The September Sampler Soirée hashtag is back on Instagram again this year. I haven’t posted on IG in almost a year. It feels like it might be time to do that again and the September Sampler Soirée is as good a reason as any to start again. I had mentioned I had a plan to work on Anna Millet this […]
I managed to finished Mary Ellen’s verse this week: I really love this sampler. The verse is very touching I think. My goal for Sampler September is to finish the is one. Do-able! Hey, I finished Dorcas Haynes last September which was much more difficult work! Towards that end, I got the 2nd butterfly put in this morning, and started […]
It is easy to love Mary Ellen Turner. The silks, the soft colors, and my beautiful Lakeside linen make it a joy to stitch. I stitched on her all weekend. I selected to do one of the more “count-y” bits since I had good time to sit in daylight and read the pattern. How do you like the butterfly? To […]
I picked up Anna Millet from Reflets de Soie last week. I felt that a monochrome project and one with a lot of letters in it would be an inspiring thing to try to get the stitching mojo back. I think that is working out. I have made some progress since last time I touched this Before: Now: The progress […]
I’ve had much going on in my family life and I needed a break from personal projects and self-imposed vanity to-dos. I still need a break but it’s ok for me to check in today with a few creative accomplishments. I’m making myself do something creative about once a week and sort of hoping something will reignite a handwork passion. […]
Between Easter, gardening, and busy kid schedules, I didn’t stitch too much after my last post. I finally DID finish the bouquet of Cheerful Bouquet…here it is… (and I started the sawtooth border) I decided to do the sawtooth border in 2 ply. I will run out silk I from the kit I think, but I have a skein so […]
Surprise! I have another finish this week…this is the little bird pinwheel from Fanny Collins 1853, by Fox and Rabbit. The pinwheel chart came with the sampler chart and was part of an Attic event. It is stitched with 100.3 on 40 count whatever linen was provided in the kit. I know a lot of people love 100.3 but it […]
WIPS to Work On I’ve sorted out my many many project bags and have put a number in my workbasket to focus on this year…at least the first bit of this year. Most of these have been worked on pretty recently, and other will probably make you say, “Mary! You didn’t finish that yet?!” We’re not going to look and […]
No sooner do I get an idea in my head than I am distracted from the task at hand. I wrote last week’s post and then said to myself that I really should go looking for more smalls to work on this month. Looking for trouble more like! I found quite a few started smalls that I will aim to […]
I’ve been true to my 2 samplers, Red and Green Carnations and Mary Ellen Turner. Straight forward stitching on both of these…though I’m getting closer to picky counting work on Mary Ellen. Look! I matched up the border! I had made a couple small errors but happily they were easily corrected and my border matched. I was so excited I […]
