It all started a week or so ago when a blog reader, Dot, asked me some questions about a kit I had purchased that had Ginnie Thompson Flower floss. Dot had used Danish flower floss on projects in the past and she went on to tell me about a kit she had purchased through Women's Day magazine in the mid-60's. She sent me a link to a used kit on ebay and I was immediately in love with it. It arrived ...
Noble Birdseed Banquet
The first five days of June, I'm working on Noble Birdseed Banquet by Artful Offerings. Here's where I left off on Thursday: This was my goal for Friday: My plan for today is to finish the crown, stitch the heart beneath the crown, then get started on one of the birds. Here's where I stopped last night: The colors are much brighter than in the photo. I did finish the crown, ...
The Planters Are Moved
It's a bit after noon and I still haven't stitched. My plan was to be stitching by 9 a.m. Part of my Azure order yesterday was 25 pounds of carrots. I got a bit over half of those scraped and chopped and in the freeze dryer. The ones I chopped today, and I use the little chopper that you mash the lid down and they come out in little squares . . I used the larger grid and that's the carrots I'll ...
Noble Birdseed Banquet Progress
Yesterday I didn't have a lot of stitching time but stayed up til the wee hours stitching. I wanted to work my way towards the birds as quickly as possible so I deviated a bit from my preferred method of stitching the whole border first. I started at the top middle and stitched a few strands of floss, then stitched the center star and started the next star to use up the rest of the purple floss. ...
Thursday Errands But No Stitching
Today has been so busy. Yesterday was so busy. Vince and I were talking today and I told him I think what makes me so tired is when I have 5 minutes to sit, then do something else and 5 minutes to sit and that goes on all day. I need big chunks of time . . like an hour to sit and maybe do some stitching or reading but sitting, knowing I have to be back up and going again in a few minutes but no ...
Elan Lapstand
The last thing I needed was a new stitching stand. At the rate I'm going, I'm going to have to ask Vince if I can start putting stuff in his shop! :) A couple of days ago, I was watching this flosstube by Handwork Maniac. She uses the Elan Lapstand and it looks like it's exactly what I've been thinking I needed but didn't know it existed. Below I will compare and contrast and try to explain ...