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Who? At What?
Maria
Mips97@gmail.com
Mips97@gmail.com
Now Reading
Listening Woman - Tony Hillerman
Pearls of Lutra - Brian Jacques
Buffy Season 8 - Joss Whedon (and others)
White Night - Jim Butcher
Lankhmar: Bk 1 Swords & Deviltry - Fritz Leiber
M is for Magic - Neil Gaiman
Just Finished
Dance Hall of the Dead - Tony Hillerman
The Blessing Way - Tony Hillerman
Mattimeo - Brian Jacques
Redwall - Brian Jacques
From Dead to Worse - Charlaine Harris
All Together Dead - Charlaine Harris
Definitely Dead - Charlaine Harris
Stitching Rotation
Trying to build one which will successfully focus my attention to finish
projects.
Current list (goal list):
1. Special Project (for an angel): SB:AS
2. See the Stars
3. Samplers around the world: DB //TOG Spanish
4. Chatelaine
5. CHS: Houses, Alphabet
6. Thorny
7. Passing Whims: SB Holy Night / LK Boo Club / Mira J Fairy
8. DT
9. PS Alphabet blocks
10. VS 12 Days
11. JN
Actual List
2. See the Stars
4. Chatelaine: Egyptian Mandala
4. Chatelaine: Convent Herbal Garden
7. JCS Celestial Sampler
9. PS Alphabet block J
Current list (goal list):
1. Special Project (for an angel): SB:AS
2. See the Stars
3. Samplers around the world: DB //TOG Spanish
4. Chatelaine
5. CHS: Houses, Alphabet
6. Thorny
7. Passing Whims: SB Holy Night / LK Boo Club / Mira J Fairy
8. DT
9. PS Alphabet blocks
10. VS 12 Days
11. JN
Actual List
2. See the Stars
4. Chatelaine: Egyptian Mandala
4. Chatelaine: Convent Herbal Garden
7. JCS Celestial Sampler
9. PS Alphabet block J
Quick list of Guilty Pleasures - Starts!
2010
February
January
31: Sea Quilt
2009
December
Hands to Work: This is the Day
Art Stitch: Chat Noir
JCS: Celestial Sampler
February
January
31: Sea Quilt
2009
December
Hands to Work: This is the Day
Art Stitch: Chat Noir
JCS: Celestial Sampler
Charts & Kits to think about
Gotta Get - To Complete a Series
Nora: V W X
I want to cut down on my stitching stash accumulation. When something catches my interest I will post it to let it marinate a long, long while. I will try to not succumb to the evils of impulse buying. I don't *need* anymore (except maybe threads and cloth to stitch what I have).
February
Long Dog: Quaker's Dozen
January
Blue Ribbon: Autumn Leaves & Seeds
Chatelaine: kitting for Persian
Drawn Thread: Friendship sampler
Drawn Thread: Small Seasons
Nora Corbett: 12 Days of Xmas
John Clayton Panoramas
John Clayton Circles
John Clayton Internationals
Shepherd's Bush Holy & Ivy kit
Chatelaine: Frosty Knotgarden Mandala
Chatelaine: Autumn Watergarden
By the Bay: Tidal River # 3
December
Chatelaine kits for: Carribean.
Wishful thinking kit for Quilt: Rainforest.
November
A Mon Ami Pierre: Noel 2009
By The Bay: Christmas Cove
LHN: Sailing, sailing (second hand ONLY)
Nora Corbett: Tigerlily Pixie
Nora Corbett: Holly Pixie
Silver Creek Samplers: Eye on the Sparrow
AAN Designs: Most of them
Nora: V W X
I want to cut down on my stitching stash accumulation. When something catches my interest I will post it to let it marinate a long, long while. I will try to not succumb to the evils of impulse buying. I don't *need* anymore (except maybe threads and cloth to stitch what I have).
February
Long Dog: Quaker's Dozen
January
Blue Ribbon: Autumn Leaves & Seeds
Chatelaine: kitting for Persian
Drawn Thread: Friendship sampler
Drawn Thread: Small Seasons
Nora Corbett: 12 Days of Xmas
John Clayton Panoramas
John Clayton Circles
John Clayton Internationals
Shepherd's Bush Holy & Ivy kit
Chatelaine: Frosty Knotgarden Mandala
Chatelaine: Autumn Watergarden
By the Bay: Tidal River # 3
December
Chatelaine kits for: Carribean.
Wishful thinking kit for Quilt: Rainforest.
