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Open Today

10:00 ~ 4:00-ish

{{ no, you don't have to be a witch to come for a visit! }}

Blessings from the Farm

 ~ Lori

~ Free-Styling ~

Happy Sunday Afternoon

~ friends & folk ~

what a beautiful day!

4 loads of line-dried laundry

farmhouse has been swept

windows are open

chicken dinner in the oven

and now it's time to stitch a little ~

I'm working on a couple of 'free-hand' cross stitch designs at the moment...

you can read more about this fun type of stitching I do

on a previous posting

HERE

I begin by drawing out my motif onto my cloth.

I am using osnaburg {Cupboard Cloth ~ available in my Etsy shop}

this will be a sweet & primitive girl...

you can see my wonky stitches below ~

being that the stitches are not counted, some are large and others small ~

a few are stitched over 3 threads ~ perhaps even four, 

using 1 strand in areas and two strands in others

to achieve this extremely naive look I love.

my threads are DMC and are always waxed 

with sweet & smoky scented beeswax just like in the old days...

I'm working on her skirt now, 

and below you can see her pantaloons and feet ~

 a favorite needle-minder I made from a rather large antique mother of pearl button

keeps my needle handy for me while I choose thread colors...

my 'witchy' scissors-fob is simply made up of many items that I treasure:

a hand-stamped antique silver spoon that was gifted to me, 

a diamond pinky ring, beads, silver findings and antique bone rings

along with a tiny silver skeleton key charm and more shell bits.

{I especially love the chime-like clatter it makes while using my beautiful Bohin scissors!!}

these are the thread colors I've chosen ~

640, 869 & 611

sitting out on the porch

with needle in hand

listening to Roxy snore nearby...and the hum of bumbler-bees.

you can see where I pencil-in the motif,

~ then just simply stitch my X's to fill in...

I do continental stitch even though I'm not counting my stitches - but merely 'eye-balling' them.

{all 1/2 stitches going one way first ~ then coming back to cross over them}

I'll be framing this under glass, in one of Peter's wooden frames ~

think I'll paint the frame black & distress it heavily.

...love that look too :)

Hi Roxy ~ sleepy face

Well folks, the timer just went off ~

which means our supper is ready.

I'll stitch again later on this evening and hopefully finish this to show you tomorrow.

OH!

 TOMORROW!!!!

please don't forget to join me over at 

Pat Sloan's Creative Talk Network

where I will be a guest around 4:00 pm EST

{can you hear my knees knocking?}

http://www.creativetalknetwork.com

have a peaceful evening my friends...

~ Blessings from the Farm ~ 

 Lori

A little front porch sittin' ~

 

AAAAhhhhhhh.....

the temps have been kind as-of-late...

making me want to move outdoors to hook ~

 

 

rockin' & hookin'

please forgive the chippy paint, and the un-finished siding,

...and the big, red footprints on the porch ~

just come & visit with me a while...

 

 



nothin' too fancy here ~ just good old fashioned porch sittin' ...

my violas are so pretty today, don't you think?

...how's the weather in your area?

 

 



love their little faces bobbing in the spring breeze ~

rain is on the way, though...

cool, glorius rain.

we surely need it for our gardens.

...my chocolate mint is coming back in my little urn on the porch ~

it smells heavenly...

 

 



snip a few sprigs for my sweet tea...

need to clean out the drieds and twigs still...

Hello Lazy!




Hiya Mom!

Hello Buddy!

 

 



ZZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

 

Happy Lazy!

loves the weather....

 

 

Yay Spring!

Happy Buddy!

...loves to snooze...



*yawn*...um, I mean yay.

 

will dine alfresco this eve ~

making a nice salad with blue chees stuffed olives, and linguine in clam sauce....

just need some good bread to go with it and the whole day will be complete!

 

hoping your day was a beautiful one!

Lori from

Notforgotten Farm