Where is everyone??

I thought the same thing!

I had seen you post several times, but some old and familiar banes were missing.

Gillian

Must be that everyone is on Easter break! Mmmmm, chocolate...

I'm here--Can you see me waving???

For real--I was wondering the same thing so I'm glad you asked.

Lucille

Did you mean to say pains??? lol Lucille

No sweetie, the "pain" resides, as of now, in this household. If you moved the B and the N to the right, it would have come out correctly!

Anyway, I am glad I wasn't the only one wondering!

Gill

I admit to wondering as well - one of my other groups is very quiet, the other as noisy as usual....

Cheryl

Oh, I get it: banes = names.

-- Carey (fading back to lurkdom....)

I thought the place had been evacuated and someone forgot to tell me.

Well let's get a good subject going - has anyone tried anything new lately? I took a course in huck weaving and I just love it .... then I took a course on temari balls - wellllllllll, they're okay, but maybe a bit fussy for this old gal.

Sharon (N.B.) ............................................................................ ......

I started my first hardanger piece. So far it's boring. Of course I haven't gotten anywhere near cutting anything yet.

Lucille

Don't give up on the temari, they are great fun. How did the second lesson go ?

Yes, that could be lol Just wait till you cut the wrong thread, happens to everyone sooner or later lol Hardanger is not difficult but it sure can make some very pretty things. A woman in our Guild made a pair of cafe curtains for her sisters kitchen. They are so attractive. The sister does not stitch so she gave her BIL orders that if her sister did not faint with excitement, send them back lol

Oh okay - I will complete the thing - one of the threads we had to use was a metallic - and that bloody stuff is so wiggly when trying to wrap it round a ball. I must get at it and complete it ... the box we made for it was nothing more than some cardboard covered with sticky felt. It's an interesting art form - and I want to try one on my own - all the colours were picked for us and I don't particularly like them so will try something different next time. It's very different for sure, but certainly worth knowing about.

Sharon (N.B.) ............................................................................ ....

"clancy" wrote

I just tested out my new glasses by working a small Lanarte kit of a pig, stitched on unbleached linen. I had bought it on sight (love pig designs) thinking it was cross stitch, but it was actually petit point, and I could barely see to count with my fifteen year old glasses. Wow--modern lens technology!!

My mum always worked petit point, but almost always Berlin-work florals on silk gauze, which don't really appeal to me, so this little piggy was a bit of a revelation for me. I love the finished look. BTW, I have never been disappointed in the materials in a Lanarte kit-- properly sized fabric, more than enough thread to finish, and everything of good quality.

Now I might have the courage to tackle the Sarah Moon Lanarte kit on linen that I found in the thrift store for $1. Dawne

Gill Murray said

The stitching gods and goddesses seem to be mad at me ;-( For the first time in a long while, I've started and then quickly abandoned several small self- designed projects that not even a mother could love. My mind's eye sees one thing but my fingers do something entirely different OTOH, if I remember what I've learned from these horrors, the time wasn't wasted.

I love the Lanarte patterns - I have at least 3 in my stash - maybe the next big project. What a find at the thrift store!!

Sharon (N.B.) ............................................................................ ......

Maybe everyone`s got the same nasty tummy bug that`s bugging me! Started a fortnight ago and kept coming back - on anti-biotics now, but while they`re beginning to sort out the major problem (Montezuma`s revenge!) I FEEL worse! At the moment I find that I can`t travel in the car!!!

Still, I got out in the garden and made that pesky Russian Vine suffer today! At least I can now see the fence and the shed!

Pat P

I've been thinking lots about this before you posted. My insides fight with my fingers. I've been thinking of designs I do. I constantly fight with my creativity. But I've been paying attention, lately, to designs that are out there and noticed some of them are downright ugly (to my eyes . . . and that's what we're talking about here . . . *my* mind's eye). So, I'm trying to think more positively about what I do. That it's alright to have my own insight. That's going to be a tough tape recording to overcome.

Dianne

I thought she was being rude! Calling some of us "The bane of her existence" perhaps! LOL!

Pat P