Last week I went to my monthly guild meeting and look at the beautiful display that two of our members set up. One of them stitched all of those fabulous Prairie Schooler acorns. Aren’t they cute?! I think these are from a leaflet called, if you can believe it, Acorns (No. 65) – go figure. [Read More]
Lightning Strikes
Not a lot of progress to show on Garden of Eerie, but I did get my clouds finished. I’ve made a tiny little start on the tree which isn’t shown in this photo. I am quite enjoying stitching on this though now that I’ve (hopefully) gotten past all the issues I was having. It’s a [Read More]
Crash and Burn
Ever have one of those weeks where you think it’s all going just dandy and then it all hits the fan from out of nowhere? Yeah, that’s where we’re at. Downhill descent started last Thursday at work and made impact today (again at work) with a whole lot of nonsense in between. I’d thought yesterday [Read More]
Hexalicious
I’ve been struggling with my stitching this past week, not really feeling up to working on anything. So, I decided to do something completely different (I always hear John Cleese’s voice when I say that). For a LONG while now, I’ve been wanting to make a Grandmother’s Flower Garden, or hexagon, quilt. I was first [Read More]
Silver Lining
Well, all I can say is that I am grateful last week is over. I took my final exam on Friday and did well. All that remains is scheduling and taking my certification exam. But that final exam studying required me to lock myself away completely the previous weekend as well as all throughout last [Read More]
Snakes on a Plane!
It’s Monday again and time for another update. Since the weekends are pretty much the only stitching time I have, it seems to make sense to provide a little weekly update on Mondays. And really, anything to make Mondays better is a good thing. So…look what I did yesterday. Snakes! With spots! Of course it [Read More]
