When Men Pray finished and BBD Exchange

Hello Dear friends, readers and visitors,

Happy Father's Day to all,   I hope you will get to spend some quality time together today with your father, grandfather, husband, and children.  A special Happy Father's Day to the mom's that hold the roles of father and mother

Thank you all for your wonderful comments on my last post.  They keep the fire going over here.

Alrighty.  Since my last post, I've been busy as a bee.  I was so happy school was over, but I continue to run about with the children to appointments and the likes of running a household, and becoming very overwhelmed with it all.  I managed to pull a muscle on my leg while out walking a 3 mile incline last weekend.  I elevated my leg last and rested it over the past week as much as I could, which I helped tremendously.  Unfortunately, I had  no weight loss.  No worries.  I will keep plugging away at it.  

During that time I worked on o my challenge pieces, Me, Myself and I RR, "A Woman's work is never done" (no pics) and the piece shown below, When Men Pray.

When I saw this chart in the October 1998, Just Crosstitch Magazine, I absolutely loved the saying in it.  I  knew I wanted to stitch it for my husband, but as with some projects, I became side tracked and set it aside,
and this was the state I left it many years ago.
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I showed you all a progress pic of it on my last post and I continued to work on while waiting at the doctor's office and every little minute I could find.

It had a LOT of quarter stitches, a good sum of back stitching and some frogging.  I tell ya, determination is a bear.  I was determined to get this done for father's day.   



When Men Pray, stitched on 18ct. White over 2. with recommended DMC threads
Just Crosstitch Magazine, October 1988

And.  Ta Daaaaa.  Here it is.  The heart of God is touched when men pray. Hallelujah, praise be to God. I just love that saying.  It is inspired from the song "When Men Pray",  according to the magazine,  It "serves as a reminder for every generation of the importance of prayer".

I believe men pray for many things much like us, for good health, world peace, hope, vision,  healing, solitude, understanding, making good decisions,  knowledge, strength, and the list goes on; and for this I know, The heart of God is touched.

Alrighty, I wrote a few post ago about Blackbird Design's yahoo group Mystery pincushion Exchange.  I received my pincushion and a card on Friday from Lisa S.  She stitched Summer Stars from the Stitcher's Journey booklet.  Lisa used Gentle Art Sampler Threads to give a spring/summer look for the pincushion.


It holds three complimentary pins and she trimmed the pincushion in a beautiful lilac chenille trim.  On the underside, the pincushion holds a little charm that say, "made for you.  It is really beautiful and I love the colors she used. 
Thanks Lisa S.

Here is the pincushion I sent to the Mystery Exchange that was received by Paula.

I used My Home - Thread Keep  from the Summer Basket chart.  I selected a red, white, and blue theme for this exchange



 Here is the front.

The back.

The top finished as a mattress style pincushion.

Here my little handmade card with a blackbird.

and the blackbird saying, "Have a great summer.

a pic of both of the card and the pincushion together.

I really enjoyed making the pincushion and Paula has since received the pincushion and like it.  So I was happy about that.

One more note.  I wanted to express a big Thank you to Joy who hosted the exchange.  She did a fantastic job of putting it all together and I appreciate it very much.

I will end here and I hope you all have get to a special day.

Blessings!!!

Jackie