Dandelions!

This is a work in progress, but I wanted to share it because I like the poem. The author is Harold Asa Pickett. He went by the name Slim Acres and called himself "The Buckeye Poet."

Tennessee Volunteers

I just thought I would share my University of Tennessee pattern.

Colors: 741, 700, white

Team Spirit?

So I finally finished a very belated Christmas present. (I know. I know. But I've been busy!) It is the first time I've done anything with this many stitches for someone else. I made the pattern completely on my own and just added my nephew's name at the bottom with a free alphabet I found at yarntree.com. My brother is a huge University of Tennessee fan so I tried to do a miniature version of the football field. I intentionally cropped out my nephew's name at the bottom for the sake of anonymity (and out of respect for my brother, who may not want me sharing his kid's name. I just don't know. He won't read this, but I try to be considerate.) I hope the gift goes over well. I probably won't be doing another one until after July when my program officially ends and I will (fingers crossed) start a new job!


P.S. Sorry for the poor picture quality. I framed it before I even attempted to photograph it. I was so excited to have it done.

Mini Coffee Subway Art Pattern

When I showed my mom what I had made for my grandmother, she seemed to get jealous so I've been trying to come up with a pattern related to one of her favorite things: coffee. Unfortunately, I don't think this one is quite her style, but I think it is pretty cool so I'm sharing it. All of the fonts (except one) and the coffee cup came from various free patterns online. I had to make up the bottom font because I couldn't find another one that fit.

Peace

I made this recently for my grandmother. I took up cross stitching because I love all the pieces of it she did over the years that now fill up her house. She doesn't know I do this as a hobby though so I think she'll be surprised. I borrowed the dove pattern from a free one I found online and got the text from a cross stitch text generator so I can't really share the pattern since none of it is my own. I have no idea what I'm going to do next. I'm still recovering from a week spent with 10 two year old rambunctious kids at Vacation Bible School and thoroughly enjoying just laying in bed while listening to music. I do have a lot of unfinished patterns and thoughts so maybe I'll revisit one of those soon.

Happy Pi Day!

Pac-Man Love

I haven't been crafting much recently due to being busy with other things so I thought I would share the first thing I made for my boyfriend. It is a magnet done on 14 ct plastic canvas and made especially for Valentine's Day.

TRON

In honor of the movie that is coming out Dec. 17, I quickly made this pattern the other day. Enjoy!

Naughty or Nice?

It's a lump of coal. Not everyone deserves a pretty present at Christmas.

Girl Power! Part 2

 I decided to adapt my last design so that it could be stitched on a 14 ct aida bookmark. I also changed the crown so that it is Princess Peach's crown from Super Mario Brothers 2. The colors are the same two from the last design (DMC 899 and 726). Oh, and because I'm indecisive, I have a slight variation of this design too.

Girl Power!

I have wanted to stitch this saying for a long time, but I could never quite figure out how to arrange the text. I had almost forgotten about it completely until a few days ago it hit me that it would make a great bookmark! Off to kg-chart I went and this is what I designed.

Fruitcake

Cuckoo!

A Few Loose Screws

I'm returning to my theme of idioms for madness/craziness. I have no font to reference this time since I came up with this one on my own. It's all backstitch, but if you wanted to, you could attempt to fill in the screws and wood with cross stitches. I just liked the look of it without it.

Egad! It's Pinky!

I finally finished Pinky! I decided against doing a response to the Brain's "Are you pondering what I'm pondering?" because there were too many funny responses to pick from. I took the font from here, but changed the N to my liking.

Pinky and the Brain

I'm almost finished with my Pinky cross stitch, but I wanted to share this pattern of Pinky and the Brain together first since I had to shorten Pinky for the pattern I'm doing now.

Mad as a Hatter in a Hoop

I decided to stitch up one of my mad hatter patterns. It's the perfect size for these small hoops and the scraps of  14 ct aida I have.

Mad as a Hatter

I'm still using the crazy theme as inspiration for my cross stitch designs. The font for this pattern was found at stitchpoint.com. I had trouble picking just one design to share for this idea so keep reading for two variations of it.

Bats in the Belfry

I'm running with the crazy theme. The font is from the Alphabet Generator at stitchpoint.com.

Just Plain Batty

Font found here.