Coming Home from Ewe and Eye

I started pulling out all my Amy stuff and wondering how much more does a girl need?  So much!

Lousy lighting but you get the picture

Cute colonial knots for the flowers?  Stones?

Random Diagonal Cashmere for the house

Tricks I Learned from Amy Bunger

I am going to miss Amy's classes so much.  Her guides are wonderful and hopefully will be available for quite some time to come but the tidbits you pick up being around her are invaluable.

Here's one example.  I am now stitching the background down the side of House #5.  Obviously the full pattern does not fit.  What's a stitcher to do?

Use stick'ems or pieces of paper to create the space you are stitching.  You can see I blocked off the eight canvas threads that make up the blue area down the side.  I don't have to constantly look at the stitch diagram and count and recount.  Easy peasy.

To the Finisher

We have a great framers here in Austin called Blue Skies.  They do a great job framing needle art.   These lovelies are off to let those ladies work their magic.

Can't remember the designer

 
I finished this years ago.  I didn't know what I wanted to do with it so it lay dormant.  Carolyn Baird had these fabulous ribbons at her store, The Ribbonry.   It's inside Chaprral. The vintage sunflower strip down both sides is going to be heavenly.   This is a Melissa Shirley canvas with a stitch guide by Amy Bunger.   I think the guide is available for sale at amybunger.com.

Melissa Shirley's Cream Farmhouse

  I finished the White Farm in the last few months.  This is a canvas from Painted Pony Needlepoint and stitch guide by Amy Bunger.  Yes, I adore Amy Bunger and her stitch/thread selections.  This one won't have any ribbon or mat.

White Farm by Diane Ulmer Pedersen from Painted Pony Needlepoint Designs

Halloween House Row

House #5 is up.   The bottom story is Framed Hungarian using four strands of silk for the diamond shape and size 8 Kreinik for the frame.    It's coming along!

Back to Halloween House Row

Back to Halloween House Row by Melissa Shirley.  I am stitching this using a guide created by Amy Bunger.  It is available for purchase at amybunger.com.

House #1 is complete

Doors and trellis for House #3

House #2 is complete

Halloween House Row

I am certainly skipping around on projects around here.   I put the Halloween House Row from Melissa Shirley back on the stand.  I am using a stitch guide that is available from Amy Bunger.  It's so fun to stitch.  

Roof of House #3

 The background stitch is Alternating Stones.  I am using one strand of silk.  It is perfect for this canvas.

I stitched the stones leading to the houses and filled in the grass.  I am using three strands of Dinky Dyes in the Cobblestone stitch.  Pretty cute!

The stones for House #5 were a bit different.  The guide calls for a different thread but I goofed and used the wrong one.  I'm not sure it's worth taking out and redoing.  

Sunday on the Commons

Another Diane Ulmer Pedersen canvas from Painted Pony Needlepoint Designs!  I love these designs.  I took this canvas to my last Rent Amy Day.   She has the best stitch ideas for these canvases.  I sure do miss her and Jill and the other lovely ladies at Amy's Golden Strand.  I so hope we get to go on this year's trip.

Oops.  Forgot to flip it when I downloaded the photo.  The common area is the Staggered Leviathan stitch using one strand of overdyed floss changing the color to match the shading on the canvas.

This tree top is stitched using Staggered Cross with a strand of Wildflowers.  Some of the small cross stitches are done using two strands of an overdyed floss to create the shading.  So perfect. 

 
The bush in the lower right hand corner is a Helen's Lace variation using an overdyed floss.

Overview

All of The Hart Hunt

These are all the photos of The Hart Hunt by Diane Ulmer Pedersen from Painted Pony Needlepoint Designs.  

Let the Earth Be Glad

I am trying to be more consistent about finishing projects but I couldn't help myself and pulled this out.  ANOTHER Diane Ulmer Pedersen from Painted Pony Needlepoint Designs.  I took it to Amy Bunger's last September and got a couple of stitch ideas.  

Overview

 Lots and lots of Smyrna crosses in my future on these trees.  This amount of finished crosses took about an hour.  I am not tying off each one but pretty close.  I believe the plan for the field includes a pretty open stitch so I don't want to drag that Neon Rays too much.   I'm a happy girl.

Smyrna crosses in Neon Rays

Almost Finished with The Hart Hunt

Overview

I am a little further along than the above image.  You can see some of the other finished elements in the photos below.  I finished the field in the front.  It's the Spotted Hide stitch and I love it.  The guide calls for a different stitch but I had just done that stitch on another canvas so Amy graciously found me a new one.  The stitch and thread selections are from a guide written by Amy Bunger available at amybunger.com.  The canvas is a Diane Ulmer Pedersen from Painted Pony Needlepoint Designs.

Spotted Hide stitch using three strands of Threadworm

Right side of canvas

House #5 of Halloween House Row

This is another cutie from the mind of Amy Bunger.  I love the roof.  It's a Fern Stitch variation using three strands of silk.

Overview

Checkered Cross stitch using three strands of silk

Halloween House Row

  

Hello to House #4

Foundation

Overview

Burden stitch for the green roof

Halloween House Row by Melissa Shirley

This is House #2 of the Melissa Shirley's Halloween House Row.  I'm using Amy Bunger's stitch guide.  This is a fun one to stitch.  

Overview

 The pale mauve walls are Sandy's Slide with two strands of overdyed floss.  The walls around the window are Checkered Cross using a twisted cotton thread.

The foundation is the Woven Stitch in a twisted cotton thread.  Luscious color.

The roof is the Double Stitch using two strands of Burmilana.  The window arch is Criss Cross Hungarian.