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2012 - A Year of Challenges - Week Forty-Eight
- 01 Dec 2012I pretty much spent this past week working on the Michael Powell "Home Sampler" although I did take a day off to do Color Through the Ages, another day off to do TAST and last night off to go see New York Polyphony in concert at the university (if you
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2012 - Week Forty-Nine
- 04 Dec 2012Buttonhole Eyelet Flower... NOT something I will come back to willingly. I just don't do stitches where my hands feel like they are ten times too large for the needle adn the stitches come out all wonky like this: Besides, I can't think of a single use
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Color Palette/Crazy Quilt Journal/Bead Journal Project Challenges, December 2012
- 07 Dec 2012The Color Palette Challenge threw a curve ball this month --- mono chromatic! It doesn't FIT with all the other eleven challenges and so I'm thinking I won't count it in my Quilt Journal or Bead Journal Project Challenges. Instead, I will search out
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2012 - A Year of Challenges - Week Forty-Nine
- 08 Dec 2012This week, in addition to the TAST already posted, I concentrated on Birds of a Feather and the December color palette/crazy quilt journal/bead journal project square. Given that the color palette challenge this month didn't quite "fit" with my other
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Mittens & Mini-Socks - Sea and Sky...
- 10 Dec 2012A study in how thread choice and thread color can change the look of a simple wave bargello pattern... and I used DMC 4230 for the "sky" and DMC 909, 930 and 3756 for the "sea"...
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"Birds of a Feather"...
- 11 Dec 2012"Birds of a Feather is complete! I was beginning to think it wa going to drag on forever (I checked and the first stitches were put in in July!). So here it is, a design by Yvonne Horn of Papillon Creations, puclished in "The Gift of Stitching", Issue
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2012 - Week Fifty
- 13 Dec 2012Here is my take on the berry stitch --- I made up a few "forget-me-not" type flowers in perle cotton:
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2012 - A Year of Challenges - Week Fifty
- 15 Dec 2012Well, aside from the finishes posted earlier this week (TAST, "Birds of a Feather" and Mittens & Mini-Socks "Sea and Sky"), I have no works in progress to show you... I haven't touched the Michael Powell "Home Sampler" since Novemebr 30 so it's on the
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International Hermit & Stitch Weekend, December 2012
- 17 Dec 2012Well, I promised that I would work on Michael Powell's "Home Sampler" and I did. Not having touched it since November 30, when it looked like this: I think I made some good progress over the weekend, despite a spate of Christmas shopping with husband:
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2012 - A Year of Challenges - Week Fifty-One
- 22 Dec 2012There was a TAST for this week but I haven't started it yet, and there was a Color Through the Ages piece but I haven't started it either. Instead, I worked away on the Michael Powell "Home Sampler". Did pretty well until last night when I had to rip out
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Color Through the Ages, lesson 10, is completed!
- 23 Dec 2012It's called "Sweden" and there were two color palette possiblities. Since I'm burned out on blue, at least for now, I went with a green version: The threads used were DMC blanc as background, DMC 498 as the red "Accent" and various shades of light
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2012 - Week Fifty-One
- 24 Dec 2012And the last stitch for 2012 - the Knotted Cable Chain. I THOUGHT I had this one down but it sure doesn't look like the samples. For some reason, the large loop of the cable slipped down into the twisted chain. No clue what I did wrong... but after
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WIPocalypse - December, 2012
- 28 Dec 2012The last WIPocalypse of the year and I have a little to share...Finishes were • the Take a Stitch Tuesday stitches: Arrowhead, Buttonhole Eyelet Flower, Berry Stitch, and Knotted Cable Chain stitches • The December Color Palette
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2012 - A Year of Challenges - Week Fifty-Two
- 29 Dec 2012This past week saw the first snow to fall here in over 300 days! We got about half-an-inch on Christmas Eve, two inches on Boxing Day and as much as another inch last night. It looks a winter wonderland outside! From the front door... And from the back
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I didn't think I would get it done this year but...
- 30 Dec 2012Here is "Home Sampler", designer Michael Powell stitched on 27-ct even weave (antique White) using 32 colors (and 11 blends) of Anchor floss. Completed December 29, 2012. I have a piece picked out for my next start --- it's a blackwork Mandala by
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End of Year Wrap-up, and plans for 2013
- 31 Dec 2012I'm not happy with my completion rate in 2012. I had several, but all but 6 were small needlepoint stitch exercise pieces (I was working several Janet Perry exercises: learn-a-stitch stockings, the Bargello Club, the Stash Busting Club, Mini-Socks &
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