Sunday Starts

Happy Sunday.

You know what that means.

Check out what I am working on now.

 

First up is 

Laura Vorgensen 1853.

My parents were married in a church on the hill.

This is why I chose this sampler.

I want to add their names,

the church name and that date they were married.

The church was built in 1854.

My parents were married in 1955.

I still need to finish my great grandfathers one,

but when I mentioned this one to my mom

she was really excited when she saw the pattern.

When I started this,

it began with changing up floss colors.

The letters A and B were to be white.

You could not see them.

I dont mind some ghosting, but not at the beginning.

When I got to the letter E, again not a fan.

As you can see I changed the 

E and F to a lighter shade of blue.

Now am not so sure about these colors either.

I do not want a majority all blue sampler again.

Which version do you like?

Next up is Blueskin.

This was one of George Washington's two horses,

he used in the Revolutionary War.

Blueskin was actually a a blue roan which

looked gray except in the Winter

where his coat turned white.

He is the horse often seen in portraits

of George Washington. 

His other horse was Nelson.

I was able to stitch one branch

of the cherry tree.

Am loving the colors thus far.

Once I finish this one 

will work on Nelson at some point.

Stitching this on 28ct Vellum.

Finally,

I decided I wanted to do a small stitch

before July 4th comes along

and make this into a pillow.

I wanted something for July 4th since I knew

Patriotic Pinwheel Parade would not get finished. 

This one is Old Glory 

by Little House Needleworks.

I have gotten this far.

Lauren said I must be a fast stitcher...

Well guess that gets me in trouble. LOL

I stitched the flag in red, green and blue. GRR

Yep pulled out a light green and did not

realize it until I was completely done.

Spent an hour frogging and re-stitching

in white like it is suppose to be. 

None of the colors I chose were the called for.

Just trying to use up my stash.

The linen was leftover from my one

stich I did for my Maternal grandparents and

great grandparents.

I forgot the color but it was a 36 ct.

If all goes right I should have this one finished soon.

Not counting my chickens though....

In other news,

Friday night was the fireworks that the First Nation

folks on Walpole Island put on the first

night of Summer each year.

We could walk to our dock and see them,

if it were not for the mosquitos.

We usually drive to a parking lot

which is a hop skip and jump from us 

with an awesome view.

Well a thunderstorm came in on our side  of the river.

We thought for sure they would cancel

them since it was directly across  

the river from us.

Well we went to bed at 10:00pm.

10"05 we heard them go off.

UGH

By the time we would have gotten re-dressed

and drove over there it would have been done.

It seems the storm was just on our side of the river.

Go figure.

Bad storms hit our state once again last week.

This time the entire street my niece lives on

was affected.

Trees and wires down everywhere.

Fortunately for my niece,

the big tree in her yard fell across her driveway.

Others were not so lucky.

Cars and houses were badly damaged.

They declared a state of emergency for her city.

Well off to make French toast and breakfast sausage

for Bob and I.

Hope everyone is staying safe.

Sunday Start Blessings To All!

Janice