What we're stitching now...

I thought perhaps it might be interesting to know what we are all stitching right now -- I'd suspect it's a wide cross-section.

I love interesting quotes, and I'm doing one now that says: I pray that risen from the dead, I may in Glory stand. A Crown perhaps upon my head, but a needle in my hand."

The last quote I did said as I told y'all, "Things haven't been the same since that house fell on my sister."

The one before that was "A needle in the hand is worth two in the couch." My dh strongly agreed with that one.

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Jere Williams
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I always like this category. It's fun to see what others are working on "right now".

I am working on "Feline Fascination". A Chart & Charms kit from Dimensions. Also "Lily Pond Dreams" from Black Swan Designs.

My TV project is a pre stamped, pre quilted crib cover called "Cuddly Friends". My church project is a prayer shawl in crochet.

Happy stitching, Mag

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Margaret Wilson

Thank you Jere . I am usually not inclined to talk much about what is `under the needle` ,,,,, well i talk about the work , not the subject....But this times need some Needlwork talk ,,,, thus I am stil working onthe big work i took apart after 3 years and i now took this subject and divided the work into 12 parts , each needing tedious long embroidered lines, to make squres on those parts before adding apliqued parts .... I found 2 more family members names i intend to add to my work "Visiting relatives in Westerbork" . I have a big work on the loom that will mostly be woven but it will include embroidered faces [ and parts of faces] . I have 2 other works thatstill need either place names or appliqued parts ... i don`t count those works i just work when i can ,,,, at home and on busses, mirjam

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Mirjam Bruck-Cohen

----"or in the carpet!" LOL! I run around with bare feet!

I`m working on quite a big one (about 275 by 175) of Otley Hall, a beautiful old Tudor house in our area which belonged to the Gosnold family. One of them sailed to Jamestown in the "Godspeed", a replica of which was sailed across there some years ago. I believe it`s still there, rotting away now. At the moment I`m lost in the bushes, so to speak!

Pat P

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Pat P

Oh, good idea!

I currently have three UFOs in the works:

1) Dimensions' "White Magic," about 1/4 stitched - White Magic is very monochromatic in tone and on black.

2) Celestial Gathering (stitching just started). COlorful but on a navy blue Lugana, so hard to see at night.

3) "Rocky Point" - for daytime stitching, on a 28 count White Belfast. A beautiful palette on that one... I'm a sucker for bright coloration and detail.

After the new year now that I have an LNS and can choose the fabric by touching and feeling the give, will start Donna Giampi's "Christmas Heirloom Sampler" :-)

Thanks for suggesting this, I can't wait to hear what others are working on.

Pat in PA

Pat P wrote:

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Pat Dumas

Of course, for "Rocky Point" as it's a light background, I meant for NIGHT TIME stitching... too early, not enough coffee... lol

Pat > Oh, good idea!

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Pat Dumas

Jere Williams wrote: >

OOOOOOooooooo...I like that. Was it something you whipped up yourself or did it come from a leaflet? I'd like to make one too!

Played 'find the needle' for an hour last night... Becky

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Becky A

I just finished Thistle stop by The Crossed Wing and started The Shepherd Boy on the Marbek Nativity. I think I am really going to like this project. Sharon in MN

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sharoncapps

First - what chart was the last one! I love it!

I have just a little left to do on Everyone's Nook - just the personalization left. Just need to motivate myself

The beading is what all that is left on Paperdoll Teddy.

I've started "teatime" from Imaginating. Most of the center is done.

I've got a Debbie Mum teapot to finish by 11/22 for my best friend and neighbor's birthday.

Cheryl

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Cheryl Isaak

I have to hurry to finish a Mill Hill ornament since I only have one of the pair done that I want to give DH for his birthday on Friday. Don't ask me which one since I don't have it up here by the computer...

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Brenda Lewis

Love those quotes!

I just finished 2 projects, a Candamar Designs crewel rabbit, which is at the framers and a X-Stitch Celtic Cross my dh picked up for me at a Celtic festival. Lovely. Now I'm working to finish the first of 4 bayeaux tapestry sections my in laws bought me in England! Once that's done, it's on to a stumpwork etui called Rose a Mundi. :-D

Julie

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jules

Right now I'm on the fourth panel of "Wynken, Blyken and Nod" for dear GS who hasn't yet been born yet but was due last week. At this rate, I may have it finished before he arrives LOL. This was a chart I bought years ago, as the poem was one of my children's favorite. And as my DD has done the nursery with a moon and stars theme it fits right in. I'm so happy I have a reason to stitch it. As soon as that is done I'm going back to "The French Alphabet Sampler" and I'm going to start an EGA project, a band sampler whose name and designer have slipped my mind.

