Skip to main content

Happy Thanksgiving! Wee Gobbler by Heart in Hand

Happy Thanksgiving!!

I hope you are having (or had) a wonderful Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for my readers who visit and also those who take the time to comment on my blog. I appreciate all the love and support! You all have been so wonderful! I am also so very thankful for the cross stitching community online and for FlossTube. I have made so many new friends over the past year. Everyone in the cross stitching community is so positive and supportive. I have been so inspired by all the projects and ideas that are shared which helps me think outside the box with my own projects. I hope to keep sharing videos and blogging to maybe inspire someone else with my own creations.


Today I am sharing a very special piece, Wee Gobbler by Heart in Hand. I purchased this chart many years ago. If memory serves me correct, around 16 years ago, but maybe more! I had purchased a design from my local needle shop, Silver Needle, 16 years ago to make a gift for my soon-to-be Mother in Law. I believe I picked this chart up at the same time. I had a piece of linen in my stash (no clue the count or name because I don't have the receipt) so I used it to stitch Wee Gobbler on. I used all the called for DMC and it was very enjoyable to stitch. I really think I am a linen girl and I don't know why I don't buy and use it more often! It feels like the easiest fabric to stitch on.



After I stitched up Wee Gobbler I mounted him to a piece of Pres On Self Adhesive Mounting Board with a layer of quilt batting in between. I found this frame on clearance at Hobby Lobby. The middle part of the frame has a metal design so I hot glued a magnet to the back of Wee Gobbler and he sticks right on. Between the Wee Gobbler and the frame is a layer of cardboard covered with maroon mini check fabric from my stash. I thought it helped some of the colors in the Wee Gobbler design pop.

This year I displayed him inside this tiered wire pumpkin I purchased from JoAnn which I placed on my fireplace hearth. Wee Gobbler is my first Thanksgiving piece I have stitched and I plan to make more Thanksgiving pieces. I typically don't decorate for Thanksgiving because I take down all my fall decor down before Thanksgiving and start putting up Christmas. However, I have decided that I do truly love Thanksgiving stitchy pieces and they should also be displayed starting in September when I decorate for fall even if they don't stay up until Thanksgiving. There are so many beautiful Thanksgiving designs out there! Turkeys and Thanksgiving pieces shouldn't be allowed only during the month of November right?? No one ever said that was a 'rule.' 😄

Here is my FlossTube where I show my completed Wee Gobbler:

I am officially finished showing off all my fall stitchy pieces that I have completed so far! I have plenty of Christmas pieces to share between now and the end of the year so stay tuned!
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

2020 Spring Stitching

It has been so long since I made a blog post I almost forgot I still had this blog 😄 Today I am sharing all my spring stitching that I have completed so far during 2020. I may do a bit more (I have a couple of WIPs that aren't completed and that drives me crazy) sometime this year, but I am focusing on patriotic designs at the moment. I am already itching to start some fall and Halloween stitching too! Maybe if I stuck to a regular rotation I would cover all the bases 😂 First up is the Hands on Design More Chocolate Bunnies . I have eyed this pattern since it first came out, but when we got a brown Lion Head rabbit last fall I just knew I had stitch this design! I opted to stitch it on a piece of 28ct Monaco I dyed myself with auqamarine RIT dye and a tad bit of coffee. I did a floss toss with all the called for DMC at Michael's at first, then changed up colors as I thought needed to coordinate with my fabric choice. After I started stitching I scratched most the colors and...
13 comments
Read more

First Halloween Finish

I am so excited to share my first ever Halloween cross stitch finish! This design is Snail Slime from the Scary Apothecary series by Hands on Design. As soon as I saw this design I had to purchase it and stitch it up for the Halloween season this year! I love snails and think they are just adorable. The kids and I love looking for snails in our front flower bed where they have lived for a few years. We have had some as big as a nickle, which we have nicknamed Daddy Snail when we see him 😂 Needless to say the kids thought this design was pretty cute too. I chose to hand dye a piece of 28ct DMC Monaco fabric to stitch on, but I knew I didn't want to do white as shown on the design piece. I am really drawn to dark gray and other typical Halloween colors. I dyed my fabric using the Charcoal Rit Dye and baked it dry. Then  I used a bit of left over coffee to soak it once again. I baked it a second time even longer than before to make the coffee marks really darken up.  It re...
Post a Comment
Read more