Your summer needlework projects?

[AZ-AlphaXi]

Just finished a cross stitched TKE crest for my son ... I'll probably hang it on the wall next to my Alpha Xi Delta cross stitched crest.

Now I'll start working on Christmas motif cross stitched sweatshirts for my Alumnae Association's holiday auction in Dec.

[btb87]

Man, it's been so long since I've done any cross stitch - it's sooooo very relaxing to me! I need to pick up the needle and floss again. I also need to locate my AKA shield pattern - I did one for a Soror that left about 2 years after we were initiated, and nothing since then.

[alum]

Several projects:

One is a pictorial quilt of a china cabinet that incorporates exchange blocks that I received. Miles (or so it seems) of handcouching black cording is yet to be done before I begin the quilting part

I am working on a group quilt with some of my fellow Kappa alums that will raffled to raise money for our philanthropy, Reading Is Fundamental.

Since my D is now home from school, I am sure my fabric stash will be raided to make more Greek sewn-letter clothing items.

I need to get a small lapsize project going for the LONG twice-weekly swim meets that S has through the end of July.

[tinydancer]

Now that my Eastern Star Installation is over, I'm going to get back to finishing some of the many many needlepoint pieces I have started. My cousin once owned a needlepoint shop and I have lots or canvases to work on.

[kchaptergphib]

I was so surprised and happy to see this thread! I felt like such a dork at Convention when I bought the Gamma Phi Beta crest cross-stitch kit (I was 23 at the time). I finished that one this winter, but I didn't realize before I started that the material they gave me in the packet was too small to include the lamp on top and the scroll with our letters on the bottom. So I've started a second one, now. Reading about you women who also cross-stitch crests will inspire me to finish it this summer!

[alum]

If you can't find a graph pattern of your crest you can always go to

http://www.darklilac.com/upload.jsp

This is a site that can generate color cross-stitch charts from an uploaded image! I tried a relatively uncomplicated image (college crest) and it spewed out a wonderful chart with 64 colors to use. You can set a limit for the number of colors (I picked 100) you are willing to incorporate. It basically changes the pixels into stitch squares, but more importantly it matches the HTML color to the DMC floss color.

[ForeverRoses]

I am working on a Christmas stocking for baby #3. Baby should be born the end of August, so I hope to have the stocking done by Christmastime. Then when I get this one done, I'll start on a stocking for my nephew. and my brother is talking about adopting another baby girl, so I'll have her stocking to make after that (I have made all the stockings for my nieces & nephews as well as my own kids).

So I guess it's Christmas all year long at my house!

[honeychile]

Congratulations, ForeverRoses! Alum, thanks for the link! You're lucky, having two tones of blue - I don't like to work with little colors while "outside".

And, I had completely forgotten that I have to make a quilt square by the end of July for an auction!