Trick or Treat Heart - Finished! -- January 13, 2010

I finished the Trick or Treat Heart in November, 2009!

The original stitch guide was by Sekas & Co which I followed except for the area behind the Halloween figures and around the outside of the heart. I added a brown background in DMC #612 Tan which exactly matches the brown canvas.

"Trick or Treat" Heart

by Sekas & Co.

DMC #5 Perle Cotton, DMC Floss, Caron Impressions, Caron Watercolors

I thoroughly enjoyed stitching this project!

Sekas & Co. has a nice range and variety of projects. Many of which are available as needlepoint canvases and have also been charted for cross stitch. Enjoy looking over their site!

Hmmm.... there are a couple more of the Hearts that I would love to have. :-)

Thanks for stopping by my VERY windy and COLD meadow this week!

Cynthia
Windy Meadow

Lee's Needle Arts Update -- January 14, 2009

It's now official. The new Lee's Needle Arts website by Colonial Needle is up and available for our viewing pleasure!

You can find it at;

http://www.newleesneedlearts.com

The online catalog is at;

http://www.newleesneedlearts.com/files/Lees_Needle_Arts_Catalog.swf


I'll be back again soon. I need to go and look at every item in the catalog. :-)

Cynthia
Windy Meadow

November, 2009's Totally Useless SAL!” -- January 11, 2010

Well I'm a tad bit late but here is the official post for my contribution to the November, 2009 Totally Useless SAL.

These are the orts from the Trick or Treat Heart which have now been placed in Ortessa.

November, 2009
Totally Useless Stitch-a-Long

I do have some orts to share from a project that I finished in December, 2009. But next up will be the finished Trick or Treat Heart!

Hope that you are staying warm and dry in this January, 2010 weather!

Cynthia
Windy Meadow

Pink Patchwork Shoe -- January 10, 2010

The Patchwork Pink Shoe is from A Collection of Designs and was one of the designs available in 2004 through Fireside Stitchery's " Halloween Cookie Club". I finished the first several in the club series and then of course, life got busy. :-)

I pulled it back out earlier this fall and this is where I left the stitching when I last put it down. I've made a bit of progress on the pink background and some of the other areas. It's back on the table and hopefully I'll be able to make some more progress soon so I'll have something to share with you.

Patchwork Pink Shoe
A Collection of Designs
Halloween Cookie Club through Fireside Stitchery

DMC Floss, DMC#5 Perle Cotton

Rainbow Gallery's Grandeur, Petite Frosty Rays, Petite Sparkle Rays, Splendor

River Silk Ribbon,

Kreinik #12 Braid

YLI Corporation Ultra-Shimmer

Wichelt Corporations Mill Hill Petite Seed Beads

Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting my blog!

Cynthia
Windy Meadow

It's 2010! -- January 10, 2010

Thank you for all of the well wishes during the Snow Storm of 2009!

I took several pictures of the 17+ inches of snow but I'm not too sure what happened to them on the camera. They ummm disappeared! Okay, it was probably operator (that's me) error.

The snow didn't stick around very long as the next weekend we had fairly normal to slightly higher than normal temperatures for our region. But while the snow was here, it was very pretty. The Holiday lights looked just beautiful with the snow.

Now that the Holidays are over and all of the guests have left my thoughts are turning to closing out all of the family 2009 paperwork, taking down the decorations, eating all of the leftovers, and stitching!

While I was not active in Blog Land I did make some progress on several projects. I'm going to catch up with those here on the blog before I show you what I've done since the first of the year. I also several photos for the 2009 TUSAL. By the way, don't get too excited as I haven't done much stitching since the beginning of 2010. LOL!

Back soon,

Cynthia
Windy Meadow