Monday, July 25

Hearts of America - Texas

Another finish!   This is an old (2002) kit from the Victoria Sampler.  They sell these bunch together in charts now, which is good, because I think I want to do more.  This is Hearts of America, #28 - Texas, featuring the Ribbon Stitch

Hearts of America - Texas by Victoria Sampler, Finished 7-22-2016
I really liked this cute little heart.   I decided to stitch this kit on the bus in the afternoon/evenings, because I get super motion sick trying to read on the bus, only that didn't work, I still had motion sickness problems.  So I've just kept it in my work bag and worked on it at lunches.   It was utterly filthy by the time I finished, it, but since it's all DMC, I went ahead and washed it with some dawn without worrying about it.  Much better now!


This kit featured the ribbon stitch (that band on top of the armadillo).   I do like how a specialty stitch is featured in individual kits by VS.   I have an old piece where I tried to teach myself bullion stitches.  That didn't work out so well, though.

I really like having this, and I keep thinking that I want to purchase the charts, so I can stitch all of the states I've lived in.   I go back and forth between stitching them as one big bell pull (on a solid piece of fabric), or finishing each state and adding them on as I go, so I can have a running tally of all the places I've lived?   If I want to talk about places I've "seriously" lived (more than a year), I'd need California, Arizona, and North Carolina... and there is a very high chance of me moving in the future, so it could be fun, and by individually finishing them I could just keep adding on and not worry about keeping extra material "just in case" (plus, this little guy wouldn't go to waste, not that re-stitching it would be difficult or time consuming).

Decisions.


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8 comments:

  1. Tiffstitch08:00

    Lovely finish on this one. I'd like to get the Hearts of Canada, but a lot of them seem discontinued. I'm hoping they'll be re-released in charts as well.

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    1. Suz09:12

      Thank you :)
      And it looks like they did release it as a chart! Only it's "Canadian Hearts" I wonder why they changed the name for those but not the American Hearts.
      https://www.stitchingbitsandbobs.com/cgi-bin/Store/showimage.cgi?VictoriaSampler0149CanadianHearts

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  2. Susan09:42

    Too cute. Love the armadillo - it's not an animal you see in samplers often

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    1. Suz09:10

      Thanks - and the armadillo really does make the piece ;)

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  3. Heather21:19

    Lovely finish :). You could always stitch them individually then make them into a bell pull

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    1. Suz09:10

      Thank you! And that's what I was trying to say for my second 'option'- haha, words are hard ;)

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  4. Leonore Winterer08:18

    What a cute little finish, congrats! I especially love the little armadillo (thank god you mentioned him...I was afraid I was going to have to embarrass myself trying to figure out how to smell that!)

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    1. Suz10:16

      Thanks!
      I could never forget how to spell it because, weirdly, there were a lot of questions about armadillos on my certification exam from years ago! That, and their infestation under my grandma's deck - lol.

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