Pat in SJ

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Pat Lerch

I am quite a long way into one of my computer generated charts. This time the false color satellite image of a hurricane. Black background, dark eye, and swirling colors from pale yellow, through burnt oranges, to purples and garnet. Though I say it as shouldn't, it really is quite spectacular.

-- Jim Cripwell. A volante tribe of bards on earth are found,/ who, while the flattering zephyrs round them play,/ on "coignes of vantage" build their nests of clay;/ how quickly from that aery hold unbound,/ dust for oblivion!/ To the solid ground/ of nature trusts the mind that builds for aye. Wordsworth.

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F.James Cripwell

Let's see, First I've started knitting a baby set for my niece. It's going to be a boring project because of the 210 stitches I cast on for the baby blanket about half of them are done in the bramble stitch which is a very big pain in the neck to do. But this is for someone who has been trying to have a baby for several years, had two misses, went for the in vitro business a couple of times and now is pregnant the old fashioned way. Will wonders never cease.

I also have an almost done little Dimensions Gold Kit called Amaryllis in Bloom. I just need to complete the silver couched trim that frames the picture.

What I have impatiently waiting for me in the closet, ready to come out and play, is my first attempt at blackwork. It's calling to me but I must get at least some of the baby set done so he doesn't get this gift when he's starting college.

Thanks Jere for starting a thread that actually has something to do with needlework and is fun to read.

Lucille

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Lucille

I just finished the VS Heirloom Anniversary sampler for my parents' 40th anniversary party (but done in greens instead of pinks/mauves and with a different verse). I'm trying to kick my butt into finishing a Tunisian crochet plaid afghan for a friend's baby. It's been lingering for over a year and a half. This particular technique has made it impossible to carry the project around, so I don't get so much time with it, but I think now that it's Nutcracker season, maybe I'll just bite the bullet and haul the big box'o'skeins to the dance studio anyway. After that, I really ought to finish up a wool-on-wool blanket (from Inspirations) that also should have been finished long ago. Who knows if I'll decide to be good, though ;-)

Best wishes, Ericka

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Ericka Kammerer

I've had a productivity meltdown, and haven't actually done much over the past month or so. I'm probably going to do beadwork over the next month to get my Xmas gifts ready. All the nieces are going to get necklaces. I've also been playing with the idea of embroidering little silk bags to put the necklaces in, but I will see what kind of time I have. The embroidery for little jewelry bags actually doesn't take long

- it's the finishing that always gets me.

Other than that, the UFO's have been staring at me, particularly the Eliane McCready iris tapestry.

Dora

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bungadora

I just picked up a chart booklet at my LNS called Parisian Panache by Leisure Arts. Very simple little charts, lots of backstitch sketching (the Eiffel tower, legs in fishnet stockings, etc). I need something very simple and light-hearted to do right now, and this should work perfectly. Dawne

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Dawne Peterson

I'm working on a small piece (barely 4" square) to be appliquéd to the tree skirt I started for the SMDGD in 2003, the year she was born. I am doing one of the DVG Christmas Cat ornament designs and I'm about halfway finished with it. Also in the works is the *#%&%^ Animal Ark Growth Chart kit (from Sunset, I think)! Other stuff keeps getting in the way and I don't work on it as often I want. It's VERY colorful, on bright yellow aida and the animals and ark are all in bright pastels in a patchwork design. I'm starting to think the kid will be on her way to University before I get the blasted thing finished -- LOL! I only have ONE animal left to stitch, too! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

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Tia Mary

Lost in the bushes -- I like that, often feel that way if I do a big work with lots of shading, which I rarely do any more.

I've found I love so many of the new designers, with their simpler designs, because they're simply so much easier for me, LOL.

-- Jere

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Jere Williams

Let's see.

I'm in the homestretch of detailing Morning Glories from Art-Stitch (just the last couple of veins in the flower).

I'm also working on Bent Creek's Snow, and I've changed everything except the design (the fabric, the count, the threads).

The border from TicTacToe (from Needlepoint Now) is going, oh so slowly. A three row upright gobelin is really easy, but very boring.

I've got the Oriental Butterfly from Dimensions kitted up and ready to go when I finish Morning Glories; and a CrossEyedCricket saying "why is it my creative joys diminish It's more fun to start a piece than ever it is to finish" to follow Snow.

I'm also knitting a scarf for my teenager, and one for me.

jenn

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Jenn Ridley

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