tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59365612012-01-12T21:13:55.476-06:00Life, Liberty and Still in Pursuit of a Good Woman for PresidentAdanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12495620914021162238noreply@blogger.comBlogger1151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936561.post-39076132258507783492011-09-14T12:13:00.003-05:002011-09-14T12:27:02.252-05:00

Also known as UFO (unfinished obsessions).I have all these crazy unfinished things rattling around in different parts of the house and am trying to bring them all together in one or two places and get them organized and see what I want to stitch in this life and what I want to launch. Here is the current list and I better be living until I'm 300.Quaker Garden/Blackbird Designs (SB conversion)

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SERIOUSLY...I could not even mange to change the thread color? These are Quaker Medallion Strawberry Pinkeep by Blackbird Designs from the Just Cross stitch magazine Christmas Ornament issue from 2006. Now to get the courage to finish them into strawberries.

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This was not a walk in the park, but I can honestly say that I'm so glad I bought this piece and finally dug it back out and completed it. It is a real treasure and the best part....my oldest daughter was pretty impressed with it. It doesn't get better than that!!!!! :)

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Finally got this piece I've had finished for ages made into a pincushion. (Bent Creek, with a spin on it as I made mine a bumble).

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Kathy Barrick designed this nifty ornament called A York Christmas Ornament since she moved into a house that was built in 1804. I've long been attracted to this ornament and had started it a while ago and never got back to it. Picking it up again was a breeze and the finishing was a joy. 1804 was one incredible year. Nathaniel Hawthorne was born on July 4th.... Lewis and Clark Expedition departs

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I've been working at this one far too long and while I have some rip rip to do, I will get it done eventually because I just love it. I think I may have found the perfect thread for it today.

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Shaine's StockingEmily's StockingEventually this will be Skyler's Stocking.And this will be Tanner's Stocking.I've been working on Christmas Stockings for my daughters family for far too many years, and then she goes and adds another member of the family this year. I have Bryce's stocking completed, but not made into a stocking yet. Today I got Tanner's stocking done and all it needs are the

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Since we cannot manage any girls around here I have to go in search of some. My daughters friend from school had a sweet baby girl on the same day that my daughter had her son Skyler. I had given away the blanket I initially made for Baby G, and here is the replacement I made. It's much lacier and girlie and I think it's perfect as she's going to be girlie girl for now (brain squeezers and all).

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Another year at the Champaign County Fair.My HOPE piece by Cindy Valentine won a first place and I could not be happier. I didn't follow the directions on this one to a "T", but I'm really happy with it and I guess the judge was to.In another category I won a blue for Lizzie*Kate's "Life's a Stitch". I've wanted to do this one for ages and finally got it done this year. But who knew it was blue

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This is what I currently refer to as my workroom, called that because it needs work. For some reason during Christmas a lot of boxes got stashed in this room to get them out of the way, and they have never moved since. The mini crib has wheels around here somewhere and I HAVE to find them and get it put together before the baby comes perhaps.This is the closet in the workroom. Not a lot of rhyme

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Last time I showed you blankets I made for my new grandson to be, and a pink one for my daughters friend who will have a girl in early August. Well that pink blanket ended up going to Ms. B, a housekeeper at work. Her daughter had a baby girl in mid-June and she so admires my work that I could not resist. When last we spoke her 2 year old grand daughter had laid claim to the new blanket, so I

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No cross stitch projects to show off, but I've been keeping busy with my crochet hook. After finding out we were having another grandson, and that my daughter friend Jessie was having a little girl, I felt the need for a little pink in my life, so I got out the yarn and started a blanket for her. I love the ruffle on the edge of it. The varigated blue blanket is for the new grand darling due in

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Yes, I've broken the rules yet again and started another new project. I have been obsessed with this piece for sometime and wanted to stitch it for a friend of mine at work who is a breast cancer survivor, but she's not at all interested in my stitching, so I'll hang onto it for now. It's a Breast Cancer Awareness piece designed by Little House Needleworks and it worked up in less than a week. I

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05/02/201004/27/2010A week into my current project and it's coming along nicely. I've broken the rule of not starting something new....again. But this one was screaming at me and it's "PINK". I will also work in an already started project. This kit is "With All Your Heart" by Blue Ribbon Designs and was sold by the California shop "Elegant Stitch" as a breast cancer fundraiser. It's an 8 sided

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I've finished the second Lizzie*Kate "Life's a Stitch" piece that I found less than half done recently. Didn't take much and it's much smaller than the first one I did. I have got to do some finish work on it yet, but this is the completed project. I promise a better pic next time.

