Welcome to Turtle Bay.

 
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Work on the little village of Turtle Bay is finished.  Decided I didn’t care for the first tree I stitched, next to the white cottage, so it was replaced.  Then greenery was added to the village on the hill and the addition of clouds in the sky.  The two [...]

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Summer evenings.

It seems like I’ve had some type of needle in my hand since about the age of 5.  My grandmother always had some needlework project ready for my summer vacation arrival at the farm in Missouri.  One year I had to make enough yo yo’s to cover a pillow and to this day I dislike making [...]

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Noisy stitching and a quiz.

The stitching around here has mostly been noise, you know the background stitching that fills in, doesn’t really stand out, but adds to the total picture.  Not terribly exciting on it’s own, so no pics.  Hoping to get to more interesting stitching in the next day or so if I get caught up on things around the [...]

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By the sea.

Yesterday in “A Crazy World” was spent by the seashore.  There is a lighthouse to warn those at sea of the perilous coastline and a small little cottage for the lighthouse keeper and his family.  The thatched roof on the cottage is my first attempt at Hollie Point needlelace and I’m happy with it.  Still [...]

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Turtle – modified.

I wasn’t totaly happy with the turtle from my last post.  With all of the detail of the leather shell, the simply stitched head and feet just looked wrong.  Wasn’t sure how to go about fixing it and then I remembered I had some extremely soft beige leather, but it was the wrong color.  How [...]

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Batteries are recharged.

There has been actual stitching done around here the past couple of days.  Managed to do a couple of seams, a ship and a turtle.

The above seam is staggered running stitches woven with contrasting thread and the addition of X stitches.

Decided that every ocean needs a ship made of herringbone and cretan stitches.  The seam detail at the top [...]

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The Perils of Needlework.

I went racing into the sewing room to retrieve a project I’m working on and stopped short with a sharp jab in  my heel.  I had suddenly found the extra large chenille needle that I lost the other day.  For non-stitchers, a chenille needle is used for bulky threads and yarn and this particular one [...]

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Running on empty.

The worst part of the slow withdrawal from prednisone are the days of zero energy and often days that are so bad that you can’t even think.  That describes Tuesday of this week.  It took all of the energy I could muster to walk in the kitchen and spread peanut butter on a piece of [...]

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Lazy days of summer.

Yesterday was for stitching, listening to Joni Mitchell and dreaming of soft tropical breezes, instead of the actual furnace fueled winds of a 106° day in Oklahoma.

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