hard.

We are finally finished setting up the new

space for our gift shop.

Thank god.

We spent 6 days moving things.

We also rented a storage unit so

Bob does not have to continue going up and down

our stairs at the store.

They are steep and I worry about him going up there.

Today I am going to clean house,

do laundry, go grocery shopping

and make some beef stew for dinner.

I also plan on creating this weekend.

What's on tap for your weekend?

Friday Blessings To All!

Janice