This and That Tuesday and an Easter Spring Freebie

  Happy Truckin'  Along Tuesday, ya'll. 🚚

I am going to be truckin' along on a new truck  cross stitch today. The truck is almost completed. I just need to fill in the back of the pickup with some beeeautiful motifs.🐝🐝🍯

It is time to change out the tiered tray by my corner sink. 

                       

Right now it is filled to the brim with chickens and my little red truck, but soon it will be sporting some pastel Easter eggs and whatever else strikes my fancy. 

                                     

Some of the quilts hanging on the shutters in the foyer. These are fixing to be changed out too. 

            

More hexies are in the works. 

And how about  a rabbit stitch?

Let me introduce to you the sweetest bunny on the block- Miss Flopsy Tail. She is busy harvesting an early crop of carrots for her munching pleasure. 

Miss Flopsy and Bunny Jar 

She is stitched on 14 count tea/ coffee dyed aida and I use 14 DMC floss colors which include DMC 3740, 3781, 930, 931, white, 301, 356, 725, 937 , 898, 3371, 221, 223 and 832. The stitch certainly does not look like it had that many colors and of course you could condense some of the colors down. 

If you are interested in stitching Miss Flopsy  ,grab the images below. Many of ya'll know but I always encourage you to read my little disclaimer and note about getting my charts. 

NOTE: Normally I have been able to create links to the charts and instructions which were in JPG form. For some reason, recent updates on Google Docs. has prevented me from doing that and I am not able to create a pdf without having to deal with storage issues.  Many dear stitchers say they right click, save the image and then print.  I think some have copied and pasted it to a Word document that they can print off as well. I hope you are able to find a way to enjoy this chart. You will have to click each page to save. Thank you so much for your patience and understanding and for all of the helpful tips and ideas. 

I stitch my little designs for fun and to decorate my home. I feel very blessed by this community and love sharing my little charts, but I am not a professional designer. And I do not have professional software. Thank you for understanding . I am always grateful for your kind encouragement , your visits, and for stitching my little designs.

 Miss Flopsy has a sister stitch that I will be posting too. So stay tuned. 😀🐰

Alrighty , Sweeties . I did not ramble along today, but just kept it short and sweet. I hope you enjoy doing a "bit of this and that" for yourself today!!! Have a Terrific Tuesday and ...

As always,

Happy Stitching and Quilting, ya'll

Melisa

 A grateful heart is a magnet for miracles. 

Hugs and Stitches!!! 🤗🧵

Dedicated to my dear sister, Amy. I miss and love you so much. 

"Erin Ewe" and Notforgotten Farms  freebie,  "Shamrock Basket"

Turkey Tracks, Red Trucks and a Christmas Tree- A Barnyard Christmas Freebie

 It is a beautiful day in my neck of the woods. The trees look glorious in all of their fall colors.

The vibrant red in the Burning Bush looks amazing. 

    

 The air is crisp and sometimes quite downright chilly. But my impatiens are still looking fabulous. Well maybe not fabulous but still blooming and bringing me  big ole' smiles. 

               

 I dread when the frost nips these sweet beauties. These are the impatiens from the seed that I purchased from the Dollar Tree and boy, did they produce. I am  very happy with them. 

Well where's my manners. I started rambling before I said welcome.  Happy Friday,  sweetie pies. How are you doing?  Ready for the 1st weekend in November?  Oh, let me tell you . Today is National Doughnut Day!!! 🍩 Saturday is National Nachos Day and National Play Outside Day and Sunday -  National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day!!!!  🍫  Don't you think we need to get our snacks ready in celebration?  Also  on Sunday, Daylight Savings Time ends. 🕰 Time to turn back those clocks. 

Today I wanted to share with you my Thanksgiving quilt. 

                

It all started with some gifted scraps. 

                   

I embroidered 4 blocks with black floss . I just drew out some prim little Thanksgiving figures. 

                    

I used a simple cross hatch quilt design across the whole quilt and Wa-lah ! It's complete!

Last night, my fingers were nimble, and in just 2 hours I had a cross stitch finish too. Eeeeh ! I am doing a happy dance!  Do you want to see it? 

 Last year, I stitched 15 ornaments in my Barnyard Christmas series. Soooo I decided to add another. This little stitch is called "Bringing Home the Tree"  . There was a red truck in the series last year too. 

                   

 A cute little snowman is riding in the back of the pickup making sure the tree is secure.  I do not know if I will finish it the same way as the other ornaments or try something different. I am still stewing over that.  

                

 If you are interested to add this to your stitching list, please check out the pdfs below. I would love for you to stitch it. Oh and feel free to  change it up how ever you please. It would look so cute to change the truck color. Question : Does every farm have a red truck? Lol. Well, I know we do and so does dad. 😃  We affectionately call our 25 year old truck the pig truck since we haul pigs in it.  Clever name. Right?😆

Many of you know , but I always like to leave this little disclaimer.  

