Ta DAH! I finished the Red and Green Carnation Sampler…quite pleased with how it turned out. I made the little fill-ins in the border suit me. Some I modified from the chart, others I added. The initials down the left side are my children’s and since this is our 25th anniversary, I put our wedding year and this year to […]
I finished the middle of the Red and Green Carnation Sampler! I am making some slight changes to the design. That’s ok. This one isn’t even signed so I think approaching it as a personalized thing is just fine. Now to finish the border, and add in my customized border elements. I’m consulting in the Ultimate Sampler Motif book to […]
I picked up a little bitty project to stitch on a plane trip last weekend…it was so small I finished it! This is Christmas Scissors Basket from JBW Designs: This was one of those projects that stitched so fast I wondered why I didn’t just stitch it when I got it. I probably spent more time thinking about starting 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 […]
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 […]
My family was blessed enough to get a week long vacation on the Big Island of Hawaii last week! and I personally was blessed with good stitching time during it! We stayed at a beautiful resort and did many fun things….snorkeling, swimming in the pool and at the beach, eating good treats, driving around to see waterfalls and the Volcano […]
This past weekend I worked through The Attic’s Summer School. It was a really fabulous event. I was a worker bee, not a participant, but still got to enjoy some good stitching time and socializing with all the lovely stitching people over the weekend. That is a real perk of working at Attic Needlework! Here is some inspiration for you […]
I don’t know what gets into me sometimes…well, probably the same thing that gets into any of us stitchers. I justified it by saying that I needed something with straight lines to stitch at the pool but the reality is, I’ve had the Red and Green Carnation Sampler by Samplers Remembered kitted for ages and rediscovering it on a cleaning […]
This year I brought several older projects over to Sandy, the framer extraordinaire, at The Attic and have her fix them up for me. The last one is done and here they are. I am very pleased with how they all came out! First was The Pink Sparrow by Brenda Gervais. I had framed this myself during Covid and the […]
