Dorcas’ Eyelet Verse

Guess what? I FINALLY FINISHED the eyelet verse! Here it is! I am so relieved it is complete. I finished it at Bristol last weekend. Then I went back to the Queen stitch leaves. They are not so bad. I really should just finish them up quick! But at the next Attic event I want to have the big floral […]

Larger Project Progress

I think I owe you an update on Sacred, which was supposed to be my Lenten stitch but (kept getting interrupted) and my Dorcas Haynes project, which has seen a few stitches put in since I last showed you. I don’t even want to bother with before and after pictures, or “best laid plans” that went to ruin or anything. […]

Assorted WIPS

Sadly, blogging has taken a back seat these days. So has stitching, even more sadly. There are little fits and bursts but not a lot to show for it, and certainly no focus. I really wanted to do the WIPGO, but that has also been a bit of a bust. Maybe…maybe I’ll just catch up here with some pictures of […]

Feeling Fall

One of the stitches I had brought along on our trip to Europe was Emily’s Bliss by Summer House Stitche Workes. I didn’t actually plan to stitch on it unless I ran into trouble with my other projects, and so I didn’t, but it was on the top of the pile so I’ve picked it up a few times over […]

Belated Blog Anniversary!

Oh dear … I checked my last published post and see it’s been over a month since an update! Yikes! I think I had planned a post for the end of September that was never published but now I can’t find it. I probably wrote it in my head! It was related to it having been my 8 year blogging […]

The first acorns

I’m figuring it out. Now I have about 1/4 of the acorn bands complete. For those stitching along with me, here’s a few tips… Do the satin stitch first on the acorn “seeds” and only use one strand even if you, like me, used 2 ply in other areas. You don’t want the acorns too puffy if you want to […]

The latest on Dorcas…

This first week of August I continue on the floral arcade. I’ll let the picture speak…. It is very close. Soon I will be filling in those acorns and spending the rest of the month on the eyelet verse. I need to pick out the colors for that!

A Weekend with Dorcas. Updating the Plan!

Well, darn, it’s actually July 30 this post was supposed to go up around the week of July 22 when I had spent a good weekend with Dorcas bus I never got my pictures taken! So here it is, back dated to the proper point of progress, and hopefully I’ll have EVEN MORE PROGRESS by the end of the week! […]

Progress on Dorcas

Here is my progress on Dorcas. Nothing new figured out at this point, just continuing the work! I have the outline of the top acorn band complete. And, a bigger triumph, I got the Montenegrin stitched outline of the floral arcade finished this morning. Those curlicues were really difficult to figure out. They are not perfect by any means. The […]

2 WIPs

I am loving my 2 WIPs, Sacred and Dorcas Haynes. I’ve been able to stitch a lot on them this first week of July. Here is my progress on Sacred… You can see I’ve gotten quite a bit done this week. O Most Holy Heart of Jesus fountain of every blessing…stitching a prayer is a nice meditative thing to do, […]