Getting ready

Getting ready. We are packing and weighing suitcases...and i am trying to decided what to take to stitch. We are also trying to remember to take all of the chargers for the electronics...fun stuff. I guess we will re4lax once we get on the plane..we don't leave LAX until midnight...we are both wearing our heavist shoes . usually i get new bills and couldnt this time. The banksaid they only have new bills at the holiday time. We did get Baht...it is worth about .03  so $100 produced two envelopes of money! The India rupee wasn't any better...about .02.I couldn't get any money for Myanmar and Visa said we can't use our card there...interesting. We are busy emptying the frig...makes for some strange meals...pot stickers, mexican hotdish and salad.!

Hi again...since it is New Year's Eve, I will show you two pieces I have been working on....have not stitched at all for over two weeks...haven't been in the mood. Now with the Holidays coming to a close, it is time to get back to it...

The round ornament is by dede...I started the green part three times....at first I tried some Kreinik braid and that didn't look right. Then I tried something like Snow...that didn't look right. I finally settled on plain old DMC floss..doing the Nabuko stitch. For the white side I am using one strand of DMC white floss ,doubled, with one strand of DMC Fil metallise, doubled, to give it some shine. This is also in Nabuko. Then I will basketweave the circles in the corresponding metallic before stitching on the sequins.

For the poinsettia, each petal is in a different stitch. My green leaves on the outskirts don't look too swift...I still have to put in some gold metallic lines in the background and then make it into a pillow. Hopefully I will have this done by Christmas of 2009!!!

Hi, it is December 31st and I am again trying to put photo and blog together. There is a photo of the ornaments I am still working on for my four grandchildren. I am a few YEARS behind...but I hope they are used to that!

Southwest Nativity Set

 
I purchased all of these canvases in about 1995...hurried and got them done in time to enter in the seminar. The tall pieces are 16" tall.The set has a teepee and a rug which I will probably not stitch.

My boot

 
I suggested our guild stitch boots to hang on a tree and to sell at the auction. We ended up with 43-48 boots. I think the tree brought in $1300.

Day-Night

 
I had this around for a long time and hurried and finished it to be entered at the ANG seminar in Tucson.