Rolling in Stash

Ok - - here we have a Blue Ribbon design to do that long line of small squares - -(remember the patriotic row?) well now we have Halloween. Then we have Victoria Sampler - arghhhh when can I start these???? I love the Gingerbread house. The roll of banding is replacing the banding I have used in just one year. I love that stuff for envelopes and needle rolls.

Four Seasons are Done!

I used the summer and autumn banners as teaching tools. Now I have them all done. I need to make the hangers and these can be displayed. I am quite pleased with the way they came out.

Tip: for cutting out the banner

I pull out the thread closest to the stitching. This will leave a channel to put the scissors and do all the cutting out.

Vacation Stitching

Okay - I did stitch while on vacation. Selecting what to stitch is every so important. This is the Winter Soltice and Spring time band samplers for a series I started long ago. Then I was trying to show others how to do the button hole stitch. I started treating the band samplers as banners but I needed to finish the other two seasons. Here they are.

More wonderful scenic photos

One evening, while returning from dinner, I stopped to take a few photos. The lake (Lake George) is so beautiful and I love the colors in the clouds. Our trip was wonderful. We were blessed with wonderful weather (except it was cold a few nights). We had a fire in the fireplace, wonderful dinners out, great friends and family -- what more could you ask.....

I promise to start discussing stitching again soon. Laundry, unpacking, groceries and such are keeping me busy. Not to mention the mountain of mail and email I need to address!

I have been on vacation - -

This is just one of the views I have enjoyed this last week. I was up on Whiteface Mountain in upstate NY. It was very cold up there that day. I must have seen one billion or more trees on that one day alone! I promise to get back to stitching and posting soon. I just wanted to tease you a bit with this wonderful view.

ARhhhhh - I found a boo boo

I was proud of myself. Today I did two rows of four sided stitch in order to put these two pieces of fabric 'together'. This has been a problem and bug to me for many years. I think the seamed edges look okay but the outside border on the top is definitely too far out and needs to be restitched. Argghhhhh.