Mary's Thread – Using every spare moment to stitch all the things

02/20/2026

Samplers Remembered

Ta DAH! I finished the Red and Green Carnation Sampler…quite pleased with how it turned out. I made the little fill-ins in the border suit me. Some I modified from the chart, others I added. The initials down the left side are my children’s and since this is our 25th anniversary, I put our wedding year and this year to […]

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02/09/2026

Now I’ve Stitched My ABCs

I finished the middle of the Red and Green Carnation Sampler! I am making some slight changes to the design. That’s ok. This one isn’t even signed so I think approaching it as a personalized thing is just fine. Now to finish the border, and add in my customized border elements. I’m consulting in the Ultimate Sampler Motif book to […]

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02/05/2026

A Finish in February! And Good Progress

I picked up a little bitty project to stitch on a plane trip last weekend…it was so small I finished it! This is Christmas Scissors Basket from JBW Designs: This was one of those projects that stitched so fast I wondered why I didn’t just stitch it when I got it. I probably spent more time thinking about starting it […]

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01/30/2026

Four Finishes

I did it, I finished stitching 4 things this month! Fern Ridge’s Strawberry Pie Fob: I really really love the fringe. It is so beautiful. Peyote stitching is pretty fun. I am thinking about what beading project I’ll do next. Homespun Elegance’s Stitching Necessaire: I added the embellishments and fixed the edge that had come apart. It is a sweet […]

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01/25/2026

Some plans for 2026

WIPS to Work On I’ve sorted out my many many project bags and have put a number in my workbasket to focus on this year…at least the first bit of this year. Most of these have been worked on pretty recently, and other will probably make you say, “Mary! You didn’t finish that yet?!” We’re not going to look and […]

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01/17/2026

Smalls. Starts.

No sooner do I get an idea in my head than I am distracted from the task at hand. I wrote last week’s post and then said to myself that I really should go looking for more smalls to work on this month. Looking for trouble more like! I found quite a few started smalls that I will aim to […]

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01/13/2026

Hope

Hope is almost done! That sounds depressing but it isn’t because it means the first finish of 2026 is in sight! Like all Drawn Thread patterns, this one has a small amount of specialty stitches in it, and that’s always fun for me. I might get it finished up tonight or tomorrow.

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01/04/2026

A New Start for January

I decided on Emily’s Hope by The Drawn Thread as my first project for 2026. Here is my work for this first week of the year, displayed on Sophie who isn’t normally a lap cat but was today. I “hope” I’ll have it done by later this week…I have a little (ha ha who are we kidding…a medium to large) […]

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12/30/2025

December = Felt Ornaments

December was a whirlwind in our household with numerous concerts and recitals and plays and holiday events. Christmas decorations went up in due course, we did a ton of baking and candy making, shopping, wrapping, playing games, listening to way too much pop Christmas carols (because 3 teenagers), and all the end of year wrap up. I was able to […]

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11/12/2025

WIPs progress

I’ve been true to my 2 samplers, Red and Green Carnations and Mary Ellen Turner. Straight forward stitching on both of these…though I’m getting closer to picky counting work on Mary Ellen. Look! I matched up the border! I had made a couple small errors but happily they were easily corrected and my border matched. I was so excited I […]

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