I stitch my little designs for fun and to decorate my home. I feel very blessed by this community and love sharing my little charts, but I am not a professional designer. And I do not have professional software. Thank you for understanding that I  have to put each page on separate pdf downloads because of the devices I use. I apologize for that.  And I am always grateful for your kind encouragement , your visits, and stitching my little designs. 

Click here for the instruction page. 

Click here for the colored chart. 

                                   

Click here for the black/white chart. 

                                  

I have been a chatterbox today.  I appreciate you dropping by for my daily ramblings . I wish you a very blessed weekend, and I hope it is full of joy and pure quilting and stitching pleasures . Oh! And don't forget those snacks.   As always....

Happy Quilting and Stitching, ya'll

Melisa

I am joining these lovely ladies' link parties. I hope you check them out; they always have so many wonderful projects going on and provide the opportunity for other needleworkers to meet. 

Alycia's of Alycia Quilts for Finished of Not Friday

Sarah at Confessions of a Fabric Addict  for Can I Get a Whoop Whoop-Friday

Michelle  at From Bolt to Beauty for Beauty Pageant  - Friday

Wendy at Wendy's Quilts for Peacock Party - Friday 

Frederique at  Applique Patchwork Quilting for Patchwork & Quilts     - Saturday

Angela of  So Scrappy  for Scrap Happy Saturday

Enjoy the little things in life ... for one day you will look back and realize they were the big things. Robert Brault

Hugs and Stitches!!!

Dedicated to my sweet sister, Amy who loved Christmas just as much as I do. I miss and love you.

Farm Truck - Barnyard Christmas Freebie

No farm would be complete without 2 things- a farm truck and a farm dog. 

This little stitch  called "Farm Truck" is based on our farm truck . Yep! We have a red farm truck - not a vintage one, but an old truck that is used for farm purposes.It is dirty and smelly- yeah a regular farm truck .  My parents have an old farm truck too and it is red! Is that a requirement as a farmer?   I wish we had a vintage truck though.  

As a child , our family dog, Tiger,  used to ride along with us kids in the back of the truck as we went from field to field. About a week before Christmas, dad would go to the back field which we call "the bottoms"  and cut down a cedar tree.

 We would help drag it to the back of the truck. My sister and I  would hold the tree in the truck while Tiger usually opted to walk or run back home. We would then make our way home  to decorate the tree. Have you ever had a cedar Christmas tree?  The smell is wonderful, but it can be a bit prickly.  It was fun to decorate  the tree with popcorn, red balls and little wooden ornaments. Sometimes we would get tinsel and  blow it onto the tree which we thought was a lot of fun.

 Our tree never stayed up long. Mom was ready to have it gone by December 26th. So the day after Christmas, Tiger along with  the tree were loaded into the back of the truck; dad would then take the tree to "the bottoms" to dispose of it. 

"Farm Truck" is the 13th ornament in the Barnyard Christmas series. I designed these little stitches for my Christmas tree. I originally planned on 12 ornaments. I still have a couple of more in mind.  I may post more depending on when the tree goes up and how it looks. You know I like an overfilled tree. Lol.

I stitched 2 of these in an evening both on 14 count aida. One was stitched on coffee/tea dyed aida and the other on Rit Emerald Green aida. 

 The stitch is small and measures 31 x 31 which on 14 count aida that measures 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" . 

You can stitch this little farm truck too, just check out the pdf's below. Because I am not too tech savvy each page is on a separate pdf.  The pdf's may print out light - I do not have a professional set up on designing charts or the pdfs but I am working with what I have which is a good thing. 

For the instruction page , click here . 

For the color chart pdf, click here. 

For the black and white chart, click here. 

If you missed any of the other charts, you can click on the names below and you will be directed to those charts.  

Previous charts include: 

Chicken Sled ,   Santa's Ride ,  Special Delivery , Christmas Barn, Christmas Bucket, Christmas Tractor , Santa on the Farm,  Mrs. Claus on the Farm , The Stockings Were Hung ,   Santa's Visit  ,  Hanging the Star .   and, Skiing on the Farm . 

I hope you are getting  excited about the upcoming  Christmas season. I am !  Just a few more days for me and guess what?  A tree is going up. Woo Hoo. I can not wait!  

I have enjoyed seeing so many of you stitch these little charts ,and I can not express how my heart leaps with joy each time I see one of my little designs stitched. Thank you so much for taking the time to visit me, to stitch my designs and for leaving such lovely comments and bits of encouragement. You really have kept me motivated and inspired. Ya'll have really made a gal feel special, and I so appreciate it. 

 I truly hope you enjoy this little chart. Have a lovely rest of the week and as always... 

Happy stitching, ya'll

Melisa

I would love to see your stitch. You can always direct message me on Instagram or use #pinkernpunkinquilting .