Fall Craftaholic!

There is something about Fall that turns me into an avid craftaholic! I mean, I do like to craft a lot the rest of the year but when the weather turns colder and the leaves begin to fall, I can feel the obsession building in me.

I recently started TWO more cross-stitch samplers - The Halloween Spooky Sampler and the Autumn Sampler both from the Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery. They are so cute!

 

I'm still working on my Woodland Sampler. I'm almost done with June. Must stitch faster!

Last night I also cast on for a few more knitted items for Chicken Nugget. I'm making her some baby pants to wear home from the hospital along with a Newborn Vertebrae sweater. She already has some baby booties and just needs a hat to complete her Going Home outfit. Additionally I have two other sweaters on the needles for the nugget - a February Baby Sweater and a Baby Poonam Sweater.

What are you crafting now that Fall is here? Have you obsessively started too many projects like me or are you restraining yourself?

Summer Sampler Club

I think 2013 might be the year of cross-stitch for me and I owe my obsession all to the ladies of The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery. Amanda and Ashleigh do have seriously cute patterns and they've recently come out with another one, The Summer Sample Club!

The first two weeks have already been released but you still have plenty of time to join in the fun! I haven't even started the sampler yet myself BUT I am enjoying the weekly PDF's and seeing everyone else's progress. 

Weekly updates, after the introductory PDF which contains a chart with 25 frames come out on:

 • June 21st 
• June 28th 
• July 5th 
• July 12th 
• July 19th

You can follow the Summer Sampler Club member's progress on Facebook or on Instagram with the hashtag #thefrostedpumpkinstitchery 

Woodland Sampler

Once upon a time, I was an avid cross-stitcher. Then I found knitting and left my stitching roots behind. Recently though, I rediscovered my love for cross-stitching.



I was surfing through Instagram when I spotted a link to some beautiful and fun patterns from The Frosted Pumpkin Stitchery. Before I knew it, I had signed up for the Woodland Sampler which is a monthly cross stitch pattern. We were given the pattern for all 12 frames in December when we signed up and then at the beginning of each month, we get a set of instructions to fill in one frame at a time.



I ended up having to re-boot my sampler when I noticed that I was stitching in every square and it was coming out teeny tiny on 28ct fabric. I started stitching in two "squares" and I LOVE IT!

The creators of the pattern offered up a sneak peek for February's pattern and I'm so stoked!

I'm so excited about this year long project, that I might have already bought more patterns to make more cross stitch things!