Late Slow Sunday Stitching

 Oh. my. goodness. I am late to the party! 

Because I was at another party! 

I'm so sorry everyone, but seriously I forgot it was Sunday. And I was so excited about attending Stitch North that I did not write a scheduled post. WOW! 

There will be more to come about my adventure, but for now... here is the link up!

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Slow Sunday Stitching

Welcome to Slow Sunday Stitching where we celebrate the art of creating things with our hands. All forms of hand stitching activities are welcome here :)

This week I finished the February Primrose Cottage pattern (called Sweetly Sayin') into a little pillow. The pretty backing fabric is from my daughter's husband's grandmother's stash. I was given a few boxes of her stash and have been using pieces here and there as I can. The stuffing is polyfil.

This was stitched on Roxy Powderpuff 18 count aida fabric with the called for threads. This is not a good photo since it has been such dark and dreary weather here. But trust me - it is so sweet and perfect for next Valentine's Day.  Finished size: 5.5" x 4"

I have also been stitching almost daily on the Quick Quaker stitch-a-long from Modern Folk Embroidery. I am using a variety of green threads that we are started to enjoy at the beginning of spring. 

The daily videos that Jacob posts are educational and inspiring. One of my favourites so far was when he sang "How can I keep from singing" on Day 10's video. If you go to the 17 minute mark on the video, you can hear him sing this beautiful old hymn of the quakers and he sings all the harmony parts himself! I'll probably listen to it again this morning as I stitch another part of this lovely pattern.

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Slow Sunday Stitching

Welcome to the weekly hand stitching party!  Take a few moments to set aside your machines, your devices and screens, and just take a deep breath... ahhh... so much better. Now pick up your needles and fibres, and put a few stitches into your project. You will feel better in no time!

I am looking forward to this afternoon - to putting my feet up, and stitching the day away while I watch the Masters Golf Tournament. I am not a golfer, but I do enjoy the peaceful nature of the Augusta competition, seeing the beautiful green grass and flowers, while spending time stitching. It reminds me that spring is coming soon.

Today I will enjoy stitching more of the Quick Quaker SAL (by Modern Folk Embroidery) in green threads on a tea dyed 18 count aida. Mother Nature puts all the greens on display in the spring and I'm putting them all into this project - the yellowy greens, the blue greens, the olive greens, the forest greens... all of them! 

And when I'm caught up with this project, I'll start working on binding the four quilts I picked up from Claudia the long arm quilter at Quilting By Design.

What are you hand stitching today? Are you watching golf today while you stitch?

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Slow Sunday Stitching

Welcome to the weekly celebration of the art of slowly stitching by hand! We encourage you to slow down, breathe deeply, take a few stitches, and enjoy seeing the slowly created projects of hand stitching gurus from around the world. 

There have been 2 major hand stitching projects for me this week. First, because it is Easter (sending Happy Easter wishes for those who celebrate) I pushed myself to finish an ornament of an Easter Egg. 

It was tricky to construct and I used glue (for the first time) to stick the stitched piece to cardboard. Then I cut an egg from a lovely blue fabric for the back, put a piece of batting on each side of the cardboard and glued the two sides together (with a ribbon in the middle so it can hang). Then I hand stitched the two sides together around the edge.

The design is called Easter (Stitch Craft by Mary) and the pattern showed a pink colourway. I changed mine to blue and spent a long (happy) time digging around in my thread collection to find 6 blues from light to dark. It was so delightful to stitch, and because of the design construction and not needing to count much, I made no mistakes at all (very rare)!

The finished size is 3.5" x 4.5" and I am so happy how it turned out. It has 1,985 cross stitches and a few backstitches (which I thought brought some life to the butterfly and the lilies of the valley). And it is finished in time for the Easter Bunny to deliver it!

My second project is for the month of April and is a pattern called "Quick Quaker" by Modern Folk Embroidery. It is a stitch-a-long on instagram and each day you stitch some of the pattern and post your progress (if you want).

I am using a variety of green threads on a tea dyed 18 count aida cloth. The symbolism is the return of green in the spring (all greens go together in nature) and everything growing out of the ground/dirt/brown. I have no idea how it will turn out, or if I will like the end result of my colour choices, but it is very fun everyday to pick a new green and put approximately 150 stitches in. And Jacob from Modern Folk Embroidery is posting a video every day of the SAL.

So that is what I have been up to this week. How about you? Please link up your blog post below and share your projects with us!

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