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Someday I may actually find my mother of pearl buttons (that I know were dumped in a large tub when I was packing) and get this piece finished for my daughter as I stitched it last fall. I made myself a pink pocket and love it so much that I made a purple one for my daughter Sarah. (She's a purple fan). Alyssum Pocket is by The Cat's Whisker's.

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My completed bag. It took me until 1am to get it done, but it felt so good to get that beading done. This morning while watching the news I finished attaching the lining, made cording and once attached it was done.This is the back with the front flap showingFront of bag with the flap open showing the fabric liningI still have to put a button and button loop on the front, but first I have to find

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From Just Cross-Stitch (April 1998)In one week I've made some serious progress during my lunch half hours (and one day was spent doing a baby shower for a co-worker). I'm determined to get this one done and out of my face, and besides the cleaning lady at work loves seeing what I'm working on and watching the progress I make.

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I'm putting away my Easter things in an organized fashion and thought I'd share the gems we got to enjoy during the holiday. From top left: Easter Egg by Shepherd's Bush stitching by my friend Angi Boccone from Italy stitched over one. It's an amazing little piece that I've had for a few years and I enjoy putting it out every year. Happy Hoppy Easter by Lizzie Kate is something I stitched back in

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I started this project many moons ago and it's still not done. It's called Pocket Full of Posies and it's from an old Just Cross Stitch magazine. As you can see from the photo showing it's a small purse with flowers. It has beadwork in it and many eyelet stitches. I'm making progress on it, but it's slow. I'd just like to see it done one day soon.

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"Susan's Needle Nook" by Susan Greening-DavisA class piece from the 2007 Rockome show in Arcola, IL.The inside of this piece has black felt to rest your needles.Something about the over one stitching on this piece that I could not put it down. Thinking it would be a while before I ever got it done, I have to say that I found this fabric very easy to stitch over one. It's evenweave rather than

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Just a little mermaid project or so I thought when I began working this one. It's not as easy as it looks and there is much fill once you get the mermaid stitched. She's pretty ugly, but I find her quite the charmer with that stuck up tail and saggy boob. (Sirens of the Sea by Carriage House Samplings). I work on this many days a week during my lunch half hour so the progress is slow.

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This is a free design that is offered by Brightneedle. Another in a long line that was started and never finished. Not sure yet what exactly I'll do with it, but it may be made into some kind of little bag. Loving Blue moons and mermaids it was an obvious stitch.

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It's no secret that I'm not keen on over one stitching, old tired eyes at the end of a long day at work do not make it the easiest thing in the world to do. It's the bane of some of my most favorite projects that I would still love to stitch in this lifetime. "Susan's Needle Nook" was a class piece by Susan Greening-Davis from the very last Rockome Show. I found this kit among the stash and

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I pulled another half finished ESSY Project from the bag of tricks and finished it one night last week in front of the tv. The next day I took it to work and on my lunch half hour I did the finish work on it and got it all put together and wore it the rest of the day. This is the design by Drawn Thread.

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I have not been a fan of Lizzie-Kate for many years, but she has a couple of designs that I have found to be worthy of my attention enough to stitch them. The one that I've completed most recently is "Life's a Stitch". After seeing this piece stitched up many times by other stitchers I have always found it most charming. I had started this piece quite some time ago (I started two of them

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This is the stocking I'm working on for my Grandson Tanner.As you can see below, my daughter Sarah has stitched this oneand it's a beauty when it's completed.Don't ask me who this one is for, but I think it's Robert's stocking that my daughter Sarah had started and quit once the reindeer gave her fits. I have intentions of finishing it one day. But first I have to find and finish the

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This stocking was made by my oldest daughter Sarah.She puts words on her stockings to make them timeless.Mary's stocking that my daughter Sarah made.My Grandson Bryce's Christmas Stocking that I made for him.Being very anti-smoking, I made it a bubble pipe.This winter I've really enjoyed looking at these Shepherd's Bush stockings that are just screaming to be made into stockings.

