Happy New Year!

I am back from a blogging hiatus and ready to blog again. I do not expect to blog every day as I don't have that mush interesting going on in my life, but I will update with photos of my stitching a few times a week.

While I was away, I pieced four quilt tops made of patches and have about a third of a yo-yo quilt done.

I knitted and embroidered some Christmas and birthday presents. Here is a photo of a small wall hanging that I stitched.

It will take me about a week to catch up on all of your blogs, as well as edit this blog. I have missed seeing all of your stitching projects.

Thanks for visiting my blog.

Beeswax Candles

I'm working on getting my free patterns into PDFs for you to download. I have to reinstall programs due to computer crash during the big storm a few weeks ago--almost lost my whole hard drive due to having plug only on surge protection and not battery back-up + surge protection.

In the meantime, please take a look at this project. If you are a fan of beeswax candles and/or vintage items, you will like these:



http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/freshpastrystand/fresh-pastry-stand-beeswax

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe: The best give-away at The Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe-Enter Now!

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe: The best give-away at The Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe-Enter Now!

Victorian Motto Sampler Shoppe: A new sampler chart give-away

Giveaway closed.

Coeur Bonheur WIP

This is "Coeur Bonheur," a freebie by Maryse.

It is being stitched with Northern Lights magenta silk floss on 28ct. white evenweave (maybe Lugana).
Happy stitching!

Robin Freebie Finished

I finished my Robin On An Egg (Bent Creek) freebie:

I stitched the egg in startling colors on purpose, because I wanted to use some of the DMC variegated floss.
Happy stitching!

The Herald of Spring

OK, I know that robins might have been around all winter, especially since our winter was so mild, but I saw my first robin of March last week. I'm remembering him as I stitch this freebie by Bent Creek:

DMC floss (my choice of colors) on 28ct. Lugana

My Flickr is not the way I want it--if someone can explain to me how to get it to be a moving slideshow, like on Blacksheep's (and most) blogs), I'd appreciate it.

Happy stitching!

Scissors

Here's a picture of the scissors that I received in an exchange a couple of years ago. They were purple, but it has almost all worn off. I want to buy some new embroidery scissors, and want to know which models or lines of the colorful embroidery scissors will not end up like these.