What are you stitching this summer?

I need to add names and date to the girls' birth announcement, a
Precious Moments Noah's Ark that I converted from XS to free style
embroidery. I plan to use bead letters for the text.

Finishing (literally) another Little Nell hanging. Little Nell was part
of a needlecase ensemble in an old Inspirations Magazine and is very
similar to Sunbonnet Sue. I used the first one as a teaching piece to
figure out how to do shadow applique. Thank goodness I used inexpensive
craft felt cause it took several tries to get the cutout to the point
where Nell's ink drawn outline didn't show. One of the cutouts served as
the basis for the soon to be finished design. This time, Nell sits on
top of another piece of felt instead of behind it.

Then I'm gonna doodle with rayon threads in preparation for working on
Sophisticated Lady, my Brazilian embroidery piece.

--
another anne, add ingers to reply

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
Hey Marg,

Wish I could send you some daylilies for your brother.

Thanks for the kind wish. He's just getting his garden rebuilt since
they moved last fall.

It's somewhat bitter sweet. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma in January, and at first treatment seemed to be working. This
week we had the news that the cancer seems to have resurged very
aggressively, and they are not going to do further treatment.

He and my DSIL were to come down for a visit in July when we had planned
to get the daylilies. Now, we don't know exactly how long he has.

MargW


SNIP
Cheryl

On Jun 21, 4:24*pm, MargW wrote:
Let's get back to needlework.

I've got Amy Mitten's Tudor Rose Mystery sampler on the frame.http://www.traditionalstitches.com/tudorrose.jpg

http://www.emlis.com/amymitten.htm

Wonderful silks (Fibres to Dye For)are used with a little bit of
metallic and some pailettes. *This is going to take a fair bit of time
since there is lots of one over one. *It also has lots of blackwork and
some detached buttonhole stitch which I haven't done before. *I have all
seven parts of the pattern, so I am not doing them in the original
sequence (the bottom and then the top, and then a middle band); instead
* I started at the bottom as suggested, and then I am going to do the
band immediately above, and so on. This way, I less likely to misscount.

I've done a couple of her "With the Same M.O." *They are a great way to
practice a specific stitch.

For a break from one over one, I'm going to do Sandy Jenkins' Beehive
Purse (Stitcher's World, May 2001). *This is the one that I stitched as
a shop model, and want to do again. *I've bought enough canvas to do a
couple, so I'm going to adapt an Anchor sampler that was in one of the
English magazine that has fish, frogs and birds. *These should make
great Christmas presents for my nieces.

I still haven't found the gold work kit I bought a couple of years ago,
although I did find (and finish) the stump work kit.

We are off tomorrow to visit my brother, and we are taking some
daylilies for his garden. *We give each other garden stuff for birthdays
and Christmas. He gave me lily bulbs for Christmas (they arrived in
May), and I'm giving him the daylilies.

So what are you up to?

MargW

I just finished packing a couple of projects to take on vacation with
us. I have a beginners' Hardanger table runner to work on, and a vase
of tulips in cross stitch for when I need a break from the hardanger.
Your projects sound fantastic, Marg!

Louisa

Hello everyone!

It's nice to be back reading about and posting to fellow stitchers.

I've been busy designing a sampler for a friend's daughter who is
going to turn 18 in August. I found a border of roses / rosebuds in an
old cross-stitch magazine that was just appropriate, as one of her
names is Rose, and her bedroom has a rose-pink colour scheme. It was
mainly a question of arithmetic, as I modified the border until it
went around her (rather long) name. On graph paper it looks super, and
I put needle to cloth a couple of days ago. I'm stitching it on 32-
count antique white linen (I mean, the colour is antique, not the age
of the linen!). I've just finished the skeleton of the border, so that
I can flesh it out without having to count threads for every motif.
Once that's out for framing, perhaps by mid-July, I'll turn my
attention to making lavender sachets, as I've been harvesting our
lavender and hanging it in bunches all around our kitchen. Hopefully,
the lavender will run to a sufficient number of sachets to be given as
Christmas presents! (No, I won't talk about Christmas!) In the
meantime, I got a remnant of pale green velvet cloth from a curtain
shop - it was in a basket at the door marked one pound(!!!) and I
couldn't resist it - on which I want to do some Jacobean embroidery.
I've never done any crewel or Jacobean work before, and I want to try
my hand at the colours and designs using stranded threads, both cotton
and rayon, before I embark on the expense of stocking up on wools.
Does that sound like a full summer or not?

