Uneven Weave

Why the overwhelming need to whine? It must be the gloomy, wants-to-rain-but-won't, weather that's got me in the dumps today. But what's the use of having a blog if you can't occasionally post a ...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2009/02/sigh.html

Ok - I wasn't good last week. I just couldn't face another weekend of BAP stitching. La-D-Da Polly Wolly Doodle - GAST 1 x 2 on 40ct Sand Linen I didn't start anything new - well not at first....

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2009/02/i-was-bad-but-i-have-finish.html

I am trying very hard to be good this weekend. I'm trying very hard not to start a new project or pick up another WIP. Instead, I'm plugging away on the Chatelaine Designs Knot Garden. Chatelai...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2009/01/mandela-progress.html

Here is my first "real" exchange package - shipped out first class today! The theme was Wintertime Blues (or really, chase away the wintertime blues) so i sent some springy things to my exchange ...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2009/01/wintertime-exchange.html

Waiting for the Mail - Grant Wright Christian, 1937-38 Two posts in one week? Well, not really. This is more of a whine. But where better to whine than your blog? Ok, here goes: I hate wait...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2009/01/stalking-mailman.html

The pictures are not too great (it's late and I had to use my Iphone to photograph it under my Ott Lite) but you can get the idea of the start of the ball. It's much more "pastel" IRL. I put ...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2009/01/blessing-ball-i-girly-and-gaudy.html

Lookie what I found at the most wonderful little store today. Overdyed silk ribbons, beads, little flowers, overdyed yarns - oh my! She has the coolest things at that store - ribbons, yarns, b...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2009/01/goodies-goodies.html

I started my first blog post with a picture of our dog Winston who looks perpetually depressed. So, in the interests of equal time, I am starting the new year with a picture of one of our Maine...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2009/01/january-blahs.html

(I'm scattering the latest photos of the WIPs in my Hopeful Box -- that is, hopeful I will actually finish them someday-- throughout this post even though they have nothing to do with the text!) ...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/12/some-small-progress.html

Ok - it's taken me six months to update this blog. Sigh. I could claim that I was furiously stitching away during the past months - although that's not the entire truth. The truth--I was lazy -- ...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/11/six-months-later.html

I promise I will not complain about June in Kansas ever again. We are in vacation in Duluth, Minnesota, where the WIND CHILL today was 36 degrees.  WIND CHILL - IT'S JUNE 11 for goodness sake! ...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/06/june-weather.html

Kansas, Missouri, Iowa and Minnesota - nothing but wind, rain and storms.  Who thought June could be this windy and wet?  (Well, I should expect it after three decades in Kansas). We headed ou...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/06/four-states-four-storms.html

Here's a lovely upside down and backwards photo of my first day's progress on Quaker Virtues.  I decided to start June 1 with the SAL and I'm really enjoying this so far. The colors so far are ...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/06/heres-lovely-upside-down-and-backwards.html

The usual summertime stitching slump seems to be in full swing.  I am trying to rehabilitate the back garden - now "Weed Central" since it was so neglected last summer.  We spread 30 bags of mu...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/06/usual-summertime-stitching-slump-seems.html

This week I tried to be so good.I inventoried all of my non-DMC floss and Mill Hill beads.  I ordered more of Annie's Keepers and storage slides to use for the silks and printed out my label she...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/05/so-much-for-good-intentions.html

I'm trying for a cleaner look and pledge shorter posts and more photos. That means, of course, that I'll have to figure out how to photograph my needlework. (sigh).

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/05/new-blog-design.html

I guess discovering I had over 30 UFOs and more than 40 kits ready to go just wasn't enough masochism for one week. So, I dug into the cedar closet and pulled out the Rubbermaid bin full of chart...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/05/little-masochism-never-hurt-anyone.html

My name is Michele and I'm a cross-stitch addict.  Or maybe a "start a new project" addict.  Or a "I'll kit up one more project, just in case" addict. After spending a small fortune at Cecilia...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/05/intervention-over-here-please.html

I have been terribly derelict in keeping up with this blog. The past few months just flew by - now that the holidays are over, it seems like a good time to take a deep breath and catch up on ever...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2008/01/stitching-away-in-2008.html

Speaking of the Packers - did you see the finish of the Denver v. Packers game Monday night? I was so disappointed when the Broncos tied up the score with 8 seconds left in the game! But, leave i...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2007/10/morning-after.html

I am becoming quite the sports fan in my old age. Football, NASCAR, drag racing, baseball, even poker. If it's on TV, I'll sit and watch it. Why? Hours of uninterrupted stitching in a house full ...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2007/10/sports-fan-with-agenda.html

Poor Winston. He had a posh life in the suburbs but threw it all away to chase other dogs (loves people, hates dogs). He had six weeks in a four-week bad-doggie bootcamp before he could come ho...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2007/10/face-of-doggie-depression.html

I have been madly stitching on my Chatelaine Designs Convent's Herb Garden (see right) for a month now. The piece is almost 2/3 done and I've hit THE WALL. You know, the "Geesh this is getting b...

http://cheleinkc.blogspot.com/2007/10/ive-hit-wall.html