PUTZING AND SEWING

 It's been a minute...but we've been busy.  We had a nice visit in South Carolina with our youngest son, his wife and the three little girls.  The weather couldn't have been nicer!  I've been on a stitching binge these last couple of weeks but I found a FlossTuber who had an excellent tutorial on making project bags.  

Her channel is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzcbp9JByXU&t=944s                                                        Elizabethanncanstitch

She has really nice videos on not only her cross stitch, but on things to sew, how to frame etc.  I really enjoy watching her.  I made these two project bags this evening.  I'm horrible with a rotary cutter and even worse sewing in zippers, but I did it!  They are fully lined and lined with flannel interfacing.  The two of them cost under $20 to make, but I have fabric enough to make another one.  

I made the last birth sampler for our grandchildren...Catherine, who just turned one, is the last of our little treasures.  Catherine's is a little different that the other two...I added three little girls, she and her two sisters.  The oldest one has red hair, Josephine, the second girl has blonde hair, and then Catherine is a brunette.

I'm still stitching on Isabella Johnstone...I have all of the lettering done beneath her name (not pictured) and am starting on the border.  Every one seems to do their border first, but for some reason, it really bugs me to do it first...so like a weirdo...I do the insides first!

This is my weekend WIP, The Christmas Garden by Blackbird Design.  It is my oldest project, having started it in the spring of 2019.  I tried my darndest to use a scroll rod with my Lowry stand, but I just can't do it.  I stitch much better in hand.  So I'll be selling my stand plus all of my scroll rods...UGH!

Well..gotta run...hope everyone is saying safe and healthy.  Excited that it is getting nicer out...only thing...that means yardwork which I hate as of late!  Take care and thanks for reading my blog!