{"id":927,"date":"2007-08-30T18:22:02","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T22:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.52.55.152\/?p=927"},"modified":"2007-08-30T18:22:02","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T22:22:02","slug":"alls-well-on-the-stitching-front","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jennamagee.com\/?p=927","title":{"rendered":"All’s Well on the Stitching Front"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that I’ve had my nice little whine (anyone care for some cheese with that?), I can update you on what I’ve been stitching and how things are going on the stitching front.<\/p>\n

I still have start-itis pretty badly. Being part of the Halloween SAL on the Wonderful XS World Yahoo! group doesn’t help. I’m addicted to the designers’ quick and easy ornaments. The first one I stitched was from Periphaeria Designs, called Skull Crossing:
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I didn’t stitch the border around the ornament because I figured out too late that one of the bats was in the wrong place. So, I folded it over on itself so that only the skulls showed on the front and the bats on the back. It helped cover the mistake a little better, but the ornament is less than 2″ wide.<\/p>\n

Next up was a design by Helga Mandl called Beware of Cat. I stitched this one on dark grey fabric that I hand-dyed myself:
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After that, I stitched up another design by Helga Mandl called Frog Spit. I think this one cursed me because I could not seem to put in a single correct stitch on Wednesday. I’m glad I’m finished with him; he’s uber-cute!
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And then another by Helga called Guess Who Day. Love, love, LOVE the bright blue in these quirky witches’ shoes:
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I made a little bit more progress on Betsy’s Butterfly Wednesday night, but I had to frog a bunch first. We went to JoAnn’s after my psychiatrist appointment so that we could pick a pattern for Terry and then get all of the fabric for both of our Renaissance styled costumes. Friends of ours that we’ve known since college got married a few months ago and are have a wedding reception in late October. They are really big on the Renaissance fair scene, so costumes are optional.<\/p>\n

We chose a gorgeous royal blue velvet that is so soft, it feels like it could just melt in your hands. Yummy! Here’s a scan of the dress that I’m going to be making for myself, and a scan of hubby’s costume (the one on the left), as well.
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I also bought some DMCs that I needed and I had a little stash splurge on a purse that I’ve had my eye on in The Stitchery catalog for some time, but I hadn’t seen it with a purple hydrangea on it. I snapped it up with no time to waste:
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I also bought some more fabric for potential dyeing, or just for the heck of it.<\/p>\n

And, speaking of dyeing, I went to the grocery store the other day, picked up 4 more colors of RIT Dye (black, royal blue, teal and wine) and played with them. These are all solids, except for some that I dyed in a primary color, then wadded up the fabric and dunked in the black dye briefly. I forgot to take photos and don’t want to bother with it now. Sorry. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I think that’s more than enough for now. Next time, hopefully I’ll have even more stitching to share!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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