November
A Mon Ami Pierre: Noel 2009
By The Bay: Christmas Cove
LHN: Sailing, sailing (second hand ONLY)
Nora Corbett: Tigerlily Pixie
Nora Corbett: Holly Pixie
Silver Creek Samplers: Eye on the Sparrow
AAN Designs: Most of them
STITCHING
FINISHED
JCS Celestial Sampler
35 ct Brussels raw linen with HDF silk
See The Stars, Part 1, 2, 3, 4
MW LaChatelaine Convent Herbal Garden, Part 1
32/33 Strathaven linen w listed silks
MW Chatelaine Egyptian Mandala, Inner 4 lotus lobes finished.
Lt. Sand with listed threads
ACTIVE WIPS
Prairie Schooler J Alphabet Block
part of all on 1 sheet of linen. 32/33 ct Raw Belgian linen
w DMC & overdyed cottons. 1 over 2
w some textural stitches added
MW Chatelaine Egyptian Mandala
Lt. Sand with listed threads
MW Chatelaine Convent Herbal Garden
32/33 Strathaven linen w listed silks
a square design on uneven cloth heehee
See The Stars
s'da and hdf silks
Essamplaire Hannah Thornbush
34 ct Devonshire cream w assorted silks
Class from Hell
NAPPING WIPS
Queenstown Elizabeth Powell 1819
36 ct Edin Sand w HDF conversion & additions
published in SANQ #56, Fall 09
Hands to Work This is the day
40 ct mystery dyed cloth with Gast & WDW
published in JCS Feb 09
Lu Fuller After Church
40 ct white newcastle w kit floss
bought as kit, changed out cloth
Art Stitch Chat Noir
28 ct Ant. Ivory over 1 with Anchor floss
MW Mini Mandala 2-A
32/33 Strathaven linen w listed silks, 1 strand
La Chatelaine (MW) Tuscany Town Mandala
Antique Ivory w silks listed
WM 2009 Mystery (Christmas)
35 ct brussels raw linen with sd'a silk
LizzieKate Boo Club
36 ct Dirty Linen w mostly listed floss, some stitches changed.
waa an SAL
Shepherd's Bush Holy Night
32ct Belfast w most of threads lists, additional beads added
Blackbird Designs Midnight Watch
35 ct R&R Ash Gray w 1 str ovdy cottons as listed.
Shepherd's Bush Here We Go A Haunting
kitted materials with additional floss because I am using 2 str not 1
Very chintzy & overpriced kit: will probably be my last SB kit.
JCS Celestial Sampler
35 ct Brussels raw linen with HDF silk
See The Stars, Part 1, 2, 3, 4
MW LaChatelaine Convent Herbal Garden, Part 1
32/33 Strathaven linen w listed silks
MW Chatelaine Egyptian Mandala, Inner 4 lotus lobes finished.
Lt. Sand with listed threads
ACTIVE WIPS
Prairie Schooler J Alphabet Block
part of all on 1 sheet of linen. 32/33 ct Raw Belgian linen
w DMC & overdyed cottons. 1 over 2
w some textural stitches added
MW Chatelaine Egyptian Mandala
Lt. Sand with listed threads
MW Chatelaine Convent Herbal Garden
32/33 Strathaven linen w listed silks
a square design on uneven cloth heehee
See The Stars
s'da and hdf silks
Essamplaire Hannah Thornbush
34 ct Devonshire cream w assorted silks
Class from Hell
NAPPING WIPS
Queenstown Elizabeth Powell 1819
36 ct Edin Sand w HDF conversion & additions
published in SANQ #56, Fall 09
Hands to Work This is the day
40 ct mystery dyed cloth with Gast & WDW
published in JCS Feb 09
Lu Fuller After Church
40 ct white newcastle w kit floss
bought as kit, changed out cloth
Art Stitch Chat Noir
28 ct Ant. Ivory over 1 with Anchor floss
MW Mini Mandala 2-A
32/33 Strathaven linen w listed silks, 1 strand
La Chatelaine (MW) Tuscany Town Mandala
Antique Ivory w silks listed
WM 2009 Mystery (Christmas)
35 ct brussels raw linen with sd'a silk
LizzieKate Boo Club
36 ct Dirty Linen w mostly listed floss, some stitches changed.
waa an SAL
Shepherd's Bush Holy Night
32ct Belfast w most of threads lists, additional beads added
Blackbird Designs Midnight Watch
35 ct R&R Ash Gray w 1 str ovdy cottons as listed.
Shepherd's Bush Here We Go A Haunting
kitted materials with additional floss because I am using 2 str not 1
Very chintzy & overpriced kit: will probably be my last SB kit.
My blog
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Someone said to me...
