FFG - January 2020

I'd like to thank Rachel at Ten Hour Stitcher for hosting this SAL again this year.  

In 2019, I only participated for the first 8 months (January - August), but I did manage to fully finish 23 projects so I count that as success.  This year I hope to participate every month.

I showed this Lizzie*Kate project last week, but now I framed it.  I only use black frames for photos or cross stitch on the walls because our house decor is contemporary/modern style.  Nothing fancy, just a thin black frame (10" x 20") with a white matt.

Let The People Choose - Lizzie*Kate

This is the first time I am participating in the following SAL, which is hosted each month by Jo at Serendipitous Stitching.  I have never participated before because I didn’t have anything to show for the topic each month.  

January’s topic is Lizzie*Kate, personally I’m not a fan of her designs.  They are nice and quick to stitch, and for that reason most of my local stitching friends have all stitched her designs.  I prefer more complicated designs, but in 2016 I did feel the need to stitch the Green Flip-Its because my husband Dave and our youngest son Jordyn both work for Waste Management (a garbage & recycling company).  Dave works from home (Head Office is in Houston, Texas) and Jordyn drives a garbage truck for one of the regions (Mount Forest, Ontario).  We believe in helping the environment, so I thought they were worth stitching.  The project was on my FFG list, I found a frame today that fit (10" x 20").  I will hang this in Dave's home office.

I have also received the following 2 stitched gifts of Lizzie*Kate designs.

A few years ago, I received this gift from Rita (a local stitching friend).  She did a beautiful job finishing the design into a little pillow.  I believe it is a Lizzie*Kate design.  Please let me know it I'm wrong, but to me it looks like the same style.

In 2015, I won a this lovely box stitched by Angela at Hooked on Stitches (blog doesn’t seem to exist anymore).  

Green Flip-Its - Happy Dance!!

Last night I put the last stitches in the Green project.

Happy Dance - Eat Locally

Tonight I finished Eat Locally and started working on the flowers in between the words at the bottom.

Green - Eat Locally update #1

I finished stitching the green onion and started the top border and red letters.  I hope to finish the whole project this weekend.

Green - Eat Locally

I have been stitching quite a bit this week.  Last night Sarah (my son's girlfriend) and I went to the Tuesday Night Stitcher's Club and today I went to the Wednesday afternoon Stitcher's club.  Here are some progress photos.

This was taken this morning, I finished all the words at the bottom and started Eat Locally.

This photo was taken tonight showing what I got done today on Eat Locally.

Happy Dance - Keep Our Air Clean

Tonight I finished another one of the Green Flip-Its.  I have one more to do and the words at the bottom.

Green - Keep Our Air Clean update #3

I haven't been stitching as much lately, but I am getting closer to finishing this one.

Green - Keep Our Air Clean update #2

After a week, I finally had time to stitch tonight.  Here is my progress photo.

Green Flip-Its

Here is my Green Flip-Its project so far.

My colouring calendar for today.

Green - Keep Our Air Clean update #1

I continued working on Keep our air clean.

Green - Keep Our Air Clean

Tonight I started the next Green Flip-It chart Keep Our Air Clean.  Here is my progress so far.

April Goals

April Goals

Start & finish the last 2 Green Flip-Its

-Keep Our Air Clean

-Eat Locally

-finish words at the bottom

March Reviews

Green Flip-Its 

- finish Plant a Tree - YES

- start another one - YES, completed 2 more (Be Kind to Animals, Save Water)

Happy Dance - Save Water!!

Tonight I finished stitching Save Water.  Four down 2 more to go.

Green - Save Water update #6

I didn't have time to stitch tonight, but here is a close up of my project.

Green - Save Water update #5

Tonight I finally stitched ... Continued working on Save Water.  I just have to finish the border at the top.

No stitching tonight

I don't feel like stitching tonight, but I will show you a progress photo of the whole project.

Green - Save Water update #4

I did a little bit of stitching tonight.

IHSW - March 2016 update

I did manage a little bit of stitching time over the weekend.  I continued working on Save Water.  Here are my before & after photos.

After photo

Before photo

Green - Save Water update #3

Here is my progress for today.