Just a Peek

Now that we've "killed the bill"  in the TX Lege, I am back stitching.  I can't show the whole canvas since this is my Secret Swan ornament for our Christmas Exchange.  

A little brick stitch using Neon Rays for the boot bottom.  Four strands of silk for the boot shaft.  It's a one trip herringbone for the sole using Kreinik size 8.  I hope my fellow Swan will love this when she opens it at our annual Christmas ornament exchange. 

I Knew There Was One More

I do have one more Diane Ulmer Pedersen from Painted Pony.  I call this one The Village.  I have started the church with a stitch suggestion from my last Rent Amy Day.  This beauty will be headed back to Memphis very shortly to get some more stitch suggestions.   Fun days ahead.  

I'm BACK!

At least for the moment.  Thank God Almighty the Texas Legislature only meets every other year.   I think our issue is dead so back to the world I want to inhabit!  Needlepoint Land.


I just saw one of Diane Ulmer Pedersen's wonderful canvases on Facebook.  It was stitched using a guide from Amy Bunger.  The designs from DUP are distributed by Painted Pony.  I kind of like them.

The Hart Hunt

Let the Earth Be Glad

The White Farm 

Don't have this one but would like it!

Love 

The Hart Hunt

I had a whole Saturday to stitch last weekend and got the second field from the bottom up done.  It looks good.  I started the bottom field but I am not feeling it with that stitch.   Amy had suggested a different one but it is a difficult one for me to stitch.  I should have listened.  Amy is always right.  Frogging it this weekend and going with her original.   

The Hart Hunt

Now that The White Farm is finished I'm headed back to The Hart Hunt.  A hart is a red deer which is conspicuously missing from the canvas.   We love it no less.  I'm stitching this using a guide from Amy Bunger.  It's available for sale on her website, Amy's Golden Strand.  Stay tuned for progress on this beauty.

Hart Hunt by Diane Ulmer Pederson from Painted Pony Needlepoint Design

The White Farm is Finished

I can't believe I actually finished something!  I love The White Farm by Diana Ulmer Pedersen from Painted Pony.  All the stitch selections and thread selections were by Amy Bunger.  What perfection!

More from The White Farm

I stitched the trees to the right of the house using the fly stitch and one strand of Wildflowers.  The background was already stitched using one strand of Lorikeet in the alternating T-stitch.  It's very subtle and very pretty.  These are all ideas I got from Amy Bunger at my last Rent Amy Day.

I finished the moo cow and filled in the wall behind her.  She needs her tail, face and udder finished up.