tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20926958195724341582024-02-20T19:30:01.335-06:00The Southpaw StitcherSouthpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.comBlogger353125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-79233542634729909192020-06-28T16:09:00.000-05:002020-06-28T16:09:29.026-05:00My Trips to the Framer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My framer reopened a few weeks ago, and I had five finished pieces that had been just waiting for that day! I decided to take them in one at a time, however, because we've been having a lot of protests in the area and, quite frankly, I figured it would be bad enough to lose one piece, let alone five! They (father/daughter framing team) understood. But my pieces are all back home safe and sound now, so here they are:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The first piece that I had framed was <i>Spring Robin</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by Widgets and Wool Primitives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I didn't get it in time for this spring, but I'll have it next year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Next up, <i>Rainforest Birds</i>, my Charley Harper piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My framer actually took this piece home with her</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">one night for safekeeping.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can't say enough nice things about these people!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is my "Covid" piece that I designed myself.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I just took a quote that I liked,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and added some motifs from a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">folk art embroidery book that I've had for decades.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did it the hard way,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">scratching the chart out on graph paper by hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">since I don't have any cross stitch software.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is my favorite piece;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">they couldn't have found a more perfect frame!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Pandora's Box</i>, a freebie from Blackwork Journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The photo doesn't do it justice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last but not least, I decided to double-frame</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this needlepoint piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The canvas is by Eye Candy</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and the design's name is self-evident.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was really surprised when I went to pick it up</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and they said, "No charge."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I do give them a lot of business, but I wasn't expecting that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These folks are the best!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And finally, a small pillow finish...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...from the Little Dove's Year series of monthly patterns.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What do I have in the works now?</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So glad you asked, because I have more photos...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm actually done stitching this one,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but it still needs to be pillowfied,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hopefully before July.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Little House Needleworks, <i>Freedom</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Plum Street Samplers,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Serial Bowl Collection, Lesson Two</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's another future pillow.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once I've finished "painting" the house,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there's a huge bowl of flowers on the roof,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and a large swath of grass on the bottom,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so I've got a bit more to go.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">There are five charts in this series,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">and they all come with over-dyed threads,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">but the suggestion is to use one strand</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">because if you use two strands you might run out.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I do use two strands and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I've had good luck so far not running out,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">except with the red in this piece.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I was able to stitch all the letters except one,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">and believe me, I used every scrap of thread.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Since the kit is five years old,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I figured I might not be able to match</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">the color, even with the same thread.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">So I pawed through my stash first and,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">lo and behold, I found an almost exact match</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">with a different color from a different manufacturer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">And since both threads are over-dyed,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">no one, not even DH "the color guy" as I call him,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">can tell the difference.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">So you might keep that in mind</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">if you run out of an over-dyed thread in the</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a workshop that I took through my </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">local ANG chapter last year,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jennifer Riefenberg's <i>Pumpkin Patch</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's a lot of laying of threads involved</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which I'm not fond of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so this will take a while, I think.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is one of the 35 projects in the book</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Splendid Samplers to Cross Stitch" by Chris Rankin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's called <i>Caribbean Sampler</i> in the book;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I call it <i>Southwest Sampler</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love the rainbow bands between the squares.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last but not least, this is my start on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>And Heaven and Nature Sing</i> by Kathy Barrick.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I usually like to stitch seasonal pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">closer to the season, but since I'm using</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the called-for silks, summer stitching it is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because silk catches on my dry, flaky fingertips</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the winter and drives me <strike>crazy</strike> crazier.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The linen photographed blue</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(and a lovely blue it is)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but in real life it's light gray.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the wreath is stitched in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">two shades of green.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's it from here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for stopping by.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-82880626925041746922020-05-03T12:45:00.000-05:002020-05-04T09:57:00.363-05:00I Love Charley<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Harper, that is. In case you're not familiar with him, Charley Harper was an American Modernist artist, best known for his highly stylized wildlife prints. Luckily for me, many of those prints are available as painted needlepoint canvases, and I have two of them. I have a finish on my first one...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is called <i>Rainforest Birds</i>. Painted canvases alone can be quite pricey. I saved a little money by doing this piece almost entirely in DMC #3 Pearl Cotton, which I like to work with. Some needlepointers may look down their noses at that, but I don't care. Rainbow Gallery specialty threads can add a lot to the cost, and there are a few of them that I avoid like the plague (or should I say Covid-19, hah!), such as Neon Rays, a rayon ribbon. I did the eyes in black #12 Kreinik, but the sparkle doesn't show up on the photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are some close-ups:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some canvases have stitch guides, but if this one did, I wasn't aware of it, so I wound up choosing which stitches to use. At first, it was a very daunting task, but I had a little book called "Stitches to Go" by Suzanne Howren and Beth Robertson that has diagrams for hundreds of stitches. I relied on it a lot.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I decided to do a different stitch for each color. In retrospect, that may have been overkill. I did the background all in basketweave. A lot of needlepointers avoid basketweave because it takes a long time to stitch and can be boring, but I view it as zen. When I couldn't decide on a stitch to use, I did a bunch of basketweave, a no-brainer. That worked out well because once I was done with the birds and flowers, I had only a little corner of basketweave to finish.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some of the stitches I used were: brick, byzantine, milanese, French knots, jacquard, diagonal mosaic, scotch, reverse scotch, kalem, nobuko and serendipity. Don't you love those names! I did the little guy at the top in basketweave because he was so small and far in the background, and probably because I didn't want to make any more stitch decisions, if I'm being honest.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, that's it from here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for listening to my blatherings.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And thanks for visiting!</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-47451533240621198262020-04-26T19:04:00.000-05:002020-04-26T19:04:28.773-05:00Pandora's Box<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We have a finish!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Pandora's Box,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a freebie from the very generous Elizabeth Almond</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of Blackwork Journey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know how you notice things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">after you take a photograph</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that you didn't notice</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">while stitching a piece for months on end?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, I've just noticed that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the first and last whitework squares in the top row</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">are not outlined like all the rest are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I think I'll outline them before</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">this piece is framed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll have lots of time to do that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">since who knows when "nonessential" businesses</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">like my framer will be allowed to open.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, here are some close-ups...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do love this piece, but I had to do a lot of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">thinking with each new square.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I will be happy to get back to some</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">good old mindless cross stitch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And there's nothing wrong with that!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's it for now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for dropping by...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and hang in there!</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-34488248069455096522020-03-29T16:01:00.000-05:002020-03-29T16:01:24.152-05:00Stitching While S.I.P.<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello, My Fellow Shut-Ins!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course, the S.I.P. in the title refers to sheltering in place, which most of us are doing right now. So while I have a captive audience, I'll take this opportunity to show you some finishes and also what I've been working on lately. Let's start with the finishes...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love the robins on this pillow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">March is the month when you start to see them again</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">around these parts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From Heart in Hand's <i>Square Dance</i> series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Jeanette Douglas taught this class last year</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at a retreat in Bloomington, Indiana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I just recently got these two pieces back from the finisher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">About five years ago, Plum Street Samplers </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">came out with a series of <i>Sampler Lesson</i> bowl fillers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I, of course, bought all the charts (with thread).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the second one that's completed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And yet another March pillow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is from the <i>Little Dove's Year</i> leaflet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the chart, the fourth sheep was on a hill</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that was floating above the ground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I decided to extend the hill downward</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and backstitch the month </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">over the cross stitching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now for the WIPs...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm close to a finish on this Charley Harper piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just a couple of sections on the large bird and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a small piece of the background need to be stitched.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The name of the piece is <i>Rainforest Birds.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm getting close on this one as well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a freebie (!) from Blackwork Journey</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">entitled <i>Pandora's Box.