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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week One
- 07 Jan 2013Over on Cross Stitch Crazy, it seems the theme for 2013 will be "reconnecting" and reconnecting with my cross stitchery is really in my goals for 2013. In addition, I want to get some finishing done, to bring down the size of that stack of stitchery which
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Two
- 14 Jan 2013I didn't get as much done as I had hoped this week --- mix in a damaged rotator cuff (i'm on massive doses of ibuprofen in the hopes that it will allow it to heal without further intervention) , Girls Night Out on Tuesday, quilt guild on Thursday, and a
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Three (and IH&S Weekend)
- 21 Jan 2013This International Hermit & stitch Weekend coincided with the Cross Stitch Crazy week-long Stitchathon ... AND weekend house guests. Still, I managed to squeeze in 2295 stitches over the week, 752 of which were on the weekend and resulted in the
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Some January Completions - a wrap-up
- 24 Jan 2013First completion this month was the sock from Janet Perry's "Mittens & Mini-Socks". It's called "Jewel" and is posted here... Second was the companion mitten for "Jewel", completed January 21, 2013: Also completed on January 21 was the January
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While avoiding all that backstitch in the "Red Thai Mandala"
- 25 Jan 2013(funny, I usually like backstitch in blackwork but the light oclor of that gray is driving me nuts) another completion of a small piece... It's lesson 11 in the "Color Through the Ages" twinchies by Janet Perry, and uses DMC 310, 3706, 5282 and E677. I
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WIPocalypse 2013 - January 26
- 27 Jan 2013This month's "theme" is to introduce myself, my projects, and any goals I have for the year. Born in New Jersey, I grew up in Southeastern Ohio and attended university at Bowling Green State University (B.Sci. in biological science, 1964), University of
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Four
- 28 Jan 2013What I have to show here isn't a whole lot different from what I reported for WIPocalypse but there has been progress in two projects... The inner border of "Red Thai Mandala" is now complete and that pesky hard-to-see DMC318 blackwork is finished~ YAY
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2103 (Inverted Feather Stitch)
- 30 Jan 2013Here is my version of inverted feather stitch... Two rows in a variegated perle (#5) on linen...
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Five
- 04 Feb 2013One completion this week... the February block for the 2013 Crazy Quilt Journal Project: And two WIPs... "Red Thai Mandala": and the February 2013 Bead Journal butterfly (the white areas will be beads...): Doesn't look like much but those beads
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Raised Herringbone Stitch
- 10 Feb 2013Here are my two attempts at Raised Herringbone:
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Six
- 11 Feb 2013I only stitched two days this week --- Girls' Night Out the concert (which was wonderful: Toledo Symphony adn combined Bowling Green State University choruses doing Carmina Burana) pretty much scuppered Tuesday and Friday nights, respectively; and
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2013 - Take a Stitch Tuesday - Triangular Feather Stitch
- 14 Feb 2013Another stitch I really enjoyed once I started on it:
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Bead Journal Project 2013 - February
- 16 Feb 2013My February butterfly (I'm calling it "I Heart...") is done! Encrusted with two shades of red, one translucent pink and opaque white seed beads, body in red bugle beads and antenna stitched in three strands of white embroidery floss. I added two heart
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The mini-sock called "Quince"
- 17 Feb 2013This is the latest in Janet Perry's Mittens & Mini-Socks class: "Quince"! The threads used were DMC cotton floss: 335, 677, 420, 677 and variegated 4050. Mitten to follow...
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Seven
- 18 Feb 2013This week sucked, stitchery-wise, as there were all sorts of "interruptions"! Monday waiting for the furnace inspector to come, Tuesday "Girls Night Out", Thursday quilt guild meeting, Friday an appointment with a general surgeon about my esophageal
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2013 Take a Stitch Tuesday - Stitches 53 and 54
- 19 Feb 2013Stitch 53 is the Herringbone Square and Stitch 54 is the Laced Herringbone Square. I decided to make a border line, using the laced herringbone square every other stitch:
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Eight
- 25 Feb 2013This week has been focused on Take a Stitch Tuesday (Stitches 53 and 54 posted earlier), Red Thai Mandala (where the outer border is about half-finished: My contribution to the "Encrusted Crazy Quilting" class - week two, seam treatments: and a base
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WIPoccalypse Report for Februaury, 2103
- 26 Feb 2013I should have done this yesterday but the entire day was basically given up to an esophageal endoscopy (to convince the insurance company that I really DO need to take meds for my esophageal reflux! Here's hoping as it wasn't a pleasant procedure!)...
