stitching anything?

I got the newest chart I ordered (the one whose name I forgot). Here it is--Opus Magnusson from Long Dog.

could I resist a Celtic/Icelandic sampler???? Dawne

Very nice Dawne, lot of work !

Hi! Haven't posted for a while. Or done any needle work for that matter. I was taking an online course and it was pure hell. I just wrote my instructor to tell him I was withdrawing - I was more than a month behind. So I am contemplating the joys of a month or so off before I take another course or this one again.

Anyhow, haven't done any stitching for a long time and am looking forward to it - started knitting a hat last weekend. I just had to do something. I'm doing the Meg Swanson hat on this page.

't decided what I'll do in embroidery - I have lots of UFO's butI'm in need of a couple of jewellry bags, which I use to explore newstitches or techniques. So maybe I'll try out a couple of ribbonembroidery stitches.Dora

Hi Dora, waving from NS ! I wondered where you were. Glad to know you're back.

for a coworker's Christmas gift. I am still contemplating on doing it> in Wisper, if I can get DD to compare colors and pick them up from NN> for me.>

I am trying to get a golf chart finished for DH's aunt. I have just discovered that half the design back, I put the tee one stitch over from where it should be. Since the base of that and the adjoining letters are scatter stitches, I shall fudge it. Aunt Pre is 92, and if I frog it,

*she* might croak before it is done! It is the lower left picture.

started knitting a stadium blanket for DGS, who is a freshman at Penn State. The blue is a bit bright, but I figure it will darken from dirt. It is unlikely to see a washing machine! Gill

Thanks Sheena. I've been reading the group - just have been feeling so stressed I've been keeping to myself.

Dora

This is just the place to be right now if you are stressed lololol

Gee whiz, Lucille, get with the times! LOL

Wonderful! Always glad to help. Now, *which* pattern did you choose?

Enquiring minds want to know! :)

Joan

Gee whiz, Lucille, get with the times! LOL

Wonderful! Always glad to help. Now, *which* pattern did you choose?

Enquiring minds want to know! :)

Joan

I'm sure you won't be surprised to know that it's one called If Dogs Spoke. A Maltese surrounded by the phrase that says: If Dogs Spoke they would remind us that their ancestors ate ours.

The dog looks just like Puff so I couldn't resist.

Are you Icelandic, Dawne? My XBIL was an Icelander from Mountain, ND, the oldest Icelandic settlement in the country. Our university also has one of the largest collections of Icelandic books in the country, too, behind a couple of the big schools on the East Coast (Cornell?)

Joan

anne wrote:

I set aside my Spring bell pull to work on an absolutely DARLING little broach (is that spelled correctly -- it doesn't look right to MOI?!?!) kit I purchased at Celebration. It's a black kitty (what else??) sitting beside a pumpkin with several pretty leaves. It's perfect for the whole autumn season so I started work on it right away. The whole thing is done in french knots and colonial knots and is taking much longer than I had anticipated -- LOL! Once I had the kit (printed cloth and findings to finish the pin), I purchased most of the fibers needed, substituted a few colors with stuff I had brought with me and bought a small (4" diameter) hoop to use to work on the piece. I have gotten all of the design finished and am now working on the solid color background. It's a bit boring but not too bad since the piece is very small -- maybe 1.5" in diameter. There is one "bare" area and I am thinking it might need something but I don't know what to add! The background is an overdye and is a pale cream with just a hint of pale peach. If it was anything dark, I would just add a yellow star in the bare spot but since this is a light background, I'm not sure what to add. Maybe I'll just add a star anyway since the "bare" area is to the left and above the main design. ANyway, the piece is great for working on while watching the telly or traveling since you don't have to follow a chart or count or anything else that needs a lot of attention. Of course, the fact that I don't mind doing knots helps a lot, too :-)). CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

"Joan E." wrote

Are you Icelandic, Dawne? My XBIL was an Icelander from Mountain, ND, the oldest Icelandic settlement in the country. Our university also has one of the largest collections of Icelandic books in the country, too, behind a couple of the big schools on the East Coast (Cornell?)

No--lots of Icelanders here in Saskatchewan, but I'm not one of them. If I were, I'd be taller and blonder, I think. (But I do have an unreasonable fondness for skyr, and can make a mean vinartarta).

Dawne

I'm working on the Inkcircles mystery squares, the latest one was just released yesterday I have a lot to catch up on though I'm only on the frame : ( you can find the charts (free by the way) on inkcircles website

How about a bat? Oh, and it's spelt "brooch". Joyce in RSA.

I've been collection those and a garden mystery sampler. I'd like to get started sooner than later on them, but I think it's going to be later.

Cheryl

A bat is a bit too Halloweenish and I want to be able to wear the pin for the whole autumn season. As for the spelling -- *($*(@$*&@^$(&@ -- now that I see you spell it correctly, I could give myself a kick -- LOL! I even put the post through spell check and it left it in -- probably because broach is a proper spelling but not for a bit of jewelry you pin to your jacket -- LOLOL! CiaoMeow >^;;^<

PAX, Tia Mary >^;;^< (RCTQ Queen of Kitties) Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about their whiskers! Visit my Photo albums at

The trouble with spell checkers is as follows in a little ditty I am sure many know.

The Spell Checker

Eye halve a spelling chequer It came with my pea sea It plainly marques four my revue Miss steaks eye kin knot sea.

Eye strike a key and type a word And weight four it two say Weather eye am wrong oar write It shows me strait a weigh.

As soon as a mist ache is maid It nose bee fore two long And eye can put the error rite Its rare lea ever wrong.

Eye have run this poem threw it I am shore your pleased two no Its letter perfect awl the weigh My chequer tolled me sew.

Sauce Unknown

DSis used to make vinartarta for Christmas. I wonder if she still does, now that they're divorced and she's remarried? Never heard of skyr...what is that?

Joan

Okay, so how 'bout a link so we can see this little cutie? Might give us some other ideas. How 'bout a sun instead of a star? Or a tree in the background?

Joan