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In addition to the blackwork motifs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">there are boxes with cross stitch,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pulled work and pattern darning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This book is from 1995,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and I came across the cover piece on Instagram.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was love at first sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are a lot of enablers on Instagram!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I found the book for sale on Etsy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">and started kitting it up right away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Here is my start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">It was somewhat of a challenge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The book was in perfect condition,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">but the printed chart was so small</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">as to be unreadable.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">So I enlarged it on my copier/printer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The model was stitched with Anchor yarn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">which doesn't necessarily correspond </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">to DMC colors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I matched colors from my fairly large </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">stash</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">of DMC floss to the photo as best I could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, the chart did not have every tenth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">line bolded, and no stitch count was given.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">So, after manually counting and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">marking every tenth line, I was ready to go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I know that two empty boxes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">are not very exciting, but just wait.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Here is my final WIP, <i>Spring Robin</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">from Widgets and Wool Primitives.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The chart was gifted to me by <a href="https://averyclaire.org/">Averyclaire</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a couple of years ago. Thanks, K!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fabric is 20-count "Summer Sunset" Lugana.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So what is on my staying-at-home horizon?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More small pillows, of course.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a very fun painted canvas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that I plan on starting when</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Rainforest Birds</i> is completed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And after that, who knows?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks, as always, for visiting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Stay well.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-63161113687111590002020-02-17T22:30:00.000-06:002020-02-17T22:30:06.728-06:00Diligence<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a while, so Happy New Year and Happy Ground Hog's Day as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My large sampler project has been finished for a while, so I thought it was about time that I showed it here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The saying at the bottom of the project</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(which I love)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is the rather long name of this piece</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by Needle Work Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The size is 406 by 95 stitches!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My awesome framer finished it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in record time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's hard to tell from the photo,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but the frame is a dark blue,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which matches the DMC 939</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that probably looks like black in this photo.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm extremely happy with the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">way this piece was finished!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here are some close-ups...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The gold used for the three leaves in the dark blue bars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and also the filling in the bottom "chain"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was recommended for many of the motifs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As you can see, it wouldn't have shown up,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next time, we'll take a look at</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks, as always, for stopping by.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-92095301327279097292019-12-31T14:08:00.000-06:002019-12-31T14:08:28.635-06:00Goodbye, 2019<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's been a while since I've posted, so I thought I'd scoot in here before the end of the year/decade to catch you up. The stitching never stops here at Southpaw headquarters, so here is the latest update.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A trio of pillows made an appearance. First up from the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heart in Hand <i>Square Dance</i> series: December.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Not my best finish (or photo), but there it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one turned out a bit nicer:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Be Merry</i> from Chessie and Me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fabric that it's sitting on is the backing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finally, just in time for January,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another one from the Heart In Hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Square Dance</i> series.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those designs are so stinking cute,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love them all!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You may remember this start</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from my last post:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, this has gotten some love...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You'll notice that I added a finish date here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The last time I did that on a project,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I had to rip it out because I was </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a little overconfident</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in my speed as a stitcher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But with this project, I think it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the first quarter of 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We'll see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is <i>In All Things be Exceedingly Diligent</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was going to be the start of my blackwork piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The framework that you see there is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the four-sided stitch (a pulled stitch).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ground was 32-count linen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But as I arrived at this point,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I recalled all the problems I had</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with my blackwork project on linen last year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a little too diaphanous to hide</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">even the shortest thread carried where</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">there's no stitching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Did I learn nothing from that project?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Apparently not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So I decided to trash what I'd done and start over.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those are a lot of four-sided stitches,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I needed to cut my losses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's where I'm at now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have just a tick more of the four-sided stitches completed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">than are shown in the first photo,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and three of the areas are filled in.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is 32-count Jobelan (an evenweave),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and it's working out much better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The design is <i>Pandora's Box</i> from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elizabeth Almond's <i>Blackwork Journey</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It incorporates not only blackwork and pulled work,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but also cross stitch, Assisi (a type of cross stitch),</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and pattern darning.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There are two sets of instructions:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">one for Aida and one for evenweave.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, she even specifies evenweave!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And it's a free pattern!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She is one of the most generous people I know.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">(Well, I really don't <u>know</u> her, </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I know of her.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">She has all sorts of free charts </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on her website </span><a href="http://www.blackworkjourney.co.uk/freebies1.shtml" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">here</a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Check it out, if you're interested in blackwork.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My Charley Harper piece has been</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a bit neglected.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's a little hard to tell right off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">what's been stitched on a painted canvas,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I've got one flower, two birds</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the tail of a third bird stitched,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as well as a bunch of the basketweave background.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A lot of needlepointers of my acquaintance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">would not choose the basketweave stitch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">as the background,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I actually enjoy doing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's very Zen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last but not least, here is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a January design from Prairie Schooler's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A Prairie Year</i> leaflet...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The chart shows the clock at 11:45,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I figured that that was still December,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so I changed the time!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is on a fabric called Molino,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the reverse of the fabric is a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">variegated light blue.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd never seen anything like that before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Weird!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd show you, but there's no sun today,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the colors are not photographing well at all.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is actually a little more purple than it looks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Alrighty then, we are all caught up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Molly wants to wave a paw at you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">one last time this year...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From the looks of things,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">she will not be awake at midnight to greet 2020.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a safe and happy New Year's holiday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We'll chat again next year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for stopping by.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-82076135496745858402019-10-30T15:07:00.001-05:002019-10-30T15:07:12.980-05:00UFO No. 3<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At last, another one of my UFO's is finished! You may remember this little project in my UFO list from earlier this year...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was the progress I had made on a reversible cross stitch cyberclass piece from 2015. Well, I got bogged down with the instructions and gave up on the piece. This year I figured I should just finish it using the regular cross stitch technique. So now I present...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...my two new coasters? Yes, these two were meant to be coasters. But when I went online and looked for small plexiglass coaster covers, the largest I could find was 3" x 3", and these are 3.75" x 3.75". They are kind of cute, so I think I'll just set them out and see if anyone uses them. It's fine if they do; I'm just glad to finally be done with them.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Continuing on with my Year of the Pillows theme, the small Halloween piece that I mentioned in my last post was finished and pillowfied:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">This is from Prairie Schooler's <i>Hocus Pocus</i> leaflet. I love all the designs in that leaflet and I plan on doing more of them--probably not this year, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">And here is another recent pillow finish...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is my favorite design from the Little Dove's Year leaflet. I have seen many falling-leaf designs for October and even September, but around here, most of our leaves fall in November, although most of our trees turn a single color and not many, like the one above! It's artistic license, I guess.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My last finish is not embroidery and came from a workshop given my by quilt guild:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We all got 24" x 24" pieces of plywood to paint a barn quilt! It was a great make-it-and-take-it class; everyone left with a finished piece. OK, we're pretty urban around here so most of us don't have barns, but I do have a shed in the backyard - which I would <i>not</i> hide this on. It's going to go up on the front of the house.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, last time I mentioned that I was just about out of WIPs... well, I fixed that problem! The weird thing about this batch of WIPs is that I have four needlepoint pieces and only one cross stitch. Usually, I have more cross stitch pieces than needlepoint, and I like to keep the number at or below four total WIPs. You'll see why I have five in a minute.