Patriotic Finish...

Last Friday my stitching bud Jackie and I made a trip to our LNS--Stitchville and I picked up Blackbird Designs book Sweet Land of Liberty.

I couldn't wait to start this project:

 This design is called Sweet Land of Liberty.  I stitched it on

32 count Clay with DMC Threads.

Started 5-15-2016

Finished 5-18-2016

I did tweak this a bit.  I should have cut the mounting board a bit larger so that it

would have maybe covered the top of the candlestick more.  So my modification was a twisted

cord to put around the edge.  

 Another view.  Thanks to my hubby for spray painting the candlestick.

I love how it turned out.  

One thing I would like to mention is that the design is bigger than the top of

this candlestick, which I guessed surprised me.  So a bit of the design is under

the edge of the mounting board.  Which worked out fine, I just thought in my little head

more of the design would show.

My grandson Silas wanted a checkerboard that he could fold up for traveling, so 

a quick trip to JoAnn's grandma found some checkerboard fleece.

Then I cut out some felt circles.  

Traveling checkerboard!!!

Needless to say I am a hero in his eyes:)

Now a quick plug for Olfa cutters.  I bought this cutter awhile ago to cut circles.

Let me tell you it worked great for the felt circles I needed for the checkerboard

and for the circle I needed for my candlestick project which was cut out of

mat board.  I would highly recommend this handy tool.

Thanks for stopping by and have a great weekend.