What we're stitching now...

Oh how wonderful -- I have photos of the Blue Angels (US Navy team, not as good as USAF Thunderbirds, as per dh, but still excellent) that pop up as part of my screensaver.

Would you be willing to share a couple of your Red Arrow shots?

-- Jere

jules wrote: Now I'm working to finish the first of 4

Oh, Julie, do you by any chance know where in England they found the Bayeaux Tapestry charts (I'm assuming charts... )? I'm spending Christmas there with my dear friend, Claire, and would be very interested in finding them.

Tegan

I ALMOST feel inclined to make something like that for the top of our microwave while it`s still new and shiny. (John blew the old one up last week roasting TWO chestnuts. I ask you! The darned thing thought it was empty and burst into flames.

Not as funny as when, many years ago, he decided to try to cook an egg in our microwave. n(In it`s shell, although I warned him) He did it - nothing happened, so he triumphantly put it in an egg-cup, tapped it with a spoon and - BANG!!! Egg all over the kitchen and, I`m glad to say, stuck in his beard! Hilarious. Took him ages to clean up himself AND the kitchen. Did the kids and I laugh? What do you think!

Pat P

I'm almost ashamed to admit that since I've started back to work, my needles have fallen still. When I do finally get back to it I have two Long Dog patterns started, Bagatelle and St. Germain. I also seem to be currently enamored with all the Brittercup Kitties in all their various poses. And lets not mention all the Blackbird designs that seem to have leaped up and mugged me on various trips to the LNS's.

My current yarn obsession is going to have to wait until after Christmas for me to continue. I took a class on weaving on a triangle loom, and I have to admit, I think this might finally be the thing that allows me to play with the yarn too! I can't knit, as I can't seem to loosen my grip on the needles, and my stitches are so tight you can't get back into them for another go. I can crochet a bit, but not well enough to do the things I really want to do. This triangle loom weaving is so fascinating, as you are creating your warp and weft threads as you go. I can hardly wait until after the first of the year, when I can think about buying my own loom.

I do have to get busy and do a Christmas ornament for my English pal's partner, as he collects frogs and I found a cute little Lizzie Kate ornament that says "Mistletoad" with a large frog (toad?) on it. She never lets me send him the ceramic knickknacks I find.. something about two frogs on a Harley that she just can't picture as cute.. LOL

Thanks for starting this thread, Jere, it's been an interesting (and motivating!) thread! Tegan

Just found this, if it`s any help

have used Sew and so many times - extremely reliable, and sent the same day they get the order if it`s by midday. HIH.

Pat P

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That might be a good one for us as a group! The trouble is, if you`re even slightly vague, someone always gets hold of the wrong end of the stick! ;-))

Pat P

Yes, but did you take pictures? That would be one to make into a t-shirt with the slogan "Boy, did I have egg on my face!"

I did Lily Pond Dreams as a wedding present for my niece. Turned out lovely.

Elizabeth

Unfortunately not! I was just reminding John about it and he reminded me of the time I exploded a tinned pudding by letting it boil dry - another almight bang, and the pudding was splattered all over the ceiling, and the dog was cowering under the table. The tin itself was lying in the corner completely flat!

AND when I put a pie I`d just taken out of the oven onto the switched-on ring on top of the cooker - another bang! I seem to have explosive tendencies in the kitchen!

Pat P

I've been working on the Dog Christmas stocking from the last issue of Just Cross Stitch. It is coming out so cute. It is for my cocker spaniel Brandy.

2nd item: Knitting baby preemie caps for a local hospital

3rd item: working on a Hardanger angel that I would love to finish this year, but those Greek crosses are really tough to do. Then the next stitching doesn't look all that easy. Started this with a group of women who get together twice a month to stitch. Out of 6 of us, only one got it finished (it's been 3 years), and that was the instructor of the project.

4th item:Pamela Kellogg's Winter into Spring online design. Working on the 3rd section with shamrocks. I love how it is coming together.

There are many other WIP's, but those are what I have been concentrating on the last few months.

Joanie R.

My current favorite quote: Chocolate: A Woman's Catnip.

We all have to have different talents. I set off the smoke alarm when I try to cook...

I suppose I should here now!! We have gotten(US English bad, UK English OK) slowly unpacking after our big trip.

I started a couple of things this week, they were rewards for finishing Ckaire Murray's Cat and Pansies. A solid piece of stitching.

As a reward, I started two new projects.

The first is a kit, done on Navy Aida,named "The Wedding Gift". This will be my gift to my son (40) and his first bride (Aya) in Japan. Hopefully the unending knot will be symbolic, and the Navy and Gold represent the 20 plus years he has served our country.

The second is a quick and dirty kit bought at Shelburne Museum in Vermont!! DH is one of the last people to travel on Lake Champlain aboard the Ticonderoga. You Yankees understand, right??

Gillian

May years ago, after Thanksgiving dinner, my mother decided to make microwave peanut brittle. All we had was peanuts in the shell, so she shelled them and had a half cup. The recipe called for a cup of peanuts so she cut the recipe in half, but forgot to half the time. Set the fool microwave on fire and is lucky she didn't cause any dammage to the house (one of my brothers pushed her out of the way, closed the door, and carried the thing outside, still burning).

She was more than a little put out when many of us gave her peanut brittle for Christmas. *grin*

Elizabeth (who comes by her bratty ways naturally)

Two different Long Dog Samplers: Bagatelle and Paradigm Lost.

I updated my webshots the other day with fairly recent picks of both:

should take you directly to my UFO album. Caryn

It is a bit cruel to laugh, but the late lamented MIL (may she haunt all) almost set my kitchen on fire. I had bought some of those very tiny (4-5)in diameter pizza for her. She really loved her pizza. Well, I walked into the kitchen, black smoke was everywhere, and the old girl was patiently standing by the microwave. She insisted that the instructions said cook on high for 6 mins. My, we had a blackened hockeypuck.

Until the day she died , three months ago, she would never admit she had ever been wrong. isn't life strange???

After a hiatus of several years, having had two boys 13.5 months apart, I just started getting back into my stitching and found that needle rolls were marvelous, quick, fun to stitch, and easily dropped and then picked up again (a must with two toddlers). My latest two are Tudor Rose from Shepherd's Bush and Summer at the Ocean from Jeannette Douglas Designs. They are stitched but not stuffed. Another nice thing about having finished needle rolls around is that they make a nice hasty gift, as I discovered when a friend was hospitalized.

Now I'm working on Victoria Sampler's Heirloom Memories for my sister, commemorating our mother, who died in April 2004. I just started it a few weeks ago and wasn't sure I could get it done by Christmas, but I'm more than halfway through. I think it will mean a great deal to her.

Waiting in the wings is the Christmas stocking I had started for son No. 1, which is probably 70 percent finished. Then there's the stocking for son No. 2 (which I haven't even started), because you can't give something to one without giving the other one, too. Ah, well, I guess there's always next year.

My wish list after that is WAY too long to enumerate here, but it includes lots of Indigo Rose, whose patterns I recently discovered.

Interesting thread! Thanks.

Ha-ha-ha! Ours just went off as I read that! John was having a sneaky slice of toast - he`s just supposed to have branflakes at the moment, trying to lose weight, poor thing! The poor dog HATES it and dashes to sit on my foot if it goes off.

Pat P

And don`t forget that dark chocolate is good for your heart!!! (NOT the whole bar at once!).

Pat P