Squirrel!

I had intended to use my stitching time this weekend to finish this flower on The American Sampler:



I didn't touch it. Why? Because I worked at my LNS Saturday and they had a silk gauze class. There were so many fabulous pieces I HAD to break out my silk gauze stash and start another new project. After all, I've already been working on The American Sampler for ten years--what's another ten....

Note the FINISHED piece (The Pumpkin Sampler from Threads Through Time) on the right. I can't remember how long it's been there, but I wasn't going to do anything with it until I used the other side. After a bit of stash fondling (and determining one chart is MIA...hmm...) I decided on The Mermaid Sampler (also Threads Through Time) because I'm a sucker for ships and mermaids:



I stayed up waaaay too late working on it last night--it's too much fun!
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You know things are out of hand when...

...queen stitches on 40ct are a stress RELIEVER....

I've had very little time to stitch, so it took forever to get the little strawberries done.






I'm fooling myself into thinking I can get the queen stitch flower in the upper right finished this weekend.






Place your bets now, folks....

Also, the Madness has taken me, so GO OHIO STATE, U OF A (men), ASU and UCONN (women)!

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Well this is embarrassing

I've been looking for this for 4 months. Turns out it was in my stitching bag all along....



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Meeting in the middle

There are very few things more satisfying to a stitcher than having a border actually meet like it's supposed to:



This would be the Stacy Nash companion piece I meant to stitch over 1 but forgot at the last minute. Ah, middle aged brain....

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I haven't forgotten my blog again....

Really, I've wanted to post, but life has been in the way (I know you're wondering 'how could life get in the way of 3 sentences and a picture twice a week', but you have no idea how many attempts it takes me to get a coherent sentence out ;).

Big news (and now on display at my LNS)--I made a start and a finish of the same project in 3 days :-D









I'm using a 6" ruler for scale and I still think you don't get how small and cute these bonbons from Just Another Button Company are. Those are real candy papers they're sitting in! cute Cute CUTE!!

A normal person could finish the project in an afternoon....

And now...NEEDLEPOINT!

My needlepoint friends were over today, so I once again bowed to peer pressure and worked on my JustLibby Snowflake Santa. I've just put the finishing touches on his fluffy pom pom:









All that's left is the background and some snowflakes in the toe.

That's a lot of 'all' for me.

I've made progress on some cross stitch projects but that will wait until next time....

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Look, it's a bird!

And the 10-year-old mistake on the right has been fixed too :)

The American Sampler on 40ct New Khaki with NPI.

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Stupid software

The #{]<€ software on my phone ate my post. Here's the picture:




I'm not going to bother with the rest--it's past my bedtime.

Blps.
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It crashed again, but this time I outsmarted it and saved it. HA!
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3rd time's the charm?
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So will it work now it's rested all night....

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