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Hi everyone! A bit of information about what is going on with my blogs. Love to Stitch was my very first blog. It was made private until today. I have reopened it after removing some of my private stuff from it, so that the information becomes available to you again. When I made this blog private, I was rather exhausted and the last thing I wanted back then was to continue blogging. Many

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This was a gift to my friend Terry who lives in England. I mailed it to her with frame and she had it framed herself. This way it limits the risk of receiving it damaged.

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Photo after having stitched and finished a little Loretta Spears oranment.

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Just finished stitching "Threads". All that remains now is to finish it.

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This is the little Christmas ornament that I have just started working on. Photo that came with the instructions.

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A bit of a different view on those two photos Just finished the Mallard Duck Collage and it is now ready for finishing :-)

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For some reason, taking a proper photo this time around has been difficult - the colors are not true to form.

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Box 3 completed What has been done so far

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Terry, I have changed the colors as was not crazy about the yellow and ended up doing additional changes as well. What do you think?

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Just completed the first box, the one with the acorn and leaves

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Background completed, so now is time to start filling in the boxes

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Just completed all the frames Close up of outside frame corner

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Just finished stitching the central star motif and I just love those colors, they look so rich :-)

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Starting with the beginning of 2010, Terry and I will be stiching this lovely project together. I have just placed my order with my little shop and as soon as I receive the supplies I will be able to start on this. We will follow this project with Pacific Coast Collage, but will only order the supplies a bit later when I am about half way through this current project. Official starting date

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Just added a few photos of the fountain pen all tucked up in its pen box. Not great photos. It seems that this is one of those projects that do not photograph well. At least that gives you some idea. Roland is quite happy to finally have it :-)

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Well, here is a photo of the finished fountain pen. Will try to take a better one when it is inside the box. It is not perfect, far from it but I am so darn fed up with it that it will have to do.

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Mine so far above and SharonG below.This is what I have done on it so far. Remains too add something on the top part of the pen like Roland's initials and to do the background.

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Two photos showing the front and back of my stand-up frame. Will do the same exact kind of finishing for The Night Before :-)

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Well, you can see the front part ready to be attached to the back part, which is a kind of velvet that is very soft and changes colors depending on the lighting - it looks dark here but really is not that dark at all. I still need to work on putting fabric on the stand piece and then attach all together with a little ribbon to control the amount of length the stand will open up while standing and

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Here is Desire all ready for framing :-) I really love it.

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This is the beginning of my finishing process. I want to be able to hang it on my wall, so am making a fabric frame for it. This is how Susan Portra had hers finished, as an ornament.Photo of Desire all stitched. Next photo will be of Desire ready to put on my wall.

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Here is the project that I will be stitching for you, Terry, for this upcoming Christmas. Will blog my stitching so that you will be able to see it coming to life :-)

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I really like it. The frame is exactly the same color as the border and by using the whitest white possible, it really make the whole design stand out..Don't look at the wallpaper behind it. I know it does not fit but this is the best place I know of in my home where I get the best lighting but I need to take the photograph a bit sideway so that I don't get all the glare on the glass.

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Just complete the fourth one this morning. This is a storage jar.Photo showing all that has been done so far. Next one that needs to be stitched is the one to the left of the yellow water jar and is a "flat plate".The end is now in sight :-)

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Happy to have this project all stitched. The framer should receive it for framing probably on Saturday :-)

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Just taken a photo of everything I have done so far. Sorry about the bad photo but I tried and tried and could not do any better for some reason..All that remains to do now is the inner background around the Iris and then the border filling (page 8.17) and that one will be ready for the framer :-)

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A rough picture here (ceiling lights showing on canvas)..As I said before to you, I counted 74 holes in mine instead of the 62 that were indicated on the instructions.If you have a good look you can see that the Iris itself is pretty much centered inside the diamond shape and to me that was the most important thing to do..You need to think that you will be stitching your border with a four thread

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I am afraid that is the best I was able to do with this photo. Of course when the outline is stitched, it will really separate the different petals, but at least it gives you some idea of how I stitched mine. No doubts, yours will be quite different. Moving on to the leaves now :-)

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Above: Photo of how Terry Dryden had her Flower Diamonds neck roll finished. Below: Additional photos taken while stitching that pilot project:This completes my photo file on this project.