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 55
- 27 Feb 2013It is called the buttonholed herringbone stitch: and I'm not totally happy with the outcome --- it isn't in smooth curves like the example and tends to stand up like chenille after a bad washing! Sooo, I've clearly done SOMETHING wrong here but I
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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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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Thirteen
- 01 Apr 2013A week of "catch-up and I actually got to a point where I was caught up on EVERYTHING but "Sumptuous Surface Embroidery! I played with a design for part two (color) of the exercise: The fabric I chose is an overdyed from Silkweaver which I have had
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Fourteen
- 08 Apr 2013This week's "report" is more of an unraveling than a wrap-up...Thanks to house guests on Tuesday/Wednesday (one can't just run off to one's stitching place when there are people to entertain, and since these people were welcome guests, I was even less
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch #61 and Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2013 - April
- 13 Apr 2013Even though I had a nasty cold, I could concentrate on free-stitchery so I managed to get two pieces done so far this week. First was my approach to the TAST stitch 61 - the Up-and-Down Feathered Buttonhole Stitch: I even attempted a beaded version
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Fifteen
- 15 Apr 2013A busy week this week, trying to clear up lots of little ods and ends and I think I did pretty good with my list. I completed two Take a Stitch Tuesday "assignments",and my April Crazy Quilt Journal Project block, both posted earlier this week. But
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 62, and a Mitten
- 16 Apr 2013Tuesday's stitch was the Raised Cross Stitch Flower (AKA Whipped Cross Stitch) and here is my sampler, using three different threads (from left to right, DMC six-stranded floss, DMC #5 Perle, and a boucle baby-weight knitting yarn): The "Flip" mitten,
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Sixteen and IHSW for April 2013
- 22 Apr 2013Despite having a week full of obstacles to stitchery (dilated eyes on Tuesday, absurdly early risings on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday), all of which made it impossible to focus properly on anything requiring counting and acute vision, I did manage to
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WIPocalypse 2013 - April 25...
- 26 Apr 2013For April the themes were: Designer – Mirabilia, Style – Samplers, Colors – Blue and Orange. Well, I do have some Mirablia charts but I haven't stitched one, ever. I do have some sampler charts, but I haven't been into samplers for a while so there are
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 63
- 27 Apr 2013Here is my take on the Scroll Stitch, using #5 perle (purple), six strands of DMC cotton floss (dark red) and boucle baby yarn (pale pink): I did have tension issues on this one, especially when I neared the end of a strand of thread, so the "scroll"
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Seventeen
- 29 Apr 2013Not a lot to report on that hasn't already been posted. The only thing I have worked on since completed the TAST assignment has been my April BJP butterfly: Sadly, what with eye surgery today (and next Monday as well), I suspect April will NOT be
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 64
- 02 May 2013Given that my eye isn't at top focus yet (it was still dilated after 48 hours *and* it's flashing/shimmering when light hits my peripheral vision since the lens hasn't settled in yet), I didn't do much in the way of stitching (or posting). I did complete
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Eighteen
- 09 May 2013My right eye finally began to clear up Thursday, late in that it no longer was dilated. But I was still a little fuzzy around the edges, vision-wise and brain-function wise until Sunday. Of course, my left eye is now fuzzy around the edges (although it
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Nineteen
- 13 May 2013To be honest, I can't think what I did this week: The concert/luncheon with the Toledo Symphony's wind quintet was on a Tuesday, as was a post-op follow-up with my optometrist. I went to quilt guild Thursday because my husband agreed to drive me (I don't
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty and International Hermit and Stitch Weekend for May 2013
- 20 May 2013My last week on drops for the left eye and an eye exam has resulted in new glasses (should be in in a week or so) which should solve any additional problems I have (except for the peripheral vision shimmer which still sometimes strikes without warning).
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 67
- 23 May 2013Fancy Hem Stitch --- one colorway, two ways! I think this would be fun to play with with different threads, beads, etc... but I used perle cotton because that was what was at hand.
