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 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 [...]

Fairy Grandmother FINISHED

Fairy Grandmother 19 Oct 2008

I started working on Lavendar & Lace “Fairy Grandmother” in early July and finished on 19 Oct 08.  My mother’s birthday is in November so I finished a good month ahead of time.  Now I have to get it framed.  Now I can work on something just for me.  I have [...]

Halifax Townclock Stitchers Meetings start soon

The 2008-09 year starts up for the Town Clock Stitchers this month, including our two monthly stitch-ins.  There was a stitch in Friday that I couldn’t go to because of work, and then there is another stitch-in on Saturday, September 20th.  I’m looking forward to that so I can catch up with what people have been doing.  [...]

Fairy Grandmother progress

I’ve gotten a lot done since July.  Makes the November deadline of my Mom’s birthday seem achievable.
I’m on vacation for the next two weeks so who knows how much more I’ll get done.

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 [...]

Rose by any other name….or something like that

I’m going to a wedding in a couple of weeks and the bride’s name is Rose.  So, I pulled out my trusty Lavender and Lace Tea Garden pattern and stitched the Rose.  I stitched their names underneath in a font based on Curlz. 

Rose & Derek

I typed up the names in Word, printed it and then [...]

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, [...]