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First Challenge for TAST 2013
- 01 Mar 2013Last week, Sharon B issued a challenge, the first for 2013's TAST, to use any four of the following stitches in an original project: Herringbone square, laced herringbone square, back stitch, straight stitch, detached chain and French knots. I did
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Nine
- 04 Mar 2013In between an esophageal endoscopy (which pretty much wiped out Monday as a useful day - but so far as I know, this was also a positive result) and a mammogram (which really set my Wednesday off to a WONDERFUL start --- but at least it was a positive
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Started December 30, 2102; Completed March 4, 2013
- 05 Mar 2013Elizabeth Almond's "Red Thai Mandala", originally published in The GIft of Stitching, issue 61, March 2011. Stitched with DMC floss and Mill Hill seed beads on DMC 28ct white linen, Here is a closeup of the beading detail:
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The Last "Twinchie" for Color Throigh the Ages
- 10 Mar 2013Ooops --- someplace, I can't figure out where, I miscounted and my larger blocks aren't large enough! SO the twinchie is 4 stitches short of being 2"! When I'm not so pressed for time, I'll try another and get the proportions right! Called "Vintage
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Ten
- 11 Mar 2013It's been a busy, if disorganized, week for me but I did complete a few pieces and made some progress on some WIPS... The completions were: "Red Thai Mandala", "Vintage Kitchen" from "Color Through the Ages", and stitches 56 and 57 (Sailor Stitch and
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I think I'll take Tuesday off...
- 12 Mar 2013Two more "small" finishes for me... My "Mug Rug" which is 9 x 12, and (GET THIS) I did some needleturn applique on the front and QUILTED IT MYSELF! WAHOO! MY FIRST EVER QUILT, even if it is only 9 x 12! LOL I even applied the binding by machine, at
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Take a Stitch Tuesday and a mini-sock; National Quilt Day and International Hermit and Stitch Weekend
- 17 Mar 2013Getting ready for National (and International Quilt Day), I was trying to clear the decks of several pieces in progress as well as pack for a guild work day. I managed two completions on Friday, the 15tth! The first was a very small sample of the TAST
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Eleven and IHSW for March...
- 18 Mar 2013A productive week --- lots of smalls finished and progress made on some long-term WIPs. The completions already posted to this blog, were my March Crazy Quilt Journal Project Block, a mug rug for quilt guild, the Mt. Fuji sock for the "MIttens &
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twelve
- 25 Mar 2013With as much as I got done LAST week, I certainly slumped off this week. No excuses --- I just couldn't get motivated. But I did stitch a little. I finally got started on the March Bead Journal butterfly (about time, don't you think, given that March is
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"Promise of Spring"
- 26 Mar 2013Despite the snow on the ground and the below freezing temperatures, it is officially spring, and daffodills are trying to poke leaves above ground. So this month's Bead Journal butterfly is called "Promise of Spring", even if that promise has yet to be
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WIPocalypse - March 2013
- 27 Mar 2013WIPocalypse - March 27, 2013 This month's WIPocalyspe themes are : Designer – Chatelaine, Style – Springtime, Colors – Green and Yellow. Well, I don't have any Chatelaine pieces in progress although I do believe I have one chart in my stash...
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Take a Stitch Tuesday, Stitch 59 - and Sumptuous Surface Embroidery, Part 1
- 28 Mar 2013Played around a little with the 59th stitch in Take a Stitch Tuesday using #5 perle: And decided to apply it to the "frame" in my Sumptuous Surface Embroidery piece, using a heavier weight of perle: Miscounted the "spokes" in the darker woven
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