Sunday Starts

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.

OK so here is where I first started.

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)

In other news,

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