Sumptuous Sunday

Today is the Fully Finish Gallery 2019 post!  I have to thank Gracie over at Needles, pins and Dragonflies for the motivation to FFO something.  I read her blog post yesterday about her feeling frustrated because she wants to stitch and do crafty things but her hand is still giving her grief after her surgery.  That along with being busy doing all the things other than stitching had my heart going out to her.  I vowed to do the crafting for her.  I hope she's proud of what I have accomplished.

The finished stitched piece was from the December 2006 The Cross Stitcher Magazine and is called Snowman Tree by Imaginating.  I began stitching this piece on December 8, 2013 and blogged about this being a self induced Christmas Challenge.  Sadly the pictures from those posts in 2013 and 2014 were dumped by Google at some point for reasons unknown to me, but eventually I will have all pictures put back.  

So, there I was yesterday, standing in my livingroom thinking, "What should I do today to put some light in Gracie's day?"  I looked over at my basket of stuff that needs to be FFO'd and grabbed the bag on top, which was the Snowman Tree.  

The fabric is old and it's been in the bag with the stitched piece since January or so of 2014.  I am so in-love with this!  

The light bulbs and snowflakes are beaded for extra bling.  It's nice that years later I can stand back and still appreciate something I've stitched.  Every time I look at it I clap my hands and smile like a lunatic.

It being Saturday yesterday, I hadn't planned on making any project bags.  This was for Gracie after all, so make them I did.  Grabbed up the Route 66 pre-cut fabric and we have fun bags for travel!

These will get posted in my Etsy shop later today.  I want to keep them!  I have driven Route 66 end to end  several times in my life.  If these project bags dredge up fond memories of those family road trips, may I recommend that you have one for yourself?

Once done with these I felt compelled to sit down and get some stitching done on Thordak just so there would be some stitching in the mix.

Finished stitching all the black on this page and my Timesheet app is showing a lovely pie now.  Of course, now I have to fill in the lava, but going from black to bright yellow doesn't hurt my feelings at all!

Today is also Floss Tube day which I'll be doing later and everything is set up and ready to be shown.  Since today was Spring Forward on the clock (why are we still doing this??) naturally I woke up early and have to wait for full daylight to make my video which is why there is no video in this post today.  Check it out later this afternoon and hopefully it will be posted on YouTube.

A glorious start to the day so far!  It is my greatest hope that today be full of love and stitching for everyone.

Until next time.....KEEP ON STITCHIN'!