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Still working on a baby sampler - same one for the last 4 yrs. Life just gets in the way (for good reasons, though). Other WIP include a Christmas towel that I don't know if I'll ever finish, and a wedding sampler for DH and myself.

Barbara HJ

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I am still working on my silk Jacobean piece. Egads forever but happily. I started a whole cloth quilt and that is eating up time and also just finished my hubby's vest knit to the armhole, should have measured it before because the gauge got goofy and 4 inches too wide ! i will be winding back 1 1/2 hanks and regauging it. I have an Erica Wilson kit on the side waiting ( Country Life crewel)and going to try parterre work . I already have started sketching it. Barbie

No translations on RAKAM yet and I wouldn't hold my breath. A couple of years ago, I got excited when they did an extended section of "Euro-version' with english for that particular section but they have since abandoned it. If anything, it served only to help me see that my italian isn't so bad. I get my subscription directly from them but I know in the US at least, you can get a subscription through Amazon.com

Any english translation I've seen for "Punto Antico" is indeed, Antique Stitch or Tuscan Stitch. It is similar to Hardanger and many of the motifs are common to both but the drawnthread/cutwork of Punto Antico especially is entirely different from Hardanger. Instead of satin stitching and cutting like you would in Hardanger, you cut a "x" slit in the middle of the box you want to cut out and fold the threads back on themselves and do a cord stitch over the edge to keep them in place, trimming the threads that are hanging out on the edge of the cording stitch farthest away from the hole in the fabric. (Don't know if you can follow that without a diagram. Punto Antico also has a few stitches and motifs which are traditionally "trade-mark" stitches of this technique. ie. curling designs and such. I can email you photos if you like...

Yes, I'm thinking seriously about another Mountmellick piece - all those holes I stabbed in my fingers from the last one have healed!! ;-) Jeanine in Canada

Dianne Lewandowski wrote:

I just finished "Story time", a Valerie Pfeiffer design:

except I didit on a light green linen. I took it to the framer's yesterday and amgoing back today to continue looking for that "just right" framecombo!!! This is going in my stitching room (that DH still insists isthe "office" LOL!). All the colors match the walls, woodwork,stitching cabinet and curtains in this room. It was definitely Karma,or something, when I found this pattern! :)I'm getting close to finishing "In His care" by Dimensions: , which I've beenworking on, off and on, for about 3 years. Yipee! :) I'm currentlydoing the bs on her wing and have her hand, bunny (in Wisper) and thefinishing stitches left to do. I think this is also going to end up inmy stitching room! Hm. Two in a row for me--I think that's a record!Next in line is a pattern from PatternsOnline.com. A smaller one abouta potting shed: This will be for my green-thumbed/biologist niece in southern WA, whojust got a ..... surprise! potting shed! :) I've actually put inabout 10 stitches but decided to finish my angel first.Joan

I've been doing some hand beading on a handbag for my MIL. She has an outfit to wear to my BIL's wedding and needed a bag. With her birthday approaching and her not being able to give us any ideas, we borrowed the outfit, and I've made my very first professional looking handbag. I was so pleased with the results! (I hope she likes it!)

I had to match a dirty mushroomy pink/purple for the colour, and did this by overlaying some brown organza over dirty pink/purple poplin. An unusual combo, but it worked out just the right colour. I found a beaded tassel at the local $2 shop which had bugle beads just the perfect colour, and got some seed beads also. The design worked up so quickly.

I designed the bag itself too, so that was a nice little problem solving exercise...!

But I'm now wondering what else I can do... :-)

Yvette

Valerie Pfeiffer designs: I like the the designs but I don't buy them unless I can find them marked down. Too expensive. (see my other post... :-) )

I'm thinking of doing all the Prairie Schooler Alphabet pictures on one piece. I haven't decided if I want to do them as an afghan or not and if I do decide this, whether there is an afghan style out there that will suit.

I'm working on The Mermaid and the Sea sampler by Examplars from the Heart - done completely in WDW threads (a pictures also at the Silver Needle which has a great line of scissors from Wasa and Dovo!)

and when I'mtired of working on that, I'm finishing the backstitiching on the WoodWarblers Bell pull from Cross Winged Collection.And what the heck does MIL and LOL mean? I've been trying to deciphersome the abbreviations and not having much luck for some of them. Isthere an FAQ somehere?

LOL=Laughing Out Loud

Yes, Kathy Dyer's wonderful site:

Ooooh, tell me more. Drawstring? Fold over clutch? The kind with the snap-on closures (you see with knitted bags, the pretty closing thingy's).

Dianne

OK, the one thing that I swore would not happen has from baiting by my good and darling friend Ann.

Working on Olde World Map from Janlynn, Quilt block of the Month from JoAnn's various white work pieces for the Nat. Cat.

Have the Guardian in queue.

R

Enter "hyacinth" in the search box and on the second page you will find hyacinths in yellow/blue, yellow/purple and blue/purple.

HTH, emerald (NAetc)

I'm working on the third part of a xs kit I found in Kentucky. I was supposed to be three designs done together on one strip of aida. Only, I'm doing it on small pieces of leftover 18 mesh canvas in continental with the floss provided in the kit. For background, I'm dipping into my stash of tapestry wool and making do very nicely. The designs are a male cardinal, a sprig of dogwood and a magnolia blossom. I'll offer the aida to anyone who wants it at the next craft show I attend, plus any leftover floss. (I must say, tho, that I had to run out and buy more floss, since I'm using the whole 6 strand piece to cover the canvas. The kit allowed for 2 strands on the aida.)

On an even happier note, I found in a closeout store three square offwhite frames with 6 inch openings and appropriate mats. I threw away the cheap artwork and am thrilled to finally save the cost of custom framing. Gotta offset those others SOMEhow...

Let me start by saying I'm a snowbird, getting ready to head back to Northern Minnesota. No LNS up near me in our little town of 650 and it is

90 miles south to Duluth, MN. So before we leave the thriving metropolis of the Phoenix area, I'm loading up on work--LOL Works in progress---cross stitch---Sunset kit: Southwest Collection, a cross stitch/blackwork piece from a magazine of an Iris.-------Needlepoint----Dimensions kit: Antique Barn--hand painted canvas of gambels quail. (Common bird here in AZ) Stash to take along---another hand painted canvas, Cross stitch from magazine of "The Button Vender", 2 Susan Portra's designs for a Christmas ornaments, a Genny Morrow design called "First Step", and another magazine chart called Pallette Stitching. Think I have enough to last me for 6 months until I return to Arizona? DH has no idea of the load I'm bringing and lugging 2000+ miles to Minnesota besides all the books I'm taking back to read. We really are out in the boonies on a lovely lake, but I'm an inside "girl" and do not enjoy the outside and all the bugs we have up there. I can go fishing a couple of times but that satisfies my desire for fishing. Anyway, it has been nice lurking in this site and I have enjoyed a lot of the postings. 12 miles from town with a copper phone line and dial-up isp, I probably will have to wait to look in on this site until I return to AZ and my nice cable isp--lol On the cost of needlework patterns---they sure are getting higher---$12.00 for The First Step chart, and over $200 for the 2 hand painted needlepoint canvases alone, no yarn. That was extra. Luckily I have a large stash of yarns, but still needed to buy some colors. I'm very happy to be able to support my habit for needlework.

Clarice in AZ and MN

Next Fall we plan to be at Superior Wisconsin, near Duluth, for a motorhome rally!! We spent a great two weeks at grand marais some years back. Many happy memories!!

Gillian Florida, but I prefer the north!!