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Three out of six all stitched and a fourth one already started, things are slowly progressing. Just completed the olla or water jar, the one that is black/blue/yellow. The next step on this project will be to complete the storage jar. I am still undecided as whether I am continuing on this project or proceeding on my rotation. Feeling a bit tired now, so will take a break and then decide :-).

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While I am still working on my Olla or water jar, I thought of having a little fun and showing you my very first silk ribbon embroidery project that I did way way way back. .First funny thing is that this is an "M" and there is no "M" in either my husband or my own name, so why did I end up choosing to make an "M" instead of a "P" or an "R"? Seems like a reasonable question, right? Well the woman

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First photo above showing a side view and second photo below showing a front view.I just got Windows into my Heart from our framer with two fabric covered mats instead of the uncovered one I had before. I think it makes a big difference..Don't look at the wallpaper behind as Windows into my Heart is not going to stay there but I found out that it is one of the best place for me to photograph my

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I have done a bit more on my storage jar, at least the top part of it..Now, I need to move on to Olla or water jar that is located on its left side before continuing on this one as the shape of all the vases/jars/plates that are in front needs to be as perfect as possible. Since they are covering part of the vases/jars/plates that are behind them and at this point in time I can't be entirely

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It seems to me like ages ago since I have worked on this project. It is called Terra Rosa and is an Elsa M. Parrish design..I have added the photo that came with the instructions so that you can have an idea of what it is supposed to look like when finished..Some of you may have noticed some differences between mine and the one in the photograph. It is because the drawn canvas I have received

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After working a little bit on my brazilian project yesterday, I then switched to Persian Fantasy, a needlepoint project on which I have not worked on for a little while now. I have stitched one corner, area 9, which are variations of Japanese silk and metal embroidery filling patterns. I like the look of it but I did not enjoy stitching it at all and I still have 3 other corners to do. I guess

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After putting Rapunzel, my blackwork project, aside, I went and look at my already started projects and felt like doing some brazilian embroidery so picked up my Five Flower Samplers, only to realize that I was still working on the leaves and stems. After complaining in my previous post that I was a bit fed up with all the greeneries, one has to stop and laugh at oneself. Anyway, I have just now

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Here is my latest photograph showing what has been stitched on Rapunzel. This is a project that has so much greeneries in it using different shades of green, most of them DMC threads but also some Floche ones, that it will go on forever. I know it won't, it just feels like it so I may decide to start working on the witch and the tower before moving on to any more greeneries..A side note here. My

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A few days ago I got back Windows into my Heart from the framer. This is a Ruthmarie Hofmann cyberclass that I took a few years back which I have finally finished some months ago. I finally had it framed and it is now on one of ourwalls for us to enjoy :-).Since it has been a long time since my last post about this project, I have also added a photo of the stitched project before framing as a

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Continuing on Rapunzel, a Marion Scoular project, I have now stitched three different patterns (all selected by Marion herself) for the tree foliage, also using different shades of green..Just like The Princess and the Pea, which is another Marion project, I am truly enjoying myself with this one..Been watching Le Tour de France for a couple of weeks now and that has kept me busy than usual as I

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I had a lovely surprise today when I picked up my mail and opened a small envelope full of goodies coming from Mary Corbet. .At this point you may be wondering why I got so lucky and the reason is that I always stop by Mary's blog to find out what she has been cooking for us for the day and on one of these cyber trips I saw that Mary was celebrating Needle'n Thread 3rd anniversary (the name of

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A while back, I had started a series of 4 different bargello coasters, all designed by Brenda Day. These projects and more can be found in her book called "Bargello: A fresh approach to florentine embroidery". I was thinking today that with all the different projects that I am currently working on these days that it may very well take a while before I get to the other two coasters and I really do

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Another finishing that I have done yesterday is the one designed by Gay Ann Rogers. Here are previous posts, one and two, showing the work in progress..Gay Ann had some real easy finishing instructions here, just use a running stitch to sew the two pieces together. How difficult is that? I never had it so easy in all my life (big grin)..I now need to bring it with me when I go to Office Supplies

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I have just completed another finishing with She Stoops to Conquer designed by Anne Stradal of ABS Designs. In the past I used to either finish any completed stitched project right away myself or send it to my framer for finishing depending on the kind of finishing I wanted, but lately I seemed to have been too busy stitching and neglected the finishing aspect of my projects. Yesterday I

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Once in a while I try to do a bit of finishing and this morning I decided to tackle those two miniature projects that I have stitched a while back. They are: Miniature Georgian House and Miniature Garden Gate, both designed by Gay Ann Rogers..I simply finished them by using those Metal Finishing Forms. It makes finishing of little ornaments so much quicker and easier. Have added a bit of padding

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With the completion of the background, I have more or less completed lesson 1 of this EGA group correspondence course..Barbara M. Kershaw says that Casalguidi is a peasant embroidery. Apparently the peasants and villagers of Casalguidi,which is a village in North Central Italy, created this form of embroidery in order to imitate the laces that the rich people used, which they admired very much

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This is the starting point of my Casalguidi & lavender project, designed by Barbara M. Kershaw. I am working this project on a 32ct linen and had a bit of basting to do before actually starting working the middle section with a modified Four-sided stitch. If you look at the photo in the link provided above you will see a similar section that is surrounding this one. This is what I will be working

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Since my last post about Delma Moore's Five Flower Samplers design, I have completed stitching the leaves, all 29 of them and have started working on the stems. This photo above shows two of the five flower samplers with both the leaves and the stems completed. Still have 3 more flower stems to work on. Above, a close-up of one corner one. This last photo shows the work that has been completed

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Looking at the Rapunzel design yesterday, I made the decision to start with the tree on the right side of the tower as it seems to me like a good place to start as I intend to keep the tower and Rapunzel for last. I used exactly the same stitch pattern as Marion Scoular used on hers as it looks just right for a tree. I have been using one strand of DMC 611 for both the filling and the outline..

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While I need a little more time to finish my first blackwork tree before I can put a photo on my blog, I thought I would show you this Casalguidi project for which I have just received my supplies yesterday. It is called Casalguidi and Lavender and has been designed especially for the Embroiderers' Guild of America by Barbara M. Kershaw. .This project when finished will measure approximately 6"

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I have not managed to stitch as many leaves as I wanted yesterday but considering how bad my allergies are acting up these days, I am rather pleased that I have managed to stitch as many as I did. The photo above shows what has been stitched so far. This photo above shows another clutter of leaves.And finally this last photo shows two leaves stitched on another section. I am thinking that by the

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After spending quite a bit of time in the last few days in project selections, hunting down the material for them, ordering some supplies, working a bit in the garden yesterday and also having intensified allergy problems the last two days, this morning I have finally started working on my new brazilian embroidery project called Five Flower Sampler, which is a Blackberry Lane project with Delma

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As I said in my previous post, each grouping will be having its own frame and mat as what seemed to work nicely for one grouping just did not work as well for another grouping. This is the frame and mat for grouping 1. Close-up view of frame and mat.From left to right, we have Old Country,Peace Tree and Fabulous Finale, all part of the Dodecagon Ornament series designed by Jim Wurth..Pierrette =

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After lots of discussions, it has been decided that each grouping will have its own mat color and special frame.Photo above shows Grouping 2. Close-up photo of frame and mat.Here are from left to right: Arcadia, Mohave and Monrovia ornaments..Pierrette =^..^=

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Yesterday, I ended up spending lots of time working on my blog adding additional LABELS so that you and I can find things a bit more easily. The most important label category has been to add a label for each designer, so now when you and I want to see something about Marion Scoular for example, then all we have to do is scroll down to the right side column until we arrive to the label section and

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I got up way too early this morning and I now feel sluggish and it is only 6:25. This heat (heat index today will be between 100 and 110°F) is turning my life upside down. I just don't do well in that kind of weather. These last few days, I saw myself wake up around 3:30, 4:00 in the morning and been thinking that I might as well get up and get going on some of my projects. That seems to have

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I guess it is useless to go against my own nature. Working on only one project at a time is just not working out for me, no matter how beautiful it is, so I have decided to go back to a rotation system that will make me happy..I have been giving it a lot of thought the last few days and I think that I may have found the ideal rotation for me. This ideal rotation will include projects of different

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Now you know the outcome of the debate I have been having with myself . I really do miss doing rotations with my projects, but there is also a part of me that really wants to catch up with this project and see if I can make it or not. I had actually put the project away but picked it up again and yesterday I have done the little corner section (areas 7 and 8). This is a close-up of areas 7 and 8.

