Happy New Year and New Releases!

Wow, it's been awhile since I posted an update.  I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season!

With the holidays behind us now, it's time to get down to some serious stitching time!  I'm sure by now everyone knows that stitching helps to relieve stress!  And these days, we all have plenty of that to relieve!!

First, I want to share all of my new cross stitch releases. 

It's no secret that I absolutely love cats!!  I really love all animals but cats truly are my favorite.  I've started a new series of cross stitch patterns called Colorful Cats!  These are modern style, geometric cat designs each with a very unique name:

Are these fun or what?!!  I need to stitch one of these, probably Nightmare because I had a Nightmare kitty.

Worked mostly in full stitches with just a few 1/4 stitches and a twinge of backstitching, these design use one Kreinik metallic in each design for a touch of sparkle.

Of course I couldn't stop with cats!  With Spring and Easter coming, I decided to do some Colorful Bunnies as well:

Like the cats, these Colorful Bunnies are worked mostly in full cross stitches with a few fractional stitches and a twinge of backstitching.  And they use a little bit Kreinik metallic.

My Crazy Ornaments have been so incredibly popular.  I have loads of ideas for more but for now, my newest ones are Snowmen and Daisies:

These can be worked on Perforated Paper which makes them quick and easy to finish into ornaments, refrigerator magnets, package tie-on's or bookmarks.  Of course they can be stitched on 14 count Aida as well.

I actually stitched up one of the trees and one of the shamrocks:

Mine are worked on Perforated Paper by Mill Hill and I'll be making them into refrigerator magnets.

These and all of my cross stitch and crazy quilt products can be found in my Etsy store.  Be sure to use Coupon Code:  STITCH1 when you place your order.

Also, there's a really cool new Facebook group for stitchers who like to make ornaments!  If you would like to join, here's the link:

Santa's Little Stitchers

And on my Fans Of Kitty And Me Designs Facebook group, there is a stitch-along going on for The Millennium Cats!  The plan is to stitch one of the little cat designs each month so that by the end of 2020, all the cats are done!  You can join by clicking here:

Fans Of Kitty And Me Designs

We also have a BINGO game going on there where you could win a free pattern!!

The Never Ending Sampler Stitch-Along will be starting up again with Panel 6.  Band 1 will be available tomorrow, January 3rd!  If you're new to my stitch-along, you can learn more about it here:

The Never Ending Sampler Stitch-Along

There's also a Facebook Group for the Never Ending Sampler:

The Never Ending Sampler Stitch-Along Facebook Group

Finally for today, the Spring 2020 issue of Crazy Quilt Quarterly magazine will be released on February 1st.  Wait until you see who our cover artist is for this issue!!  Amazing work!!  If you're looking for back issues or the 2020 Crazy Quilt Calendar, you can find them here:

Crazy Quilt Quarterly Magazine 

I wish everyone a wonderful and Happy New Year!

Let's get some stitching done!!!

Spring Cross Stitch Patterns

I know it seems early!  I really do!!  But I have to work a bit in advance so I've just listed my first set of Spring Cross Stitch patterns:

Crazy Shamrocks Ornaments

Crazy Bunnies Ornaments

Crazy Butterflies Ornaments

Cupids Heart

Lucky

I'm almost done stitching up one of the Shamrock Ornaments so I'll post a photo of that in the next day or so. 

These designs are available at both Magcloud:  https://www.magcloud.com/user/kitty-and-me
(Please use for International orders)

And at Etsy:  http://www.kittyandme.etsy.com/ 

Also, I wanted to mention again that Panel 6 of The Never Ending Sampler will begin right after the New Year.

Crazy Trees

I thought I'd take a break from Crazy Quilting and do some cross stitch.  I always loved cross stitching and my latest ornament designs have been calling me!

I picked up some Perforated Paper and stitched up one of my Crazy Tree ornaments:

I plan to do another one or two of these but had to order a couple of the Mill Hill Crystal Treasure stars.

When I finally can buy a house, I plan to glue felt to the back and add a magnet.  I won't be putting up a big tree anymore so these will be really pretty little magnets for the fridge.

I have some Crazy Ornaments coming for Spring too!  Wait until you see those!  I'll release those later this week.

In the meantime, visit my Etsy store to see my entire collection of Cross Stitch patterns.

Happy Thanksgiving!

I just wanted to take a moment and wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving!!!

McHenry Historical Crazy Quilt Block #20

Another block for the Mchenry Historical Crazy Quilt - this is the Samantha Button house built in 1854 and located on Waukegan St. Again I couldn't find a historical photo so I grabbed a screenshot from Google earth and oldened it in Photoshop.

Samantha Button was the daughter of William McCollom one of the very earliest settlers to McHenry Illinois. She was born in 1830 and came to Mchenry with her family in 1834. The only building in town was a log cabin located on the present site of The Riverside Hotel.

Her family continued west and made their home on the west bank of the lake named for them, McCullom Lake.

Samantha died in 1934 at 103 years old. Until her death, she was the oldest living mother of a civil war soldier. Her son died of typhoid during the war and is buried in Woodlawn cemetary here in McHenry.

This quilt will be a record of the historical buildings in McHenry. I'm still in Gagetown (the Main Street area) so theres a ways to go yet!

This quilt is pieced and embroidered entirely by hand. All lace is vintage or antique. The only embellishments are some vintage Mother Of Pearl buttons used to make the spider bodies. Spiders and spiderwebs are a traditional motif on antique crazy quilts. The Victorians believed that spiders were good luck so there is a spider on every block of my quilt.

I will be using this quilt to benefit the McHenry Area Historical Society. Preserving Mchenry's history is very important to me.

Next block - I'll be taking a little buggy ride (LOL) over to Centerville (Green St.) and doing the Owen Bros. Mill. Built in 1840. And I do have a real photo of it!!

Here's a photo of all the blocks together so far:

There's at least another 20 blocks to go so this quilt will be quite large!!