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WIPocalypse 2013 - May 24
- 24 May 2013This month's themes were ... Designer – Blackbird Designs, Style – Humor, Colors – Purple and Brown And I don't have a single project in ANY of these themes. And what with eye surgery on April 29 and May 6, and subsequent recovery time (got new
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty-One
- 27 May 2013With my new glasses (fitted on Wednesday), and the left eye still bothering me a little, I decided to do something that didn't need a lot of "focus" --- I stitched up the last seven "base" blocks for Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2103: And I plugged away
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 68
- 30 May 2013Here's my take on the Slipped Detached chain stitch --- three ways:
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty-Two
- 03 Jun 2013I did get in a couple of days of beading but it's hard to get remotivated after having laid off the needle for so long... My May butterfly is progressing but clearly won't be done in May! The June Crazy quilt block is "built" but not stitched on,
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 69
- 06 Jun 2013This week's stitch took me a while to decipher but once I experimented with the double chain, I worked out what to do and here is my attempt at a Buttonholed Double Chain: What I discovered is that a) you have to watch to be certain you don't twist the
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Bead Journal Project 2013 - May
- 09 Jun 2013Better late than never, I suppose, and the colors didn't work out quite like I had hoped ( was aiming for daffodils but the oranges didn't quite mesh), but here is my May butterfly:
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty-three
- 10 Jun 2013I finally got in some stitching this week. My eyes sort of lose focus after a couple of hours, though and so I couldn't do long stretches of stitching. But the flashing and aching eye muscles appear to be a thing of the past (knock on wood). Besides
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A completion!
- 12 Jun 2013And in only two days! The Casey Buonaugurio design, "The Taco Sampler", on 32 ct pale yellow linen with DMC floss: The major problem --- the white (Sour Cream and Onions) is too close in value to the linen to show up well.
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 70
- 16 Jun 2013Crested Chain Stitch: I had trouble keeping the stitch straight and of the same width down the chain but at least I figured out how to do it (after frogging it three times!). I could see using this as a crazy quilt seam treatment if I can ever get it
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty-Four
- 17 Jun 2013Besides catching up with TAST, finishing the piece for the fair ("The Taco Sampler") and taking nine finished pieces to the framer on Saturday, I did squeeze in some stitching as well this past week. I managed to get the main part of the outer borders
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 71
- 23 Jun 2013The stitch for this week was the Bullion Buttonhole stitch... My take on this stitch is here: It LOOKS like a buttonhole stitch with bullion knots on the vertical spines but... not totally sure I did it right. Oh well... This week is a break week so
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WIPocalypse - June 23, 2013 (the Super Moon)
- 23 Jun 2013This month's themes were: Designer – Teresa Wentzler, Style – Summer, Colors – Black and Green ... and again, I don't have a single piece in progress that fits in with those themes. Also, I still seem to be in recovery from that eye surgery as my eyes
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International Hermit and Stitch weekend, June 2013
- 24 Jun 2013I did stitch this weekend... I finished Stitch 71 for TAST on Friday and the June block for the Crazy Quilt Journal Project on Saturday. Then I started on the 12 x 12 block I hope to enter in the county fair next month in the category called "Pink"...
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty-Five
- 24 Jun 2013A week of attempting to catch up *and* get ready for the fair. It helped that this weekend also coincided with WIPocalypse and International Hermit and Stitch Weekend for June... so I got two things completed (TAST #71 and June Crazy Quilt Journal Project
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty-Six
- 01 Jul 2013I don't know where this week went! I KNOW I stitched but I don't have a lot to show for it. I seem to have gotten sidetracked into reading and sleeping late (because I can't get to sleep until late.) Oh, and the local HOA Girls' Night Out on Thursday
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty-Seven
- 08 Jul 2013Gosh, am I ever sick of rain! 14 out of the last 16 days its rained at east a little, leading us to the 8th wettest June in local history (but July is still behind on water, possibly because the airport met station is in one of those "scattered shower"
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Crazy Quilt Journal Project 2013
- 10 Jul 2013Got the July block finished on Monday - yet another monochromatic red block!
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013- Stitch #73
- 14 Jul 2013Here is a close-up of TAST 2013 Stitch 73, the Portuguese Stem Stitch: and here is page 3 of TAST 2013, which includes, in no particular order, Buttonhole Bar, Coral, Fancy Hem, Slipped Detached Chain, Buttonholed Double Chain, Crested Chain, Bullion
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty-Eight
- 16 Jul 2013Progress is slow this week. I did get the weekly TAST finished and the July CQJP block as well... but ontherwise, only a few beads were stitched on the June BJP butterfly: Coming up in the near future is submittal to the fair (July 27,) Quilt Day at
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Twenty-Nine
- 22 Jul 2013Only a couple of nights beading on the June butterfly this past week --- and not a lot to show for it: Spent my free time watching the entire series 1 of "Endeavour" from start to finish... and am chuffed that there will be a series 2! But it sure
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International Hermit and Stitch Weekend, July 19 - 21, 3103
- 22 Jul 2013I hate to admit it but most of this weekend was taken up watching the entire series 1 of "Endeavour". As my husband said, it's addictive! And I LOVE that theme music.
