What stitching design or accessory or tool or fiber or trip would you love to have?
I'd love to attend Country Bumpkin's Beating Around the Bush or have a Beryl Cook
Stitching accessory - how about a room for myself with my stuff and only my stuff in it.
Barring that - I want to have one of those gorgeous work boxes with needle book, scissors, fobs.....
Cheryl
Haha...I am getting that!! DH's stuff is all moved out. We have to patch all the millions of holes he has made in the walls for cables etc...then paint it a pale yellow with white trip..then it is mine ALL mine!! I can put my stitching on the walls. The stash in there, my desk, file cabinet etc!
It will be a New Year!
Gillian
What I'd really love to have is a needlework blocking frame of the type invented by textile conservator Maury Bynam.
He published an article in the March/April 1995 issue of Piecework magazine about the device he developed for blocking antique needlework; from the description, it would be ideal for straightening canvaswork.
He had applied for a patent and was apparently planning to market the device to frame shops and needlepoint shops, but I've never heard more about it.
A magic closet, one which would supply me with endless fibers and fabrics, and would magically have any supply I needed late at night when I run out of thread and I've only got 5 stitches to go in order to finish. But that's my fantasy list.
On my reality list....hmmm. I am pretty much set design-wise, except for the elephant pattern from Golden Kite I just brought up in another thread. My stimulus check just arrived today, however, so I will be reinvesting in our economy by purchasing it. The only other designs I don't have and would love to are reproductions of Wm. Bouguereau paintings. Golden Kite also has a ton of them for sale, but not a copy of my favorite painting of his, "Temptation". Actually, I've never seen any website that does reproductions that has done this one, so if anyone knows of a site that does, please clue me in.
I have pretty much any accessory or tool. I'm a little self-indulgent that way. I don't have a laying tool, however.
Trips? I used to make the annual pilgrimage to SOCS, or CATS, or HOCS, or whatever they were calling it that year to Des Moines, but as far as I know there haven't been any shows there for the past few years. Last time I went, it was not worth the gas money and time. The shows used to be so good. I would save up all year just to spend it there. The last few times I went, I would hardly spend anything. There just wasn't much choice, nothing new, no out-of-print patterns to stumble upon to add to my collection. Whenever I take a roadtrip, I like to try and stop at at least one LNS along the way, or if I'm in a new city, I take a day to hit them all. It isn't fun to do though when you're hauling someone around that isn't a fellow stitcher. I think it would be fun to take a little group on an LNS roadtrip.
Jinx
My dream trip would be to visit all my rctn friends! Those that would have me, anyway. :) This would include a trip to Australia to see Trish and .... drat! can't remember the name of the person on the other side of Oz... and New Zealand to see Aramanth; to South Africa to see Joyce and Catherine; to Israel to see Mirjam; and Italy and Scandinavia and and and....
Anyone want to donate to my fund? :)
Joan
No, but I'll come along - you fly into KC or St. Louis and we'll go from there. . .
Linda
.I would like to find a lap frame that I actually can use! I don't like scroll bars - not enough tension for me - and I haven't found anything yet that holds a hoop and is usuable.
Linda
Stop in NYC before you leave and I'll glady join up for this too! And loads of criss-crossing the world flights so we have plenty of time for stitching!
Heather in NY
Have you tried putting one of those thick rubber bands around all four bar points ?
So what we really need to do is pick a cruise ship and all meet for a cruise.
Yah!
My dream would be similar, but I am actually trying to make at least part of it come true. DD2 went to Australia in January, and since our 50th anniversary is next April, I persuaded DH that we should go there to celebrate, and have all presents made as cash contributions from the children. So far we're still going to go, in spite of a couple of setbacks. DD is in Perth, where a couple of rctners are, and by hook or by crook, I'm going to Newcastle to see Trish. So who else can do it? Of course, if by some miracle we could win the lottery, we'd extend it around the world, but I'm not holding my breath for that!
Joyce in RSA.
My dream trip would be to visit all my rctn friends! Those that would have me, anyway. :) This would include a trip to Australia to see Trish and .... drat! can't remember the name of the person on the other side of Oz... and New Zealand to see Aramanth; to South Africa to see Joyce and Catherine; to Israel to see Mirjam; and Italy and Scandinavia and and and....
Anyone want to donate to my fund? :)
Joan
Not a cruise ship. I would *not* cross the ocean on a ship. How 'bout a private jetliner? More time to spend with whomever we're visiting next!
Joan
I agree - seasickness and stitching do not go together.
Linda
Those cruise ships have stabilizers - they don't want passengers getting seasick lol
Even in a storm, you don't notice a thing...
C
Would you like to tell that to the passengers on the Crown Cunard Cruise I went on and hit a storm outside of Nova Scotia. It was fun for me because I didn't get seasick, but I would say about 85% of the passengers were laid out all over the place.
The few of us who were okay had a smashing good time having dinner with the crew.
The only thing I regretted was that I never did get to see Halifax.
Lucille
That depends on the size of the ship and where you're located.
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How long ago and how big a boat?
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