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My completed ESSY Projects to date. I have a ways to go to get them all done, but once found, I plan to work on more of them.....now to find where they are hiding.

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Snowdays enable you to do things that you wouldn't normally do....like decide what to finish next. I found this adorable ornament that I had stitched a while ago and never got around to finishing, so that was first up. I made some cording during the day and the next two evenings I did the finish on a couple of pieces. My Oh Say by Shepherd's Bush was turned into a fob.

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Victorian Elegance by Indigo Rose. I bought this one in Arizona at Attic Needleworks when I was in Phoenix for a conference in February 2005. I came across this one and it was stitched, it just needed to have the finish work done. The reverse looks the exact same.

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SALEM WITCH by the Primitive NeedleYou may remember that I stitched this very design back in the fall of 2007 when I first received the pattern. I was on my way to Salem in December 2007 and had one of these started to take along with me. Problem was, I was too busy to get much of it done while out east that year and it has sat in a bag since. I had since started another on a lighter piece of

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I completed Hope Blossoms last night in time to claim a January finish, but just barely. After unpacking some of the projects I have in progress I came across my ESSY projects. These were little kits offered by Elegant Stitch from various designers with proceeds going to breast cancer research. I have completed many of them, but still have several to complete. I cheated on this one by Cindy

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These are a few of my projects that I've found among the boxes I've opened and hung them behind the door in my workroom.It's been quite an enlightening couple of months stitching-wise here at the new place. You see I had cross stitch spread over one entire floor of a house where we used to live, (magazines in the livingroom bookcase, fabrics in a bedroom closet, finished projects under a bed in

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It's officially Halloween!!I got the blue crocheted baby blanket done in less than a week, given to the about to be new mom, and then closed on our new house. Surrounded in my current house by cross-stitch, I cannot wait to get moved, settled and have my stitching organized in it's own room so I can start stitching again.Happy candy eating everyone!!!

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Pictured at left is a treat bag that I made for a Legacy BB Halloween exchange back in 2002 with a little pudgy from SBs Baby Bug Ball. It was a hard one to give up once done as it's lined with some fun spiderweb print fabric and it turned out so much better than I imagined, but off to Canada it went.Stitching something for Halloween was always one of my favorite things to do, but it won't happen

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I sit here surrounded by stitching supplies, charts, books, magazines, etc, and I am completely overwhelmed. Why you ask...because I'm supposed to be packing it all up for the move. I have not had the time or interest the past couple years to stitch as my mind has been other places. A new job in the cancer research department as of July 2008, the failing health of my father who had Alzheimers and

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I'm thinking it's a waste of time and money to even buy calendars anymore since the pages just fly off of them right by my face. I always loved the saying "CAUTION: Dates on calendar may be closer than they appear". Nothing could be more true these days.I've changed many things about my life since I was last here. I have a new job and with it new surroundings, new learning curve, new boss, new

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It's been a week since I stitched this little sign from the Salem Witch chart (Primitive Needle), and I've got another one kitted up to take along to Salem with me. This came in the mail last Thursday (more than a week ago) and I couldn't stop looking at it or resist the urge to just put needle to fabric and stitch the darn thing. So on Saturday evening I found out just how quick a stitch this

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The weeding has begun.All from a smoke-free, pet-free home.Proceeds go to a local charity.Please email me at adana69 (at) yahoo.com and I'll get back to you as soon as I can.Easter Egg Sampler kit by Drawn Thread ($15.00)My Son by Indigo Rose ($45) complete with silks on 32 ct light sand linenStitching Chair Necessaire by Hillside Samplings ($50) kit has SAL instructions includedAmericana

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I guess at the rate I'm going I should wish you all a Happy Halloween as I won't get back here before that happens I'm sure. No pictures right now, just no time, I seem to be a hit and run blogger at the moment.Right now I am very disenchanted with stitching as a whole and am bored to death with some of the projects and charts I own that are taking up space I would like to use for other things

