Flowers from my Needle

Hey Blog Buddies,

How is your May going?  I hope you had a good weekend and enjoyed the spring weather.  Or the fall weather, if you're farther south!

I attended a workshop on Saturday hosted by my EGA chapter and taught by Nancy Buhl, who designs canvaswork pieces under the name From Nancy's Needle.  She is a wonderful teacher, and I thoroughly enjoyed the workshop. 

The piece in the photo above was taught, called Flowers from my Needle.

I chose a slightly more autumnal colorway.

 

There was a very nice turnout--we had over 40 stitchers.

 

There were over 40 fabulous gift baskets, too.

In addition, everyone got a door prize.

 

Here is where I'm at with my piece.

It is a simple, small piece that I don't have to think about very much.

There are no laid threads.  I love it!

I wouldn't have needed to go to a workshop to figure this piece out,

but don't tell anyone.

I would love to just keep on working on this piece until it's finished,

but sadly it will have to join a throng of other pieces

on "the back burner."

The pile on that burner is getting dangerously high.

For the past few days, I've been working on

(gasp!)

a cross stitch piece.

It's one of the Prairie Schooler Christmas Strawberries.

I hope to get this one finished today

so that I can get all three of my stitched strawberry pieces

to the finisher, who I hope to see this evening.

I'd better get cracking.

That's it for now.

Thanks for visiting!