February SFS

Sad to say.... I can no longer participate in SFS and here's why:

I. discovered. hand-dyed. floss.
And silk hand-dyed floss.
And... In looking through Instagram and other online sites I fell in love with the twisted band sampler,
and the twisted rainbow sampler...
And all the threads that go with it.

  I don't have a huge stash to begin with..I just sorta buy as I need. So that's how I justified buying it all. All of it. Guilt free. 

I won't tell you how much I shamefully spent this month, but I will tell you that I spent enough from the SFS budget to do me the next 2-3 years.  (Money-wise, not stash-wise, never can have too much stash). 

There's no way to recover either. I would be in the negative for eternity.  

So I will gracefully bow out and open the space for someone else that can adhere to the rules better than I.   I guess I can always hope for part B??!!

I will still follow and enjoy reading each monthly update from everybody else!

Happy Stitching!

January SFS2015-A

My first month of posting! I'm sooo excited!  Ok, here goes....

MONTH: January

SPENT: $12.00-  I ordered the Hope, Dream, Imagine, and Believe chartpack from the talented Ms. Joan Elliott.  I want to do it as a set to go with the purple green blue butterfly.  My plan is to replace Joan's colors to match the ones in the butterfly pattern.  

EARNED: Nothing.  The 2 projects that I completed were started in 2014, so I don't think they count anyway.  (I'm not sure because I don't really understand the "earned" part yet...if someone could explain I would greatly appreciate it!)

But!!!! I have had 2, that's right.... Two finishes since January 1st!! I finished them through the turtle trot challenge.  I guess I can include them in the SFS ... Someone will have to let me know if I can't. 

First up is a wedding dress pattern I bought from Etsy.  This one was started last year and I only had a little bit to finish on the bottom of her dress.  

Next is just a little pattern called Take Time....but it's a finish! I started this one last year sometime... and if you follow my turtle trot post, you will see how much I've done.  There was only a little bit of the blue water done when I picked it up again.







STITCH FROM STASH: Nothing. I'm still working on 10 pieces from the turtle trot.  I'm hoping to have another finish for February month, then I'll replace the finish with a stash pattern.  We shall see.

Anyway, so far for January I've worked on:
1. Dockside quilt
2. Take time finished 
3. Mirabilia Red
4. Mirabilia Winter Queen
5.Whole Lotta Latte
6. Butterfly girl
7. Converted pic to pattern of my cat
8. Rocky Point
9. View from a window
10 .Wedding Dress finished
10.Purple Blue Green Butterfly (replaced the wedding dress lady)

You can see all these patterns in my January Turtle Trot post.



BUDGET CARRIED INTO FEB: $18.00 for a total of $43.00  (because Canada's currency stinks and $30 equals $25 US)

I'm so excited!!!


Happy Stitching!

What have I gotten myself into?!

So for the past year, I have been browsing the internet for anything to do with cross stitch and I have come across many groups.  Some are for SALS, some are for smalls, SFS, turtle trot...and that's just to name a few!

I have decided I would like to take part in at least two three of them.

Here they are in no order:

-Stitch From Stash -2015A
    -this will be done in two parts at 6 months each.  You have a budget of $25.00 each month (or currency equivalent) to buy stash from.  Whatever is not used in that month can be carried over into the next month.  Check out Epic Stitching to read all the rules and how exciting this is going to be!

The next one sort of goes hand in hand with the stitch from stash.

-Turtle Trot 2015.  The idea is to pick out ten projects and post your stitching status on them on the tenth of every month.  So I will be forced to work my WIPs and possibly UFO's. Which in turn, keeps my stash down (at least that's the idea) You can check out all the info and sign up Here at BAP attacks' blog.

-And finally Cross Stitch Collection SAL.  It features an Edwardian Garden Party, and if you sign up, they send you the pattern for free! You can also do 12 smalls, one for every month for 2015 or you can even do your own thing! It's their very first SAL It will be released in three parts, the first being released on Jan 01/15.  Click Here for more info!

So there you have it! Again, I ask....what have I gotten into??!!

Happy Stitching!