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am sooo close to a finish on this one, just the little border which I've already started. This was a design that was created and taught by a member of my EGA chapter quite a few years ago. I had it kitted up all this time. I think the reason that it sat around was that she had stitched the model in all white, which is fine because the textures of the piece are highlighted that way, but it wasn't calling to me. I like this design a lot, and it was fun to stitch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is from a workshop hosted by my ANG chapter that I took this past weekend. Jennifer Riefenberg is the designer who taught the class. I like that she gives her students lots of time to actually stitch on whatever areas they want to in class, which is not how most other teachers I've encountered do it. Well, she did want us to at least start on the large pumpkin, which was the most challenging part. And between the compensation and the exotic threads used, yes it was. But almost all of it is behind me now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the gorgeous model that she stitched.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hope mine turns out half as nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Pumpkin Patch</i> is the name of the design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been working on <i>Rainforest Birds</i> for a little while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a Charley Harper painted canvas,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and I find myself spending way more time</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">puzzling over which stitch to use in each section</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">than the actual stitching of said section.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it's a fun, learning experience.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Tomorrow's Heirlooms ladies</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">attended the Pumpkin Patch workshop, too,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">and they brought me a goodie bag</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">with this in it, all kitted up...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">If it had been anything else,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">it would have gone in the voluminous</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Soon But Not Now pile,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">but I had been itching to get my hands on this one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">ever since I first saw it, so...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">...yesterday, I couldn't resist; I had to start it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I'm hoping to get it finished by Thanksgiving</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">(it falls a little later this year).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">There's a surprising amount of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">basketweave in it, so we'll see.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Last but not least,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">which has stalled a bit lately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The design is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;"><i>In All Things Be Exceedingly Diligent</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">by Needlework Press.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I don't have a photo of the finished piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">It's very, very wide, and it contains</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">several alphabets.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that's it from here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">The meteorologists are predicting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">nasty weather, including snow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">for Halloween.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Although it's a day early,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I'll leave you with this...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My happy, chubby bird is finished!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Jolly Robin</i> came as a kit from Bothy Threads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I love the speckled aida that came with it;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it was fun to stitch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My framer finished him in record time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This Laura J. Perin piece,<i> Nordic Valentine</i>,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was attempting to attach the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">called-for beads with invisible thread,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">when I thought to myself</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">"Life's too short."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It looks fine without the beads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the second piece from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Jeannette Douglas' </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Flower Tray set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm going to find someone to make it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">into a pincushion drum for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, finally, just in time for October...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is from Little Dove's Year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I changed the lettering</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from backstitch to cross stitch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and omitted the second spider.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I backed it with the fabric shown in the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It reminds me of centipedes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so it's appropriately creepy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I almost didn't find this fabric</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because it was at the bottom of a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">large pile of various non-purple pieces.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wound up re-organizing all my fabric </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">by color.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll be able to find all of the purples now;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I discovered that I don't have a lot of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Almost two weeks ago</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went to the annual</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Needlework Galleria</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">held in St. Charles, Missouri.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The event was bigger than ever this year;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the entire fourth floor of the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Embassy Suites was given over to it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and about a half dozen shops were on 3.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is just a smattering of photos</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from some of the participating shops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The bottom photo was from a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">counted canvaswork shop,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">participating for the first time this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See the tall skinny red/blue piece</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in the top row.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Doesn't it have my name on it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Of course it did!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My haul.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went crazy at the fabric place (lower left).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you look at the lower right part of the photo,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">you can see the instruction booklet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">threads and blue canvas</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">shown in the model photo above.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">These people (sellers) were from Canada,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I had never seen their pieces before!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I saved on shipping!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's my story, and I'm sticking to it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another thing I really liked about the Galleria</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">were all the doo-dads at the various shops.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here's a close-up of those that I bought:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A couple of "square" hoops; </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">metal tea balls to cross stitch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">for Christmas ornaments;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">little rubber cylinders to use when</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">tightening a hoop or to grab a needle;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the wooden octopus square</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">will measure a border of either</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">1", 2" or 3" if you place it at the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">See, not many!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There were many other cute doo-dads</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that I <i>didn't </i>buy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do have some self-control!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I seem to have finished most of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">my WIPs at the same time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'm currently working on just</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">one Halloween small</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which should be finished very soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I need to start a bunch of new projects now!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that's it from here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for visiting!</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-61381999789647659652019-09-01T09:44:00.000-05:002019-09-09T13:13:10.097-05:00The Northwoods and Some Finishes<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Usually, this blog concerns all things stitching, but today I thought I'd share my little end-of-summer trip with you, too. We went to a place that I'm guessing not a lot of people have visited - Upper Michigan. It's a hidden gem.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When we were planning a trip this year, this describes my state of mind perfectly:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We drove up through the Lower Peninsula.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The two peninsulas weren't even connected before 1957!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In Mackinaw City there is a little museum</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on the second floor of a pizza place</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that tells the story of building the Mackinac Bridge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's interesting (and quirky) and free.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you squint at the horizon to the right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">of the bridge, you can see St. Ignace</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the Upper Peninsula.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The "mighty Mac" is five miles long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We stayed at a cozy, rustic cabin in Hulbert.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The next day, we traveled to Munising which is the gateway</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We took a 2-hour boat ride to view the rocks,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which extend for miles up and down the shoreline.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They probably would have been more</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the boat ride, we ate lunch at</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a local cafe/book store where I found this...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The dust jacket is a<i> little </i>frayed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but the pages are fine,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and for two dollars I'll be happy to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Another stop was the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Great Lakes Shipwreck Museum in </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Whitefish Point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There have been over 500 shipwrecks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on the Great Lakes since records were kept.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The majority of them occur</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in Lake Superior between</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Munising and Whitefish Point.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the actual bell from one of the most</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">famous wrecks, The Edmund Fitzgerald.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A replica bell was made and engraved</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with the names of all her crewmen,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and lowered down to the wreck</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to serve as a memorial.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The crew remains at the bottom of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lake Superior with the ship.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just beyond the museum is a small beach</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">where you can walk or just gaze</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at the big lake...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The clouds look ominous,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but we encountered only a few sprinkles that day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Tahquamenon Falls State Park is nearby.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are several smaller lower waterfalls...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...in the back among the trees...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and a larger upper falls...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">On our way west across the peninsula,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">we stopped at the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Michigan Iron Industry Museum</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">just outside of Marquette.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The Upper Peninsula was rich</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in both iron ore and copper.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was very interesting to me personally</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because both of my grandfathers</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">worked in the iron ore mines.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Our last stop was at the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">western end of the peninsula</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">where I got a chance to visit</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with some of my cousins...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">OK, enough blathering about my trip.