Stitch Maynia 2019 or Stitch Nine Challenge

Social Media is buzzing with Stitch Maynia 2019.  There are so many great ideas and ways to participate in this event.  True confession, I have never participated in Stitch Maynia, the though of starting a new project every day for nineteen days or thirty-one days is enough to make my eye twitch, my head spin and send this "I have how many WIP's girl, running for the quiet and security of my stitch room.  Now, having shared some of my fears and phobia's, I will also say, reading and watching about everyone's plans is motivating and inspiring.  There are so many great ideas and ways to participate in Stitch Maynia and visiting one's stash and stroking linens and fibers is pure delight.

Faye (Carolina Stitcher) and Nicole (Nicole Needleworks) have an interesting approach to Maynia, they are calling it Make Do.  Over 70 years ago, Americans were encouraged to be frugal to help the war effort.  Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without was used as a rallying cry for frugality.  Lynette and her Frugal Yankee retreat would like this idea.  Faye and Nicole are selecting designs, linen, and fibers which they have in their stash instead of acquiring more.  Great idea girls, Grandmother Rebecca and Mother Dorothy highly approve.

To spread the excitement and enjoyment of Stitch Maynia 2019 or Stitch Nine Challenge, I decided to spread the love and include WIP's, quilting, hooking, punching, stitching and finishing.  Nicole is spreading her love by starting a new project every other day and working on a new start for two days.

My limited approach to Stitch Maynia 2019 or Stitch Nine Challenge

With a grateful heart I can say I have sufficiently recovered from the scourge of the dreaded poison ivy to continue needlework.  The Old Tattered Flag, Skinny Saltbox has been loaded onto my Nistock Farms punching frame and I "shopped" through my fibers and found a sufficient amount of fibers for this project.  In the spirit of Make Do, I also have the bread board to use for mounting the finished piece.

Am really enjoying "using up" the five inch charm squares, some of them have been in. my stash for years.  Am waiting on an order of shirting fabric to continue with the setting.  AppleJack and I have family which will be graduating high school and starting life on their own.  Nothing says love like the warmth and comfort of a quilt.  We older girls know there are going to be times in their life when they will need love and comfort.

Memorial Star is all ready to go.  Most of the wool came from my stash.  The design has been in my stash a few years.  Thanks to Liseanne and Ron Miller and the Beat the Heat and March Madness events, I found the needed background wool.

WIP's, FFO's and new stitching starts:

Finish the Adam and Eve motif from the Hands Across the Sea Sampler, Elizabeth Furniss.  Am so very close--maybe this weekend.

The stitching part of this project has been completed for more than a year, the assembly part is waiting for my needle and thread.  This is Rose Garden Sewing Basket from Stacy Nash,

When Brenda Gervais released O Tannenbaum, I was so excited!  Would be so nice to have this piece completed for Christmas 2019.

Saw the cutest idea for stringing these stockings across a headboard.  It would be easy to have visions of sugarplums dancing in your head with these strung along the headboard.  These stockings are from the Home for the Holidays book by Blackbird Designs,

Lori Markovic released this small at market.  Small enough for some instant gratification and motivation.

Last project is Good Intentions by Kathy Barrick.  If there is a phrase which I can relate to more than Use it up, it is Good Intentions. I myself am made entirely of flaws stitched together with good intentions.  Oh Kathy Barrick, you were thinking of me when you designed this piece weren't you?



Ssssshhhh, if I had the courage to start 19 new projects here is what they would be:

1. Shakespeare's Peddler (Theresa Vennette) Jenny Bean for the Parlor
2. Flag Folk by Notforgotten Farm (Lori Brechlin)
3. Spring Garden Needlework Trio by Blackberry Rabbit (Karen Kirk)
4. Summer in Baltimore With Thy Needle and Thread (Brenda Gervais)
5. Horse Country Holiday Artful Offerings (Karina McMillan Hittle)
6. Kringle & Woolard Plum Street Samplers (Paulette Stewart)
7. Coverlet Christmas Scarlet House (Tanya Brockmeyer)
8. Sarah's House sampler Blackbird Designs (Barb and Alma)
9. Anna Grater 1812 Scarlet House (Tanya Brockmeyer)
10. Sally Spencer Birds of a Feather
11. Sunday Social punch needle (Shawn Williams)
12. Ann Wright 1726 Pinkeep Drum Samplers Not Forgotten (Kimberly Nugget)
13. Garden Birds La D Da (Lori Markovic)
14. Sister Suffragette Summer House (Beth Seal)
15. Julia Fletcher 1847 Scarlet House (Tanya Brockmeyer)
16. Baby It's Cold Outside Heartstring Samplery (Beth Twist)
17. Pomegranate Pocket Hands on Design (Kathy Haberman)
18. Homestead Snapperville Bent Creek
19. My Home Needlework Press (Vickie LoPiccolo Jennett and Maegan Jennett)

It was a fun visit through my stash.  Whatever your plans are for Stitch Maynia 2019--enjoy, have fun.