It’ll be a Margaret Sherry Christmas

I prefer to make Christmas presents for my family.  I’ve stitched two Leavitt-Imblum free angels, one Nora Corbet free cherub, a Martina Webber freebie and a Passione Ricamo freebie.  I went through the magazines that I have and found a bunch of Margaret Sherry designs that will make really cute ornaments.  So far I’ve gotten [...]

Always stitching

I haven’t posted much over the summer…about once a month.  I’ve certainly been stitching though.  I’ve finished 3 Christmas presents and started a fourth.   I did a little blackwork design of a lobster.  I printed a picture of a lobster and used graph paper to get the basic outlines going.  I have PCStitch so I [...]

Been stitching :)

I’ve been busy stitching since I finished Mystique.  While I was in Kingston, ON for EAC Seminar I bought a kit for Bargello Jewells (pattern, materials and canvas) from Northern Pine Designs – Linda Lachance.  I love the colours.  It was the first time I did a beaded bezel and I don’t think it’s perfect [...]

Caught up on taking pictures

Took the time to take pictures of what I have finished and/or been working on…
Finished:
Grapes and Quilts

I have had this finished for quite some time, but finally got around to framing it and gave it to my Grandmother for Christmas.
Air

After finishing Christmas presents I decided to stitch something small and quick.  I have had this [...]

Latest Finishes

I’ve taken pictures of the ornaments I made for my mother and grandmother.  I made the name ‘EVA’ from the Margaret Sherry alphabet.

Christmas Stitching

The Oct/Nov programme for my guild was to stitch and finish a counted canvas ornament.  I didn’t finish mine in time for our Nov meeting, but paid attention to how it was done and was able to finish mine at home the following week.
Jean provided us with the outline and we used her suggestions for [...]

Town Clock Stitchers Exhibit @ Scott Manor House

For the past two summers TCS has done an exhibit at Scott Manor House (15 Fort Sackville Rd. ) in Bedford, Nova Scotia.  The exhibit runs from Monday July 28th to Sunday August 3rd 10:00 am – 4:00 pm.  There is a tea room that serves tea, lemonade, oat cakes, & ice cream wih berries.  Very refreshing [...]

Town Clock Stitchers June Saturday Stitch-In

Since all of the ornaments are stitched for our Christmas Fund raiser (2 sets of ‘12 Days of Christmas’) the guild can concentrate on finishing the ornies.  The June Friday Stitch-In produced the hand made cord that goes around the ornie, enough for all of them.  On Saturday we sewed the backing fabric to the [...]

More Stash

I was working on Christmas Mystery V and realized that I had not made the border wide enough for the contents.   Grrrr.  Now I know that silk fibres are easier to frog than cotton.  I used my trusty seam ripper and took out the right hand side of the border.  I think that I will do the contents before closing the border back up. 
I came [...]

Getting close to finishing…

I have been working on Teresa Wentzler’s Holly and Ivy Sampler for a few years now.  I had finished the white work but didn’t like what I had done.  So I pulled out all the white and started it over.  I wanted to do the eyelets properly.  Last night I finished putting the blending filament [...]