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Wipocalypse, July 22, 2013.
- 22 Jul 2013This month's themes are : Designer – Glendon Place, Style – Animals, Colors – Red and Yellow. Well, I have stitched two Glendon Place designs, but none of their designs are in my WIP bad. Similarly, no animals, unless you count the itty bitty blackwork
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch #74
- 26 Jul 2013This week's stitch was the Zig-Zag Chain - a fairly easy stitch which will come in handy the next tine I want to couch rick rack! I like this one! Here it is --- the start of the next "page" in my TAST sample book:
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Thirty
- 29 Jul 2013Saturday, I took my fair entries to the check-in booth, and they were either judged yesterday or will be today. SO I will be able to find out tomorrow, on the fair's official opening day, what, if anything, I won. Otherwise, the only stitching I did
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The County Fair Results Are In...
- 02 Aug 2013Knowing the issues I had with many of my entries (I knew that some didn't really fit in with the category I entered them in and others had some major technique issues which could result in them placing out of the running) , I held off until today to
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - #75
- 04 Aug 2013This week's TAST stitch was the woven zig-zag chain. Basically, you weave thread in and out of the zig zag chain we did last week! I had some tension issues on my chain which showed up in the weaving but I see where I went wrong and I like the look. This
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Thirty-One
- 05 Aug 2013Other than going to the fair to work quilt day and check on my needlework, all I managed to accomplish this week was: purchase of the necessary stretcher bars for L auraJ. Perrin's "Purple Daisy", which arrived this week, complete with the first weeks
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch #76
- 08 Aug 2013The "standard" Vandyke stitch is on the right top. I played around with this stitch a little, varying the lengths of the "barbs" to create different "shapes": Sure does use up a LOT of thread! But I like the possibilities of creating a sort of ribbon
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Thirty-Two
- 12 Aug 2013I just couldn't face that June beaded butterfly so I decided to try a change of pace, especially since I was traveling this past weekend (went to a stamp expo with two friends) and needlepoint is easier for me when traveling, Of course, I didn't count on
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 77
- 18 Aug 2013Here are a scattering of woven cross stitches, this week's TAST stitch: If I were better at random, this would make a great background using thinner thread than the perle cotton I used here, I think.
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Thirty-Three
- 19 Aug 2013Wednesday and Thursday were no-stitching days (we were either on the way to, in, or on the way back from Stratford, Ontario to see some Festival plays) and Friday was a "recover-from-the-bus-trip" day, I didn't really stitch much this past week. It
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Wipocalypse, August 20, 2013.
- 20 Aug 2013WIPocalypse (August 20) This month's themes were: Designer – Long Dog, Style – Smalls, Colors – Blue and Red. I have never done a Long Dog design. Don't think I even own one.I suppose my TAST, BJP and Purple Daisy could be considered "smalls" --- for me,
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 78
- 21 Aug 2013My version of cloud filling, stitch #78 for Take a Stitch Tuesday (TAST), in two shades of purple #5 perle cotton:
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August 2013 Crazy Quilt Journal Project Block
- 24 Aug 2013I put in a few hours on Friday night to get this August Crazy Quilt Journal block done: It looks unbalanced to me (that peacock is too "horizontal, maybe?) but maybe, when assembled with it's 2103 compatriots, that will cease to be an issue. Not
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"Purple Daisy" with messy beading
- 25 Aug 2013Another August finish: This was an email class by designer (and instructor) Laura J. Perrin.
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2013 - Reconnect to My Stitchery, Week Thirty-Four and IHSW
- 26 Aug 2013Last week, I was fighting the cough to beat all coughs, but after my WIPocalypse summary showed how little I had accomplished in the past month, and with International Hermit and Stitch Weekend being this past weekend, I determined to get some finishes
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Take a Stitch Tuesday 2013 - Stitch 79
- 29 Aug 2013This week's stitch was the Chained Cross Stitch and here is my version:
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