Michelle Bendy: Show Notes: Stitch with Me #20

Happy Sunday!! Today on the Stitch with Me video I worked on Here Lie My Needles by Shakespeare's Peddler:

Here's what mine looks like:

I'm stitching this on 14-ish count fabric that I found by the YARDS at an estate sale. It may or may not be Heatherfield? And since I only had two of the called for colors, here is my conversion:

WDW Havana ---> WDW Oak

GA Avocado ---> WDW Oscar

WDW Loden ---> WDW Moss

GA Grasshopper ---> same

WDW Confederate Grey ---> Mo's Sale Hagrid

GA Old Hickory ---> WDW Pecan

WDW Olive ---> WDW Sage

GA Linen ---> Ship's Manor Between the Shadows

WDW Dirt Road ---> WDW Chestnut

WDW Schneckley ---> Colour & Cotton Golden Ale

WDW Charcoal ---> GA Black Coffee

WDW Baked Apple ---> Colour & Cotton Gingerbread

GA Shakeer White ---> WDW Fawn

GA Raspberry Frost ---> Colour & Cotton Fig

WDW Red Pear ---> same

GA Old Red Paint ---> WDW Aztec Red

There's a SAL for this!! On Instagram it's #GCSHereLieMyNeedlesSAL and the facebook group is called Here Lie My Needles SAL. It's not too late to join (it never is!) so get your chart here: https://www.gulfcoaststitches.com/product-page/here-lie-my-needles

Go buy Jamie Chalmers' Book: The Mr. X-Stitch Guide to Cross Stitch:

Swaps that I talked about:

Cross Stitch Card & ATC SAL
Stephany In Stitches' Ornament Swap (on Instagram)
The Great Biscornu Swap
Dixie Samplar Exchange
Midwest Cross Stitchers' Secret Stitcher Exchange

SALs that I talked about: (click on the pictures to buy!)

May 1, Sally Spencer by Birds of a Feather with Lanette from Homesteading on the Homefront, Donna Rae from Flannel Jammies Farm, and Lorrie from Mischevious Stitches
May 4, Leia & Han by Tilton Crafts with Andrea Stitches in Colorado
May 8, Two Bees and ABCs by Rosewood Manor with Laura & Nancy, the Addicted Sisters
May 15, Black Heart by Kathy Barrick with @aimeebaruch
May 19, Royal Wedding SAL, stitch anything you want! I'm going with the StoneStreet Stitchworks freebie, with Dawn Frosty X-Stitch, Kerry in Stitches, and Diana itiskismet
June 1, Eliza Bell Cox 1832 Hands Across the Sea with Julie and everyone in the Eliza Bell Cox 1832 FB Group
Labor Day, Tis the Season by Blackbird Designs with Lanette, Donna Rae, Holly & Anita, and more:
Turkey the World SAL with Sarah Marie. I'm going to stitch Thomas by Notforgotten Farm (I think!)