What are you stitching?

Since I was whining about no one posting, I suppose I could at least get something started! lol

As I posted before, I started on Keslyn Designs' "My day complete" and was having trouble with it. I'm happy to report that it's been going much better as of late, until I ran out of floss. That's been reordered and I rec'd it yesterday.

While I was waiting for it to come, I started on a project for DS#2.

Background story: A couple years ago he gave me a few random skeins of floss for Christmas (I didn't tell him I already have the entire set! :) ). They were some fairly bright colors...orange, green, turquoise, yellow and 2 skeins of Fluorescent Effects. He said I could make him something out of them. I thought to myself, what could I make with

*those* colors?!?!? I wandered around Google one day and saw a hot air balloon and thought that might work. So I made it into a pattern.

So that's the project I worked on and will now put it aside to finish the Keslyn one, which just has the 4 corners of the main motif and the lettering left.

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ndjoan
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Trying to work on a birthday gift that's going to require dedicated effort.

Quilt/Sew/Craft festival was yesterday. Only one booth with hand embroidery; mostly sew and quilt, but got some backing fabric for pillows. Including this gift.

Should've taken the Vicodin *before* the pain got too bad, because it was no help when I finally did take it.

The kit has most of the floss on a sorter but 4 complete skeins. At bedtime, I could only find 3 of them, despite a search of the immediate area. When I pulled it out to work on it this morning, that "missing" skein was safely tucked into the clip holding my chart. Was I beyond exhausted or what?

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Karen C in Calif

I've done stuff like that too. C

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Cheryl Isaak

"A STITCHER'S HEART" by Little House Needlework's

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with Crescent Colors floss, and the trim (special dyed for thisproject), and a chart from Shakespeare's Peddler that uses the same flosses!Also have 2 current knitting projects: 1)a shrug knitted with circularneedles from one cuff, up the sleeve, opening up for the back/body ofthe project, then closing up again for the other sleeve & cuff, then youpick up the edges and do a k2p2 ribbed edging for the body all the wayaround. I have one sleeve done and about 1/4 the back/body. 2) thesecond sock to my second (ever) pair of home-made/hand-knitted socks!I'm making the leg(s) longer than my first pair so they will come uphigher on my calf (or I can 'scrunch' them around my ankles). and I amalso reversing the direction of the pattern (self patterning/stripingyarn) on each sock - just to be different :)

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Magic Mood Jeep

I was hoping that I could find something similar to the pillows found on this site

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I think that they would be greatto add to my bedroom. If you think the throw pillow wouldn't work, justlet me know I love them enough to purchase a few either way. thanks!

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Pawnedmyhalo

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Just finished Tanja Berlin's Hapsburg lace, working on a Montmellick/trapun= to class piece being taught at Guild, stitching a mini kimono (can't rememb= er the designer), and I need to do an Artists' trading card as a gift for a= Guild member who is leaving. I also need to start looking for a wedding s= ampler for my niece getting married next year. MLI's Bride is in for frami= ng for the niece getting married this year.

MargW

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MargW

Since my current WIP was at an intense counting stage, I took the little ornament I designed a few years ago to my creative circle meeting so I could stitch and talk at the same time. By changing a few stitches here and there, one has magenta flowers and seafoam trim and the other has blue snowflakes (as originally designed) and the original XXXXXX trim in the middle was transformed to a row of hearts.

Since the row of hearts are connected, it's not that obvious what they are, and I will have to sit down with graph paper and figure out a version where they're free-standing, for Valentine's Day.

And now I'm back to my beloved's birthday present.

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Karen C in Calif

I'm working on some intense WIPs but took a break to make some cute little ornaments. A VERY GOOD friend sent me a box of the BritStitch magazines that she subscribes to, along with some of the freebie kits. I read the mags and return some of them to her and forward some of the others to another stitching buddy (and keep a few, too!) Anyway, I took one of the freebie kits for felt ornaments and rather than using the charts the magazine intended for them, I found some cuter small charts in another magazine (small designs for an Advent calendar - a reindeer, a tree, and a little birdie), and stitched them up on little bits of Aida and inserted into felt and blanket stitched around the inside aperture and outside backing. So I'm three ornies ahead for next Christmas already!

sue

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Susan Hartman

Ooo, *thank you* for reminding me about this, Sue! I must start stitching the Precious Moments Advent calendar for DGD. She should be old enough for it by the time I get it finished!

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ndjoan

Good for you!

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Karen C in Calif

Sue, It makes me more tired just reading how much you get done!

I think I'm sending you some things! As I'm cleaning up some stash - you deserve a pile as well!

I am not stitching 'cause it's one stitch in, two stitches out of late!

Ellice

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Ellice K.

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