WIPW - It's Really Not This Gloomy

This is the last Work In Progress Wednesday report for 2024.

Today is Christmas and leading up to today I've been too busy to make any progress apart from work on the 

Hexablooms

whose collection now has reached 230 flowers - I have stitched another ten blocks. 

Having used up most of the Christmas fabric I just picked pieces at random and ended up with these gloomy ones. The week has been good and I'm enjoying the holiday so there should have been brighter and more cheerful pieces instead of all the dark and gloomy blocks.

I hope to have another set of ten to show on 1/1, but there is no guarantee that I will finish in time.

Now I need to dig up some bright, vivid prints.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Queenie wishes you a 

MERRY CHRISTMAS

Sunbonnet Sue

I got a few requests about my Sunbonnet Sue collection. 

So far, there are 310 stitches in Sunday Stitch School. After every five stitches, I have made a Sunbonnet Sue stitch sampler. 

Let's do some mathematics: 310 ÷ 5 = 62. Yes, there are 62 Sunbonnet Sue pictures!

Some are the traditional Sue with her charming puppy fat and simple lines, and some are her bonnets, but most of the pictures are my own interpretations of Sue. Sue as a baby, a child, a teenager, a schoolgirl, an adult, a bride, an old lady... Sue is playing, relaxing, working, going shopping, crying, gardening, having her hair done, falling off a ladder ... but all the time, her face is hidden, one way or another.

Here are a few examples:

My first plan was to make a quilt, so I added wadding and the embroidery of each scene is done through the sandwich of top, bottom and wadding. 

Now I realise I can not make a quilt - it would simply be too large. What I will do is get a picture frame and display a picture per week in this frame. It will take me over a year to go through them all!

I will write more about this project later.

WIPW - Fabric Covered Plastic Cups

 It's time for this week's Work In Progress Wednesday report.

Hexablooms

I used some more of the Christmas prints I have to make ten more flowers, bringing the total to 220.

Sunday Stitch School Stitch Sampler

I added two plastic cups that I had covered with fabric. Around one of them, I stitched #55 Tailor's Buttonhole Stitch (over gimp) and over the other, I made a grid of #135 Net Stitch.