Handprints - Woodland Animals - update #6

 Today I started and completed the chipmunk.  This is the last animal.

I need to find a new project to start. Tomorrow I will go through my stash. I’m thinking maybe one of my many Just nan kits, but we’ll see what else I find.

Handprints - Woodland Animals - update #5

Today I started and completed the fox. I have 1 more animal to stitch before the baby is born then I can get the information (name, birth date, and weight).

Here is the project so far.

Handprints - Woodland Animals - update #4

 Today I started and completed the rabbit and raccoon.

Handprints - Woodland Animals - update #3

 Today I started and completed the last 2 leaves and the deer.

Handprints - Woodland Animals - Update #2

 I started and completed the squirrel, and 2 of the 4 leaves.

Fully Finished Gallery - July 2023

 

Thanks to Rachel over at Ten Hour Stitcher for this monthly SAL. This is the first time I’m participating this year because it is my first big finish of the year. My husband Dave requested a wall hanging to replace the winter snowman one, so this is what he got.

I made it into a quilted wall hanging. It is bigger than I pictured in my mind but I had to use more butterfly fabric between each flower or you wouldn’t see much of the butterflies. I thought a metre of fabric was enough but that only did the front. I found some purple fabric in my sewing stash.

I watched a video on How To Make a Flanged Pillow by the Twisted Stitcher (Vonna Pfeiffer). She taught me how to make sure my evenweave fabric was cut straight. I used the pulling a thread method instead of the rotary cutter because my fabric was crooked. This way I knew I’d have the same amount of threads all around the square flowers. 

Handprints - Woodland Animals theme - update #1

 I started the project on July 6. It took me 4 days to stitch the 2 hands because I kept miscounting. I stitched the whole poem yesterday. Here is the poem and hands completed.

Today I will pull my threads for all the animals.

Handprints poem - 9th time

I’m very excited because my next cross stitch project has a due date, but that can be earlier or later depending on the baby. One of my sons’ close friends is expecting his first child August 14. I have known him since he was in high school, so I wanted to stitch something for him and his wife.  

I always stitch the handprints poem, but I also personalize it each time with the baby theme.  I think this is the 9th time I’m stitching this baby pattern. I originally bought and stitched it in 1998 for my oldest son’s kindergarten teacher. 

This time the baby theme is Woodland Animals. This is my design concept using animals found in my cross stitch books.

I hand dyed a piece of white 28ct evenweave using coffee, but that was too light, so I re-dyed it again with tea.  This is how it turned out.

I will be stitching the poem in DMC 988 because it is the closest colour to a peridot (August birthstone).