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I've just been too busy lately to keep up with anything stitching related (research and family will do that to you, along with a couple other things on my agenda right now, which includes laughing my guts out at a friend).Hey, my very special friend up north, I cannot thank you enough for the tip off!!! You are just too funny right now in what you're doing, and it makes me roll on the floor with

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I have a finish! Amazing, but true!It's been a while and my life has not been my own lately, so this feels very good right about now.I've been staying with this project day and night just to see it completed and a cohort at work has been cheering me on.This is a repro sampler class project from Rockome this past June by Marjorie Mueller called "1907 Czech/Slovak Sampler". I enjoyed most all of

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I'm not sure where the summer went, but the kids are back in school here, the students are back at the University and the stores prove with their school supplies that summer is over. However, the temperatures we've had would never convince you of that.The blog is again open....and some things have been deleted for privacy reasons and for the protection of people I love. I've also deleted all

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After that jury duty stent I did in June where I stitched FOUR of the same thing while sitting all week, I now find myself stitching two of everything small that I start. Strange I know!!! I stitched Love (Carriage House Samplings) and then started over and stitched it again as a gift for Angi and modified her's with that little heart. Here you see my Love pincushion, all finished.Then I stitched

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That would be the weather, just nothing but hot here for 2 weeks now. We had escaped having our air on for most of the summer until Aug 1 and then the heat wave hit. (08/14/07 Today I found out that my pinkeep did in fact make it to Italy while I'm sitting here waiting to hear from Angi and her emails are just not getting thru to me and I didn't even think to check her blog to see if she posted

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What a wonderful day it was yesterday. The weather could not have been much better here in Central IL for the middle of July and it's always fun hanging out with my oldest daughter and sister-in-law Nancy having time to gab and eating fair food, and watching judges attach ribbons to winning pieces. Nan entered lemon squares, but what a bummer, they didn't win anything.Darling daughter, who used

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The fair is coming, the fair is coming. It's not my favorite thing in the world, the food is greasy, the place is way too dirty and dusty for me and my allergies, and the people who work it and who hang out there are a little rude and out there even for me. But we get free entrance at lunch (we who work at the hospital park at the fairgrounds all year and during fair week we are displaced so they

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COOKIES FOR MR. Cby Susan Greening Davisof Still Stitching with Susan LLC2006 JCS Ornament IssueWho knew how really adorable this ornament would be! Kitted up for sale at the Rockome National Counted Cross Stitch Show this year by Stitcher's Express (Mattoon IL), this ornament was a must have after you saw the finished one on the counter. I'm not going to sit here and tell you it was a snap to

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Saturday afternoon I had a wonderful class with Marjorie Mueller of Carol Stream, IL in Arcola IL at the Rockome National Counted Cross Stitch Show. She's a dear sweet lady with a lot of knowledge and passion about needlework and Czech/Slovak heritage and has a most giving heart. We had hard candy and Czech/Slovak classical music while we worked our reproduction sampler and listened to Marjorie

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"Accomplishments of Jury Duty From Hell" or "Variations on a theme not of Paganini but of Blackbird Designs" (Bluebird's Pins & Needles). This is how I spent my long boring hours at the courthouse last week, plus I stitched a bit on my WMN red Christmas Ornament set.It really was a pretty good stitching week. I served all five days, got in the jury pool for traffic court (DUI cases) on both

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JURY DUTY PINKEEPSDAY 1: Well, if nothing else it's been interesting, but closer to "nothing" than "interesting". You usually have one of two things to say about jury duty after the first day, "A long boring day at the courthouse is worse than a good day in the office", or "I could tell you, but then I'd have to kill you."DAY 2: As you can see from what I've accomplished so far this week, there

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Celtic Birds by Sunflower Seed was a fun stitch with Vikki Clayton silk in Ocean Deep. This will be a basket band once I find the perfect fabric and some time with my sewing machine.

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I won't be posting anymore family stuff on this blog now that it's open to the public and stalkers

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Ahhhhh June, another birthday, another pay raise, and hopefully a few more stitches this month. Yes, I'm a cheap date these days. Not a lot of stitching has been done at my house the past couple weeks. Work has been busy and the interview process continues as we add more research staff. I have to say we have never had such a great team of smart, fun, capable women like we do right now.I've been

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I've received two gifts this past week. The first was a kit from my friend Libby. We found out during dinner last week that we have several things in common. This beautiful piece is finished as a trivet and I can't wait to get it stitched as I know right where I want to put it.The other gift was a needlebook and tiny fob from my friend Debs in Indiana. Her stitching is amazing and her over one

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I've been away, very busy and mostly unplugged from everything, and while I took a few projects with me thinking I'd work on them, I only worked on one thing, Christian's Stocking. He's not as easy a stocking as others I've worked, but he's very colorful and it's such fun to watch this one come to life. Once again ATS got no attention this past couple weeks since I can only work on it at home

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No stitching this weekend thanks to the miserable sinus, allergy, cold fit I'm having. So, I'm slacker for the week again on ATS...but, I'd rather not stitch on it than stitch when my head isn't on straight and have to rip it out later. Instead I spent some time framing and finishing.The best Halloween piece out there IMHO is "Remember Me on Halloween" (Birds of a Feather). I stitched this in

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It's been some kind of week. We started it off with a funeral, and it was all downhill from there. My grandson Bryce had a fever all last weekend and then DD and the grand darlings were sick with a nasty stomach bug for a few days, and are just now starting to feel better. I've got another miserable head cold that feels like just a different version of what I've had since February and compounded

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This sampler was derived from a class I took in 2004. Linn Skinner and Eileen Bennett (with the assistance of Libby Streuli) presented "The Queen Sampler". This was not a stitching event where you went to stitch (thank goodness) it was much more. It was the history of Henry VIII and his six wives with a presentation complete with slides and it was captivating. The kit we got consisted of fabric,

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It was a dry stitching week, but I did manage to start "And They Sinned" (Examplar Dames) and I have to say that when I can sit down with it for a while and get a rhythm going I've really enjoyed it. Sadly, sitting for very long is never much of an option. I'm stitching on 36ct Elegant Bean, with GAST fibers. The other piece I'm working on is Elizabeth's Stocking. This is two days of lunch hour

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There won't be any stitching for me this holiday weekend so I thought I'd share something stitching related that I've found and grown to love. It's called The Gift of Stitching magazine and it's an online monthly publication by Kirsten Edwards of Sydney Australia. I subscribed to this magazine when it was first offered because I wanted to support anyone who was brave enough to undertake such an

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It's done. Not just done, but completely done and ironed and it feels and looks so good. I charted our house for the bottom right square and put a US flag in the square where initials and date go (since it already has my initials and date in the border). I also included my son's name and birthdate in the square with the crown since this is his Christmas gift. (His older sister's name is Sarah

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A package blew into my mailbox on Friday, and it was such a treat to come home after a very long week to find a very special friend has been thinking about me. Receiving something from Italy always means it's going to be something amazing, and it was. This is a Chessie & Me Design pincushion. The floss Angi sent me is something I'm not familiar with, but they are yummy and just scream SPRING!

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Weekly check in on the gameboard progress (or lack thereof). I put in a couple more hours on the gameboard and now have less than 4 houses and 6 motifs. One of the houses has to be charted yet since it will be my house. I also want to put a flag in the signature square since this piece is already signed and dated in the border.(28 houses-26 motifs)Amazing what you'll find if you dig deep

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Here we have a rare non-Sunday post about something I've made progress on this week. Heaven knows that gameboard hasn't seen the light of day, even if my intentions were good.The subject line above means With My Needle JCS issues 2003-2004-2005-2006. I've been stitching the designs that Ellen has in those issues and so far I have three of the five pieces in this series stitched. These are a

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Another Sunday, another finish. This is Christmas Basket by Catherine Theron (JCS orn99). I had barely started this in February and then promptly lost it in a sea of WIP baggies, and when found this morning, I worked about an hour and it was suddenly done. Not a lot of stitching hours this past week, but I worked on Mermaid and the Sea (EFTH) when there was and tried to enjoy every stitch. I can

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As you can see below, I finished my February ornament.In todays picture you can see the tiny progress I made in the couple hours of attention the gameboard got this weekend. I have totally hit the wall on this project. You can also see the way I organize my threads when I stitch something that has lots of fibers. I use a homemade palette and put the symbols on it so that I never have to look at

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The 11 buttons came in the mail Monday, and tonight I got around to attaching them. They are adorable and really do set the piece off. The last charm is a little oval that looks like a frame and inside it says "CHERISH". I'm so glad that I was a part of this program, it was a very fun year.Cherish Sampler by Shepherd's Bush

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I KNOW, I KNOW, it's March already. I did so little stitching in February that I never did get an ornament finished. I started this one this evening and made good progress on it. It's got a few changes (my moons are always blue and the trim on my house is raspberry). I enjoy stitching this so much that I may have to do one with the suggested colors. This should be finished tonight and then I can

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After not working on this piece for a month I gave it some attention this morning and can almost see the light at the end of the tunnel.

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This is Cherish by Shepherd's Bush. It's been a year in the making as this was a year long special project that Shepherd's Bush put together. I heard the buttons and last charm are in the mail to us as I type this, so stay tuned.

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I didn't really feel that much better, but I did manage to stitch some and do the finish work on a couple of pieces this past week. I stitched the Essy scissor sheath by Indigo Rose and finished it, and finished The Heart's Content Spruce fob.

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I'm still miserable with a sore throat and haven't stitched much the past three weeks, but I'll share the Valentines Day gift I sent to a friend over the pond that arrived a day or so late. I covered one of those boxes you get at Michael's with some darling pink ribbon fabric I found at JoAnn's. I included all things PINK in the box that I could find...beads, ribbons, threads (no pink thread

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Happy birthday to George and Abe! Living in the "Land of Lincoln" I cannot remember a grade when we didn't study Abe in school. I've visited the capital city (Springfield IL) many times to do the Lincoln Sites. It's a great place to take kids and teach them about history. Lincoln has a new Presidential Library in Springfield that I am anxious to see. But those not to be missed are his house (the

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On the left is a tartan papermache heart with barbed wire wrapped around it. It was a gift from a friend of mine a few years back. On the right is a beaded heart that I hung from my chandelier in the dining room. Time to put them all away for another year and drag out the Shamrocks.

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Tis' Halloween was taught at the Shepherd's Bush retreat in Park City Utah in September 2006. I know what drew me to this piece was the date they used in the design. It was the year my mother was born so I stitched this piece for her and finished it last week on her 75th birthday. With yummy crescent colors it was a joy to stitch. Thanks go to a friend who enabled me to stitch this since I wasn't

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After several days of having the CRUD and being totally MIA, I wasn't really into the sweet holiday this year so it's good I managed to do a tiny bit of decorating a couple weeks ago. Here you see a couple of my red Longaberger baskets and some "heart day" things I've stitched.The second piece from left (heart and key) was a gift from a dear friend in Singapore 2.5 years ago. Thanks Choon Chew.

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Pictured at left is the Shepherd's Bush version of Quaker Garden that I have all kitted up. I love pink and I love purple, so it doesn't get much better than this for me. I'm almost finished with the Blackbird design that was taught at the Shepherd's Bush retreat last September, (Tis' Halloween) so I hope to start Quaker Garden this weekend. Then there's the DT gameboard and that ornament I need

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When last we met, I was going to spend my weekend having a go at the wooden chest that holds my stash that is out of sight and out of mind. I managed that before life went into overdrive and here's what I found. There were distinctly two groups, one of kits or of things I've kitted and not yet started. The rest were pretty much unfinished obsessions that I hope to finish one day. They are now all

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I scored a finish during the SuperBowl last night. This free design USA/Sunflower Samplings was kitted up with this adorable frame and linen and all I had to do was pull fibers. Susan B. Anthony (she's the size of a quarter) on the right shows you how small this piece really is.

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My January Ornament. This is Spruce Fob by Heart's Content to be done over one, but I did it over two so I can make it an ornament rather than a fob. I met Maureen Appleton in 2001 while at a retreat in TN and she signed my chart while we had a nice chat. This kit was a gift from a very special friend in Italy. I can't wait to do the finishing as I adore the backing fabric for this piece.

