WIP OF A.W. 1756

I decided to take some time and work on my wips.
This is a Vierlande sampler reproduction from the
Scarlet Letter, it is stitched entirely in red with the
exception of Adam and Eve's hair and the serpent
which are stitched in black.

I am stitching this design in 40 count hand-dyed
linen with silk floss.

THE LAST ADVENTURE OF SUMMER

My husband and son-in-law took the boys
on a wonderful camping trip, where they
got to fish, swim, take the canoe on the lake
for more fishing and sleeping under the stars.

The waterfalls of Cascade Lake in North
Carolina are very beautiful and the boys
enjoyed the swimming under the waterfalls.

QUAKER ALPHABET SAMPLAR

Model was stitched on 32/36 unevenweave
linen, which I dyed with blackberry tea. One
strand of floss was used over two threads
of linen. Of course you can stitch this design
on any count of linen. WDW threads were
used with a conversion to DMC

Stitch Count: 118w X 152h

FINISHED PHOTOS OF JOANN'S SAMPLERS

Joann from Houston sent me two finished
pictures of her designs of WHERE ARE THEE
ADAM and EVIL SERPENT. Thank you so
much Joann for sharing your wonderful stitched
pieces with me, I love the frames you used
on both of them, again thank you.

HAVEN'S TRIP BACK HOME

Well frankly these were very sad pictures to
take since they meant that my oldest grandson
Haven had to go back home and get ready for
school.

We had a wonderful time with him and he had
a wonderful time also since he went to Dollywood,
TN, camping, swimming, Toys 'R' Us (this is his
favorite place hahaha) Alex and Haven had a wonderful
time getting to see each other again, we had slumber
parties at the house, seeing lots of movies and fixing
their favorite snacks (my husband and I would just
look at one another and say "when will they fall asleep,
we are just to old for this) it brought back memories
when our kids use to have slumber parties and drive
us crazy.

But anyway my heart broke in two seeing him go and
only God knows when we will get to see him again, we
are thinking Christmas (maybe) he is such a wonderful
and sweet little boy.

WE HAVE BEEN SUPER BUSY

Kathy (Madstitcher) is stitching up a storm on three new designs,
one is already at the framers and she is almost finish with the
second one and getting ready for the third one.

Mindy Gooding is stitching a wonderful long band sampler with
a beautiful old verse in the colors red, black and gold.

I am working on a long band sampler with alphabets, lots of bands
with the focal point of Adam and Eve. I am also taking a break and
stitching something for myself that I have been wanting to do for
almost 7 years and it is "And All Was For An Appil" from the Scarlet
Letter. I am stitching it on 35 count linen from the Scarlet Letter.
I will take a picture and post it soon on what I have stitched so far.

ALEX'S BIRTHDAY PARTY

Here are some pictures of my grandson's birthday party,
we had a ball, especially the boy's. On one of the pictures
you can see my three grandson's in the pool, on the left
is Alex, in the middle Grant and on the right is my oldest
grandson Haven, who lives in Texas and came to spend
two wonderful weeks with us.

We let Grant eat his first piece of cake his way hahaha