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I now feel that I have reached a point in this project where more than half of it has been completed and that from now on things will be progressing faster, but there are still plenty more work to do before Persian Fantasy is ready for the framer..I am now debating with myself whether I want to continue working on this project or take a little break and work on another one and then come back to

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Done one more Area 6 corner, so two more to do and I am done with that. I was checking up to see what else I have to do before Jane Zimmerman gives us another lesson. .I am now working on lesson 3 and I still have area 8 to stitch before completing that lesson..Then I already have lesson 4 waiting, which has areas 7, 9 and 15 to stitch. .And guess what! Lesson 5 is around the corner, end of June

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Yesterday, I ended up not stitching at all and the weather is partly to blame for it. It was close to 100 degrees outside and my stitching room is the hottest room in the house and whenever we feel rather comfortable in all the other rooms in the house (we have a two-level house), mine is always the warmest. With close to 100°F outside, our upstairs air conditioning unit has a bit more problems

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I have managed to spend quite a bit of time yesterday on Stichamaze website and had a wonderful time but still need to go back many more evenings to read all of it. While reading the guests' section, all of a sudden I came upon a piece that I have stitched many years ago. I knew this piece by the name of Tropical Fantasy but apparently it was also known by other names like Fire on Ice, which I

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Another area completed this morning, which is area 4 showing eight little light green flowers on each side of the bigger one. The thread looks a bit like a blueish green, quite lovely actually.Have included an overall photo showing you what has been done so far. I must say that Jane Zimmerman's Persian Fantasy is looking better and better, the more I stitch on it, not that I have ever doubted it

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Grouping 1 Grouping 2 Grouping 3 Grouping 4As I said in my previous post, my husband is going back to the framer tomorrow to make some final decisions, at least for the two first groupings (1 & 2). .So far we have decided to put in each frame 3 Dodecagon ornaments in a vertical way (I took the photo horizontally as it was easier for me to do so). I am thinking of having them put in that order

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It has been what seems to me a long time since this charming little stocking been waiting for his turn to my finish table. Well I have just done it this morning on a very hot and humid summer day..Yesterday I went through my stuff to try to find cordings and ribbons and found these that seems rather perfect for the job at hand, so put everything aside for this morning as I am really not an

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It took a little bit longer to get my Winter Reflections back from the framer as this beautiful frame had to be ordered from Canada. I have just took a close-up photo of it for you all. If you look at the frame and some of the stitches in this piece, you will see that it goes so well with them.It is interesting how the colors of those threads reflect differently and give a different shade to

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This morning, I am feeling like a "Queen" with my new checkbook cover. It makes such a big difference with the plastic one I have been using so far..First photo, above, shows the front of the checkbook cover. On this second photo, above, we see the back of the checkbook cover with all its beautiful blackwork patterns.This is an additional photo taken with the new checkbook cover inside its

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Just finished adding my initials to my checkbook cover. Will now do the finishing and will soon be back with the last photos of this project..Pierrette =^..^=

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Moving along with my checkbook cover as I have just completed the plaid section. All that remains to be done now is work blanket stitches all around to prevent it from fraying as we sure don't want that to happen anytime soon and add my initials. Still need to decide on a design for those..On another note, the other day I saw something pretty cute on a blog that I was visiting. Vintage

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Well, I just did it again. Yesterday I was talking about all this catching up I have to do with Persian Fantasy before I could go back to my other projects and this morning I could not resist anymore, I just had to go back to my rotation so I put Persian Fantasy aside for just a little while, not for long, and got my plaid & blackwork checkbook cover out and started working step 2 for the plaid

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Finally, I have just completed lesson 2 and have also managed to take a decent photo with so much exposed canvas in the center. I tried different settings and now I can't remember which setting this one was. I must say that was not done in a very scientific fashion..I would have finished this section much earlier than this, but have been helping my husband doing some gardening work for the last

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The last couple days, I spent time doing some gardening work with my husband so that has slowed me down a bit on my stitching. It has also tired me out as I have been using muscles that I do not normally use while stitching and I can feel the pain and I am afraid that we need to do more of it in the coming days, so ..............Anyway, I have just added another photo showing the third side of

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While I was stitching this morning, I was wondering why it seemed to me to have taken so long to stitch only one side yesterday and thought that perhaps it was because I took too many coffee breaks or in my case water or juice breaks or perhaps too many distractions. Distractions are so easy when you sit next to your computer and you don't even notice :-(.Anyway, because of the little I managed

