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Thanks to International Hermit and Stitch Weekend for December, I finally got in some stitchery! I sat down at the sewing machine and stitched together the last three blocks of my 2014 Crazy Quilt Journal Project: All it needs now is a border (or two, quilting and binding! Yeah, right, ALL it needs! LOL I have two other tops in the same stage of assembly --- requiring borders, quilting and binding. Think I'll get them done before the end of the year? Not likely! But at least I made so…

Since this was an International Hermit and Stitch Weekend, I did a lot of stitching (and a completion) that I reported about Sunday. Since Sunday, however, I did accomplish a few more things... Take a Stitch Tuesday 2014, Stitch 140, is the last for the year while Sharon B takes a well-deserved holiday hiatus. It wasn't a difficult stitch to do (although my cable chain doesn't look quite right) and so the Threaded Cable Chain is now on my latest "Page" of stitch samples: Here is…

I have lots of things I could have stitched on this weekend, most pressing of which were "Save the Stitches (I'm WAY behind in outlining and have over 10 blocks to fill in) and RYO "Bride" (Stuck on color four). And the Bead Journal piece for November is kitted but not started. But... the John Clayton "Golfer - Fairway" was ALMOST done and calling my name --- only his trousers and the backstitching were left as of Thursday night, so... Now he's done (except for the framing) and I can m…

You can tell it's winter here when the two girls (the two black ones at the back) let the boy (the brown one in the front) into the pile! And when the goldfinches are no longer gold: But still, this is early for snow here, and so while this looks pretty the roads are icy, the wind is gusting, and wind chills are really really nasty! Oh, and it's snowing again today! Good stitching weather though! I tend to retreat to my room and stitch with the television on…

I did stitch this week. Not a varied routine but I stitched and frogged and stitched and frogged on the John Clayton "Golfer - Fairway" and got all but a few stitches of the greens in page one and got started on the second green on page two. The golfer is even more apparent now: The greens aren't the grass greens shown on the chart's cover photo --- more olive and lime green. But the background is beginning to take shape!BJP Owl is kitted, but I didn't work on either of those *or* on "Save…

This was the week of the nasty sinus headache/head cold. And yesterday, my first not-OTC-drugs day, I overdid it: went to husband's high school class monthly breakfast, sat in his doctor's waiting room while he had a check-up with his GP, and got a haircut. The rest of the day was wasted --- I felt almost as bad as I did a week ago. So I'm back on OTC for the nighttime and hoping to recoup those losses by the weekend. Very hard to focus when your whole face hurts. Still, I did attempt (with s…

I did get some work done at guild retreat, although I forgot to take my handwork with me and ran out of things to do by dinner on the first full day! Didn't help that I was so very sleepy the entire time adn had very little focus... Anyway, here are the pieces I did work on... November block for Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2014: Blocks January - September for the 2014 Crazy Quilt Journal Project assembled (blocks for October and November are awaiting December for final assembly):…

Despite all the interference with stitching for the International Hermit and Stitch Weekend, I did manage to get motivated and get some pieces finished this week: October Bead Journal Project - "Bat Bird": Take a Stitch Tuesday #124 - Beaded Fern Stitch (shown here along with the two rows I did for #134, Fern Stitch): I also made a start on the sporting themed piece I want to enter in next year's fair, a John Clayton golf chart. Lots of colors, lots of vertical…

As I expected, to very early mornings on Thursday and Friday, working the phone banks for fundraising at the local public radio station, and a football game Saturday afternoon, pretty much wiped out my weekend stitching. Basically, all the time for stitching was Sunday when I: finished binding the challenge block for the quilt guild retreat this coming weekend: and got three-quarters of the way through the background on my October Bead Journal Project:

In the past week, I have completed five 4.5" square crazy blocks for swapping at the guild retreat (Technique taught by Mary Lee G at guild on the 9th of October. I have yet to master working with small pieces so my scraps are a little on the large side.): the October Crazy Quilt Journal block (I do much better using a foundation and a larger blocks size; these are 6" square finished): and the Take a Stitch Tuesday Stitch # 134 (Fern stitch). I played a little with adding beads t…

It's been a very non-productive week. Since last week, I have stitched more on the outline for "Bride": and the latest Take a Stitch Tuesday stitch (#132 - Kiko's Flower): But otherwise, what with a make-and-take card party last Wednesday night and out-of-country company since Friday, I've been too busy and too darned sleepy to focus on stitchery. I'm hoping that things will get better this week, although there are several things that will interfere: husband's monthly hig…

Well, I had hoped for more progress after the International Hermit and Stitch Weekend got me back on track with the RYO mandalas. And I would have done a lot better if that darned frog wasn't still in the house. Oh well, almost halfway through the outline for "Bride": And I did get in the newest Take A Stitch Tuesday assignment: #131, Beaded Lock Stitch. I rather like the look of this one and tried it two ways, with the beads stacked on the right and staggered on the left: The expe…

So very sad... Between quilt guild meeting on Thursday, Family Day at the University on Saturday, Girls Night Out on Tuesday, and the presence of a pair of HVAC installers in the house Monday and Tuesday to install a new furnace, air conditioner and associated accessories, the stitching week was shortened by three whole days! This wasn't helped by what I can only best describe as an anemic stitching mojo aggravated by feeling so very tired at having to be up early for…

Stitched on and completed this past week were: The "Dossier" block required of all quilt guild members (it's a log cabin with the "chimney" center signed and dated for when I joined the guild; as you can see, I'm four years late in getting it ready!): This is the second block I made, since I misread instructions and the first one was too large by far (it came out 7.5"!). I'm going to use it for my "practice fabric" for the "Seed Bead Botany" class... Both aren't square either -…

Not a lot to report since the International Hermit and Stitch Weekend check-in and stitch # 124 of TAST. I did get another quilt block assembled --- this one for the "Seed Bead Botany" online beading class: Other than that, in my project bag are: a Bead Journal Project atc/ornament to be finished, stitches to be put into the third RYO mandala ("Bride""), outlines for the latest "Save the Stitches" SAL blocks (##14 and 15) and fill stitches for those plus blocks 10 - 13. two new TAST…

Got sidetracked a lot this week. First, Saturday was taken up with taking my four stitched pieces to the fair reception and checking them in for the judging, supposed to take place Saturday and Sunday afternoons. So, on opening day (Monday), naturally, I went to see how I did. Would you believe - the building was closed to the public for JUDGING! I was/am furious - that visit cost me my free ticket of entry! Haven't been back since... Quilt Day is Thursday and I volunteered to help set up (an…

This month's theme question is "Do you start your holiday stitching this early? If so, what do you hope to accomplish this year?" In the past, I have done holiday ornaments (I can decorate two Christmas trees with the ornaments I have made in the last decade or two), and I have made two or three gifts (for people that I KNOW will appreciate the theme and the work that went into producing the item) in that same time period, but, as a rule, I don't do holiday stitchery. I don't stitch well t…

Little progress, slowed by a summer cold/cough. I did get the basic block for the June Crazy Quilt Journal Project assembled, no embroidery: And I stitched a LOT on the second Roll Your Own mandala "Reloaded", which is now less than one quarter of one color away from completion: But... and it's a big word, that one... There are, in my project bag a) four lessons in the Funk & Weber class on finishing (hemstitching) with only part of lesson one completed (and a new class is likel…