Another needlework topic: What are you stitching TODAY?

Posted by Susan Hartman on October 23, 2009, 6:21 pm

Tonight I'm planning to spend an hour assembling a felt banner for
church (not stitching, technically, but cutting and gluing, though I'll
have to run a seam on the machine for a casing for the hanger.)

Then I'm working on an afghan for a Christmas present and some ornaments
from Emie Bishop. They're individual motifs from the Christmas Quilt
pattern, and I'm making three of them (two "baskets" and one star).

Three hours total, if I'm lucky!
sue

--
Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
www.dirtylinen.com

Posted by Lucille on October 23, 2009, 7:10 pm

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I'm going to be putting the finishing touches on a baby sweater that my
friend made. She hasn't knitted anything for years and did a really great
job on an intermediate pattern from an old McCall's book with only a very
few questions on how to interpret the instructions. Then when it came to
putting it together, she chickened out and asked me to do it, which I will
do happily.

I'm so proud of her I could just sing!!!

Lucille

Posted by Dawne Peterson on October 23, 2009, 8:15 pm

Today has been my day off, and it has turned into a charity day. The store
is having a bake sale tomorrow to benefit an elementary school's library
(the school is in a less affluent neighbourhood, and is the main access many
of the students have to books), and I will be assembling packages of spiced
hot cocoa mix, and maybe if I have time oatmeal cookie mix to sell at the
sale. I had to make a grocery store run to be sure I had enough of
everything, and then ended up forgetting to see if I have cloves, so it may
be off to the store again. I have already done a few runs over to the
church I used to attend, where the ladies' auxiliary are having a garage
sale. Great opportunity to thin out a few bookshelves. Then I saw they
needed boxes, so went to the store and raided the receiving dock. So no
stitching so far. But there is a football double header on television
tonight, Hamilton and Toronto playing now, but later I will want to be
cheering Edmonton on to beat Calgary (this is a case of which team we Green
and White fans loathe less), and hope I will not be too tired to finally get
down to "Follow Your Truth", the Monsterbubbles pattern that Traditional
Stitches kitted up for me, while I watch.

Dawne

Posted by ellice on October 23, 2009, 10:23 pm

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Hey, that counts.

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Good for you. Hmmmm, well yesterday I worked on the Drawn Thread Spot
Sampler- which Sue I bought when we met at the Stitching Post, IIRC 4 years
ago! Or maybe only 3. On this gorgeous piece of hand-dyed purple cashel,
which all these people keep asking me about - and now I have to see if I can
find a note somewhere that says what it is. I still have some other fabric
that I bought from their little packages - and am hoping maybe I put this
package with those. Just kind of funny. But, I took it to "stitch in
public night" with the EGA chapter (along with Donna and others) as
something I'm not paranoid about doing while in a Panera. Changed the
thread on the house. The danger of putting a project away, then picking it
up not months, but much longer later - your ideas change or become more
critical. And of course I decided to frog the white (window outlines)
'cause now I don't like the coverage and will add an extra ply of thread.

But, I did get to stitch, and catch up with some stitching friends on Wed
night, and then stitched a bit yesterday.

Sadly - no stitching today, hopefully tomorrow. After stitching group on
Thursday (had to leave a bit early) I went to the doctors. Which impacted
stitching 'cause I've had some ucky thing growing on my middle RH finger, up
at the first joint, which turns out is a growth leaking synovial fluid and
building up and it has to be removed, restructured by a hand surgeon.
However, the doctor I was seeing took pity and opened it to drain some of
the fluid (which was of great interest to the nurses as it's like slightly
thin jelly). The lidocaine shot was really painful - stupid thing. I was
fine until that wore off and realized, darn it, my whole finger now hurts
like the dickens. The doc cauterized down into the joint hoping that may
stop the leaking, but maybe not. So, stitching on hold as I feel awkward
this way.

So, everyone else - have fun stitching. I'm going to finish writing some
stitching essays and work on some charting.

Ellice

Posted by Susan Hartman on October 24, 2009, 1:34 pm

ellice wrote:

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I have a lovely piece of blue cashel hand-dyed with purple overtones
that I'm going to start in 2-3 weeks. (When these are done. And I have a
trip planned, and that'll make a good travel project.) I bought some
lovely purple threads (waterlilies? and gloriana silk? I think that's
what they were) to do some of the ornaments from this year's JCS issue.
The Celtic knot and the tree shape made up of sewing motifs (thread
spools, scissor, etc.)

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((Ellice)) Sorry to hear about your hand problems.

Glad you have the stitching-related writing to do, so you can still be
immersed in something you love while not actually *doing* it. (And maybe
the time off from stitching is a blessing in disguise, because if you're
like me, I procrastinate on the non-stitching stuff - I'd always rather
stitch!)

Sue

--
Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
www.dirtylinen.com

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