Jenny Bean Halloween . . .

This is the one that has the leaves in it.

Story down below when

will I ever get this straight?

Good Evening My Stitcting Friends!

I am glad to report that I measured

Jenny Bean Halloween

and it looks like the frog,

Did not stop here again!!!

I am so thrilled cause if I had to

take out the side leaves

I don't have enough thread to

put it back in without going

to another dye lot.

Oh, well I can work on it again soon,

but now I am working on a

piece that my sister wants me

to stitch since I am retired!!!

It's for her friend and I have

finally got some of the verse

stitched.

It all has to be counted and you know

the rule count twice, stitch once.

Some retirement!!!

Thanks for stopping by and taking a look.

I appreciate it so much.

God Bless Your stitching fingers ~

Lenna

Jenny Bean Halloween . . .

This is the piece I stitched for hours

but frogged for a lot less.

And I did it all without a Frappe!

Now it looks like the bottom is off.

It also looks like the top right

pumpkin is lopsided, too.

Is this piece cursed or something?

This is my Jenny Bean Halloween I worked on this weekend.

This is the progrees I made after I

frogged the right side twice.

But looking at this right now it

looks like I am going to need to check

out the bottom.

I think I will cry if it is wrong again.

Is this the large space that the

devil can leave this piece?

Come by tomorrow same time same station and see what's up!

I appreciate any and all comments they help make it all worthwhile.

God Bless your stitching fingers ~

Lenna

Jenny Bean Halloween . . .

A few days ago I got this much

done on Jenny Bean Halloween.

I finished for the night then

discovered I had the frog

visit in the wee hours while

I was asleep!!!

Crafty little devil!

So I did my ripping and started again.

This is the progress on my

Jenny Bean Halloween tonight.

I only had to take it out twice, once

cause it was stitched off by one stitch.

The other time cause

I went up too high on the top.

Unfortuntatly, it threw

the whole side off.

What it took one hour to stitch

was ripped out in about 10 minutes.

I was talking to an author I have become

friends with and I told him I did some

rewriting (ripping) with fabric while he did

it on paper.

Seems like he has the easier job, as

long as he isn't having writers

block!!!

He wouldn't agree with me!

He does have a much harder job.

He has to follow the rules

and his heart and I just

have to be able to count and

follow the pattern.

Thanks for dropping by and taking

a look again. I appreciate it so much.

God Bless your stitching fingers ~

Remember God loves you, so much!!!

Lenna

Halloween Rules . . .

Good Morning! ~ all ~

This is the progress I have made on my Halloween rules.

I am loving this fabric and am

so glad I chose it after all.

Once I got used to the count,

it's a 32, which I don't usually like ~ it isn't so bad.

I have the dog to do on the other side and

this first block will happily be done.

Short and sweet and slow and steady

wins the race, so I will leave

you

with that.

Take care all my stitching friends and

God Bless your stitching fingers ~

I hope soon to have some really

good news ~

Love to all ~

Lenna

This is Olga, the cat.

As you can plainly see she is a

Halloween stitchery!!!

I have all of the alphabet done.

There are some little Quaker Motif's

mixed in with the Alphabet to do.

She has been one of the MIA ~ UFO's.

I know now when she got lost in that tote.

It was when we got ready to finally

do the floors.

After waiting for almost a year.

I made two file size totes for my UFO's.

I put them in the garage.

Had the floors done and in the meantime

I forgot all about them.

It happens ~ when you start getting old ~

I only have a small part left to do

on her so I best get busy!!!

HUH???

This is the other MIA ~ UFO I was talking about in last blog!!!

If anyone had bet which of the 12 totes,

in my room, this would have been in

you would have been ~ SOL!!!

I spent two hours looking through

the totes,

looking at all my projects

left to do.

I am going to have to live

to be two hundred to get them all done.

My mom would say three, but what does she

know from stitching!!!?

So this very minute I am going to

go get busy on one of them!

Jenny Bean Halloween . . . and Frappes

This is Jenny Bean Halloween I started some time ago.

