Not only am I in Fall mood,
am feeling Halloween too.
Not sure what drew me to this Kathy Barrick pattern.
Am not really a pink person...but I wanted to
stitch this witch.
I am only going to do the center.
The floss colors were totally different from this picture.
UGH
I wanted to stitch the colors in this...
which is why I bought the pattern in the first place.
It took some time, but I chose my own colors
by looking at the picture.
Thought if I did this on a gray linen,
I could skip all of black in the pattern.
Got this far and was not feeling it
AT ALL.
My second go round.
36 ct Crypt cloth.
Much better....even though now
I will need to stitch all of that black background,
which will take some time...
so not sure if it will be done in time for this year.
There is always next year and I am in no rush.
The colors are much darker here
than in person though.
Next up is Penny Pumpkin.
Am using my own color conversion with
floss I have on hand.
When I make mine into a pillow,
I will make sure you can see all of the pennies.
Will also not be adding in the pinks.
Am doing this one on 28 ct Wren.
This linen has a gold and green undertone to it.
Perfect for a Autumn stitch.
I have the top border almost finished,
and started on the side.
Normally I do not do the borders all the way
around first...but wanted to this time.
I also changed up the pennies.
There were only 2 colored pennies that repeated.
I decided to make 4 different ones repeat.
The colors I chose were...
Weeks Dye Works
Onyx (black) & Arrowhead (white).
Classic Colorworks
Autumn Spice (orange) & Baking Tin (gray)
DMC 781 ( gold)
Judy asked why I did not add the letter "J"s
in Laura Vorgensen 1853.
Well the pattern did not add them in....
which I was surprised because this sampler
pattern was a reproduction from an antique sampler.
The letter J came into the English language in 1634.
Obviously Laura herself decided to omit this
letter from each row of the alphabet she stitched.
However on the other hand....
many samplers from the 1700's to early 1800's
also omitted the letter J.
Again not sure why Laura why omitted them,
as this was her sampler the pattern designer
created the pattern from.
Jeanie asked if Turkey Trot was a pillow.
Yes the pattern was made into a pillow,
and I intend on doing the same once finished.
A few posts back Cathy thought we sold our store.
Yes Cathy we sold our gift shop.
We had owned two stores and our parking lot was
between the two buildings.
We still have our antique store....
however this one is for sale now too.
We would like to both retire.
When we were approached to sell the gift shop
last December, we agreed to it.
We closed at the title company in January.
The sale of this building paid off our mortgage
on both buildings.
With the cost of doing business now,
we made the right decision even though it
was bittersweet at the time.
We still have a portion of the gift shop in our
antique store...so I still make stuff to add in there.
I hope I have answered everyone's questions.
If not, please remind me.
I so appreciate everyone taking the time to comment.
Myself am not able to get to my blog reading
daily, but I do try to catch up when I can,
because I know you all like receiving comments
as much as I do.
Off to make breakfast.
Well Chef Bob is actually making
blueberry pancakes & breakfast sausage on the grill.
The pancakes come out so much fluffier.
Then I will finish up my house cleaning
and stitch on Laura Vorgensen some.
But I must write out my birthday invites first.
We are having a surprise 90th birthday party
for my mom in October.
It will truly be a surprise because her birthday
is September 30th.
Sunday Blessings To All!
Janice