Stitchy Update!

It's been dreary and rainy for the last 2 weeks. We have flood warnings and some places are already flooded. We don't live too close to the lakes or river so we're ok but the rain is getting depressing. Last year we were in a drought and this year it won't stop. Can't there be a happy medium? I don't even want to think about the mosquitoes this summer! But, when it's raining it's a good time to get some stitching done. :) And I have been stitching and stashing! Not that I needed more stash!
A friend that I went to school with told me about the Salvation Army Women's Craft & Fabric Sale. I have never heard of it but apparently a lot of people have. We got there about 10minutes before it was set to start. The parking lot was full and there was a line across the whole front of the strip mall where it was. We got in pretty quick and headed straight for the stitching stuff. It was nice because they had tall signs on the tables with the different categories. I found a lot of packaged aida for .25c each. Jerry picked up a sealed package and showed it to me to see if I wanted it. It was an afghan cloth to stitch on! I looked them up online and it's $25. I got it for $3 !!! I wish there would have been more because a few friends on Facebook would have liked one. :( This is what I came home with. Emma was with us and got the big flower for her room for .75c and the stocking kit in the red box for $2. When we opened it we found out it makes 4 small stockings. :)

My friend told me there was still a lot of stuff left a few days later and they had added more that didn't fit in the beginning. So we went back and I came home with this. The big black piece and white piece are over a yard of aida! Fun! :)

Now, since I had this nice afghan, I needed something to stitch on it, right? :) I looked online and found several charts but most were for different sized afghans or the squares were different size. Then I looked on Stoney Creek and found the perfect design! I loved it more than the others I saw and it was the right size! It's called Tropical Island and you can see it Here.  I received it in the mail today and I'm hoping to start it this weekend during IHSW.

In my last post I shared my March Halloween ornament but I didn't have the Christmas ornament one done yet. Here it is. I'm working on my April ornaments now so I'll show them next post. :)

This morning I finished putting together a pinkeep wall hanging for my grandson. I stitched his name using the Lizzie Kate A-B-C-razy chart. He called me after school when he got home and saw it. He was so excited! He didn't know about it and he loves it. :)

And finally...I know a lot of people have been waiting to see Paradise finished. Here it is! By the way, it isn't actually framed yet. I just put it in the frame to see how it's going to look. Hopefully it will be in there in the next day or two. :)

I absolutely loved working on this piece! Part of what made it fun was doing it as a SAL with Katie. We both were finishing about the same amount each week and finished pretty close to each other. Katie decided to change the color of her letters. She didn't like the look of the black as much as I did. I love the way hers looks too! As we were working on them I kept wondering if I should have changed mine too but I really like how the black looks so I'm happy with it. I really like hers too though. Lol We are thinking about doing the Halloween one as a SAL in a few months. Here's Katie's finished Paradise!

Well, I think that's about it for now. Not much going on with all this rain. We finally got rid of winter and now this! Oh well, in the summer we'll probably be praying for some rain.
Thanks for checking out my blog and please leave a comment. I like knowing you were here. :)

Also, I haven't posted any picture-of-the-day pics for a while. I did finish March and am doing the April one now. If anyone is interested I will post those in a different post. I know I did get several nice comments on them before (thank you!), but didn't want to bore everyone with them all. So if you want to see them, let me know!