I have finished Mary Ellen Turner! I decided to leave the Mary Ellen Turner and date, and add my own initials and year of finish. Stitching Age 11 under her name didn’t seem as important to me as signing it myself. I guess I’m leaving off a bit of backstory…I had thought about signing this with a family name instead […]
I started a new Blackbird. This is from the booklet “Deck The Halls” called First Day of Christmas. I haven’t gotten too far! I now have soccer practice to attend twice a week and a border is a good thing to work on during that so I was able to finish up the green on the border of Mary Ellen […]
I’ve been enjoying my Sampler September projects. I focused on making it up to the top of Anna Millet. I am eager to chop this sampler off of the quarter yard of linen she is on, which I’ll do immediately once I see how big she actually will be! It is like holding a table cloth to stitch on! Then […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
I am still here, on this earth, doing mostly the same stuff I was doing when I abandoned my blog for critical home projects a few months ago. We have had a time of it. We had a broken pipe-caused flood in mid November. We moved out of our house the week before Christmas so the reconstruction work could begin. […]
In an effort to catch up and get going again, I just want to share with you all some of the stitching that has actually happened around here in spite of the lack of blogging about it… I don’t really remember when these little things got started or finished or worked on or whatever so it’s just going to be […]
