This week, I’ve finished four more stitching projects, three PS ornaments and a pincushion. I’ve managed now to finished 10 things this year, but they are the lowest hanging fruit on my long list of UFOs. Pretty soon, the only things left will be the larger projects. But it does feel good to know I’ve finished 10.
Here are the Prairie Schooler ornaments:
2002 - 1994 - 1996 Prairie Santa Ornaments
They are the yearly Santas that PS puts out. From left to right, the years are 2002, 1994 and 1996. They’re stitched over one on 25ct New Khaki Lugana. I actually had them stitched in 2007, but never dated them back then. I wasn’t sure how I wanted to do that, being that they are so small and I didn’t want to detract from the design. I had also been thinking about how I wanted to back the ornaments. After some thought, I decided to stitch the back and as the label. I used design elements from the front of each to customize the backs a bit.
Back of Prairie Santa Ornaments
Yesterday, some of my stitching friends and I spent the day together. Our guild had an outing to tour a couple historic houses in San Francisco, the Haas-Lilienthal and Octagon houses. The weather was perfect and we had so much fun. On the way home, we stopped at the Status Thimble in Burlingame to do a little stashing. I found the perfect item, a shaker pincushion, for my “Red Bird” design.
"Red Bird" by A Mon Ami Pierre
And it was a quick finish. I just had to bast around the edges of the evenweave with a heavy thread, cinch in up around the pincushion insert, then add the cording. Voila, it was done in less than an hour.
In My Element 