Finishes x2

Well friends, I made it out of the woods!  I'm sorting out pictures and collecting my thoughts.  It was a whirlwind weekend.  Funny how you look forward to something for so long and then poof, it's over!  I'll do a separate post of the weekend's festivities later.  In the mean time, I want to show you a couple of gifts I was able to give this weekend.

Design:  Friends freebie

Designer: Cosmic Handmade

Fabric: 28 ct. Lambswool

Floss: DMC

Started: 10/25/12

Finished:  1/6/13

Completed:  1/17/13

 

I made this for my peep, Christie's birthday which is actually this coming weekend.  I wanted to give it to her early since I knew I might not see her before her special day.  The fabric in the background is what I used for the backing.

 

I changed the placement of the colors on this one by switching the dress and hair colors around.  No particular reason really.  I just thought I'd have fun with it.  For some reason I had a total mental block on the thread part of this design.  I guess the frog just wanted to visit with me or something.

 

Design: "L" from Autumn Alphabet Sampler

Designer: Lizzie Kate

Fabric: 28 ct. Lambswool

Floss:  DMC 115 & 221

Started:  1/18/13

Finished: 1/19/13

Completed: 1/19/13

 

I found out on Thursday that my peep, Linda's birthday is the same day as Christie's!  For some reason I don't think I knew that or if I did it didn't register with me.  Linda is one of the peeps that went to Shepherd's Bush with me. 

 

I had to stitch something for that girlie.  I couldn't let her special day pass without doing something.  I decided when I went home for the night on Thursday that I'd pull out my trusty Lizzie Kate alphabet charts and see what I could whip up for her. 

 

I know Linda loves red.  This combination of DMC's colors has always been a favorite of mine so I went with it!  Linda seemed to really like it.  I think it turned out cute.

 

I'm lucky enough to have a couple pieces stitched by Linda. She was my secret stitcher a couple years ago. It was fun to have the opportunity to stitch for her this time.  I love how the over one turned out on the back.

 

I've used these same alphabets for several Ott-lite fobs this past year. They work great! Who knew when I bought them that I'd get so much mileage out of them. Definitely a good purchase for sure!

 

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Well folks, it's a quick post today.  I've got plenty to show you when I get the pictures ready to go.  I got surprised with several belated birthday gifts of my own and yep, there was stash enhancement too.  Overall it was a fun time.

 

Thanks for visiting with me and welcome to my new followers.  I hope you find something interesting here and will come back again to visit.  Happy Wednesday everyone!  Gotta love the short week.

 

 

More later,

 

The Inspired Stitcher