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are a few recent stitchy finishes:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The <i>Summer Foursome</i> from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Prairie Schooler's <i>Summer Breeze</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">leaflet was finished,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and I just happened to have</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this frame in my stash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Heart in Hand's <i>Stitching Bird</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">got stitched and FFO'ed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I added the four small buttons, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which were from my stash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Good that I'm using up stash, eh?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And almost in time for September</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(it's not pillowfied)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is September,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from <i>Little Dove's Year</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, that's it from here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hope your August was fun.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for visiting!</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-16430544121257992442019-08-04T19:01:00.001-05:002019-08-04T19:01:44.026-05:00UFO No. 2<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It certainly feels good checking UFO's off of my list. This one was the oldest on that list, from 2011.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was an EGA fund-raising workshop,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sue Reed's <i>Stitching for Autism</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The photo turned out a little dark,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and you can't really tell that there's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">a metallic wrap around the sheaf stitches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">There is almost always some bling in needlepoint designs!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's going to end up in the lid of a Sudberry box,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">which is a very easy way to display stitchery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">More pillows have been finished,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and they are...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Long May She Wave</i> from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Heartstring Samplery...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and <i>A Year of Celebrations - August</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from Hands on Design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Jolly Robin</i> hasn't seen any action</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because I was concentrating on the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've also been slowly working on a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is from the <i>Summer Breeze</i> leaflet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and I think the reason it's taken so long</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is because I'm stitching over one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It may not get finished before autumn!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's it for now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope your August has started off well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for coming by.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-91433823708484980762019-07-18T11:04:00.000-05:002019-07-18T11:04:39.945-05:00UFO No. 1<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This will be a short post (for me) since I am prone to blathering.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Earlier this year I posted a list of my UFO's with the intention of reducing its size. Well, progress has been made on that intention! First, I said good-bye to those projects which I knew I was never going to finish. That shortened the list by five!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then I picked three that I thought were doable and made finishing them one of my stitching goals for this year. Here is the first of those finishes:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The "before" shot of Marsha-Papay Gomola's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Ruby of the Forest</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we have a finish!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This was originally supposed to feature a spider web</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and a spider hanging by a filament</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">in front of the cardinal's nose.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">On the branches there were to be pink flowers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Since I intend to use this as a Christmas ornament,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I decided to ditch the spider theme and make it more wintry.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The finishing isn't the greatest, but I did the best I could.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">From this angle you can see how the cardinal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with padding </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">under his body.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am hard at work on UFO No. 2, and hope that it will</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">be featured soon on this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks, as always, for visiting!</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-44708856474637746572019-07-08T09:48:00.001-05:002019-07-08T09:48:31.508-05:00Stitching and Quilting<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hope everyone is having a great July. It's been really rainy here, so I've been stitching away, although I really don't need an excuse to stitch! Here's what's been happening.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Debbie Forney's <i>Ho Ho Ho</i></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm calling this a mini-finish (I have two more panels to stitch on this project). It was my challenge project for my ANG chapter, due last month. I knew that I wouldn't finish the whole project, but wanted to finish this panel so that I would have some momentum going forward.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As readers of this blog may remember, each June members of my chapter have the option of submitting three unfinished projects. Their fellow members vote on which project that they want to see finished by the following June. The larger the project and the less stitching that's completed is usually, but not always, the determining factor. The project is disqualified if it's the size of an ornament, or more than 50 percent finished. I submitted <i>Ho Ho Ho</i> for consideration again this year because I'm not even close to halfway done with it but, alas, it was not chosen.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Once everyone eyeballed this painted canvas from a design by Charley Harper <i>(Rainforest Birds)</i>, poor <i>Ho Ho Ho</i> became <i>Ho Ho NO</i>. The fact that I haven't taken a stitch on <i>Rainforest Birds</i> yet may have played a minor role as well, but everyone just seemed captivated by this one. So <i>Ho Ho Ho</i> will be going on a long (hopefully not permanent) hiatus.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I finished this little July pillow from Little Dove Designs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After I attached the fluffy chenille on the edge of the pillow,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I thought it looked like fur trim,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which is a little strange for July!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm making good progress on <i>Jolly Robin</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are a lot of color changes, but no confetti stitches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">He has been unexpectedly fun to stitch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My kitchen has had light gray walls for about a decade.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(When I like something, I usually don't tire of it quickly.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it was time for something new,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so I chose my favorite color: orange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The floor tiles have gray in them,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so I decided to quilt myself a little tablecloth</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to go with the new color scheme.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I even had the <i>Carrots</i> piece,</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The old frame was red, and it wasn't working.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then I had some fabric left over,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so I went all matchy-matchy with my bowl cozies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(My old ones were red.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think my sewing machine (and I) need a long rest!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've also been making progress on a couple of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">long-standing UFO's.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I hope to be able to show you</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a finish on at least one of them soon.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's it from here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for stopping by.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-57610247554315873352019-06-16T22:18:00.002-05:002019-07-08T09:29:17.389-05:00Even More Exciting News...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>...Ladybug and Daisy</i>, my blackwork project, is finished...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...and framed...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are a couple of close-ups...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The cross-hatching on the petals drove me bonkers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was "random" but charted, so I kept having</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to look back and forth from the chart to the piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I would have gladly paid someone to do it for me,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">if I could have found any takers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm elated that this is done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is another framed finish...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kathy Barrick's <i>Good Intentions</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I seem to go a while without any finishes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">then I have a bunch all at once.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let's get to the pillow parade...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A monthly from Heart in Hand's <i>Square Dance</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bent Creek's <i>Flag of Stars</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The trim is not cording, but a braid.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lizzie-Kate's <i>Buzz </i>from their Spring Smalls leaftlet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I stitched this a couple of months ago,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and just got around to finishing it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's what I'm working on now...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the July monthly from the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Little Dove's Year </i>chart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This chubby fellow is from Bothy Threads.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The chart is called <i>Jolly Robin.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is my start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's going to look like a blob for a while.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is my ANG challenge piece,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">due next Saturday. 😄</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got quite a bit done</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">since the last time I posted.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My revised goal is to at least get</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the panel on the right completed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I was stitching it,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I discovered that this piece</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">is not quite as easy as it looks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But I probably could have completed it</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">if I had picked it up before last month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had all year to do it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When you're as old as I am</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you should stitch what calls out to you,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which is what I've been doing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hence, the DNF on my challenge piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, that's it from here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hope your June is going splendidly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for dropping by.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-53060122438109896422019-05-01T09:03:00.000-05:002019-05-01T09:03:39.608-05:00Exciting News!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Did that get your attention? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No, I haven't won the Lotto or </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">had a date with Channing Tatum,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but I am halfway done with the background</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on my blackwork piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Well, <i><b>I</b></i> think it's exciting...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After the background is completed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll still have some shading to do on the petals,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and then I'll be done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But it's a very, very slow process.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And just in time for May...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've developed a renewed appreciation for Aida cloth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I began my cross stitching life using Aida cloth,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and then abandoned it for linen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I belonged to the group who had "moved beyond" Aida.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But now Aida comes in so many pretty colors --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the above is an over-dyed piece from Picture This Plus --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and it is so easy to work with and hide your thread ends,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that I've started using it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wish I had chosen it for my blackwork piece!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The pattern is from Hands on Design's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>A Year of Celebrations </i>leaflet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's Heart in Hand's <i>Checker Bird.</i>..