Happy Thanksgiving a bit late!

Happy Thanksgiving....a couple of days late!! 

 I hope everyone had a very enjoyable thanksgiving.  I know this holiday is about spending time with the people you love the most so according to that I guess I did just that only you would have to change people to person.  It was just me and the hubby spending the day together again this year. I am very thankful that I wasnt completely alone but it is a very sad holiday to not have family around. It sure seemed like an awful lot of work to do a full on Thanksgiving dinner for just two but after eating leftovers for two days in a row it seemed to make it more worthwhile. 

These are the little motifs I made for thanksgiving.  

As I was making the little ghosties for Halloween I left the little pumpkin (actually an apple pattern by Mark Myers) that I decided didn't look like a pumpkin, laying out on my table. The more I looked at it the more I got to thinking that it wouldn't be too difficult to change the stem to make it look more like a pumpkin instead of an apple.  So the orange part is from Marks pattern and the stem is my first attempt at doing my own pattern.  Doing a split ring at the top made it a bit more dimensional.  I made 9 of these little doodads and I am going to call these number 24 in the 25 motif challenge. Looking at those two numbers together just made me realize I only have one more motif to go to meet the challenge! WWWHHOO!!

Row 7 and 8

Well its been another long time between posts but I have stayed busy with lots of crafting. I finally got the baby announcement cross stitch pattern all stitched and ironed and now I just need to mount it. It took quite a while to get all the information I needed to complete it and now I am dragging my feet on mounting it. Framing my cross stitch projects is probably my least favorite thing about the whole project but I know I need to just hurry and get it done.
I have been working on lots of tatting projects but I don't want to post a picture of them until I get them shipped off in the mail. In between working on my holiday motifs I have worked on my doily a bit.

 I really debated on ending it after completing row 7 but my shuttles were still pretty full of thread so I went one more row.  Part of the indecision was whether or not I am going to be able to figure out row 9. Row 8 went fairly quickly because it is just chains and rings but looking at row 9 I am not sure I can figure out how to join step 4 to step 1 and then go onto step 5. I don't think I want to end on row 8 so I guess I will just start row 9 and see if I can figure it out.

Happy Halloween!

 I just realized that i forgot to hit the post button on my Halloween post so it is a day late...just like most things in my life right now!!

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays.  Things have changed quite a bit in recent years due to my kiddos being all grown up and me moving away.  I still decorate the house (even though nobody but the hubby and me sees it) and we carve pumpkins but I sure miss sewing costumes and planning parties. The hubby had to work tonight and so far we haven't gotten any trick or treaters again this year so it looks like I will just end up tatting and watching Disney Halloween movies.
The good news is I found a pattern to use for the holiday motifs for the family, the not so good news is I was behind in sending them out again so most of them probably didn't make it in time. I didnt love the pattern when I first saw it but in the end I think they finished ornaments turned out ok.

 I ended up making 10 of these little ghosties and I am going to call them number 23 in the motif challenge. I found the pattern by Mark Myers on his web site.  He has tons of really fun patterns and I am very thankful that he is willing to share. I wish I could tell you where I found the beaded bat n' pumpkin pattern but I made the original one years ago so I have since forgotten where I found it. I first made the pattern all in white but I didn't think the face showed up good enough so I did the rest in 2 colors.

             I hope everyone has a very happy Halloween!