Women of the Mayflower update.

 

Women of the mayflower, coming to america

 Oh my gosh I so looked forward to this stitch. I knew I had a grandmother on board and just had to do this.  Then after starting it I found out I had two more grandmothers on board.   Might have had another but I have hit a road block on one of my grandmothers so I am not sure of my family down her side. Tracing back I found I had a lot of relatives on board and that both sides of my family had so many relatives in common.

Women I am related to:

Mrs. Edward Fuller .... Sad we don't know her first name for sure.  I have found it listed as Alice and as Ann .... Grandmother

Elizabeth Fisher Hopkins .... Grandmother

Constance Hopkins .... Grandmother through two lines and also Aunt as two lines of the family married into each other several generations down the line 

Damaris Hopkins .... Aunt

Elizabeth Tilley..... Cousin

Mary Chilton ... Cousin

Priscilla Mullins .... Cousin

JoAnn Tilley ..... Cousin

Men I am related to:

Giles Hopkins... Grandfather

Stephen Hopkins ... Grandfather...  through two lines

Francis Cooke ...Grandfather

Edward Fuller ... Grandfather

Samuel Fuller ... Grandfather

Dr. Samuel Fuller ... Uncle

John Holland ... Uncle

Giles Hopkins ... Uncle

John Cooke .... Uncle

Oceanus Hopkins..... Uncle

Cousins .. 4 lines

Richard Moore

Cousins 3 lines

John Alder

Henry Samson

Edward Winslow

William Bradford

Peter Browne

William Mullins

Cousins 2 lines

John Tilley

James Chilton

Thomas Rogers

Miles Standish

Cousins 1 line

William Brewster

Degory Priest

John Billing ton

John Robinson

Love Brewster

Santa's Labor of Love

Santa's Labor of Love

 It is in treasures in needlework summer 92 and it was produced as a kit.  It was called Santa's Wish List as a kit and Janlynn and Better Homes and Gardens also put it out .  The kits are or at least we're pricey on eBay but I just waited till I could snag the magazine because I like to pick my own fabrics.  I am working on a 16 count aida.... If I did it over again I would have used 32 count something.... There are a ton of 1/4 stitches.   I did one change.....  they called for one of the background colors to be stitches with one thread for a lighter affect but I change the color and used two strands to keep the coverage. 841 was added for that.   this is almost all full coverage so it is a lot of stitches.   So here are some progress photos

Finishes for 2019

This year has been totally weird.  My stitching went down for a bit just because it was super busy around here.  I had a health issue middle of the year which had me in the hospital for almost a week so there was a week of no stitching.  As you can imagine when I got home my house was in need of some serious attention so slower then plus I just felt terrible.  But now I'm back in the swing of things.  Some of these may be repeats but as far as I can tell here's all my finishes this past year.

Right now I've got three projects underway, Cupcake is still going, I'm working on a Santa piece, and a beehive piece both from magazines.... I'll pull that information here in a bit.

So... I think this is all I did this past year: