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What are you stitching?
Since I was whining about no one posting, I suppose I could at least get
something started! lol As I posted before, I started on Keslyn Designs' "My day complete" and was having trouble with it. I'm happy to report that it's been going much better as of late, until I ran out of floss. That's been reordered and I rec'd it yesterday. While I was waiting for it to come, I started on a project for DS#2. Background story: A couple years ago he gave me a few random skeins of floss for Christmas (I didn't tell him I already have the entire set! ). They were some fairly bright colors...orange, green, turquoise, yellow and 2 skeins of Fluorescent Effects. He said I could make him something out of them. I thought to myself, what could I make with *those* colors?!?!? I wandered around Google one day and saw a hot air balloon and thought that might work. So I made it into a pattern. So that's the project I worked on and will now put it aside to finish the Keslyn one, which just has the 4 corners of the main motif and the lettering left. -- Joan See my needlework he http://community.webshots.com/user/ndjoan If worries can cure your sickness, prolong your life, or replace happiness, then go ahead and worry! If they can't, why worry? Enjoy every moment of your life...there is no second chance. Unknown |
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Trying to work on a birthday gift that's going to require dedicated effort.
Quilt/Sew/Craft festival was yesterday. Only one booth with hand embroidery; mostly sew and quilt, but got some backing fabric for pillows. Including this gift. Should've taken the Vicodin *before* the pain got too bad, because it was no help when I finally did take it. The kit has most of the floss on a sorter but 4 complete skeins. At bedtime, I could only find 3 of them, despite a search of the immediate area. When I pulled it out to work on it this morning, that "missing" skein was safely tucked into the clip holding my chart. Was I beyond exhausted or what? COPYRIGHT 2012 -- PERMISSION GIVEN TO POST ON USENET AND GOOGLE GROUPS NEWSREADER ONLY, BUT IF FOUND ON TWITTER OR SEW GIRLS, IT HAS BEEN REPUBLISHED WITHOUT MY PERMISSION WHICH CONSTITUTES ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 3/18/12 -- Monogram by Rita Weiss WIP: Stitchers Days of Christmas http://www.crossstitchjoy.com/catalo...oducts_id=3865 Nativity from "Countdown to Christmas" book, Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market www.CFSfacts.org -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths (also on Facebook) Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf |
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On 3/24/12 10:51 AM, Karen C in Calif wrote:
Trying to work on a birthday gift that's going to require dedicated effort. Quilt/Sew/Craft festival was yesterday. Only one booth with hand embroidery; mostly sew and quilt, but got some backing fabric for pillows. Including this gift. Should've taken the Vicodin *before* the pain got too bad, because it was no help when I finally did take it. The kit has most of the floss on a sorter but 4 complete skeins. At bedtime, I could only find 3 of them, despite a search of the immediate area. When I pulled it out to work on it this morning, that "missing" skein was safely tucked into the clip holding my chart. Was I beyond exhausted or what? COPYRIGHT 2012 -- PERMISSION GIVEN TO POST ON USENET AND GOOGLE GROUPS NEWSREADER ONLY, BUT IF FOUND ON TWITTER OR SEW GIRLS, IT HAS BEEN REPUBLISHED WITHOUT MY PERMISSION WHICH CONSTITUTES ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT I've done stuff like that too. C |
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On 3/23/2012 1:18 PM, ndjoan wrote:
Since I was whining about no one posting, I suppose I could at least get something started! lol As I posted before, I started on Keslyn Designs' "My day complete" and was having trouble with it. I'm happy to report that it's been going much better as of late, until I ran out of floss. That's been reordered and I rec'd it yesterday. While I was waiting for it to come, I started on a project for DS#2. Background story: A couple years ago he gave me a few random skeins of floss for Christmas (I didn't tell him I already have the entire set! ). They were some fairly bright colors...orange, green, turquoise, yellow and 2 skeins of Fluorescent Effects. He said I could make him something out of them. I thought to myself, what could I make with *those* colors?!?!? I wandered around Google one day and saw a hot air balloon and thought that might work. So I made it into a pattern. So that's the project I worked on and will now put it aside to finish the Keslyn one, which just has the 4 corners of the main motif and the lettering left. "A STITCHER'S HEART" by Little House Needlework's http://www.littlehouseneedleworks.com/newpatterns.html came with Crescent Colors floss, and the trim (special dyed for this project), and a chart from Shakespeare's Peddler that uses the same flosses! Also have 2 current knitting projects: 1)a shrug knitted with circular needles from one cuff, up the sleeve, opening up for the back/body of the project, then closing up again for the other sleeve & cuff, then you pick up the edges and do a k2p2 ribbed edging for the body all the way around. I have one sleeve done and about 1/4 the back/body. 2) the second sock to my second (ever) pair of home-made/hand-knitted socks! I'm making the leg(s) longer than my first pair so they will come up higher on my calf (or I can 'scrunch' them around my ankles). and I am also reversing the direction of the pattern (self patterning/striping yarn) on each sock - just to be different -- ^..^ This is Kitty. Copy and paste Kitty into your signature to help her wipe out Bunny's world domination. -- The ONE and ONLY lefthanded-pathetic-paranoid-psychotic-sarcastic-wiseass-ditzy former-blonde in Bloomington! (And proud of it, too)© email me at nalee1964 (at) comcast (dot) net http://community.webshots.com/user/mgcmdjeep |
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On Friday, March 23, 2012 1:18:07 PM UTC-4, ndjoan wrote:
Since I was whining about no one posting, I suppose I could at least get something started! lol snip So that's the project I worked on and will now put it aside to finish the Keslyn one, which just has the 4 corners of the main motif and the lettering left. -- Joan Just finished Tanja Berlin's Hapsburg lace, working on a Montmellick/trapunto class piece being taught at Guild, stitching a mini kimono (can't remember the designer), and I need to do an Artists' trading card as a gift for a Guild member who is leaving. I also need to start looking for a wedding sampler for my niece getting married next year. MLI's Bride is in for framing for the niece getting married this year. MargW |
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Since my current WIP was at an intense counting stage, I took the little
ornament I designed a few years ago to my creative circle meeting so I could stitch and talk at the same time. By changing a few stitches here and there, one has magenta flowers and seafoam trim and the other has blue snowflakes (as originally designed) and the original XXXXXX trim in the middle was transformed to a row of hearts. Since the row of hearts are connected, it's not that obvious what they are, and I will have to sit down with graph paper and figure out a version where they're free-standing, for Valentine's Day. And now I'm back to my beloved's birthday present. COPYRIGHT 2012 -- PERMISSION GIVEN TO POST ON USENET AND GOOGLE GROUPS NEWSREADER ONLY, BUT IF FOUND ON TWITTER OR SEW GIRLS, IT HAS BEEN REPUBLISHED WITHOUT MY PERMISSION WHICH CONSTITUTES ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 3/18/12 -- Monogram by Rita Weiss WIP: Stitchers Days of Christmas http://www.crossstitchjoy.com/catalo...oducts_id=3865 Nativity from "Countdown to Christmas" book, Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market www.CFSfacts.org -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths (also on Facebook) Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf |
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I'm working on some intense WIPs but took a break to make some cute
little ornaments. A VERY GOOD friend sent me a box of the BritStitch magazines that she subscribes to, along with some of the freebie kits. I read the mags and return some of them to her and forward some of the others to another stitching buddy (and keep a few, too!) Anyway, I took one of the freebie kits for felt ornaments and rather than using the charts the magazine intended for them, I found some cuter small charts in another magazine (small designs for an Advent calendar - a reindeer, a tree, and a little birdie), and stitched them up on little bits of Aida and inserted into felt and blanket stitched around the inside aperture and outside backing. So I'm three ornies ahead for next Christmas already! sue -- Susan Hartman |
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On 4/15/2012 3:33 PM, Susan Hartman wrote:
I found some cuter small charts in another magazine (small designs for an Advent calendar Ooo, *thank you* for reminding me about this, Sue! I must start stitching the Precious Moments Advent calendar for DGD. She should be old enough for it by the time I get it finished! -- Joan See my needlework he http://community.webshots.com/user/ndjoan If worries can cure your sickness, prolong your life, or replace happiness, then go ahead and worry! If they can't, why worry? Enjoy every moment of your life...there is no second chance. Unknown |
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Susan Hartman wrote:
I'm three ornies ahead for next Christmas already! Good for you! COPYRIGHT 2012 -- PERMISSION GIVEN TO POST ON USENET AND GOOGLE GROUPS NEWSREADER ONLY, BUT IF FOUND ON TWITTER OR SEW GIRLS, IT HAS BEEN REPUBLISHED WITHOUT MY PERMISSION WHICH CONSTITUTES ILLEGAL COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT -- Karen C - California Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com Finished 3/18/12 -- Monogram by Rita Weiss WIP: Stitchers Days of Christmas http://www.crossstitchjoy.com/catalo...oducts_id=3865 Nativity from "Countdown to Christmas" book, Oriental Kimono (Janlynn), MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel (Marbek) Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel, MLI Farmers Market www.CFSfacts.org -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths (also on Facebook) Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf |
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