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used the called-for colors,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but changed the bead color to red,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because I didn't think the included white beads</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">would </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">show up on my... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">light-colored Aida cloth.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Am I being a reverse snob?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Just slap me if I am.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't think I've mentioned it here,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but for the longest time I've wanted</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to get one of Charley Harper's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">designs for needlepoint.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They are painted canvases and,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">therefore, very pricey.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I not only had a birthday in March,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but I had a 20-percent-off coupon from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my local needlepoint store, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The perfect storm.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was planning on buying only one,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but I couldn't decided between these two...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have a thing for birds.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And there were a <u>lot</u> of bird designs to choose from.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a miracle I was able to</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">whittle it down to just two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're not familiar with Charley's wonderful designs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you can google Meredith Collection</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to see what I was up against</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in picking just <strike>one</strike> two.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They all make me smile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last but not least,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been doing so many colorful pieces lately</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that I had a desire to do something</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a little bit more drab.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Enter my only other WIP at present...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...Kathy Barrick's <i>Good Intentions</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This fills the bill for drab!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's it for now.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for stopping by.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-14401837314827730802019-04-14T20:02:00.002-05:002019-04-14T20:02:42.608-05:00Catching Up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The time since my last post has been rather hectic, so we have a lot of catching up to do. Let's get right to it, because there are a lot of photos.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is my Prairie Schooler alphabet, finished as a quilted wall hanging by Vonna, the Twisted Stitcher.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was able to find coordinating fabric that had a "stitched" alphabet pattern in it. It was perfect for this piece!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finished the last little bit of this Needle Delights Originals <i>Easter </i>design, and now its home is in the lid of a Sudberry box.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another very recent finish is this little pillow from Hands on Design's <i>A Year of Celebrations</i>. It's not my best finishing job, but it is what it is, and it looks cute from across the room. The word "grow" under the daisies could almost be mistaken for "snow" which is what we got today.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is from Prairie Schooler's <i>A Prairie Year</i> leaflet - the design for May. A future pillow.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This design from Lizzie-Kate's <i>Spring Smalls</i> booklet is another future pillow. I haven't been finishing these things too quickly, so these two may not make it for Spring 2019.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The ladybug that I showed a couple of posts ago now has a daisy to sit on...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've started the background, and it is a painfully slow go. I had planned to take this one to the county fair in August, but I'm not confident that it will be done in time. We'll see.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a good start on this design by Jeanette Douglas. It was featured in a class that she taught at the Fancy Works retreat in Bloomington, IN, at the end of March. This will be a little tray, and there's a scissor fob and drum pinkeep in the set, too. The overdyed ground fabric is really very pretty, but I guess my camera didn't like it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the progress I've made on my ANG challenge piece. Two and a half packages. This one definitely won't be finished by the end of June, and I'll be $10 poorer. But at least it's no longer a UFO.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Last but not least, this is what the stylish, color-coordinated dog will wear on a stroll if she's recovering from foot surgery and has a bandage that needs to be kept clean and dry...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Molly looks about as happy with the whole thing as we are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think we're caught up now.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-14632932558906709062019-03-10T15:00:00.000-05:002019-03-10T15:00:51.301-05:00Hall of Shame<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Certain stitching bloggers from time to time "show off" their UFO's, whether for a challenge, a SAL or other reasons. I had mentioned mine a while back, and thought that I would catalog them here, in hopes of (shaming myself into?) finishing one or more by the end of this year. I probably have fewer than some, but more than others. I do find, however, that my UFO's seem to have one thing in common: they are all, except two, from either a class or workshop that I once attended. So here they are, all <strike>14</strike> 16 of them (I just found two more as I was going through my stash), from the most recent to the oldest...</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Austin Patch</i>, a 2017 workshop given by Tony Minieri</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">through my local ANG chapter.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is Tony's model.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've got a good start on it, haven't I?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This one is <i>Fire and Ice</i> by Toni Gerdes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">another 2017 workshop hosted by my ANG chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is Toni's model that she brought</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is what I was able to finish in class.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The stitching is fun and easy, but the silk thread</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">needs to be ironed before using. (sigh)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This trio of ornaments is from the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2016 Illinois State Day workshop hosted by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my local EGA chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These were the three colorways</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and you needed to pick one for your kit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I felt that I needed to support my chapter </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">by attending.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's all I'll say.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was a 2016 boutis workshop held after</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a regional EGA meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The finished needlebook is beautiful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is my start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, there are stitches on that fabric,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you just can't see them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because the thread matches the fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is very sad.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is my challenge project for my local</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ANG chapter this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The deadline is the 4th Saturday in June.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As you can see, it will be a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">very cute, 3-sided Christmas stand-up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">One day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have not worked on it at all </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">since last June,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">when it was chosen by the members</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from the three projects I brought to the meeting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've thought about it a lot, though.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There's still time, but I may end up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">paying the $10 penalty for not finishing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is where I'm at.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's been sitting around since 2016.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>6.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is called Dresden Doodle.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was a blackwork workshop taught by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the redoubtable Marian Scoular in 2015.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each participant received a large piece of</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">fabric with the design drawn on.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Then we were given a variety of "diaper" patterns,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and told to have at it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Here are some of Marian's stitched models,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">three showing various Dresden designs.</span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;">7.</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was another 2015 workshop, this one</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">taught by Ellen Chester.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Participants received the wooden carry-all,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with instructions and materials for a pin cube,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">needle roll, pipkin, ruler cover and scissor case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did stitch and finish the pin cube!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've shown it here before, but you don't</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">mind looking at it again, do you?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">None of the other pieces</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>8.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was a 2015 cyberclass on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">reversible cross stitching.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I think I was confused about the half cross stitches,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so I put it aside.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is what I've stitched so far.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And it <u>is</u> reversible.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The material provided is very nice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Looking at these now, I think</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I should just finish them up however I can.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have enough material for</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">four little coasters.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">They won't take long to stitch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So what if the back isn't perfect.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>9.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This project really fell into my mental dustbin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had it listed under "Kitted" instead of "Started"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in my cross stitch app.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But rummaging through my stash</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did find that I had stitched a wee border</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for one ornament.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's kind of hard to see.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The wavy lines may be due to the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">flecks of metallic thread woven into the canvas.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was a class from my ANG chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If I finish it, I'll get another pin for my nametag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But on the other hand,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> I may already have enough pins on my nametag.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">However, I'm not quite giving up on this one yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>10.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was a 2014 pilot class that I took through</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my ANG chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We were given the middle and the right trees</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to stitch and give feedback to the designer.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">All required feedback was given.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The one on the right is done.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The middle one is not.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>11.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is Elizabeth Almond's </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">wonderfully generous 2014 blackwork freebie called</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"<i>Save the Stitches</i>."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I fell in love with it back then.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yes, it is huge.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don't have a photo of anyone's finished piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>12.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ah, the <i>Little Bee Eater</i> by Trish Burr.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was a needlepainting class</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that I took at the 2014 Nordic Needle retreat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since then, I took another needlepaintiing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">class with Tanja Berlin.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(I did finish that piece.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I plan to rip out what I started</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and do this one Tanja's (better) way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Honest, I do.