Been busy…lots planned for this year

I’ve decided that Christmas 2009 will be one of stitchy gifts.  I am going to do smaller ones.  I like stitching Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum’s free angels…they work up quickly and the result is wonderful.  I’ve already stitched a couple for presents before.
I am working on the Challenge that my guild is doing.  We did one last [...]

What’s up for January?

My family and I had a nice holiday.  I had the week between Christmas and New Year’s off and I went to visit family on Prince Edward Island.  I had bought their presents while at work and put them in my desk.  Out of site, out of mind.  Literally.  I totally forgot the presents in [...]

Christmas Stitching

This Christmas I have three cross stitched gifts to give.  I had two hanging around that I had completed last year and didn’t frame.  I finished 1994 Christmas Madonna by Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum  on September 21, 2006. 

I put it in an oval frame and am giving it to my grandmother.  I didn’t get a picture of it framed, [...]

October Stitching Intentions

I have the best of intentions when it comes to getting a certain amount of work done on this or that project, but life intervenes.  I started Ivy Pixie by Mirabilia in September and meant to set it aside and finish up Heirloom Christmas Sampler by Thea Dueck (Victoria Sampler) but that didn’t happen.  I [...]