Happy New Year Cross Stitch

My newest finished project. It is a Lizzie Kate chart

Happy New Year!

Wishing everyone a Happy New Year!! For Christmas, I made 9 of these Merry Christmas frames for family. They were done while caring for my sweet Mom who passed away on December 13th. She had been ill for a long time and the months that we all cared for her were difficult and heartbreaking. I am so happy that we did this for her so she could be at home when she passed. She needed around the clock care and our family took turns spending nights with her. Cross stitching these gave me something to pass the time during the long hours when she slept. I hope the family liked them! I also used my Cricut to decorate kraft bags bought at Hobby Lobby. They were filled with the cross stitch frame, some banana bread, Amish cinnamon bread, some crock pot candy and a whisk that was filled with Hershey kisses and had a tag that read We Whisk You a Merry Kissmas. I forgot to take pictures. My heart and mind was really not into Christmas this year!

Fall Cross Stitch

I finally finished this piece that I began working on last year. Hobby Lobby had the perfect frame for it on sale. Love how this came out!

Cricut Cross Stitch

Scrappydoo on the Cricut Circle Message Board was so kind to share her pattern for the Cricut bughead with me. I cross stitched this in one day and then bought some green acrylic paint for the frame at Hobby Lobby. Frame from Dollar Tree.

Patriotic Cross Stitch

My other crafting love is cross stitching. I recently finished this piece that I have been working on for quite some time. I am terrible about starting a project and then leaving it sit. This time, I began stitching it several months ago and made myself stick with it so that I would be able to display it for this 4th of July. I think the pattern is from the Stoney Creek magazine.

March 14, 2010

Cross stitch bunny