Stitch-y gifts anyone?

What ever gave you that idea?

Would you will it to me? Someplace in the acres of stuff we brought back from my in laws house (which was basically 90% of it) is my MIL's old mixer. I want to find it but haven't had much luck yet.

Cheryl

What kind of cookies did you make? Cheryl

What a great idea! I give the BIL suet for his feeders and sometimes a gift cert for the bird seed store!

Cheryl

Man, this is weird. The late lamented MIL brought with her this old shiny, heavy, and to mu mind incongruous, machine with her. I just looked in the pantry, and indeed it is the Sunbeam. I remember thinking I could do things so much quicker, with less mess than she did!! Maybe it is a collectible, and can live my life out on the French Riviera; I doubt it, though!LOLOL

Gillian

I'm not going anywhere yet, but I'll put a sticker on it with your name.

Don't knock it Gillian--it's the only thing I've ever seen that could mix toll house cookie dough after the nuts and chocolate chips were tossed in. My mother got a fancy-dancy new one from another company that wouldn't even try to do that. Don't ask me for the name of the other one because I haven't a clue. It will probably come back to me at midnight tonight.

Lucille

A stitching friend sent me one of Kreinik's "remember the ladies" silk packs. Can't wait to add that to my New Year's rotation! It's this one:

(But I told her I'd have to start doing some serious moisturizing soon, because winter skin and silk don't mix!) Sue

-- Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen The Magazine of Folk and World Music

Sourcream spritz with the press, oatmeal with chocolate chips instead of raisins, and a sugar cookie that should have been cut, but we put through the press instead. Also made my grandmother's sour cream cake and some home made chocolate candies.

Elizabeth

I got 2 xs charts. Seated Cat is an xs adaptation of a painting by

17th century Chinese artist Chu Ling, and it came from Fine Arts Heritage Society. The other is a kit from Herrshners that depicts the face of a gray tabby cat, who happens to be a dead ringer for my Littleberry, right down to the devilish brown eyes.

And I want a Sunbeam! Everyone else in the family has moved on to KitchenAid, but I remember my mother's Mixmaster with love (well, okay, I didn't love the avocado green decor...) and really dislike the lack of space between the bowl and the motor on my sister's KitchenAid.

Mine is white and from 1958. Well, now it's kind of a yucky yellow, but it started out white. It still needs to be oiled in a few holes on top of the motor and seems to be indestructible. It's the only appliance I still have from years ago that hasn't been upgraded and I'm not sure that's because of nostalgia,or because it's really good.

Can you imagine anything produced now lasting like that? I can't think of even one.

Lucille

Koo nee chee wah

Well, let me describe it to you, and I'll let you decide. It's a pretty standard calendar (has dates and such, no stitching tips or anything) and each month has a picture of a pattern for you to stitch. As you flip the month over you see that the picture is actually the pattern itself, and it has a piece of 18 count white aida attached to it. The designs are cute and folksy, very much in the style of Ewe & Eye & Friends (

) and they don't seem to be very complicated. A few smyrna cross stitches here and there is as hard as it gets. The patterns call for DMC floss and the occaisional button and the finishing size is 3 1/4 " by 3 1/4 ". The designs seem to fit the month (a cup of steaming coffee for January, a heart for February, a lamb for March, etc). The calendar pages can be cut and used as "designer mats" for framing the finished pieces. I'd say that this is a good calendar for the beginning stitcher, with nice little patterns that would interest the more experienced stitcher as well. If you like the folksy style of Ewe & Eye & Friends and you like doing "smalls", I'd definitely pick up this calendar.Let me know if you want me to describe the page-a-day block calendar as well :)

I'm sure she will be thrilled that you made the effort to learn a few phrases. My best friend is Japanese, and she taught me a few polite phrases to say to her parents when they came to visit the US. It seemed to tickle them to no end!

The one I have is the Page-a-day, and it is not something I would buy for myself!

Gillian

Remember back when I said DS got a bill from Nordic Needle? The gift was actually from both him and DD. He paid for it and she stitched this for me:

She did a really nice job and said shefinished it the day before Christmas! :)Joan, the proud mama :)

I got a couple of stitch-y gifts in my stocking. The first is a dozen EZ bobs. I wind skeins of #5 perle cotton onto these when I'm doing a wrapped temari ball. I also got the Quiltscape puzzle called "Fireflies"

should keep me out of trouble for awhile.take care, Linda

Or learn to read a knitting chart and graph it out for yourself.

emerald, who just finished her first lace project

Oh do! It's fun and you get something really beautiful at the end of it!

BTW, Which lace book did you get?

emerald