Bird Watching Cross Stitch

I just finished 2 little 5x7 cross stitch samplers today. They are a Bucilla pattern I found at a garage sale. One of them is of an Eastern Bluebird with a nest of two young birds. The other is of a Painted Bunting sitting on a flowered branch with a bee. They are stitched on white 14 count Aida fabric.

I'll be selling them unmounted for now, so they should be mounted in a 5x7 frame without a mat or 9x11 with a mat.

Eastern Bluebird

Painted Bunting

My Backs

~Sarah

Spring Flowers Sampler (not framed)

This is a "Designs for the Needle" pattern entitled, "Grandchildren". I chose not to use the grandchildren theme and changed it slightly to be spring flower bulbs. I looked up the bulb types and included their names in the design.

It is stitched on 14 Count Fiddler's Cloth. It should be framed 9" x 12" without the mat and 13" x 16" with a mat. The flowers included in this sampler are two types of crocus, tulip, iris, daffodil (aka jonquil) and a lily.

It took 3 full days to make and is now on Etsy for sale. https://www.etsy.com/listing/160541518/spring-flowers-not-framed?

The backside!

~Sarah

"Protect the Beautiful Places" Alphabet and Nature Embroidered Sampler

  "Protect the Beautiful Places"

This "Protect the Beautiful Places" Alphabet and Nature Embroidered Sampler is a finished Bucilla Stamped Cross Stitch Kit. It was designed by Nancy Rossi and Copyrighted in 1990. I bought this kit I don't know how many years ago at Ames and just got around to completing it this week.

This sampler is embroidered and cross stitched on printed white sailcloth. It has been washed to remove the printing, so all that is left is the stitching. The words on it are, "Let us protect the Beautiful Places." It has fish, flowers, trees, coral, Orca, Panda, Ducks and Geese in the pattern surrounding a forest scene. There are 9 numbers cross stitched on it and a full alphabet embroidered on the sampler. 

Without a mat, the frame should measure: 11" by 14". With a mat, the frame should be 15" by 18".  That is....when I get around to making a frame for it.

The Backside

I remembered to sign it, but not a lot of areas available.

Embroidered Alphabet

A Good thing to do!!!

~Sarah

Ashlin's Flowers- update

Ashlin already posted a link about her Pen Duct Tape Roses, but she has finished so many more since then and they keep getting better...so I wanted to post some new pics. Tom made a stand for her to display them and try to sell them for $2.50 each.

~Sarah & Ashlin

Duct Tape Roses

      Last year a lot of the girls in my school would make these and sell them to students so I learned how to make them and now I sell them for $2. 50 at the firemen races and other things.

~Ash~