~ FIRST FINISHES 2010 ~

Hi there and Happy New Year to all! Remember my last post about stitching on linen for the first time? Thx to each of you who commented and encouraged me to blunder ahead:) Well... here are my FIRST linen finishes-YAY! Why oh why did I wait so long....

Had fun experimenting on this one with a new floss too. Adapted from Sue Hillis' *Merriest Christmas*, JCS 2008 ornie issue. 32 ct. Belgian linen, color natural. DMC *linen* floss, drabby green, 2 over 2. I like this effect of linen on linen. Linen floss is more like stitching with very fine jute, nice and slubby.

Adapted from La D Da's *Merry Christmas*, JCS 2009 ornie issue, 32 ct. Belgian linen, color natural. DMC 400, 2 over 2.

Looks like 2010 is gonna be a great stitchy year for me, the newest member of The Linen Club~LOL!

Thx for taking the time to pop in during this hectic time of reorganizing after the Christmas rush. I hope you enjoyed your visit here as much as I enjoyed sharing:)


Sweet Stitchin...

Tootles, Sue

~ THIS IS LINEN ~

Beautiful and slubby 32 count and as of this morning................. I'm stitchin on it ~ YAY!  This breakthrough has been a looooong time coming, have been hoarding linen bit by bit for years, but never made the effort to stitch outside my comfort zone.  This was my one stitchy goal for 2009 ~ CHECK!!!!!

Sincere thanks to my dear stitchy friend Janice in Irondequoit for her patient/gentle guidance and private lesson at our LNS.  Janice knew just what it would take to push me over the edge, she ROCKS:) 

Won't you please join me in celebration???

Hate to tattle and run, but if you'll now please excuse me.......... got to get back to my LINEN ~ LOL!

Sweet Stitchin....

Tootles, Sue

~ HERE COMES SANTA CLAUS ~

Hi there!

Here he is, uhhh... I mean here theeeeeey are, on the kitchen sill...

Patriot Santas on the steps...

My sincere wishes go out to all my readers, followers and dear friends for a simply peaceful Christmas.



Tootles, Sue

~ TOOOO YUMMY NOT TO SHARE ~

Hi there!  Well dear stitchers, we're all in a whirl aren't we, dashing here and there prepping for the big day, and isn't it great fun!

I've been making this easy and reliable overnight casserole for sooo long, which means I started making this when I was about 6 ~ LOL!  Sometime you stumble on a recipe that's always a hit and there's never a need to look for another, this is one of those and I'm lucky to have found it.  Recipe from a book called *America's Favorite Brand Name Recipes* by Publications Int'l Ltd.  We have it for breakfast, lunch or dinner.  It's a great way to save time on special weekend mornings, especially nice for holiday breakfasts and potlucks, most everyone raves and it can serve a crowd.  Maybe you'd like to take a peek?

Some of the ingredients are croutons, eggs, shredded cheese (any flavor), frozen chopped spinach, pork sausage, mushrooms, milk.  It's made and put into fridge the night before.  You can tweak it anyway you like, we go easy on the croutons cause we like less bread. And I always add a couple jars/cans of sliced mushrooms.  Sorry, forgot to add the shrooms to my pic:)

Prepped and ready for the fridge the night before

From the oven

After sampling the yumminess, get your piece licktey split cause it will vanish!

I really wanted to post this for anyone who might be interested, so they can gather the simple ingredients.

Interested?  I've got recipe saved in jpeg format. Feel free to email me: stitchinsweetsue @ gmail .com (remove spaces).  I usually don't get many recipe requests, so I'm not too terribly worried about being overwhelmed with emails:)

Tootles and Sweet Stitchin...

Sue

~ MAYBE MY LAST FINISH FOR 2009 ~

Hi there!  Thank you so very much for your compliments on my last ornie post, they sure are fun, ornies and comments!

This ornie is for my dear niece Emmalee (7), who by all rights should have been born to an Eskimo family~LOL!  Playing in the snow for hours and hours is certainly not a trait she picked up from yours truly.

Adapted from Stacy Nash's *Snow* stocking in *A Simply Early Christmas*.  The prim designs in this booklet are reeeally nice and I'm oh so glad I made the wise choice last year to add it to my stash, it was a gift from me to me:)  Stitched on white Fiddler's 18 ct., floss is DMC 3830 (a lovely Scandinavian red) which is much nicer and brighter than my dim photos show.

I'm itching to start more prim stitchin on a Lori Brechlin design recently gifted to me by a dear friend Liz N. in Va., again ~ many thanks Liz!  Seems Liz N. lives not too far from Lori's studio aka Notforgotten Farm, a lucky lucky girl she is:)

Off to bake some cut-out cookies ~ yay!


Candy Cane Kisses and Sweet Stitchin....


Tootles, Sue

~ COUPLE ORNIE FINISHES ~

Dear Santa, I've been a very good girl, but did steal a few moments over the last couple days to work on some finishing.


For my niece Autumn (9) cause all little girls love horsies:)  Folky Horse on Fiddlers 18 ct., back finished with barn red wool, jute hanger.

For our home, French Noel on Fiddlers 18 ct., Floss is Waterlilies-color Umbria.

My first time finishing a back with 100% silk evenweave, wanted to see how it handled the rigors of hand finishing, very luxurious and sturdy, loved working with it.  This is drab green, but there were many other lovely colors I left at the shop.  Clearly I was NOT thinking straight, hmmm.........

 

Thanks for peeking, wishing you all a lovely and gentle day, and of course Sweet Stitchin:)

Tootles, Sue