Category Archives: Stitching

December Stitching Goals

Finish My Piece of Cathy’s RR Finish Biscornu #1 for Christmas Gift for Mom Finish Christmas gift for Terry Finish current SOLAK square in progress Start and Finish SOLAK square for Mary

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November Stitching Goals in Review

🙁 Start and Finish My Piece of Cathy’s RR 🙁 Finish Biscornu #1 for Christmas Gift for Mom Finish Stitching Biscornu #2 (top and bottom) for Christmas Gift for Mom 🙁 Finish Christmas gift for Terry 🙁 Work on Heirloom … Continue reading

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SBQ: To Knot or Not?

This week’s SBQ is: How do you secure your thread when you begin a new one? Specifically, do you or have you ever used a waste knot? It depends on what I’m doing. In regular cross stitching, I use the … Continue reading

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It’s Monday Again?

Darn, I so wanted to sleep in this morning, especially when I realized that I had mild abdominal cramps when I woke up. Spoot! Now I’ve spent half of my day coding in one programming language and I need to … Continue reading

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Something Old and Something New

Something old that I found hidden in a box of my childhood toys and memorabilia (including a ton of pens and pencils, which Anne will find amusing) is one of my early cross stitch works. I would say one of … Continue reading

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SAL’ing and Rethinking Exemptions

Michelle, Carol, Nicole, Andrea and I have decided to SAL together in the coming year on Just Nan’s Barnabee’s Quest design (all 3 parts). We will be starting on February 1st, 2007. This gives us some time for life to … Continue reading

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Exemption Taken

I talked about seasonal WhimZi designs being an exception to my 50 Projects goal, but I never actually added them formally onto the list, so I hope that it’s still okay. Under my limited edition exemption, I bought Teresa Wentzler’s … Continue reading

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SBQ – Christmas Ornaments?

Do you stitch Christmas ornaments? If so, how many do you stitch each year and for whom? If not, why not? Hahahahahahahaaaaa! If you don’t know my answer to this one, then you must be relatively new to my blog. … Continue reading

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SBQ – Mad About Floss

This week’s SBQ was suggested by Jan and is: How many different brands of “complete” embroidery floss sets do you own? How do you keep track of it? (i.e., spread sheet program, index cards, palm pilot, etc.) I only own … Continue reading

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Birthday Gift from Carol

I received a very nice giftie from Carol this weekend. She stitched the most beautiful fob for me from a Just Nan design, on opalescent fabric and with beads along the seam and gorgeous, heavy glass beads at the ends … Continue reading

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