2026 Finish #23

 Matilda Hornbuckle

Notforgotten Farm

40 count with dmc color changes

WDW Charcoal shoe

3.5" x 4"

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Too blue?

 I found blue fringe that matched this little finish.  It is so small and I thought it was missing something, maybe a stitched outline.  So what do you think?  Too much blue?  The chenille matched also but it was too heavy for this piece.

As for Matilda, I can order black fringe but with those brown flowers, maybe a neutral?  

It's been a blue sky week, no rain, will end soon.  I may just park my butt and enjoy the last of it.  Hubs prefers tri-color mums and they are just starting to open.  My yellow will be done and these will take over.

Be safe.  Lots of covid here.

Keep your sanitizer in your car.

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Introducing .....

Shabby Jack!

Mounted over a 3" mache box lid, glued and tied with suede cording.  Edges left raw and shabby.

Design is The Woolly Ewe Jolly Jack but I only stitched Jack.

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Nope

 Removing the 936.  Not agreeing with me.

This is 40 count Mink, the 936 is only in these few letters, outline border, and a dividing band.  The light 152 pink is throughout and would be ghosty on a lighter linen.

I finished Matilda, haven't final finished yet.  Bad sore throat for over a week, just not feeling ambitious.  At 75, searching for a backing fabric, is ambitious.

Have a good day.

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If the shoe fits

Fill with stitches.

I am in love with this gal.  Why did I wait so long?

I added the two mouth corners over the orange stitches, not sure if I'll keep them.  Color changes as always.  Once fill in is done, I'd like to final finish the Halloween pieces from last year.

Dinner went well but she ate very little.  Quite a difference since I saw her last.

Hope your week has a good start.

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Old lace

 Worn. 

Broken threads.

Tattered.

Fragile.

Stains of holidays.

So long ago.

So terribly missed.

 

Two others are in the drawer.

The laughter, sharing, family, and holidays held in these threads,

are now silent.

Only memories of long ago.

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