Joyful Stitching

Gerry of Sewing Southpaw took some new photos of my block. Thank you! Thank you! It's so exciting to see the progress as it makes it's way around! This is the photo Gerry took of the whole bl...

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Sorry to be gone for a bit, but life has just kept me so busy with other things (sigh). Daughter Caitlin was home from university last week for Spring Break and we went to Michigan to visit my p...

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Well, Kyle stopped by before heading back to Urbana. He thinks that the interview at Rush University went well. Now, we wait. The Medical School admissions people said he would hear in about 4 we...

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Kyle just arrived to use us as a stop-over - free hotel service & free food & parental love. He is on his way to his interview for admission to medical school in Chicago. He will stay overnight w...

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I had a great visit with my children this weekend and an interesting trip home with my husband (more on this later). This is a photo of Caitlin. We arrived in Kirksville, Missouri (Truman State...

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Tom and I are off to visit our daughter Caitlin in Kirksville, Missouri. Caitlin is the assistant stage manager for the play The Taming of the Shrew that is running this week. Our son Kyle will ...

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Well, Allison suggested using a ribbon , but I just went through my stash and I didn't find anything that seemed to fit the block. However, I did a search of my lace and found a couple of motifs ...

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Now that Faith's Peter Rabbit block is on it's way to Rebecca, it's time to work on Lori's Cinderella block. Here's the block with Faith's work on it. Don't you just love her grandfather clock! ...

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Another seam on Faith's Peter Rabbit block is completed. A chain stitch runs along the seam. Detached chain stitches and straight stitches decorate the seam. Those yellow straight stitches are...

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Not much time for stitching today, but I did try a little more feather stitch. I found this feather in the beloved Treasury of Crazy Quilt Stitches by Carole Samples (page 44). I used Perle Co...

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Life has settled down and I am finally jumping in on the Take A Stitch Tuesday Challenge that I should have started in January. I have a start on the feather stitch, but have a few things that...

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I completed a seam on Faith's Peter Rabbit block today. I did the colonial knots and the fly stitch (both in Perle Cotton 5) and then ran out of inspiration. So I put it down and walked away. ...

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I worked on a spider web for Faith's block yesterday, but took it out because I was not happy with it. So, today, I made a second attempt and am happier with the result. I am new to making spi...

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As I was looking at the Peter Rabbit block, I thought that the bunny ovals needed to be framed. So I decided to needle tat a frame for one of the ovals. I used Perle Cotton 8. Since I was desi...

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The Crazy Quilting for Newbies Round Robin is under way. Blocks are from a fairy tale or story. The first block that I get to work on is from Faith - The Tale of Peter Rabbit. I love all the bu...

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Well, yesterday was the day. I got my hearing aids. They feel very strange in my ears and will take getting used too. The audiologist explained lots of things to me, but it is very strange to be...

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It's here! A completed project! I am happy with the way my pincushion turned out. As I mentioned before, some of the techniques learned in this class still need practice, but, overall, I am ha...

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One of my current ambitions is to stop creating UFO's. I am determined to complete the small projects that get started in the classes I take. Last Sunday, a group of us got together to help out ...

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We got an email from our daughter Caitlin, who attends Truman State University in Missouri. She included some photos of the ice in her area. While she is hurting from a fall on the ice yesterd...

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I have to say thank you to those who have posted comments and emailed me offering encouragement and support. My hearing aids will arrive next Wednesday. Tom, my gadget happy husband, is impresse...

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Well, life in 2007 has been chaos. A horrible virus knocked me flat over the New Year's weekend and was very difficult to recover from. Part of that was my own stubborn fault. I was determined fo...

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I hope everyone had a great New Year's! My birthday on December 30 was good, if you ignore the fact that I turned 54! Daughter Caitlin cooked dinner and I got books to read, DVD's to watch and c...

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May you all have a safe and Happy New Year!

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We just got back from a Christmas trip to visit my parents in Michigan (Hi Mom!). We had a great time. My sister Julia was also visiting from Shreveport with her family. Brother Jon (he's local) ...

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