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Well it seems that area 5 will take me quite a bit of time to complete as I have only been able to stitch one section of it and there are four of them and it took me a big chunk of the morning and a portion of the afternoon too. The thing is that there are 3 steps necessary in order to complete this design and I am using 5 ply which means that I am using my laying tool, which means "time". The

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This morning I went back to Jane D. Zimmerman's current cyberclass class called Persian Fantasy that I am taking through the Shining Needle Society after not stitching on it at all for approximaely three weeks due to working exclusively on my pilot class. During that time Jane gave us two assignments which includes four different areas. The photo above shows area 3 which repeats itself in every

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Before writing this blog entry, I checked to see what date I had started working on Terry Dryden's pilot class called "Flower Diamonds" and it was May 10th, so this means that it took me approximately 3 weeks from start to finish. Not bad at all! Time does fly when we are having fun :-).Contrary to what I normally do, which is working on multiple projects in some sort of rotation system unknown

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On Saturday I got my Superstition back from the framer but it was just too dark inside to take a photoas it has been raining a lot lately..The frame above has been taken under normal lights and the same frame under lots of light where it is going to live from now on. I chose this place as when the lights are on, Superstition sparkles so much that you can't not look at it even if you wanted to as

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This is my very first pilot class project which I am doing as a "ghost stitcher" for Terry Dryden's new design called Flower Diamonds which is being offered for the first time at the 2009 ANG Seminar in Milwaukee on August 31 & September 1st as a 2-day class. You can see more information on your ANG Seminar supplement on page 20.. There are over 30 different threads and six different assorted

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We are having another nice rainy day here, but hey I do not dare complain about it since we have had many years of draught lately and it has not been a pretty sight, so I will take all the rain that they are willing to send us. The trees are just loving it and have never looked so good and such in good health. My little basil plants though do not seem to like having wet feet all the time, so the

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For the last few days I have been working on "Persian Fantasy" designed by Jane D. Zimmerman. Jane is teaching this cyberclass on Shining Needle Society..There are different color options offered for this design and I selected Green and Cranberry for mine instead of blue..I don't seem to have done much so far on this project, but that would be entirely false. There were lots of prework to do as

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It is with great sadness that yesterday on May 4th, 2009 the stitching world has learned of Jean Hilton's death. I was absolutely stunned when I read about it on stitching groups and it has still not completely sank in..Jeanne on her blog has written a wonderful testimony and has also shown one of Jean's piece that I particularly love and admired ever since I set eyes on it "Scotlee"..While

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Oh boy, do I need a break from this plaid as I feel all dizzy and am now cross-eyed, not a good feeling nor a pretty sight :-(.I have just completed the first step for the plaid with multiple horizontal rows of stitches of different colors working one stich in every other stitch. To make this worst, I had to use 3 strands of floss and use my laying tool for each one of them. It does take a lot

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This morning I have picked up where I had left off on my "Plaid and Blackwork Checkbook cover", a Marjorie B. Berleur design, and completed the remaining Blackwork designs.I will now start working on the "plaid" part of it, using some DMC floss threads in blue, lavender, green and peach (color used for the blackwork and borders)..I have been wanting to stitch some plaid for sometimes now, but

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Here is the completed Winter Reflections, Loretta Spears' Mystery #2. .While I was stitching this beautiful design, a thought kept creeping up in my head. Does this design has to be vertical or can it also be horizontal and at the same time respecting the designer's concept? I got my answer from Loretta herself. In her last lesson she says "I told you in my description of the design it could be

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My joint venture with Sharon D. continues and I have now completed lesson 4. Only one more lesson remains to be stitched and it is the border around Winter Reflections and I will get to it right away. Next and last photo of this project will be posted sometimes tomorrow morning..Pierrette =^..^=

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I have been doing a little bit of stitching since I received Winter Reflections from Sharon D (see previous blog entry)..The photo above shows the three first lessons completed in full. I have taken a second photograph here so that you can see a little better the work that has been completed, both by Sharon and myself.And even took a third one for good measure (grinning). On this one you can see

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I am a bit at a loss for words here and not entirely sure how to start this blog entry this morning and it has all to do with this lovely design called Winter Reflections, Loretta Spears' Mystery #2..You see, the photo above has not been stitched by myself, but by another stitcher named Sharon D. from South Carolina. At this point, you may be wondering why the photo is on my blog since I am not

