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Today I'm featuring some of my latest client finishes. Happy stitching!
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Happy Friday, friends!
I've been working on getting some winter finishes added to my hutch this year, so I was so happy to get my Snowy mason jar chart finished up and added to the vignette.
The pattern is one of the charts included in Hands on Design's "Chalk Full: Snowy." I stitched it up on some black Jobelan and matted it first with some red fabric, and then again with black and white buffalo check. It's magnetized to the front of my white enamel flour tin that I use in many other vignettes, so it was a really simple finish. I absolutely love it!
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Today I'm sharing some of my Halloween finishes that I love putting out every year.
This "Happy Halloween" piece is a new addition this year. The pattern is from Primrose Cottage Stitches and it was super quick and easy to stitch. I matted the stitching to some black and white check fabric and then mounted it to the front of this spider wood sign I found at Joanns this year.
"Let Them Eat Candy" by Hands on Design was also mounted to a pedestal I found at Michaels. It's just matted with more buffalo check fabric and topped with a bow. I put this out next to my Halloween tiered tray.
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Finally got around to taking some photos of my upstairs sunflower display!
I love putting out my Harvest Chalkful by Hands on Design every year. This piece is definitely one of my favorites because the colors pop so well on the black fabric! And since that's the case, I always let this piece just "be" without any bows or embellishments. It's mounted (with magnets) on a wood plank easel, and it sits beside a little bee gnome that was a gift, and a small country sign on an old, rustic bench.
On my tiered tray, I added this sunflower pattern by Stitching with the Housewives and kept everything else the same. This piece was a freebie chart that came with one of the fall tiered tray tidbits. Super cute, and very fast stitch!
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Today I'm sharing two more of my Spring finishes from this year. The first was "Holiday Hoopla - Easter" by Brenda Gervais from With Thy Needle and Thread.
This piece has been through many variations of finishes before I finally settled for a mounted round flat in a watering can. In retrospect, I wish I had stitched it on smaller count fabric so the piece itself would be larger, but since I don't have time to re-stitch it, it is what it is! The galvanized watering can came from Hobby Lobby, and I just used Styrofoam for the base before loading it with some wildflowers.
The second piece is the top portion of "Tulip House" by Hands on Design.
I stitched the piece on 28 ct black Jobelan and changed a couple of the colors to bring in some aqua. I mounted the stitched piece to the buffalo check off-center because I knew I wanted to add a small galvanized vase to the side to bring in some flowers to mirror the flowers in the piece. The little vase is from Hobby Lobby and is just hot-glued directly to the mounting board. I added a small gingham bow and then just cut some smaller buds to fit inside. Really easy finish!
A few of my favorite Finishing Services this week....
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I decided to use chalkboard cross stitch finishes as features for my upstairs entry winter vignette, so as my focal piece, I used the largest pattern included in Hands on Design's "Let's Talk Winter" chart.
I matted the stitched piece with some buffalo check fabric, and then with magnets and washers, popped it on top of an 8x10 whitewashed frame I've used in other vignettes. I wanted a simple, clean finish on these, so I made some cording, but opted out on the bow and picks.
For the smaller chart, "Hello Winter," I pretty much finished it the same way, except the washers and magnets are attached to a square, whitewashed plank I picked up at Michaels last year. It sits perfectly in my tiered tray along with some other snowflake and snowmen accessories.
Both pieces are stitched on 32 ct Charcoal Lugana that I ended up dipping in some black Rit dye to make a little bit darker. I used all of the called-for DMC.
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I am absolutely thrilled to have finished the "Farmhouse Christmas" series by Little House Needleworks and have it up in one of my displays this year!
And since I needed a little "something" on the bottom shelf, I quickly stitched and finished "Cut and Carry" by Hands on Design as a complimentary piece.
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As I continue the transition from fall to Christmas decor, I finished up these three holiday stitches this week.
I stitched up Hometown Holidays - Tree Lot by Little House Needleworks and finished it as this mounted frame piece. The frame had an old, weathered look and feel to it which was perfect!