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is from the 2011 EGA </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Indiana State Day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The piece is <i>Ruby of the Forest</i> by </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Marsha Papay-Gomola,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">who is a wonderful teacher </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">with a great sense of humor.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Take a class from her if you get a chance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I swear, every single year I say to myself,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I need to get this guy finished up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've got all the padding done,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and a lot of the stitching on the bird.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Those were the only tricky parts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The finished size would be a small ornament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I can do this.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>14.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was a 2011 workshop hosted by</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my EGA chapter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My start is on the left.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I was examining it today,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I find that it will finish to an odd size (5.3" square).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have a 4x4-inch box.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maybe I can eliminate some of the borders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and make it fit into that box top.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's a plan.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is a workshop that I took at a</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, it's supposed to be a nametag, but it's</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">seems too big for a nametag.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">We did do most of the tricky parts in class,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">and it wouldn't take long to finish stitching,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">but I'm not sure how I would want</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">to use this piece, if I ever finished it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Hmmm.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">And finally, last but not least...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">This is truly my oldest UFO.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">It's a dresser scarf that I started</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">around 2000-2001, before I started keeping records,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">using one of the patterns </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">from the hundreds </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">in this cool folk art embroidery book</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">that I bought back in the day.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I'd give you the title--I still have the book--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">but am not sure where it is right now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, when I peeked into the bag </span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">to check which colors I had been using,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">I saw that the red is an overdye: Buckeye Scarlet. Uh-oh.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Someone wasn't thinking when she chose her colors!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Not being able to wash a dresser scarf is not a good thing.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">It's probably the end of the line </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">for this one.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Well, that's it, I think.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">If you've stuck with me through</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">all my thinking out loud, congratulations!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">We'll see which, if any, I finish</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">by the end of this year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">My deadline piece</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">should be at the front of the line--</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">and it has the most left to do</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">(after <i>Save the Stitches</i>, of course).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Hope your projects are going well.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for visiting!</span><br />
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Yes, it's true. I have prevailed over the Beast! Not only is it finished, but framed as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My framer tends to finish these pieces in record time. (Maybe he feels a sense of urgency because he's 94!) Anyway, he works with his daughter, and she wasn't there when I went to pick this up. They have a new credit card reader, and he hadn't yet gotten the tutorial on how to operate it. So he just sent me on my way with the framed piece and said we could worry about the payment later! We did go back later that afternoon, with our checkbook this time, even though he said it wasn't necessary that we come back the same day. I hope he wouldn't do that with a new customer, although I wouldn't be surprised if he did--he's very nice. And they do know me well.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I mentioned a March small that was being pillowfied in my last post. Here it is...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It turned out OK!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My Lizzie-Kate Spring piece hasn't received much love, so I won't show that here, but I'm moving right along on the Easter piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I usually like to throw a blackwork piece into the mix, and this year I chose a PDF download from Ajisai Press...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's kind of scary looking, and way bigger than life-size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's like the ladybug that ate Cleveland!</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-38230255856662838272019-02-17T16:37:00.000-06:002019-02-17T22:13:22.330-06:00Only One WIP!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Let's pick up where we left off, and I'll tell you how my WIPs dwindled down to just one. (Now when I talk about WIPs, I am <u>not</u> including any of my UFOs. They will be a story for another post.)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My mammoth project, the PS Alphabet, was stitched up and shipped off to the finisher to be made more beautiful.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I previously showed this little canvaswork start, <i>Valentine's Day</i> by Needle Delights Originals:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since this design is very February, I wanted to finish it quickly, and I did. These small designs are very fun to do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have a six-by-six box that I use to display seasonal designs in the lid, and this one is there now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had also shown you this little start...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...another seasonal design that I wanted to display with my other "winter" pillows.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So here it is. The red and gray felt "pennies" were included with the chart. The way I attached them looks a little ragged to me; the designer predicted that they would look similar to this, and said that it is part of their charm. Okaaay.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I started and finished the <i>March</i> design from PS's <i>A Prairie Year</i> leaflet, but it is in the process of being pillowfied right now, so I'll show it next time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So that left me with only Blue Ribbon Designs' <i>Blue Jeans and Daisies</i> (the "beast") in the WIP pile. Here is my start on the lower part of the left third of the design (previously posted):</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And here is where I was a couple of days ago (yes, I'm a bit farther than this today)...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am seeing the light at the end of the tunnel on this one. I really like finishing projects more than starting them. But I need to switch between projects; I usually stitch on at least two, sometimes three, projects during the course of a day. Does this mean I have stitching ADD? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I needed to go to my very local "store" -- my computer/sewing room, open 24/7, 365 days a year -- and see what I could find. Many, many projects got my attention, but I limited it to just two.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is <i>Spring</i>, from Lizzie Kate's <i>Spring Smalls</i> leaflet. There is a theme here, isn't there? This one was not kitted up, so I had to hunt around for the threads and fabric. The model was stitched on a beige-y linen, but I pepped it up by using Kermit as the ground. I think it works for spring as well as Halloween. (I had previously used this linen for L-K's Hocus Pocus--you can see it somewhere in <a href="https://southpawstitcher.blogspot.com/2018/12/">this rather long post.</a>) I always buy more than I need of any linen that I like--which is most of them! This strategy works out well when you want to start a project when the store isn't open, or you simply don't want to leave the house! This project should stitch up pretty quickly. Yes, this will be another pillow. 2019 is the Year of the Small Pillows around here.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Easter Sunday occurs pretty late this year but spring, hopefully, is just around the corner. I could keep those canvaswork hearts in my box until summer at least, but why do that when I have the <i>Easter</i> design by--you guessed it--Needle Delights Originals.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The colors are displaying a little strangely on my computer. They are much more pastel-y in real life. The tulips at the top, for instance, are medium pink, light yellow and medium purple. Hopefully that's what you're seeing. This one was a no-brainer: all kitted up and ready to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks, as always, for visiting.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-13536687906486411472019-01-29T16:01:00.000-06:002019-01-29T16:01:38.310-06:00Two Years, Eight Months and Three Days<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the Prairie Schooler Alphabet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And, yes, it's done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is by far the biggest project I have undertaken,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Those of you reading this blog in 2016 </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">may remember how excited I was to get</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's kind of hard to photograph the entire piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">With each block measuring 70 x 100 stitches,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">including the little borders that were backstitched</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">around each block, the piece measures a hefty</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">216 x 916 stitches!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You can see a bit more detail</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">with these close-ups.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I went lighter on a lot of the</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">called-for colors.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I also looked at each chart carefully</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">to see whether any stitches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">were charted outside of the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">70 x 100 parameters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Many were, and my decision</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">was to edit the blocks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so that they would be uniform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">N for Nest was a challenge because</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">the birds' tails hung out an</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">extra 2 stitches on either side.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I wound up shortening their bodies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">T for Time is my favorite block.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Finishing this project was bittersweet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">because I really enjoyed every stitch.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The fabric is 32-count evenweave,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">stitched 2 over 2,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so the finished size is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">13.5 x 58 inches.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And daylight shows the true color</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">of the ground fabric.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">That's it from here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We're in for some record-setting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cold temperatures here,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so everyone dealing with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">weather extremes,</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">please stay safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks for visiting.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com17tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-12646090387602711892019-01-20T11:42:00.000-06:002019-01-20T11:42:29.206-06:00A Snowy Weekend...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...is good for eating snow, if you're Molly...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...and good for staying indoors and stitching, if you're me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is my latest small finish:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is from Prairie Schooler's</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>A Prairie Year</i> booklet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am into small seasonal pillows this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And as long as we're talking stitching,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">these are the projects that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm actively working on and</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sincerely hope to finish this year.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Actually, I hope to finish at least</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">two of them this month:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Minimal progress has been made on the Beast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But at least those @#$%^&* bees are done!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The actual name of the project is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Blue Jeans and Daisies</i> by</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Blue Ribbon Designs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm having a lot of issues with it.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">This is definitely <u>not</u> one of the projects</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">that I hope to finish this month.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is Needle Delights Originals'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Holiday Delights Valentine's Day.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Would you believe that the small hearts</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">come from a skein of Watercolours that is</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> a totally different color than</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the large heart?</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And they show up less well</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">against the lilac background IRL.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I held my breath and</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">ripped them out (very carefully)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because I wasn't restitching that background!</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And I was careful to avoid the pink parts</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> of the thread when I restitched the small hearts.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's another little seasonal start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There are two very similar designs in this chart:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Solitude and Serenity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm doing Solitude.</span></div>
