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  • 2014 - Staying Connected, Week Nine

    - 05 Mar 2014
    On Sunday, I finished (except for beading) all of blocks 1, 2 and 3 of "Save the Stitches" blackwork SAL from Elizabeth Almond: These closeups show the color I used in place of the specified metallics: Block 1 Block 2 and block 3 I then started

  • 2014 - Staying Connected, Week Ten

    - 12 Mar 2014
    Snow today (heavy and with winds so it's drifting - predicted somewhere around 8"), I need to make a casserole for quilt guild Thursday night and we are expecting house guests either Sunday or Monday so stitching won't be a priority this week, I fear.

  • Take a Stitch Tuesday - another stitch completed

    - 13 Mar 2014
    The latest stitch assigned was #103, the Beaded Butterfly Chain Stitch: And it's completion has resulted in the completion of a new page of stitch samples: The stitches on this page include the Linked Chain and Beaded Linked Chain stitches, Shell

  • WIPocalypse 2014 - March

    - 16 Mar 2014
    March's assignment is to show our favorite place(s) to stitch. So I took a photo of the only place I like to stitch - my bedroom: I can sit at the left side of the bed, leaning against the headboard with two pillows behind me, within reach of my side

  • Bead Journal Project for March, 2014

    - 17 Mar 2014
    Meet "Celtic Owl", who has, somehow, managed to acquire some leprechaun gold! Happy St. Patrick's Day! So here are my three beaded birds so far this year:

  • 2014 - Staying Connected, Week Eleven

    - 19 Mar 2014
    It's raining! As dark and drear as it feels to have no sun, the fact that it's not snow is marvelous! Maybe spring really will arrive on Friday! I bailed on quilt guild meeting on Thursday and quilt guild work day on Saturday. Just didn't feel up to pot

  • Take a Stitch Tuesday - Stitches 104 and 105

    - 20 Mar 2014
    This week's stitches were the Buttonholed Cable Chain and the Alternating Buttonholed Cable Chain Stitches. Once I got into the swing of things, I found the Buttonholed Cable Chain easy to do, and I can see this as a seam treatment on a crazy quilt,

  • International Hermit and Stitch Weekend - March 21 - 22 - 23

    - 24 Mar 2014
    I dedicated this weekend to more stitching on the "Save the Stitches" blackwork SAL from Elizabeth Almond. It looked like this on the Friday morning: And when Sunday was over, it looked like this (nothing I do makes the color look right... the top is

  • 2014 - Staying Connected, Week Twelve

    - 26 Mar 2014
    This "reporting period" included the International Hermit and Stitch weekend (which I devoted entirely to "Save the Stitches"), a Take a Stitch Tuesday pair of stitches and Band Six of the Mystery Band Sampler", I didn't have a lot of stitching time to