Today I went and visited a site of

Siobhan's Stitches!

Notes From Blue Hen Hallow is

the name of her blog.

Check it out!!!

Oh, my Heavens what a blog it was My oh My!

She has done so many samplers and

The Shores of Hawks Run Hallow, too.

I am working on that one, too

I don't even have the first

block done yet!!!

She also had this one done

which I also have started.

So, I am going to look for it tonight

and if I feel like it tomorrow night, after

freight day, I am going to stitch

on it some more.

Mind you, I know it is in my room in a tote

but which of the 12 totes do you think

it is in?

I should have a contest

to see if someone

could guess.

You would lose I fear!!!

OK, I am addicted to the Caramel Frappe'

from McDonald's.

It's a fact!!!

I try to limit myself to three a week.

I am losing weight and who needs this?

Certainly, not me.

Besides the coffee probably

isn't good for my heart!!!

I have lost 16 pounds to date

and I now weigh 156. YEA!!! Happy

dance all over the house.

I can actually get into

my size 14 jeans

and they are already

a little big.

My goal is 143 but I don't

know if I can stop there.

I just don't have any

appetite

so it makes it very easy not

to eat.

I used to love food but

I think I loved it too much.

The most amazing thing is

now I have seen

two good looking guys

checking me out when

I walk by them,

out of the corner of my eye.

Really???

It just amazes me!!!

Thanks for stopping by and leaving a

comment ~ if possible.

It does make

you want to keep doing this craft.

Say a prayer I find Jenny Bean.

Oh, Jenny Bean where are you?

God bless all those stitching fingers ~

and especially Siobhan's they must

smoke when she goes to bed.

Lenna

Halloween. . . The Branch

Here is my update on When the Owl and

Witch together are Seen,

etc. . . etc. . . etc

Done on 32 count Herotic linen fabric

with over dyed threads.

It actually is coming along nicely

considering the day I had at work

today. It was typical Monday

after a vacation.

I am glad I was not at work last

week because they had a week

of He ~ ~ double toothpicks!!!

I did something very stupid during

my vacation and it made the whole

week horrible.

Today was really no better.

So when I got home tonight I

really needed to do some stitching.

It always calms me down and I

can get through the evening.

I also watched Yankee Doodle Dandy

on TCM tonight, I just love that

movie staring James Cagney.

It was a flag waver, perfect

for 4th of July.

I enjoyed it very much.

James does

a spectacular job of singing, dancing

and acting.

I have always liked him

.

So what better piece to stitch on than

my Halloween one so here it is . . . ENJOY!!!

Thanks for stopping by, hope you have your

tea or a cup of Joe.

Take care all and remember to Thank God

for your freedom.

God Bless your stitching fingers . . .

Lenna

July Angel . . .

Happy Independence Day!!!

This is the Angel I did in 2000 for the 4th of July!

Isn't she the cutest little one?

I had to get my magnifying glass out to see

what date I stitched her.

I always put my name and date, in

thread, the same color as the background

fabric and it makes it very Hard to see,

much less read!!!

I had red hair at the time so I actually

coached down some other

threads that were not for stitching,

I had acquired from a friend for her hair!!!

She was such a HOOT to stitch. I had so

much fun doing her. The little buttons

for the basket, bee, bird and

firecrackers

came with the pattern

and it just makes it come together perfectly.

I used the threads that were called

for and put them down on my favorite

fabric in a 28 count.

They don't make

the fabric anymore so I bought 2 yards

from Hobby Lobby

before it was all gone.

It's a good thing cause I can't, for the life

of me, remember the name of the fabric.

If I had known I would live this long I would

have bought another 3 yards.

I have done several angels in the past, a Christmas

One, Noah's Ark, an Autumn One and a Halloween One.

The Halloween One is ~ Willa's Broomstick Co.

Made with a Zing!!!

I will have to take a picture, cause I had

forgotten how darlin' she is!!!

