Happy Dance - Ronald McDonald House Sampler

Started: 7/4/2020

Finished: 7/29/2020

Stitching Time: 18 hours 36 minutes

This Ronald McDonald House Sampler was designed by Ursula Michael for the Ronald McDonald House SAL group on Facebook.  The purpose of the group is to stitch a sampler for each Ronald McDonald House or Family Room in existence around the world.  This one will be going to the CHOC Family Room in Orange, CA.

It's stitched on white 14-count Aida as charted with the called for DMC.  I have emailed the director to see if she wants it personalized, but the Family Room is currently closed because of COVID-19 so it may be awhile before I can get that information.  How to deliver it is another question.

Up Next: Tinkerbell

Weekly Update - 7/24/2020

My update is late this week, because I couldn't find the color I was supposed to use for this week's Peppermint Purple SAL.  I had recorded it as 4090 and that turned out to be a yellowish thread.  I also did not have the floss in my SAL bag.  After looking all over the place, I decided to try to match it to a non-variations floss which I did last night.  It's not perfect, but it's close.

I stitched on Week 30 of the SAL for 1 hour 10 minutes using DMC 3810.

 

The Ronald McDonald House Sampler is continuing to grow and should be finished soon.

As of 7/16/2020 after 9 hours 12 minutes

As of 7/24/2020 after 14 hours 47 minutes

 

Happy Dance - Ronald McDonald House Sampler

Started: 1/10/2018

Finished: 1/31/2018

 

This was stitched for the Ronald McDonald House SAL group on Facebook and will be going the the Family Room at Mission Hospital.  The chart was provided by the SAL group and was designed by Ursula Michael.  I love her word charts and have always wanted to do one.  This is the first one I've done, but it won't be the last.

 

It's stitched on white 14-count Aida in the called for colors.The only changes were requested by Joni, the Family Room director who asked that I stitch the "house saying" instead of the "family room saying" and the bottom line.

This was not a fun stitch as there was lots of frogging involved, mostly on the yellow parts in the roof.  I also used up the skein of 498 I was using and the other skeins didn't match.  I was able to locate another skein at JoAnn's though.

I plan to get it framed and hopefully presented to her next week.  I volunteer at the Orange Ronald McDonald House and at some point will be doing input for Joni so this is kind of a special project.

WIP Wednesday - 1/24/2018

I'm making good progress on the Ronald McDonald House Sampler.  Here is where it was last Wednesday:

And here it is today:

I did have to frog two hands and the words "Helping Hands" on the upper right and didn't quite get it re-added yet.  I was one stitch off in both directions.  I'm hoping for a Happy Dance by the end of the month!

WIP Wednesday - 01/17/2018

I'm back to my two projects a day again.  One uses my Q-snaps and floor stand, while the other is small enough to stitch in hand.

The one on my Q-snaps right now is the Ronald McDonald House SAL sampler that I'm making for the Family Room at Mission Hospital. 

The second piece I'm working on is called Love Bear, a freebie from Durene Jones and is for the WOCS Valentine SAL.  I hope to do a couple more this month as well.  The bear has a charted background with heart shaped clouds on a patchwork or blue and green squares, but in the interest of time, I've decided to just stitch the bear and the heart.  This one should be finished in a day or two.