Stitcher's home

Don't you love to look at the way styitchers decorate with their stitching? I do! Here is the home of  Barb Hutson  the designer behind Queenstown Sampler Designs. I LOVE the mural her husband painted!

Barb Hutson's home

Highways and Hedges

Highways and Hedges

Model stitched on 40ct. Light Exemplar from Lakeside Linens

Stitch count: 239w X 159h 

Available NOW for sale at my website.

It will be available to your LNS within a couple of weeks, so please ask for it by name!!

Some close-up details:

 

An embarrassing finsh!

I pulled this one out of the drawer the other day and saw that there were only like 2 letters and the bottom band of water left to stitch. So I quickly finished it up in one night!
A Mermaids Song

Designed by Ruth Ann Russell

Published in Sampler and Antique Quarterly Vol. 22

32 ct. Belfast linen

DMC threads

Yes, the date on it says 2005! Isn't that pathetic! LOL!! I hate to admit how old some of my WIPs are. I began this year vowing to really make a dent in them, hence THIS embarrassing post! But, alas, I have only finished 3. Yes, sadly 3. *sigh* Well, theres always next year,(and/or my stitching guild's annual tag sale!)I do love the queen stitch in the mermaids tail, and the eyelets sea flowers.These over 1 letters were quite a "pain in the neck" but they are very effective here and I'm quite proud of them! So all in all a nice finish, can't wait to get it framed-it is the first piece in my future mermaid wall.

And on another note, last week was my birthday so I treated myself to the chart "Paradise Lost" by Plum Street Samplers. I know I know, as a designer I have no business even thinking about stitching for myself, but if I didn't love cross stitch and get excited about new releases, I wouldn't be much use in this profession, would I? So maybe I'll get a chance to put in a stitch here or there, and it will probably take me until 2014 to finish this one, but it does get me all inspired!And just to prove that I am not shirking my duty, here is a snap of "Folk Art Flowers" a future release!

I can't resist-one more tease!

Here are the flower girls and their baskets!

Tease tease tease!!!

In the Highways is on its way to the framer!Here is the house and hill finished!!!

Downloadable Patterns!

Hey guess what! You can now download my patterns from a website called Patternmart! You just pay through Paypal and then you can instantly download the pattern in PDF format! Isn't that neat! The advantage, besides the instant gratification of receiving the pattern right away, is that you don't have to pay shipping and the pattern price point is CHEAPER!!! Isn't that cool!
Just click the link below and it will take you there.


All Hallow's Eve Cross Stitch Pattern


Model stitched on 28 ct, Antique White Cashel Linen, with 2 strands of DMC floss over 2 linen ...

Price: US$7.00


Not all of my patterns are on the site yet, I am still in the process of converting my patterns to PDF, and getting them uploaded, so check the site often to see what is available. Some of the doll patterns will NOT be downloadable, due to the large size. How ever, I will be offering them there as a "mail only" pattern on a limited basis, at a lower price! You will just have to check and see what is available! Exciting, don't you think!

In the home stretch!

I am so close to finishing the model for my next release! I can't show you yet, but here is a sneak peek!Look familiar? I've shown this once before! But this is all you can see until it is all ready for release.

I will tell you the verse,
"In the highways, in the hedges, I'll be somewhere working for my Lord."
Its from an old, old tune by folk legend Mother Mabel Carter!
hehe!