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A few weeks ago I have started working on a checkbook cover. You can see the outline here on this post..This checkbook designed by Marjorie B. Berleur contains both Blackwork and Needlepoint elements. Since I have been doing a lot of needlepoint projects recently, I have decided to start with the Blackwork patterns and here are the first two.This photo shows gives you a general idea of what has

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April assignement has been completed with the addition of the roof on Hollyhock House. A good thing that the wallpapers and furniture have not yet been added as we have been having lots and lots of rain recently with a few tornadoes here and there just to keep us on our toes. The last tornado, an F4 touched down about 25 miles from where I live. Lots of hurt people and also a mother and her new

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Just finished adding the last beads this morning at 7:30. I know what you are thinking but I am an early riser (grinning)..As far as I know Loretta Spears has designed 14 mysteries in her series and this one is Mystery #13, also called Superstition. Been wondering why Loretta called this one Superstition and must confess that I have not been able to come up with any clues, except that perhaps

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I am almost done, but not quite. Just completed lesson 4, pattern 2, step 1, which is the border. I still need to do step 2, which is the beading part of the border..I have noticed that the colors of Superstition have not always been as exact as they should have been in past photographs, so I making sure that my last photographs are as close to reality as possible and this is pretty close.

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For lesson 4, pattern 1, the task at hand was to square off the pattern once more by working another pulled thread stitch, the Single Faggot over 2 threads. .I now can't wait to see what the border and beads will look like so will get to it right now and see if I can finish Superstition today or not..Pierrette =^..^=

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(Designed and stitched by Anne Stradal).I always like to put something special for all our main holidays, so I was thinking about what I had stitched for Easter in the past and the answer to that question is not much, not much at all..I participated in an Easter egg exchange some years back and had to make a decision as to which egg design to select and stitch as part of my exchange. They have a

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I have now completed lesson 3. Photo below shows step 3, a series of additional double cross stitches and then in the photo above you can see more of the same pattern already used a few times stitched in different colors. The only exception with these last ones was that those were a bit bigger than previously.One more lesson remains which is lesson 4 and guess what, some more pulled thread to do,

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I am so impressed by this gorgeous design that Loretta Spears created..At every step of the way, she manages to add something so very special to her mystery #13..The photo below shows step 1 of lesson 3, which is a series of double crosses made in Waterlilies Flamingo. The photo above shows step 2 of the same lesson, which is a filling of eyelet stitches done in Waterlilies Opal.There are still

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I am sure that Loretta Spears did not intend to throw me a curve here, but she did just the same. .I must say and repeat that I do not like stitching mystery projects for many reasons, and one being that you have no photo of what it is supposed to look like. In this instance this pattern was a "pulled thread" pattern, for which there was no graphic of how to do the stitch and many times, like it

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This is a project that I have been wanting to start stitching for a little while now, well ever since a friend showed it to me. She has made a few for herself in different colors and graciously offered it to me and I can't thank her enough for doing so. I am pleased to no end to have the opportunity to stitch this..When I saw the stitched design, I knew it would be perfect for me for a few

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Coaster B Coaster CI should really have been stitching on something else, but I just had to stitch a second coaster out of my 4 coaster series. Post about coaster C is here..I am stitching those four coasters using exactly the same colors as Brenda Day did in her book called Bargello: A fresh approach to florentine embroidery. This forces me to go outside my color comfort zone at times and see

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Remember when I stitched Here Kitty for my friend Terry's birthday a little while back, a Cheryl Schaeffer design? Well she has just framed it herself and sent me a photograph of it to add to my blog..I will let Terry tell us more about it on her blog when she is through having her tea. Terry lives in Great Britain as you may already have concluded (grinning)..Pierrette =^..^=

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Stitching Guild Chapter members around the country like ANG and EGA and perhaps others too have been and are still stitching these little "Soldier Kissing Pillows" and our new Cyberpointers chapter, which I am a member of, has also embarked in this project by adopting a battalion that is due to deploy later this year..I have committed myself to stitching 6 of these little pillows and this is the

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I am back after not feeling well, but I am doing just fine now, so I have restarted stitching yesterday..This is the first one of a series of 4 different coasters: 4 different designs with different colors. I am using Brenda Day's colors for the first series, forcing myself in using colors that perhaps I would not initially chose. I will be making a few extras for Christmas gifts. Some of you

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