I stitched the chart on 32 ct Vintage Country Mocha Lugana using the following colors:
Classic Colorworks: Brandied Pears, Cherry Cobbler, Steamed Brocolli, Black Coffee
DMC: 3371, White
The piece is matted with some red and black buffalo check fabric I found at Hobby Lobby, edged with some green handmade cording, and jazzed up with some flocked greenery and a green bow.
The next piece was the December monthly cottage by Classic Colorworks which I finished as a wall hanging on this gray-washed board I found at Michaels. It's matted with coordinginating fabric, edged in handmade cording, and has a bow with a wreath center.
The last piece I finished was Silent Night. This pattern can be found in Chalkboard Ornaments, Christmas Collection Part 3 by Hands on Design. The pattern is charted for black fabric, but I decided to stitch it on a remnant 32 ct Vintage Country Mocha Lugana I had left over from Tree Lot. The colors I used were DMC 3051, 816, 3781 and white.
The stitched piece was finished as a mounted ornament on black and white check fabric, edged with trim and completed with a bow.
A few of my favorite client finishes from the week:
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This morning I fully finished one of the Perennial Pinwheels from Hands on Design's "Well-Rounded" winter charts. I had originally planned to stitch and finish this particular pattern in a tart, but when I found this box at Hobby Lobby, I changed up my plan and finished it as a Christmas tree planter.
The box was found in the wedding section and it came already whitewashed. All I had to do was mat the stitched piece with some wintery homespun fabric and mount it to the front. I used some flocked greenery to jazz up the top, and then made a bow out of some jute ribbon. Then I just added the holly button for some color.
This set of charts by Hands on Designs offers you three different patterns for each season and gives you so many options! Definitely a great pattern to have in your stash!
I also knocked out these really cute wood tag ornaments featuring charts from Madame Chantilly's "Christmas Stamps". These quick stitches were just small fancy flats using red and white gingham fabric, mounted to the front of whitewashed wood tag ornaments.
We have officially transitioned from summer to all Halloween and fall decor in our household and I could not be happier!
I showed you my new upstairs loft shelves a couple weeks back where I went with a more muted fall palette: Loft Fall Decor Every other area of the house is much more traditionally decorated.
As always, my Lizzie Kate Halloween Rules tombstone is front and center. If I could stitch this again, I would in a heartbeat. It's still one of my favorites!
The piece was stitched on Vintage Country Mocha Lugana using DMC threads. I matted it with tan and black homespun fabric and mounted it to the front of this pre-lit wood tombstone I found at Joann's a few years back. All I did was add some garland and a couple Dollar Tree bats.
After I stitched Halloween Rules, I stitched up Lizzie Kate's Boo Club since I had all of the threads out.
Upstairs, I decorated my old window with some Halloween garland from Michaels, and hung my Bobbing for Pumpkin witches by Brenda Gervais in the center. This is the ever-so-popular finish inspired by Priscilla Blain a few years ago: https://priscillas2000.blogspot.com/2017/09/some-witchy-stitching.html After I saw Priscilla's, I just knew I had to run out and get the sign to finish mine the same way.
Bobbing for Pumpkins is accompanied by Lizzie Kate's Tingles that I stitched and finished last year. It's mounted to a grey-washed board I found at Michaels (although I did dry-brush some white over the board to lighten it a bit).
And new this year is Ye Olde Crow Sampler by Heart in Hand stitched entirely with Onyx from Weeks Dye Works. It's stitched on Vintage Country Mocha, matted with that same homespun, edged with black cording, and mounted to a pedestal frame I found at Michaels this year.
My Halloween tiered-tray is still a little bit of a work in progress while I work on stitching up some smaller pieces, as well as the Halloween tree I bought this weekend with the intent of decorating it with some stitched Haloween ornaments.
Some other non-house decor stitchy finishes this week include:
Lizzie Kate's "Eek, Boo, Hiss" finished as a trio of ornaments
The Scarlett House's "Pumpkin Spice Everything" finished in a barnwood frame
Hands on Design's "Well-Rounded Perennial Pinwheels August" finished as a tart
and Country Cottage Needleworks' "Pumpkin Cottage" finished as a mounted frame
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