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I think I'm behind where I projected for Feb, but life has gotten in the way bigtime lately and I could not stand doing one more house, so I started the alphabet which goes all too quickly, just like Cathy said. The scissor fob and scissors were a gift from my friend Debs last summer. It's another DT design so beautifully done. 20 houses-22 motifs-border 1/2 done

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I'm more a stitcher than a finisher most days, but there is the occasional moment that I enjoy doing some fine hand work, stretching and lacing my own needlework or doing the framing on one of my pieces. It's fairly labor intensive given the time I don't have to spend on it, but to me it seems just a part of the overall stitching process and I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment. So here's the

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She's a major UFO (Unfinished Obsession) but I refer to her as THE EVIL DEVIL WOMAN IN RED FROM HELL. To Marilyn Levitt-Imblum who designed her, she's Celtic Christmas (Lavendar & Lace for Told in a Garden).When she was released back in 1995 I fell dead in love with her. I quickly kitted this up and realized that being in school I shouldn't really start something like this. After mentioning to a

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Flea Market Souvenir/Blackbird DesignsThis was a quick stitch but joining the three pieces of fabric once they were stitched was much like putting a puzzle together. For me the appeal of this piece was the challenge of that very puzzle until I saw the fabrics for this piece in Utah at the Shepherd's Bush retreat last fall. They were all wrapped up with ribbon, which made it just too easy to

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After 2 hours of early morning stitching, at 6am I finished the last two of the three samplers of Flea Market. I hope this weekend to put the pieces together so I can then move on to stitching the border and the seams. Not bad for a January 1 start with minimal thread availability. Once I'm finished with this piece I'm going to start Quaker Garden. I bought it when it first came out and then saw

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Progress pictures as of today. Flea Market Souvenir/Blackbird DesignsBuilding this house is killing me, otherwise this is such an enjoyable project. Sampler Gameboard/Drawn Thread17 Houses-18 MotifsMermaid and the Sea/Examplars from the HeartVery little new progress was made.

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Flea Market Souvenir by Blackbird Designs. This piece is so much fun to work on. It's like doing three samplers at once, but since they all come together in the end I'm trying to keep some balance in stitching the last two pieces. I did make one change, and that was because my satin stitches look like crap, so I subbed smyrna stitch on my pink urn. This is the most current picture from last

Adanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12495620914021162238noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936561.post-35475124359163722382007-01-04T09:14:00.000-06:002007-01-04T09:19:44.787-06:00

I've done it. I've started yet another project. The good news is, this will be done in no time.I bought the fabric and chart for this at the Shepherd's Bush Retreat in Utah last September and I've been itching to start it, but didn't have all the fibers until yesterday. So far I have elements in all three sections finished. The first little section is complete. I have the roof on the house and

Adanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12495620914021162238noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936561.post-63818121247738450462006-12-21T16:38:00.000-06:002006-12-21T16:45:39.311-06:00

Here it is the weekend of Christmas. Not sure how it got here so fast. But if I happen to get one second of stitching time this weekend I'm going to work on this Shepherd's Bush Retreat project. It's a sweet piece to stitch and I love the fibers and linen. I got a fair amount done at the retreat, but I've not stitched on it much since. Any of you other SB retreaters working on this one???

Adanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12495620914021162238noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5936561.post-15003904533228143932006-12-17T23:40:00.000-06:002006-12-18T00:25:13.672-06:00

Time to talk about UFOs. Lord knows I have about enough of them to talk about and it seems all I do is talk about them, because I'm sure not finishing any of them very fast. This one, if you can't tell is Mermaid and the Sea by Examplar Dames. I hope to start making some progress on this again and see it finished in 2007, so you'll be seeing a lot more of her in the future. You can see what

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I have a friend out east who is having the milestone birthday on Monday and since I'll be in Chicago seeing Mr. Tut, I'll wish her HB here and show you what I stitched for her. I found this frame that was just perfect and when I saw this cute kitty someone stitched I had to see if I could make it fit in that frame, which wasn't a problem at all. I'd say it looks rather nice there with my pink

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Time for a progress picture of the gameboard. This hasn't gotten much attention in the past couple weeks as I stitched the Tribute sampler, fussed with a few other things and all but finished one of those little SBs that I picked up off the floor last night. That will be completed this weekend and I can mark it off the list.

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