Made progress

on Cozy Toes #7 yesterday. The Saturday morning stitch group arrived and since they hadn't been to my home before I had a great time taking them on a brief tour. But the best kind of tour in my opinion is self guided. Now you can do that with trusted friends, non-judgemental friends that is. We also had a show and tell where finished items were given a well deserved ogle with ensuing ooooooohs and ahhhhhhhhhhs! Truthfully, talent abounds in this group, awe inspiring talent. I wish I could show you some of their exquisite projects; whether complete or in progress it is not possible as some are going to be taught at NAN, ANG or EGA and these gems are not mine to share. But be on the lookout in future posts where I will alert when they become available.

You may recall in an earlier post I referred to the turbo stitcher? Well G, we'll call her, was also at breakfast, creating a breeze with her needle motion. I will ask her if she'll let me post a photo of the piece she was working on, breathtaking! In fact, I will seek to showcase her talent on this blog; if she agrees you will be in for a fabu treat! Stay tuned. I mentioned I did make some progress on my stocking. Quick stitching with tent or diagonal mosaic. I changed from using Flair to Perle #5, call me lazy, it's okay. I get easily annoyed with all the twisting that seems to occur when I use the flat ribbons as they persist in defying my laying tool. Moistening may help, I'm not all that familiar with which threads can or cannot be moistened. Next, completing the lower half which includes sewing on a few beads. Hmmm, where are my band-aids?

STITCHIN' WITH MY PEEPS

No, not those marshmallow things. My peeps, as in people, are in this case, my stitching friends. This Saturday is my turn to host our local ANG stitch group for breakfast and stitching. There are 11 of us that get together once a month at a member's home. I love this little group, I learn so much and it's a good time to just be together stitching. We are all very diverse and stitch at different levels. These are the times that I will visit in my happy memory bank years from now.

One of the best things is getting a tour of the hostess' stitched pieces, stash collection, stitching stations, etc. Fun. I'll only have 7 this time as it's Summer and people are gone or otherwise engaged. I will be working on one of my Cozy Toes from PFOS canvas of the month club. They're small and work up quickly with all the threads and stitch guide provided. This club subscription was a gift from my daughter Julie, who really knows how to treat her mom.

This is stocking #7 out of 12. The canvases are small and to keep the cost of the kits down, PFOS consolidates the various threads used throughout all 12 canvases. I like that. They also used a wonderful variety of threads and patterns to keep it interesting.

So after my volunteer obligations this week I needed to get some hou... hou... housework done. And while a clean house is not mandatory, or even expected, I felt I should do at least a little dusting and fluff the pillows for my "peeps". So that is what I'll be doing for the remainder of the week. How about you, what are you doing?

Moving right along...NOT!

Well I definitely thought I would be much further along building this blog by now. Thing is, I am unfamilar with where everything is, like where do I get a counter, or more to the point, why do I get a counter??? I see other blogs filled with fun things to "press" and calendars and seemingly more options for formatting. Well, I'll keep looking.

Last night I went to a friend's house for dinner and stitching; together we are creating a needlpoint design of a place that we both have interest in. Neither one of us are designers so we are moving forward at a snails pace which doesn't surprise me. In general we both are fairly methodical in our approach and luckily have many other stitching projects to hold our interest when this get's bogged down. So far we have stitched the outline and have assigned symbols for each space in the design. More details to come.

I call my friend a turbo stitcher as I have never seen anyone stitch at a break neck pace before. It doesn't matter that she's working on 32 count, in the dark, with one hand tied behind her back, she's just plain fast. And good. Her work is quite amazing. I just don't have the discipline to do anything fast, except maybe gain weight.

Two projects, one I'm about to finish is Rio Rincon has been a fun project stitching up quickly. The other is completed, Chinese Lanterns, was also an unusually fast project to stitch. Since I got the chart out of a magazine this project came in under $10 total. No, not including the framing. The framing, yes that is a whole other price point.
So here's the latest submission. Thanks for visiting.