Category: Needle Arts

Virtual Christmas Cookie Exchange

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I’m so glad you stopped by. I’ve been working on my project in the spare time I have with my “day job”. The pattern is called Candy Cane Biscornu by The Blue Flower. It’s not available at this time I think. It was designed for a class that was held during ‘The Jingle Ball‘ last weekend. I didn’t have it ready for the class unfortunately but now I’m almost done with it. Just needed a little more time. A couple of days of spare time stitching after work and I think it will be complete. It’s going to be so sweet.

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Fairy Tales Blog Hop

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Thank you so much for stopping by. I’m so happy to participate in this weeks hop.

When planning for the hop I had several different ideas. First the watercolor dream I have of one day starting my painting again. But, this is a sewing group and I didn’t think anyone would have been interested in that.

Then there was the Little Red Riding Hood cross stitch project I could do. Problem is I’m not a fast stitcher. I wouldn’t have been anywhere close to being finished. That brings to mind another dream. Starting projects I can finish. Seriously, who am I kidding? Being a finisher is a Fairy Tale.

So I decided I would use my embroidery machine to start a project that would give me finished blocks to show and I could just decide how to finish it later.

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FNSI Results

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 Happy Thanksgiving to everyone. Hope your holiday weekend is/was wonderful!

I haven’t gotten to participate in a sew-in for a while. Although it is Thanksgiving weekend I had plenty of time on Friday night. 

 Till this weekend, I’ve little time to stitch. DIY projects (more about that later) and my sister had a stroke about a week in a half ago. That was a rough and scary time. She’s doing fine now. They have her in rehab. She is having to learn to do the simple things, like write her name. As awful as it sounds, I have faith in God and I know she will overcome!

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FNSI Results

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I spent some time last night working on a project that I had started earlier but haven’t shown you yet. It’s a pattern that came out of Just Cross Stitch magazine, the March/April 2015 issue.

The pattern is named Teacup Herbs by Sharon Pope. There are four in the series. March/April’s issue had two, Dill and Thyme.

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Slow Stitching Sunday

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I so excited to be done with block 1! Honestly, I don’t make pieced blocks often. In the past I’ve tried and I just couldn’t get it right. For that reason, when I do pieced block I choose paper piecing. It’s just less frustrating. But….I must have done enough of those (paper pieced) that now my piecing is getting better. Cause this block turned out so close to good. My points are not all perfect but they are so close that I don’t really care.

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