02/06/10 09:18:53 | 0 Comments
Someone once said to me that stitchers who have money want instant gratification and don't understand the hardships of businesses in this climate who can't gather up quickly the myriad components of an order with assorted distributors.
First of all, I gather I wasn't the one being referred to as I do not have much money. The money which goes to stitching is sacrificial on my part therefore quite dear to me. I want the illusion that my order means as much to my retailer as it... -
Most prompt email gets the business
01/06/10 16:04:49 | 0 Comments
Christmas presents continued...
Finally I couldn't decide between Sea Quilt and Desert so I placed one order with 1 shop and the other with another shop. Even with holiday plus the usual Sun/Mon closure, year end inventory, new product arrival and posting plus walk in customers, shop #2 emailed promptly and enthusiastically. Shop #1...crickets chirping.
Shop #1 managed to answer my cancellation of the order promptly. Somehow that one along with the original order... -
Given too much time = change of mind
01/03/10 05:10:07 | 0 Comments
Remember one of the Christmas presents I was going to give myself? The huge kitting of Chatelaine's Sea Quilt?
I have been waiting for an email, which I asked for in the comments section of the order. The At Home business may have been closed during Christmas, as some small businesses do. Nevertheless the unannounced, not in newsletter nor on website, situation has given me time to rethink my order.
The constant snowing of the last 3 days has me eager for something... -
Christmas coming home to roost.
12/26/09 19:46:49 | 0 Comments
My first Christmas present to myself has had its fruit: time off. I have not had time off from assorted demands for so ever long.
The second was a splurge on some patterns onwhich I have had my eyes since they came out as a series: Michael Powell's Houses of Provence, all five of them. I had been kicking myself all year for not taking advantage of the low pound last year around this time. Meanwhile, Powell had discounted several things on his website plus offered a members website... -
Christmas money
12/25/09 08:10:44 | 0 Comments
Decisions, decisions. I can't tell you how many times I have built shopping carts then emptied them this morning.
I have narrowed it down to 2 particular choices: a shopping cart full of Pat Thode trunk show discounted canvases or a shopping cart full of some Martina Weber mandala kittings.
I love the canvases but will I ever actually work on them? I have other canvases at home and though I love the finished products I do not like to work on canvases very much. These... -
Old Habits
12/23/09 15:25:59 | 0 Comments
The old habit of making a list, whether it be monthly goals or a rotation list, then ignoring it fell right into place. Not entirely, but for the most part.
Maybe if I could just pick 1 project: work on that until finished, then pick up another...
If I could avoid new starts, new big starts, then my cloth budget will be a lot easier to keep.
On the other hand, that would just mean the HAEDs that I just got would just be a growing collection. If I could decide over 1... -
Rotation thoughts - - AGAIN!
10/28/09 04:30:13 | 0 Comments
Tis the time to evaluate life, consider objectives and directions. I don't wait for an arbitrary officially condoned calendar date to do that. For me this period starts at back to school time, that arbitrary officially condoned date set by some old school board some century ago. That has been the official start of my New Years since I was 5 years old. After 30 plus years of assorted educational goals it is too ingrained to ignore so I have embraced it. It is a process.
It starts in... -
Saturday's Sunday's New Start
08/03/09 02:51:31 | 0 Comments
I almost made it out of the weekend without a new start. I knew it would be difficult when I couldn't get color possibilities out of my head since seeing the sampler in Samplers & Antique Needlework Quarterly, Fall 2009, issue 56. They published a Queenstown reproduction: 1819 Elizabeth Powell Sampler.
I couldn't wait to get home Saturday. I tried to resist for as long as I could which ended up being around 5 hours. I thought the sampler looked kind of flat. Lovely... -
August...EEEK!
08/02/09 03:46:46 | 0 Comments
Summer, what Summer? Is that what this oppressive heat and humidity is? It started Mid July...alittle late but now consistently in force.
Clearing out the WIP lists because I don't know what I will be in the mood to stitch on this month. The Martina Weber Mandalas are calling to me...but which one?
Saturday came and went. The only new start was the Fritz Leiber book. Started books take up less space than started projects though I did thread-up a new reproduction... -
Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
07/28/09 03:56:27 | 0 Comments
I didn't have a problem with what they left out of the book. I think they handled some things better in the movie, conveying some points much more clearly than in the book.
That said, I found the movie very dark, very brooding, and feeling 2 hours longer than it was. The pace was slow and dragging. Dark murkiness with spots of not so dark somewhat funny. Not belly laughing funny but quiet chuckle funny.
Judging from the annoying family sitting behind me in the...
