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I finally figured out how to “live blog” from my phone and stitch night seemed great! I’m working on my sheep: The other gals are working away on their projects: The best part is the chatting!! Tweet
I don’t know about you, but that sort of plug (“If you like “Downton Abbey” you’ll love…) for a book often leads to disappointment, but at a book club last night I found myself raving so much about this book that I realize in this case it lives up to expectations.
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This is my TAST (take a stitch Tuesday) stitch for this week, the motif is from Carol Samples book, “Treasury of Crazy Quilt Stitches” and I’m really pleased with it. I used basic cotton thread – variegated for the chains in the circles. I’m open for suggestions on how
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I already did the Week 7 stitch – detached chain – by accident. However, I found this little flower piece of felt and decided to take it further. My inspiration was this book “The Stitches of Creative Embroidery” – I have NO idea where I found it, but it has the most w
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I’m a crazy crazy avid reader (some say a little insane) – and so one of my hopes was to throw some of my book reviews on here that I post on Goodreads. So, relatively quilt related is the Shenandoah Album series by Emilie Richards – I had NO idea this was a series when [...]
I have started this post 3 times and what’s funny is I keep stitching on my seam and having to update it! ha ha! I had the actual stitch done a while ago and kept adding and updating – I meant to post in between and I just didn’t get around to it. First, the [...]
I have hopes that both of these projects will move quickly – first is this cute applique mini-quilt. I’ve been looking at these sheep for forever – here they are in mid-assembly: The second, I’ve already given you a peek at – I’m trying this new frame and so far d
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I like how this one turned out – the flower idea came from all of my fabulous idea books. I’d love to do some stitching on the bottom, but I think I might embellish the lace part first (you can see it at the bottom of the picture) and see how it intersects this stitch [...]
One of my Christmas presents this year was this fabulous book and so I’m finally getting ready to stitch with it. My experience with crewel has been elementary at best and I’m vowing to do a bit better with this one – so I bought a frame – just a cheap one from Joanne’s
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My word of the year (see my sidebar). I just ran across this quote and had to share: To develop patience, you need someone who willfully hurts you. Such people give us real opportunities to practice tolerance. They test our inner strength in a way that even our guru cannot. Basically patience protes
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