Slow Sunday Stitching and Spools of Floss.

 The hand embroidery for the November goddess of the month is complete, she has been washed and dried but still needs to be ironed.

I love how she turned out and the expression on her face is just perfect for Baba Yaga.  I need to choose which goddess will be for December.  

About two weeks ago while scrolling through one of the hand embroidery Facebook Groups I found out that Anchor embroidery Floss was available on spools and was being sold at Joann Fabrics so you know I had to make a trip over to my local store to see if it was available, it was so I happily chose 20 spools.

These are 6 strand floss with 10.9 yards of floss selling for .75 cents per spool. Well this weekend Joann's is having the Doorbuster sale and the spools are on sale at 5 spools for $2.00 or .40 cents each  so off I went to Joann's first thing this morning and bought 55 more spools.

I originally tried to buy them online Friday night however you have to buy a minimum of 2 of each color you choose which I didn't want.  Now you might think ugh plastic spools, and them eventually in the landfill but I use empty spools for other crafting projects and haven't thrown away an empty spool in years.

I also picked up another skein of Lion Brands Skin Tone yarn for a project I have in the making.  

I bought the color in Cedarwood, below are all 12 colors in the collection, they are on sale at Joanns too.

I'm linking my post today at Kathy's Quilts https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2021/11/slow-sunday-stitching_0702395746.html

Happy Thanksgiving

 

November and the Stitching is Good

 November is moving through the days so quick my head is spinning.  Thanksgiving is on the horizon and then straight on decking the halls for the Christmas and winter holiday season.  

Running a home based business for 5 online shops is crazy busy this time of year, usually things get hectic in the last week of October straight on to the New Year, this year however with delays in unloading cargo ships things have picked up at the end of September and has kept at a steady pace.  

As busy as I have been I have had time to get in some stitching, the hand embroidery for my October goddess Elen of the Ways is complete:

I am currently working on the November goddess, Baba Yaga:

If you aren't familiar with Baba Yaga here are some interesting bits on Baba Yaga the ‘old woman’ of autumn was called Baba by the Slavic inhabitants of eastern Europe, Boba by the Lithuanians. This seasonal divinity lived in the last sheaf of grain harvested in a year, and the woman who bound it would bear a child that year. Baba passed into Russian folk legend as the awesome Baba Yaga, a witchlike woman who rowed through the air in a mortar, using a pestle for Her oar, sweeping the traces of Her flight from the air with a broom

Here is a image I like the heavily costumed Baba Yaga below with all those lovely charms hanging from her shawls.

My Baba Yaga reminds me of this image below by Rima Staines not elaborately dress though which would have been fun to stitch.  

I did draw a second image of Baba Yaga in her flying mortar and pestle but the proportions didn't look right so I nixed it.  

Back in June of 2016 I took part in a Goddess a Week challenge and created this Baba Yaga for week 2.

She was hand embroidered and crayon tinted on white on white print cotton fabric. I am linking my post here at Kathy Quilts for Slow Sunday Stitching https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2021/11/slow-sunday-stitching_01273866207.html

When I'm not stitching I have been reading Goddess Bless by Sirona Knight and will start Gateway to the Modern Crone by Jude Downes this week.

I will leave you with a bit of humor

The Early Days of November

The first week of November has been a mixed bag of weather with heavy rain falling Thursday and continuing through much of the weekend. It has brought much cooler temps with the low last night at 48 degrees, due to the rain and overcast skies it's quite chilly here in north central Florida, but it feels great.

When the weather is filled with the scent of wood smoke, and there is a frigid breeze blowing I long for snow flurries, warm gloves and hot cocoa after my morning walk.  While I don't have the snow flurries, I do have gloves and hot cocoa in my cup and memories of long gone days of brightly colored leaves and November snow storms.  We would be lost without our memories.

While I won't be walking among leaves of gold, red and orange, my heart remembers those days when I would take long walks hearing the leaves crunch beneath my feet, the aroma of damp wet leaves filling my nostrils, inhaling the crisp air deep into my soul.  

If everything comes together with my health I am planning to head north this month to catch the last of the autumn leaves, I say if because my health has been a roller coaster ride for nearly 2 years and I don't want to jeopardize my progress. So it will be a spontaneous trip if all goes well, and if not I have photos and memories to rely on for another autumn and hope for next year.

The stitching on the goddess a month project is going along nicely for the October goddess I chose Elen of the Ways, I didn't take many progress photos I just wanted to complete the stitching this is the last progress photo.

I have just washed the stitch and wash away product off and the finished piece is drying, I will post the completed piece once it's dry. So for today I will post at Kathy's Quilt https://kathysquilts.blogspot.com/2021/11/slow-sunday-stitching.html

November goddess will be started later today for Slow Sunday Stitching, I have the designs ready I'm trying to decide between Baba Yaga or Freya.

Speaking of Baba Yaga, I would love to have this bench that showed up in my Facebook feed yesterday, I find it amazing how a chainsaw artist can get those details.  The was a man a few streets away that did some chainsaw art pieces I always stopped when I had time to admire his work.

Did you remember to set your clocks back an hour, I love having an 'extra' hour when I wait till I wake up, silly as it seems the day does feel longer.