That will be my next post tomorrow

night. I am on vacation this week

so I have nothing but time.

I have the patterns for about a gazillion more so

maybe someday I will work on them again.

So many stitching's and so little time.

It's hard when you don't have the time and you work.

Time flies so fast. One day it is Monday and

the next day it is Friday.

I also make cards and I am working on my son's

get well cards and a special person

who missed a lot of holidays.

Guess I had better close for now. I will leave you with this

thought ~

How sad would it be if our Fore

Fathers had not fought so hard for the privileges

we have as Americans to be FREE???

How sad would it be if the next generations

had not cared that we were free

and kept

that privilege of Freedom for us to enjoy???

How sad if all those sacrifices would have been

in vain???

Let's not forget this year and

every year from now on just how

very Precious

that Privilege is to us all!!!

And how many made it possible for us

to enjoy!!!

God Bless America

It Is the Best Place To Be on This Earth!!!

Thanks for dropping by and thanks for the comments

if you could leave one.

God Bless your stitching fingers . . .

Take care ~

Lenna

Halloween. . . The Branch

I know, I know don't yell at me!!!

This is called ~ Halloween ~

The Branch by Bent Creek,

Snappers.

It is the newest piece

they have put out

and being

Halloween I had to have it.

But, in my own defense

I had the fabric,

most of the threads,

so I only had to buy three patterns.

I decided to use Heroic for the fabric

by Picture This Plus!!! ~ again.

I told you I had a big piece left over!!!

I think The Branch

with the tree house, owl, birds,

webs, spiders and little house

will look smashing on this

piece of fabric.

It has all the colors of Halloween

and it will go

with all my other ones

I have started!!!

Thanks for stopping by and God Bless

your stitching fingers . . .

Lenna

Autumn Angel, Christmas Angel and 40 Days Angel, Noah's Ark . . .

The first one up is the Autumn Angel.

She was done with the colors called

for in the Fancy That pattern.

I stitched all of them in 1997,

a long time ago.

I used a linen fabric, probably,

28 count ~ you think?

I put orange sparkles in her wings,

in her garden of corn stalks and

a pumpkin.

Her body is a bird house

and there is a fence

at the bottom which the crow is

perched upon.

He lives in the mailbox

that serves as his house

with the word Crow

on the side.

The flag is up!!!

She has a star on her halo

and a bee that does glow in

the dark ~ on the vine.

She also has little pumpkins

on her slippers.

The second one is a Christmas Angel.

She was stitched on a very light green

linen fabric, 28 count.

I used the threads called for in the pattern

and added a sparkly thread in white

for the wings.

There are lights in her halo and

button light bulbs

in her wreath

with a huge red bow on the top.

She is surrounded by packages

and flanked by a Christmas tree.

She has big stars on her slippers.

And last is the Noah's Ark Angel.

She is stitched on a grey blue

linen fabric with the over dyed

threads called for

in the pattern.

She has sparkles in her wings,

there is a half moon, sun and star

that also has sparkles.

She has a bird on her halo and

a vast a ray of stars, and a bird

surrounding her body.

There is also a little, big, fish

peeking out of the waves.

For embellishment's she has

a cool turtle

and fish button

I found somewhere, that

makes it look 3D.

She is bravely standing in the waves ~

while over her head it says ~

40 days and 40 nights!!!

I remember back to 1997,

I had such a blast

stitching these three Angels,

one after the other.

I worked at Frames Etc. then and

I framed them all there.

The Noah's Ark one has a floated

look and the mat board is covering

the floated substrate.

It creates dimension and protects the

glass from being broken by the buttons.

If you don't raise the glass above

any hard object, ie button,

shell, or rock the pressure caused

by the object will eventually

break the glass.

Your Welcome!!!

Physics!!!

The turtle is also a bit larger than

the rest of the buttons so I

needed to raise the

glass above the picture.

As usual, thanks for looking at the craft I

dearly love.

Your comments are always welcome!!!

God Bless your Stitching fingers . . .

Lenna