Sunday, August 24, 2014

Haunting Love

I recently joined the "Pumpkin Seed Stitchers" group on Facebook for those who like to stitch Halloween designs.  Teresa Smith of T. A. Smith's designs created a piece for the group called "Haunting Love".  The design is monochrome, but I decided to do it in color.  It's just the sweetest piece.  A little bird flew in and landed unexpectedly on the upper right branch, but otherwise this is stitched from Teresa's chart.  Don't you love the little ghosties and the tiny mouse couple?

It's done in DMC (310,4140, 4045, 3746,4124,451,3045,317, and 4000) on a piece of Miek's hand-dyed fabric.  Love those color variations.  4000 is one of the newest colors and it made a great tree trunk.  I finished it up as a pin keep this afternoon.

Couple of pieces of good news to report:
First, the lost LHN "Needles and Threads" square for WOCS finally arrived!  It took one month to get from DC to Florida.  Those squares usually take 3 days to make that trip.  I could have walked to Florida in that time I think.  Hope the square had a nice world tour.  I'm so glad it didn't get lost forever!

Second, my partner and I won our summer tote bag in Jazzercise by attending the required number of classes during the summer.  The promo below shows the bag.  Our instructor was nice enough to give us some extra time to get all of our classes in.  I always think I don't care about these promotions and it's not why I go to class, but these incentives don't hurt!
And my dentist has once again reminded me that the war zone I call my mouth needs its quarterly attention soon.  Andy Warhol may be most famous for Marilyn Monroe and Campbell's Soup, but these toothbrushes make for great pop art!



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22 comments:

  1. KissyAugust 25, 2014 at 4:32 AM

    Yay! for the square arrival!
    Yay! for winning the bag!
    And Yay! for the cute pinkeep!
    Love the color variations in it. The plants (of which I don't know the English name) look fabulous! And what would it be without a bird!! It's such a whimsical, charming scene. I can't even imagine how it would look in only one color.

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  2. MargaretAugust 25, 2014 at 8:24 AM

    The Halloween stitch is wonderful! So beautiful and unusual! Nice bag that you won! That is so cool! Good for you for meeting the goal and earning it!

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  3. VickieAugust 25, 2014 at 9:45 AM

    Hooray! So glad the square FINALLY arrived. Good for you earning that bag. :)

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  4. The Inspired StitcherAugust 25, 2014 at 10:33 AM

    Love your finish. That's such a cute design. Have a great week!

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  5. HettiAugust 25, 2014 at 10:42 AM

    Ohhh such a sweet Halloween design Annie, it matched so good with Miek's fabric ;-)
    Glad the post has arrived finally after the mini world tour, I din't see it in Holland, hahhaaa.
    Congratulations with the bag it is very elegant as we say in Europe.
    XXX Hetti

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  6. NancyAugust 25, 2014 at 1:08 PM

    Your Halloween stitching is so fun and colorful!

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  7. miekAugust 25, 2014 at 1:58 PM

    what a great designer Teresa Smith is. it`s so sweet and beautiful, and i love the colorway you used. the fabric makes it complete!
    i`m happy with the good news. although a dentist visit never makes me smile ; -(((
    greetings miek

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  8. MelanieAugust 25, 2014 at 5:40 PM

    It's darling! And I love the color in it. It all came together just perfectly. :)

    Wow! 60 classes! Am I reading that right? That is an accomplishment. Go you two!

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  9. Cindy's StitchingAugust 25, 2014 at 6:50 PM

    That is a really cute finish.

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  10. Astrids dragonAugust 25, 2014 at 11:04 PM

    What an sweet pattern, I love the way you stitched it and the finish is great!

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  11. BluAugust 26, 2014 at 12:22 AM

    What a cute finish!
    Yay for the mail finally arriving.
    That bag is really gorgeous.

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  12. CarolAugust 26, 2014 at 9:10 AM

    Such a cute finish, Annie! Another FB group I'll have to check out :) I like the fact that the ghosts don't look spooky... And you did a great job of choosing colors...

    Love that bag--you well deserve it! You're so good about keeping up with your Jazzercise classes year after year :)

    Oh, the dentist--now that's someone I don't want to visit again any time soon after my experience earlier this month which ended in an emergency root canal :( Good luck on your visit!

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  13. Dani - tkdchickAugust 26, 2014 at 11:25 AM

    Haunting love looks great!

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  14. JaneAugust 27, 2014 at 2:02 AM

    I'm so pleased your square turned up. Sometimes it would be lovely to know where these things go, if only they could talk

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  15. BrigitteAugust 27, 2014 at 7:54 AM

    You're a lucky girl. The lost square re-emerged from its trip around the world, you won a great bag, and you finished a lovely Halloween pinkeep with two little mice so much in love. Enjoy everything!

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  16. Mii StitchAugust 27, 2014 at 8:36 AM

    Great little pinkeep finish! I LOVE YOUR BAG!!!! It is fabulous, what a win :) I'm a bag-holic really, so any bag will do :D This one is great and love the details on the sides!

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  17. Rachel S-HAugust 27, 2014 at 10:23 AM

    Sweet finish!

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  18. ArchangelDeckerAugust 27, 2014 at 2:30 PM

    Your finish is too cute! Love the color changes you made. :)

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  19. SherylAugust 28, 2014 at 6:05 PM

    Lovely halloween pinkeep with a beautiful finish. Love the ghosties.

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  20. AnnetteAugust 29, 2014 at 8:55 PM

    Yeah!! It arrived!!!! Thankfully.
    You also won a great bag. It looks big enough to go to the beach. Dont know if you live naar the beach?
    Your colored version is great. And it looks so pretty on that fabric.
    Another New color. I need to look at all my threads how many I still need to buy. Im getting there Im saving for them all.
    Problem is that They are very expensive here in the Netherlands
    Thanks for the tip.
    I wanne try and stitch this weekend. If has been so long ago. But I also have night shifts. So not much time. Hihihi
    Happy weekend. And happy stitching!!

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  21. Annette-CaliforniaAugust 30, 2014 at 1:02 PM

    Beautiful! Miek's pretty hand dyed fabric and the wonderful colored threads all look great. Love the bag you earned it, congrats. love Annette

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  22. KarenSeptember 1, 2014 at 11:23 AM

    Annie, I almost missed this post, sorry! I do love your little Halloween piece, it's beautiful and the tiny mouse couple are so cute! I love the Color Variations, too, and use them all the time, I like the way you have put them to use here.

    Glad that the square finally made its way to where it was supposed to go!

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