New patterns coming soon!

I've been working away on some new pattern releases, 

hopefully for the end of March and then another one in April.

My daughter is having a baby in a couple of days, and for the last several weeks she has been on bedrest for a condition with her pulse.

She has two little ones, Amy is 3 and Hideko is 1 1/2, so I have been at her house almost every day on mommy/nee-nee duty!

It has been wonderful!

I am having so much fun with the girls!

But, there hasn't been a lot of time for my business.

So now she has an induction date of March 18, and I will be getting back to my regular schedule. Through all of this I have tried to keep up with my pattern models. One is done and just needs to be fully finished, and I am working on the other one,

 its almost there.

So exciting!

I don't work on Sundays, as I try to keep that day for the Lord and family. If I do cross stitch, I work on personal projects, not pattern models. So i have gotten a little bit done on Houses of Hawk Run Hollow:

I'm on the 5th block, second row. I would dearly love to finish this in 2017. This is one of my oldest WIPS. 

I also started working on A & E by With Thy Needle and Thread. I just love this one and I think it will go quickly.

So that's my update!

 Hopefully the next time I post we will have a new little granddaughter who is happy and healthy!

Keep stitching!

XOXO,

~Annie

Dear friends,

In order to support the wonderful local needlework shops around the country who work so hard to keep all of the patterns, threads, fabrics and needful things available to you, I have made the decision not to offer my newest cross stitch patterns as PDF downloads, in my Etsy Shop. From here on out you will only be able to purchase them from your local needlework store, or from the many wonderful online shops that offer supplies for our hobby. Please support them!

My older designs will still be available at Etsy, and I look forward to offering some other enticements in the future!

Thank you so much and "Stitch all the things!"

XO XO

Annie

Free Pattern!

Quaker Primitive

This is a reprint of a free pattern I offered a long time ago, and I have decided to make it available again!

There is some over one stitching on it, so its not really suitable for Aida cloth.

49 X 71
Bold symbols are over 1

I stitched mine all in DMC 3371

Hope you enjoy it!!!

XOXO,

Annie

A Brand New Pattern! Nashville Release!

This is my brand new pattern called;

 The Frog Motto

We all experience frogging don't we? Its an inevitable part of the whole process of cross stitching!

So here is a little piece to encourage you in those froggie times, and remind you that everyone experiences "the frog" at one time or another!

Model stitched on 35ct. Zinc linen from Hand Dyed Fibers at Etsy, 1 over 2.

103 w X 84h

Design size:  6 x 4 5/8

Backstitch vine in 3772

Backstitch frog eyes and feet in 936

8 X 10 frame from Hobby Lobby

Happy Stitching!

 XOXO,

Annie

My Design published in Kindred Stitches Magazine!

This is a wonderful digital magazine that is published out of Australia. You can get the app in the iTunes store. It is loaded with beautiful eye candy and inspiration for stitchers!

Check it out!

Here is my design that was published in it!

I had so much fun making this!

So exciting! 

Happy Stitches!

XOXO

~Annie

My 2017 Rotation and a Finish!

So I'm starting to get into a groove, and I've worked out a 2017 rotation of sorts.

I confess, I have a lot of big WIPS, or I should say UFO's. I want to get these projects finished so I have started a rotation-lets see if I can stick to it!

Here is my list of stitchy goals:

1.Santas Village-Country Cottage Needleworks. I started this the year it came out, got 1 house done and then never took another stitch until the end of 2016.

This is where I was as of Jan.1

Here is where I am now:

I finished house #2! So I want to try to finish one house a month, at the beginning of the month, and then work on another WIP from the 15th until the end of the month.

So this month I am working on:

2. All Creatures Great and Small by Barbara Ana Designs. This was my Christmas day start, as it was a gift from my husband. Here is what I got done Christmas Day:

And here is where I am now:

Of course I have many many more WIPs. I plan to work on other things intermittently. But these two are a main focus. 

I still need to finish Hideko's stocking, and I would LOVE to make progress on Houses of Hawk Run Hollow. And of course all of this is in addition to designing and model stitching so...LOL! 

But hey, its all good!

And I have a small finish!

Prairie Schooler Santa-Old St. Nick

This was a fun and quick little stitch. I am also going to try to do at least 1 ornament a month.

So thats what I have been working on! I received the proof pages of my article that will be in Kindred Stitches magazine-it looks wonderful! I can't wait for it to come out, its so exciting!! I think it is a June release.

Happy Stitching!

XOXO

~Annie

And now our hearts turn to...

Hearts!

I don't think I even had the tree down before I already began to think about all things red and white!

I have had a long, long love affair with red and white. In fact I have just recently decided red, white and gray are going to be the colors in my living room (hopefully this will be happening in the spring). 

So I pulled out some woolie hearts and began arranging them just so. 

But then I sold the lot in my 

Etsy shop.

 Ah me!

2017 Stitchy Plans

I pulled out my Santas Village (Country Cottage Needleworks) and have decided to try to do 1 house a month. I had the first house completed when I started it back in 2013? I think?

I was on automatic to receive the charts when they were first published, so whatever year that was.

Anyhow, I still love it, and I decided to focus on Chritmas a little more this year, so it is in the rotation.

I also really want to do an ornament a month, so I started a Prairie Schooler Santa from the chart Old St. Nick. He is the blue one in the chart below.

I found myself all alone on a Friday night (which I actually enjoy) so I binge-watched The Crown and made pretty good progress on my Santa!

I borrowed Vonna's method of mounting my fabric on needlework stretcher bars, and it works wonderful for those smaller bits of fabric.

 Thanks Vonna! Great idea!

It is cold and dark and nasty here today, with a howling wind that is knocking over garbage cans and blowing things all over. So I will leave you with a little ray of sunshine!

On Sunday "Cinderella" came over to help me stitch! We try to take my two granddaughters on Sundays when we can to give their momma a break. This is Amy, she is 3. Hideko is 18 months, and their momma is preggers with #3, due in March. So she needs a break!

Happy Stitching!

XOXO

~Annie