Simple Joys Fin.~

I finally finished Simple Joys before the summer ends. It took me long enough!!! This piece traveled with me to Taiwan and St. Louis and back, and kept me company during the long waits in the airport. Oh wait, now that I look at it, I think I forgot to put in the window frames!!! Oops~ Will add that in tomorrow~~

Pattern: Little House Needleworks "Simple Joys"
Thread: Crescent Colours & WDW
Fabric: 28ct antique white evenweave fabric
Stitch Size: 7.5" x 7.75"
Completion Date: 09-05-2010

I did ended up using all the Bean Sprout and had not left a single inch to spare!!! Actually I have like 6 more crosses to stitch on the border when I use up all my threads. Good thing that I kept all my orts so I went digging through my jar of orts and luckily found a thread of Bean Sprout just long enough to finish it up!!!! It was a darker shade but I don’t mind it at all~~ That was a very close call!!!

My favorite color on this piece is the beautiful shades of Plum Paisley~~ The variation on it is simply beautiful!!!

Needles, threads, music, books, a good cup of tea and maybe some chocolate cake. These are some simple joys of my life. What are yours'?

Work in Progress…

I have been working on LHN’s Simple Joys for a while. In fact, it had traveled with me to Taiwan and back again, but still not finished yet…… I know, it’s kind of slow… There were just too many distractions!!! But I do enjoy seeing this coming together, the colors are just divine!!!!

I’m a little bit worried, though, cause it looks like I am running low on Bean Sprout. I still have to fill in the grass area and the borders, but only 3 skeins of threads left. It is going to be tight!!!!!

I get one of those e-mail newsletters from the Fat Quarter Shop every month, and I totally fell in love with this month’s feature kit when I saw it!!! It was the Hello Yellow Quilt Kit designed by Vickie of Spun Sugar Quilts~~ Don’t you think it’s beautiful?! This is definitely on my “Must Have” list!!!!

So that’s it for today. Don’t forget to leave a comment on my last post if you would like to enter for my giveaway~~ I’m going to sit in front of the TV and stitch now~