<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last but not least</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this one needs no introduction:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So near, and yet so far.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I lightened up the flowers considerably.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The red flowers would have been</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the same color as the watering can.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And the purples would have been darker.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The leaves were charted in a </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">much darker color, too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm happy with the changes.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's it for now.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for visiting!</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-81401702058486808622019-01-07T11:41:00.000-06:002019-01-14T09:41:50.348-06:00First Finish of the Year!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Greetings, Bloglanders!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm back already. I'm going to try doing more frequent, shorter posts this year. We'll see how this plan works out.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We had a peek at this one in my last post.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Winter Defined by Erica Michaels - I believe it's one of her newest designs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm not thrilled with my attempt at cording,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but it is what it is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got my January design (from Hands On Designs)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">pillowfied, too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">After this finish, I vowed that I wouldn't</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And for you Molly fans,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">here she is snuggling under a knitted scarf</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that I actually gave away as a gift.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This fell under the "20-second rule."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hopefully, the recipient has given up</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">reading this blog.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">😃</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, my one-photo post</span></div>
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<span style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">suddenly</span></span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> turned in a three-fer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll have to work on that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hope your year has gotten off</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">to a great start.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for dropping by.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-84876763334034715672018-12-30T16:59:00.000-06:002018-12-30T16:59:00.252-06:00Year End Wrap-Up<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hello, Blog Enthusiasts! It's me and I'm back for a year-end stitching wrap-up. I realize it was July when I last posted, so we have a lot of ground (get it? ground?) to cover. Where to start...?</span><div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But of course, the Prairie Schooler alphabet:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I showed the V for Vineyard finish in my last post, and here's the entire row.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And we have Y for Yarn...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and the ampersand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">No Z. Yet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is the fourth block in this series</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">that shows a woman stitching,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the first one who's a lefty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The stressed-out sewer in S is for Sewing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">had her scissors in her left hand,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but she could be ambidextrous.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I finished BBD's <i>Spell of the Moon.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and Lizzie-Kate's<i> Hocus Pocus...</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...Blue Ribbon Designs' <i>Hayride Happenings,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">published in an issue of Just Cross Stitch;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got the frame from Hobby Lobby...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...Needle Delights Originals' <i>Poppers.</i>..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and <i>Boo Logs </i>by the same designer...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...I pieced together a bed quilt from a</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Bonnie Hunter workshop!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The actual quilting was outsourced</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">on this large piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I used up a lot of scraps and left-over</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">fabric with this one...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...this cute little thing was a kit by Hands on Design,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">sold exclusively by one of my LNSes...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...my only Christmas finish this year,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">from PS's Folk Art Christmas booklet...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and finally January, from Hands on Designs'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>A Year of Celebrations.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This one hasn't been pillowfied yet -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">hopefully, it will be before 1/1/19.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have made very few stitching plans for next year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Obviously, finishing <i>Z is for Zinnia</i> is one of them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have a start...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'd also like to finish <i>Blue Jeans and Daisies,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">otherwise known as "the Beast."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've got quite a bit done, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but I just don't enjoy stitching on this linen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is an icky photo;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I can't get the colors right on my little iPhone -</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">it's much prettier IRL.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have this little design in the works,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Erica Michaels' <i>Defining Winter</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's going to be another pillow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">One can never be too rich, too thin</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">or have too many little pillows.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I plan on starting this blackwork piece "soonish."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Other than that, I think I'll just stitch</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">whatever strikes my fancy.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So that's it for this year.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Hope your 2018 was a good one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thanks, as always, for dropping by.</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-29844994057690782432018-07-27T12:31:00.000-05:002018-07-27T12:31:01.032-05:00U, V and Three C's<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Happy Friday, Everyone!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Except for the past couple of days, our weather has been either hot & humid or rainy, so I've been busy stitching. I have a lot to show, considering it's been slightly less than a month since my last post. (I'm getting better...)</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I'll do the letters from the title in order. I showed the unfinished U from the PS Alphabet leaflets last month. Here is the finish.</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ0-2B2_jCrb5SM8ZHaJ_FT-IjH7BomSnJf4NItZLQIRkWSs_zn3vF-zZzpcuV94_Jrqy8r0nm3qG7xVoBa-7f0nAYzdx1SFuhyRIfWkTM3F-tJtMjit7K9MQEN33WER81GEs4oLhdKjQ/s1600/PS-U.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1435" data-original-width="1600" height="357" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ0-2B2_jCrb5SM8ZHaJ_FT-IjH7BomSnJf4NItZLQIRkWSs_zn3vF-zZzpcuV94_Jrqy8r0nm3qG7xVoBa-7f0nAYzdx1SFuhyRIfWkTM3F-tJtMjit7K9MQEN33WER81GEs4oLhdKjQ/s400/PS-U.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You know, I just realized that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I didn't stitch the dog's eye, so it's <i>almost</i> a finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next, my goal was to start and finish the V this month...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and I did it!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This appears to be a nod to the Aesop's Fable</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">about the fox and the grapes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But that's no fox -- they don't have flop ears!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I think it might be a redbone coonhound mix</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">who dipped the tip of his tail into a bucket of peroxide.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But he's still cute.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now for the C's:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I got the <i>Chickadee</i> that I showed you last month</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">finished and framed!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">He'll be going to the Fair.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Yes, it's Fair time again -- starts one week from today,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and the needlework exhibits have to be</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">brought in tomorrow!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Next up is a new (to me) designer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As many of you know, this is my hometown.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The designer is Tiny Modernist.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I haven't finish finished this yet,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">but it will probably become a small pillow</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">since wall space is at a premium around here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And finally, my 11th hour finish for the Fair:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Christmas Cardinal</i> by Jemini Designs.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is from the Just Cross Stitch Christmas Ornament magazine.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">His wings are of wool, and the tail is</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">made of memory thread, in case anyone is wondering.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've had it kitted up for several years,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and just finished it the day before yesterday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As far as the WIP pile is concerned,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I plan to start on the W tomorrow;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I've made minuscule progress on</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Blue Jeans & Daisies</i> and <i>Poppers,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">so won't show them here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">And I have a new small start:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It's time for some Hallowe'en with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i>Spell of the Moon,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">another chart that I've had for quite some time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My <i>Ho Ho Ho</i> ANG challenge project</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">is still in the planning stage. 😉</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Have a great weekend,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and thanks for stopping by!</span></div>
