What are you stitching this summer?

Working on all my various WIPS. I REFUSE to start another piece until one is finished!. Having some WIP's is fine. 10 or 12 is *not*!

Right now, I'm knitting frantically. A friend is doing a special event in July and has requested I provide a couple dozen knitted fashion scarves.

Eventually, I have to get to a wedding gift. They've been on/off/on/off enough that I'm not doing the big beautiful picture I picked out for her when she was a child. I'm figuring even a 4x6 may take me longer to stitch than the marriage lasts. :(

Wow - some really really nice samplers at those sites - thanks for the link!!

I usually work a 5 to 7 piece "rotation" but that got put on hold to complete "Saint Gabriel" for my church.

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Thank you for the beautiful sites , could you tell some of the srories of the samplers on the second adresss ? mirjam

I went with a dear friend to a sidewalk sale at a quilt shop today, and bought two batches of fabric, one of which is a selection built from coffee designs, browns, greens and blues, and other an oriental collection with black, grey, stone, mustard and teal length with touches of calligraphy on them. Neither of these sets are colours I have in any way been drawn to previously, which is odd. I think maybe my house is calling out to go retro (maybe that's why I need the Lynn Nicolletti Hippie design!!) So I will be cutting and stitching patches eventually.

I also hop to get started on the Monsterbubbles "Life", (Obla dee, ob la da). I need to dig down to the bottom of my stash to see if I have something in a purply or pink colour (the model is on blue). Always a favourite song, gonna put it up as my motto instead of Home Sweet Home type stuff.

Dawne

It iis very nice to renovate the main colors and style in your house , have fun doing it mirjam

I like that MonsterBubbles chart too. I'd like to get going on "(don't delay) Joy"

Then again, I'm off to stitch while the world sleeps as soon as I finish a few things on the computer.

Cheryl

Hey Marg,

Wish I could send you some daylilies for your brother.

My summer stitching will be finishing my crewel pillow. Since there is so much stem stitch and this one looks best very finely (closely) done, it will take a while.

I'm also going to actively work on finishing WIPS and UFO's. I'm thinking about buying myself some acid free foam board and finishing a few things for then next big discount sale at work on framing.

I'm going to cull my stash some more too and finish organizing floss etc.

I'll have a few good breaks to get some work done on stitching - DD is at camp (sleep away) for 5 days and DS will be gone the following 15 days.

Cheryl

Could you interchange the stem with some chain for variety ?

I have been doing some model stitching for Just Cross Stitch since APRIL!!!!! For those who don't remember -- Janet (my stitchin' buddy) works for Hoffman Media and she sent the work my way. It's a series of

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Thought about that earlier. I love the way the stem stitch looks, I just happen to like them about 10 an inch or so. Finished a whole section of vine while I watched Gardening By the Yard (before the DD awoke).

I'm off to the garden after this cuppa.

Cheryl

I need to add names and date to the girls' birth announcement, a Precious Moments Noah's Ark that I converted from XS to free style embroidery. I plan to use bead letters for the text.

Finishing (literally) another Little Nell hanging. Little Nell was part of a needlecase ensemble in an old Inspirations Magazine and is very similar to Sunbonnet Sue. I used the first one as a teaching piece to figure out how to do shadow applique. Thank goodness I used inexpensive craft felt cause it took several tries to get the cutout to the point where Nell's ink drawn outline didn't show. One of the cutouts served as the basis for the soon to be finished design. This time, Nell sits on top of another piece of felt instead of behind it.

Then I'm gonna doodle with rayon threads in preparation for working on Sophisticated Lady, my Brazilian embroidery piece.

Thanks for the kind wish. He's just getting his garden rebuilt since they moved last fall.

It's somewhat bitter sweet. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in January, and at first treatment seemed to be working. This week we had the news that the cancer seems to have resurged very aggressively, and they are not going to do further treatment.

He and my DSIL were to come down for a visit in July when we had planned to get the daylilies. Now, we don't know exactly how long he has.

MargW

I just finished packing a couple of projects to take on vacation with us. I have a beginners' Hardanger table runner to work on, and a vase of tulips in cross stitch for when I need a break from the hardanger. Your projects sound fantastic, Marg!

Louisa

Hello everyone!

It's nice to be back reading about and posting to fellow stitchers.

I've been busy designing a sampler for a friend's daughter who is going to turn 18 in August. I found a border of roses / rosebuds in an old cross-stitch magazine that was just appropriate, as one of her names is Rose, and her bedroom has a rose-pink colour scheme. It was mainly a question of arithmetic, as I modified the border until it went around her (rather long) name. On graph paper it looks super, and I put needle to cloth a couple of days ago. I'm stitching it on 32- count antique white linen (I mean, the colour is antique, not the age of the linen!). I've just finished the skeleton of the border, so that I can flesh it out without having to count threads for every motif. Once that's out for framing, perhaps by mid-July, I'll turn my attention to making lavender sachets, as I've been harvesting our lavender and hanging it in bunches all around our kitchen. Hopefully, the lavender will run to a sufficient number of sachets to be given as Christmas presents! (No, I won't talk about Christmas!) In the meantime, I got a remnant of pale green velvet cloth from a curtain shop - it was in a basket at the door marked one pound(!!!) and I couldn't resist it - on which I want to do some Jacobean embroidery. I've never done any crewel or Jacobean work before, and I want to try my hand at the colours and designs using stranded threads, both cotton and rayon, before I embark on the expense of stocking up on wools. Does that sound like a full summer or not?

Best regards, Shanti.

Very sorry to hear that Marg.

That is hard news to get. The non-Hodgkins is supposedly one of the treatable one.

Cheryl

Well not necessarily, at the time David had it, he overcame it but Jackie Kennedy died of it.

Greetings, Everyone This summer I'm working on a series of coffee cross stitch designs that are found in the Feb., April, June, and Aug., 2004 issues of "Stoney Creek Cross Stitch Collection." My sister has a coffee theme for her home office decor, and these projects are a gift for her. Here is a picture of one of them: