Quote for the day.

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. – Twyla Tharp   

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**Whine**

It’s sweltering hot outside. 
My medication leaves me with little to no energy and my face is puffed up like a full moon. 
Out of the 10 jillion spools of thread in my possesion none of them match the blouse that I’m altering, if it wasn’t topstitching it wouldn’t matter.  So I have to venture out in [...]

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I follow where my mind goes.

The title of this blog post pretty much sums up my style of needlework.  No matter how much I design and plan ahead of time, when it comes right down to stitching, something takes over and I’m just along for the ride.  As an example: The two circular motifs of the chevron stitch that I [...]

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Shopping – highs and lows

I’ve been looking for some summer tops lately with no success.  Between the summer heat and the prednisone sweats, I need something lightweight and cool but I don’t want to dress like a teenager.  Everything in the stores is either very young looking, a large hideous print or 100% polyester which is definitely not something [...]

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TAST – Cretan Stitch

I’ve fallen behind on the TAST stitchalong.  Yesterday I did get in a little stitching and worked on week 4’s Cretan Stitch.  I get bored just stitching a simple line of stitches unless it is on a crazy quilt project, so I tend to start playing which is how it went yesterday.

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The boot pattern, at last.

Thank you for bearing with me.  I finally finished the pattern for the boot needlebook and converted it to a pdf file.  The pattern is located on the Pattern page (click on the tab at the top of this blog). 
I would be interested in seeing any needlebooks made by others using my pattern.

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But it was on sale.

The stores in my area don’t carry #8 perle cotton in a very wide range of colors.  So this morning I decided to check online and found that Joann’s was having a sale on DMC #8 perle cotton with prices ranging from $1.83 to $1.99 a ball.  I found 10 colors that I either don’t have or [...]

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Excuses, excuses…..

The boot pattern is still in the works.   I never realized how hard it is to describe how to do something with just words.  It’s been a while since I last used a couple of these programs and it was like going back to school, even had to break out the reference books.  Then yesterday I [...]

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Home again.

I’m back at home after spending time with my kids, more on that later.  I have a lot of catching up to do around the house, but just wanted to pop in and let those of you that are interested know that I am working on the boot needlebook pattern.  I was having issues with [...]

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