Best regards,
Shanti.

On 6/22/08 5:14 PM, in article ,
"lucretia borgia" wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:33:02 -0400, MargW
opined:

Cheryl Isaak wrote:
Hey Marg,

Wish I could send you some daylilies for your brother.

Thanks for the kind wish. He's just getting his garden rebuilt since
they moved last fall.

It's somewhat bitter sweet. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma in January, and at first treatment seemed to be working. This
week we had the news that the cancer seems to have resurged very
aggressively, and they are not going to do further treatment.

He and my DSIL were to come down for a visit in July when we had planned
to get the daylilies. Now, we don't know exactly how long he has.

MargW


SNIP
Cheryl


Very sorry to hear that Marg.

That is hard news to get. The non-Hodgkins is supposedly one of the
treatable one.

Cheryl

Greetings, Everyone
This summer I'm working on a series of coffee cross stitch designs that are
found in the Feb., April, June, and Aug., 2004 issues of "Stoney Creek Cross
Stitch Collection." My sister has a coffee theme for her home office decor,
and these projects are a gift for her. Here is a picture of one of them:
http://www.xsmagdb.com/stoneycreek/f.../espresso.html
--Mavis

I'm sorry to hear that, Marg. A dear friend of ours had non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma and went through 8 rounds of chemotherapy, so I know how hard
it can be. It is not unknown for the patient to react more strongly
against the chemicals than against the cancer itself, which makes
treatment very difficult. She's fine now after a year, but the only
way she said she could keep going back then was to have a number of
milestones to look forward to - daughter's first day at college, half-
term, Christmas, and so on. She found that it helped her enormously.
Perhaps the daylilies in July are a target your brother could aim for.

With much regards,
Shanti.

On 6/22/08 6:26 PM, in article ,
"lucretia borgia" wrote:

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:22:34 -0400, Cheryl Isaak
opined:



Very sorry to hear that Marg.

That is hard news to get. The non-Hodgkins is supposedly one of the
treatable one.

Cheryl

Well not necessarily, at the time David had it, he overcame it but
Jackie Kennedy died of it.
My Dad is considered "cured" after getting it at 70+, but a kid nearby died
in a few weeks. I have wondered if non-Hodgkins is a catchall phrase used
for multiple types.

Cheryl

On 6/23/08 1:45 AM, in article hMG7k.421$zE6.74@trnddc02, "Mavis"
wrote:

Greetings, Everyone
This summer I'm working on a series of coffee cross stitch designs that are
found in the Feb., April, June, and Aug., 2004 issues of "Stoney Creek Cross
Stitch Collection." My sister has a coffee theme for her home office decor,
and these projects are a gift for her. Here is a picture of one of them:
http://www.xsmagdb.com/stoneycreek/f.../espresso.html
--Mavis


I like that. I might have to go looking for those issues, I know some one
that would love those charts.

Cheryl

Mavis wrote:
Greetings, Everyone
This summer I'm working on a series of coffee cross stitch designs that are
found in the Feb., April, June, and Aug., 2004 issues of "Stoney Creek Cross
Stitch Collection." My sister has a coffee theme for her home office decor,
and these projects are a gift for her. Here is a picture of one of them:
http://www.xsmagdb.com/stoneycreek/f.../espresso.html


Love that design!

I've just been sidetracked from my big projects. A friend who subscribes
to the BritStitch magazines sends me stacks of them once a year -
actually two stacks: one stack I can keep/pass on, and the other she
wants returned. So for a couple of weeks I indulge in a new magazine
every night! Then I pass them along to another friend.

In this stack I found a series of charts for "postcards" from Europe,
and I'm stitching two Norwegian flags to make into ornaments. My mom and
brother are going to Norway later this summer to visit some cousins with
whom Mom has corresponded, but never actually met. So this is a jump on
holiday gifts - I'll give one to each of them (mom and bro) as a
commemoration of their trip. (I made a quilted runner for the cousin.)

Also found a "photo" chart of Marilyn Monroe, done in sepia-type tones.
Usually I don't go for celeb photo charts, but MM is far more than a
celeb - she's an icon. This will be a surprise gift for DD, either as an
ornament, or the lid of a fabric box, largely depending on whether I can
find appropriate fabric for the box. Maybe a silk fabric in a
coordinating beige-ish color? Or go with something glitzy/spangly?

Sue

--
Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
www.dirtylinen.com