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Southpaw Stitcherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15912056845400653665noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2092695819572434158.post-91288911263144002752018-06-29T20:28:00.000-05:002018-06-29T20:28:27.645-05:00The First Half<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello People in Blogland! It's been quite a while. I wasn't sure if I was ever coming back to this little piece of stitchy paradise. Those of you who are on Instagram know I haven't stopped stitching, but a lot of you aren't (on IG), so here I am! It's the end of June and the year is half over, so I'm here to do a recap of The First Half of 2018! Let's start with the finishes, shall we. Where did I leave off? Oh yes, somewhere toward the end of January.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: xx-small;">(oh frabjous day, she finally figured out how to make a collage!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">From top right,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this is the PSS <i>Merry Friends</i> design I showed you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">all made up into a tart</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(I took the tart class from Vonna, The Twisted Stitcher,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at the Fancy Works retreat in March);</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">next is Hands on Design's <i>Winter Thyme</i>;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">then Summer House Stitche Workes' <i>Liberty Starburst</i>;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and finally, Heart in Hand's <i>Monthly Mania-April.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>Liberty Starburst </i>was my contribution to the</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Patriotic Pincushion exchange at the retreat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's what I received...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Most of the pincushions were like this one:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">cording, buttons, cute pins, etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Mine, in comparison, was pretty plain</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because it was finished by me,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as were </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">all of the above smalls.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And guess who ended up with my pincushion?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The queen of finishing herself: The Twisted Stitcher.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course she did!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But she was most gracious about it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back to the finishes...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here are a couple of small things</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that I did as gifts:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did this Victoria Sampler ornament for myself last year</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">on an ecru fabric, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but I like this red one better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(It's gone now.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The bookmark was from a Vervaco kit;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">small, but a lot of color changes.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I even sewed fabric onto the back,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which I wouldn't have done if the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">bookmark were for me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here's a cute sentiment from Lizzie Kate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The fabric is greener in real life.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I cut and sewed a queen-sized quilt top!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(OK, a lot of the fabric was from precuts, but still...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bonnie Hunter came to our quilt guild</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and taught her <i>Pineapple Blossom</i> design.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the largest item I've ever sewn,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and it was fun to sew it mostly from stash.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's at the long-arm quilter's now </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">until mid-September.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yup, they said 12 weeks for the turnaround time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">These are all of the bonus blocks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(224 of them) that were created as I was</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">putting together my quilt blocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have a number of potential projects</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that I could use them for.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Stay tuned...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I finally got a chance to meet, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and take a workshop from,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my favorite needlepoint designer:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Kathy Rees </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">of Needle Delights Originals.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is her <i>Highland Circle </i>design,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">all stitched and framed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yikes, I must have cropped out the frame!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">(I may be too old to be blogging...)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And finally, I believe I showed you </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the P from my Prairie Schooler alphabet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">that was partially done last time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is how I've progressed on that project:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is the P-Q-R leaflet finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you're familiar with the design,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">you'll notice that I left off the bars </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">on the birdcage. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The cage was too small </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">for him, anyway.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The S-T-U leaftlet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm not quite finished with the U,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which stands for -- are you ready? --</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">UNLOCK.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She will have to put her <u>U</u>mbrella down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">before she can <u>U</u>nlock the door with that </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">gigantic key!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But this is why I love Prairie Schooler.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And this segues nicely into my WIP pile.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">First, last and always (for the foreseeable future anyway)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'll be working on the Prairie Schooler alphabet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I would dearly love to finish it by the</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">end of this year, but that's a tight schedule for me.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am almost done with this blackwork chickadee,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">from the brilliant but evil mind of Tanja Berlin.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been hankering to start </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a new little something-something,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but this is my blackwork entry </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">for the Fair this year, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and it's the eleventh hour, folks.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I must finish this before I start anything new.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is <i>Blue Jeans and Daisies</i> by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Blue Ribbon Designs.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The fabric is a much nicer blue in real life.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was going to be my sampler entry for the Fair</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(cue the insane cackling)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but it's nowhere near completed.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I do hope to finish it before the end of the year</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so that I won't have to pick out the date!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">No promises, though.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Here is good old <i>Poppers</i> by who else but</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Needle Delights Originals.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I've been at this one for quite a while.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It's the project that I work on only at guild </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">or stitch-ins, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so it receives </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">regular but limited love.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Last but not least, this is more of a UFO than a WIP</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">since I haven't worked on it for over 18 months,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but it needs to become a WIP fast</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because this is the piece chosen by</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the members of my ANG chapter</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as my challenge project for 2019.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of the three that they had to choose from,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this was the one that I thought should be chosen,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but I probably should have been a </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">bit more careful of what I was wishing for.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lots of bullions on this one,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">with a bunch of weird threads doing weird things.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It should be interesting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's it from here.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hope you had a fabulous June.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks for stopping by.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hello, people. Hope your January has been going well. I've been down with a nasty case of bronchitis this past week but am not complaining since I have the luxury of staying in bed all day if I need to (which I have for a couple of days).</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Since photos of my pieces have all be taken, I'm hoping it won't be too taxing to do this little post.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My prediction about my first finish was correct, it was Prairie Schooler's <i>Winter Wind</i>...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and it was even framed...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I love this frame,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">but I did make one bad framing decision recently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I took <i>Ripple Rotation II</i> in to be framed,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the first piece of moulding my framer pulled</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was a light orangeish salmon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which exactly matched the color in the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">corners of the piece below...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I loved it, but it was a flat finish and for </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">some strange reason I thought the piece needed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">a "shiny" frame, and that molding didn't have a shiny option.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I selected a shiny green that</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">matched one of the darker </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">shades in the piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Bad choice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I got the piece home, hung it up,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and found that the </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">frame actually </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">sucked all the light and fun </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">out of the piece.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was a very unhappy camper.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I lived with it for a couple of days before</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">taking it back to my framer.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I explained my problem and asked to see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">the orange frame again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">(You should always go with a color that you love.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So they swapped out the green frame for the orange.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The day I went to pick up the piece,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I intended to pay for the new </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">frame and any additional labor</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because this was <u>my</u> mistake.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did not expect money back on the green frame either,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">because it was custom cut.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But they were going to have none of that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"Put your money away," they said.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">"You are such a good customer, </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">this is on us."</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So I left the shop with the newly framed piece,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and my original green frame, which I may use someday.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">Even the lady at the framer's,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">who was a little skeptical about the green being horrible,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">agreed that this color works much better.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Back to the other finishes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hot on the heels of <i>Winter Wind,</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I finally finished M N O.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Of course, the bulk of this piece</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">was stitched in 2017, but it still counts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">as a January finish.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">And finally, I started and finished</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">my PSS <i>Merry Friends</i> piece</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">for the tart class in March.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have two pieces that I'm currently working on:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Winter Thyme, a small seasonal pillow</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">which should make an appearance here</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">in the not too distant future,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">and of course...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...the letter P.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I figured you might want a peek at the bird.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ever onward with the alphabet!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This has been more or less my constant companion</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">during the last week when I didn't feel</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">up to stitching.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I like Annie Proulx's quirky sense of humor.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As you might guess, this is a library book.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">It was written over 20 years ago,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">so once I return it, hopefully no one will want to </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">take it out </span><span style="font-family: verdana, sans-serif;">any time soon.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for me, if I need another book from the library,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I'm going to limit myself to those in ebook format,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">at least until cold & flu season is over!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">That's it from here!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Thanks, as always, for visiting.</span></div>
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