Songs About Glue...

This is the Linen and Threads 2020 Mystery Sampler.  This is as far as it get for now.  I need to find a replacement for two motifs.  One was the vase with a HUGE bird, and the other was the HUGE fly.  I heard someone say something about the Bee on it, I'm still going with it's a fly.  And weirdly enough, 2020 and a huge fly on it - TOTALLY FITS.  I looked a little for replacement motifs, but nothing jumped out as perfect to fill in.  So it's done, but not done.  And the skeins of dmc off to the side show scale.  Done with PTP Gingerbread 28ct Lugana, one over one, dmc 154, kind of a wine purple. 

This is Little House Needleworks - Battle Hymn of the Republic.  This was a new start, and a finish. Finish 23 for the year 2020.  Done on 32ct jobelan Colour & Cotton Treasure Map, one over one.  Treasure Map was an early Fabric of the Month, and the scrap I had left was perfect to use it all up.  The suggested dmc threads were fine.  When I was a small kid, still fit into the grocery cart seat size...  I used to sing this.  But being a kid, the chorus for me was....  Lori, Lori, Can I glue ya...  My mom told me years later that people looked, but she decided she would rather have a singing kid, than a crying kid.  So she let me sing.  I have no clue why this song, or where I would have heard it.  I can not carry a tune in a bucket, although it took a long time before somebody finally told me that, so I was probably not much better as a kid singing this in that shopping cart.  But I was happy, not screaming.  It was just a silly thing to stitch for me, but only because I have a slightly different version in MY head.  I do remember getting most of the other words of this correct.... I think he was 'trampling on the village'...,  but that chorus...  not so much.  Maybe I should add, we were not religious, so that H word was not part of my world, but my family did use glue. 

A Finish - Progress - New Starts

An old kit, but new to me.  Little House Needleworks - Giving Thanks ( w/ threads ).
Stitched on a scrap of 28 count evenweave jobelan.
A start and a finish.  Finish #13 for 2019.

 Above is where I was when I picked back up - Love Never Fails.
Worked on it just a bit, finished the heart, a bit on the man, a bit on the back ground of the diamonds under his feet.  Below is after and where is stands now.

 I picked up some older charts including an older Prairie Schooler.
The patterns all wanted the same fabric, and so I decided to start four patterns, all Prairie Schoolers from two charts.  So if I get bored, I just turn the fabric and flip the page to the other pattern.  It is just something weird or fun to try.  They are each postcard or half sheet of paper size when finished.  This is just a few days on it so far, and a little bit started on each pattern.  Two are right side up, two are sideways cause that is the way they fit to use the fabric with less waste.  So far, kinda fun.
Christmas Tree Farm, Picnic Area, All You Can Eat, Better A Small Fish.

Some of This, A Little of That...

Started and finished the new Little House Needleworks - Home of a Needleworker.  On 30 ct portabello since I had it in my stash, but it is the called for I think.  Two over two.
Finished size is 6 x 6.5 inches.  I would like to try it again, or a 28 ct, one over one.  But the new floss colors are lovely.  I wanted to do it in the suggested version first.  My #5 finish for 2019.
I tried to put the interfacing on the back - I can't find my interfacing...  but I know I have some.  

Started this - Jenny Bean's Humble Servant from Shakespeare's Peddler.  It's on 28 ct antique white but camera shows yellow or cream.  Using the called for fancy flosses, one over one.

Then went to Long Dog Sampler - The Token, and filled in a few more motifs.  I still love this - it is 25 count, one over one, using just a white Sulky, and that is the perfect combination.  Thread sits higher on the fabric - giving it texture.  7.5 x 9 inches. 

Then I broke out something old to work on, this is where is was when I picked it up again..

This is where it is now.  Plum Street - Blackbird Fraktur.  Using called for fancy flosses, on 28 ct PTP Doubloon lugana, one over one.  I had to look up when I worked on it, a year ago in March.  It's much closer now.  Hoping to hang with this till I am done.  I bought the other older one recently, but I wanted to put them on the same fabric - it's not showing up correctly here, but it's lovely on Doubloon.