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Thursday, 31 October 2024

October Stitch from Stash and Pie

 It's time for pie!

Most of the month was spent on my Halloween Sampler from Cottage Garden Samplings which I managed to finish:

stitched on 40 count Witch's Brew linen from Zweigart

Once I finished the main sampler, I cut off the bottom of the fabric and stitched this little small from the JCS Halloween Special 2024.  This is from Quaternion Creations and is called Nevermore.  I left off the words from the bottom of the design.

stitched on 40 count Witch's Brew linen from Zweigart

I have enough fabric to stitch one or two more smalls.

I added some more of the border to my Blackwork Temperature Tree:


I also started this cute little Skeleton Chameleon from Fil'anthrope:

stitched on 36 count Dark Green linen


The evenings were dedicated to my Steady Thread Halloween Blackwork and my pie looks like this:




It now looks like this:

stitched on 30 count tea-dyed linen


Finally, Stitch from Stash and my spending was higher that expected:




The local wool shop is closing down and were selling off everything at a discount including DMC at 60p a skein.  Yes, my US friends, that is very cheap for us!  So I grabbed the colours I needed plus some of the variegated threads I wanted.

I also went over to the needlework shop in the next town to collect my JCS Christmas magazine and while I was there picked up two of the Cottage Garden Samplings Year of Houses charts.  I won't get all of them, just the ones I particularly like.

I bought these two.
I also like the Hobbit House, the Tree House and the Haunted House.













2 comments:

Akila said...

Beautiful projects.. love the temperature tree most

Leonore Winterer said...

Hmm, pumpkin pie! Great progress on your spooky projects. I love the little raven especially, that fabric is gorgeous!