Little Sheep Virtues

Here is a little progress update on the piece I keep in my bag to stitch at lunchtime, waiting at the doctor's office, and other odd times that I'm away from home.  This is the seventh piece in the series.  I do have other 6 stitched.  I'll have to show those another day.


Little Sheep Virtue - No. 7 - Patience
Little House Needleworks

Have a great Saturday!

Beggar's Night Progress

I've spent a couple of evenings working on Beggar's Night by Threadwork Primitives.  I had made more progress.  Wednesday night just when I thought I had the border done, it was off by . one . stitch.  A mistake I had made in the top it turns out.  So the result you see here is what I had left after some major frogging.  But I am ready to start in fresh again tonight.

Please excuse the wrinkles. 

Thanks for stopping by.

Retreat

Weekend before last I had the privilege of attending a retreat sponsored by the Delaware Valley Historic Sampler Guild.  Twice a year these ladies meet at the Lankford Hotel for a weekend of stitching, eating, and relaxing.  Sally and Sara of Salty Yarns are there with the shop open for our pleasure all weekend.

When I arrived on Friday I was given this goodie bag which also included a packet of Bohin needles which I have tucked somewhere in my stitching bag.

When I opened this I thought what a great Shepherd's Bush kit and I can probably stitch this in the weekend.  And, I haven't opened it yet.

Sara and Mary put out a lovely spread of appetizers and desserts for us on Friday night.  Sara is a wonderful cook, make that chef.  She has something new and wonderful to tempt your tastebuds each time she does one of these. 

We spent time stitching on the lobby on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.  And walking on the boardwalk, and of course, eating boardwalk food.  And staying up too late stitching, of course.

I got to meet lots of the attendees.  This is the first thing I've done with this group.  I had met some of the ladies at other events held by Salty Yarns.

I had the privilege of spending time with Theresa Baird of Heart's Ease Examplar Workes.  Her personality is as lovely as her designs.  She is such a happy, bubbly lady. 

She brought the most wonderful show and tell, most of which you can  see on her blog.  She kindly consented to let me post these pictures of her miniature blanket chest and the smalls she has designed for it.

She has pictures on her blog that show these in a much better way than I have done here. 

She also brought along her Cottage by the Sea Sewing Set which she will be teaching in Ocean City in the future.  I can't wait for that class! 

Please skip over to the guild blog and take a look at their pictures from the weekend. I always take my camera but seldom use it.  Thanks goodness others are more attentive to these things than I am.

Have a great day!

A Start

I decided to start a new project.  This one is Beggar's Night by Threadwork Primitives.  She is a fairly new designer to me.  I gotta say, I'm loving the prim. 

I am doing this on 36 count something or other that was in my stash.  The chart calls for DMC threads.  I found a conversion here and am using the Gentle Arts fibers from my stash. 

This picture shows the cover of the chart pack.

Also, check out header she has on her blog.   What a nice, easy finish and it looks wonderful.  Sometimes less is more.

This is the first piece I've started in my new stitching room.  It felt good to be able to actually find things again. 

Have a great day.

A Finish

 

This is the only finish I have to show for the entire summer. 

 

 

What I Love About Home
by Pine Mountain

I did stitch some other things, but don't have anything else finished.  I did add some UFO's to my pile!

A Teaser

One of our projects this summer has been to add laminate flooring to some of the bedrooms.

Baby Girl's room was first so that she would move back in there.

Next, up, was my soon to be stitching room.  This was Little Boy's room for many, many years. 

A view of the room, there is a daybed behind all those boxes.

The elk head in the foreground will be moving to the basement.  I love this color. 

An honest to goodness closet for my stash!

As you can see I have started to move in.  My son has to finish cleaning out the closet.  Then I can unpack and settle in. 

I will be moving the happy chair and my farm table in here.  I am trying to work with what  I have before I go out and buy anything else.

September

September was a little more normal.

Baby Girl was back in school.

Baby Boy was also back in school in Kentucky.  He did come up for a visit in September.  We spent a day together walking around Longwood Gardens. Although I have lived in this area for 40 years I had never been there.  We had  a nice day.  I got over 10,000 steps that day.

Little Boy moved back home with his dog.  My husband and I have never had a dog.  This has been an adjustment for us.  I can say that we do miss him when he is not here.

Later in September I took a break from work and went to Ocean City, Maryland for a solo retreat.  I stayed at the Lankford Hotel.   I stayed in a unit called Wren.  I've stayed there before and really like that room.  While I was there I walked on the boardwalk, a bit.  I spent three days stitching on the beach.  I made several visits to Salty Yarns.  And I did some stash enhancing. 

I am so glad I took that break.  I needed to get away and rest.  I did do quite a bit of stitching. 

Before I came home I took a little ride over to Assateague to see if I could see any wild horses.  I found these right by the road.

 

 

 

These aren't the best pictures but they were taken from the car window.  So they are pretty good for when you consider that. I hadn't realized how close I was to Assateague until a co-worker told me about his trip to Ocean City.