CJ recently posted a giveaway over on her blog, Tea-n-Stitches, and I was the lucky winner. I'm very excited. Not only did I win the delightful Plum Berry Sampler from Bent Creek, but I finally figured out the name of a chart that I admired long ago but couldn't find its name or designer.
You see, back in 2009, the Pumpkin Patch Stitcher posted on her blog some pictures of her work. I immediately fell in love with the pumpkin alphabet sampler. Marjorie no longer had the pattern and didn't remember the details, so I was stumped. When I saw CJ's post, I just knew it was the same designer and was able to track down the pumpkin pattern.
I feel like I've won twice!
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
February Round Up
More links of posts I wanted to remember, from February 2011.
Natasha's designs continue to inspire me.
October Farm shared recipes for Homemade Fig Newtons and Poptarts (two of my favorite junk foods).
Stitch Bitch pointed me in the direction of the Pioneer Woman's Olive Cheese Bread, which would be tasty with October Farm's Sun-dried Tomato Pasta Salad.
And I'm totally amused by Kathy's tribute to lip balm.
Hmmm... lots of food links. I guess you can tell I'm not stitching much these days.
Natasha's designs continue to inspire me.
October Farm shared recipes for Homemade Fig Newtons and Poptarts (two of my favorite junk foods).
Stitch Bitch pointed me in the direction of the Pioneer Woman's Olive Cheese Bread, which would be tasty with October Farm's Sun-dried Tomato Pasta Salad.
And I'm totally amused by Kathy's tribute to lip balm.
Hmmm... lots of food links. I guess you can tell I'm not stitching much these days.
Ringing in the New
Several month's ago, Lee started documenting the blog posts she had read and starred from the previous month. I'm stealing her idea. And the title of this post from the first entry in my list. Here are my choices from January 2011.
Susan quotes Tennyson.
Karen V tutors us in Pillow Ornament Finishing.
Natasha shares some card layouts: 10-minute sketch and Silhouette.
John shares how to make Rootbeer Pinwheel Cookies.
Marie makes Quesadillas with a British twist.
Kathy shares Homemade Granola. (Updated with link to her new blog.)
Jeremy tells us how to get financially organized in the new year and kick our productivity into gear.
Susan quotes Tennyson.
Karen V tutors us in Pillow Ornament Finishing.
Natasha shares some card layouts: 10-minute sketch and Silhouette.
John shares how to make Rootbeer Pinwheel Cookies.
Marie makes Quesadillas with a British twist.
Kathy shares Homemade Granola. (Updated with link to her new blog.)
Jeremy tells us how to get financially organized in the new year and kick our productivity into gear.
Monday, May 2, 2011
May Giveaway
Not mine, CJ's. She's giving away 2 charts. Go check it out.
http://tea-n-stitches.blogspot.com/2011/05/stitching-update-and-small-giveaway.html
http://tea-n-stitches.blogspot.com/2011/05/stitching-update-and-small-giveaway.html
Saturday, April 30, 2011
9 From Easter
Here are my favorite photos from April.
The Palm Sunday Processional.
A and her Easter basket.
L & A waiting to go to Church.
L and her new best friend, the Easter Bunny. She kept following him around.
L and her Easter Basket at the egg hunt.
A on the hunt.
A still hunting.
L near the end.
Back home to play with our bubbles. L & A
The Palm Sunday Processional.
A and her Easter basket.
L & A waiting to go to Church.
L and her new best friend, the Easter Bunny. She kept following him around.
L and her Easter Basket at the egg hunt.
A on the hunt.
A still hunting.
L near the end.
Back home to play with our bubbles. L & A
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
Winter Fab Five
Dani started doing a quarterly top 5 of photos of her daughter. I thought this was a great idea. Here are my Fab Five for the winter.
DDL playing dress up.
DDL sleeping
DDA sleeping
DDA posing for the camera. (She asked me to take her photo.)
DH, DDA, and DDL waiting for the dolphin show at the National Aquarium in Baltimore.And a bonus picture.
DDA & DDL in their formal school picture from this year. This photo was taken in that short time period between growth spurts that we have where DDL looks a lot bigger and older than DDA.Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Recording Projects
The Stitching Bloggers Question for this month is:
Do you keep records of your finishes? We are so lucky to have so many record-keeping tools at our disposal to record our accomplishments. So if you do, what recording methods do you use? What do you think is important to record when you've finished a design?
When I first started stitching, I had a small yellow spiral-bound notebook into which I recorded information about my projects. Name, designer, who is was for, start date, finish date, and any comments about the project. Since I was mostly stitching with Aida and DMC, I didn't record fabric or thread.
I'm sad to say that I have no idea where that notebook went. It's probably still in the house. It probably didn't get updated once I moved here to DC in 1999. It'd be fun to go back and review the projects I did.
This blog, which I started at the end of 2007, is now the record of my projects. It's incomplete, but it's what I have. I keep the same information as before, plus fabric and thread details.
I would say that I'm a bad archivist, by not keeping a record of my projects, but the job of the archivist is to preserve records, not to create them.
Do you keep records of your finishes? We are so lucky to have so many record-keeping tools at our disposal to record our accomplishments. So if you do, what recording methods do you use? What do you think is important to record when you've finished a design?
When I first started stitching, I had a small yellow spiral-bound notebook into which I recorded information about my projects. Name, designer, who is was for, start date, finish date, and any comments about the project. Since I was mostly stitching with Aida and DMC, I didn't record fabric or thread.
I'm sad to say that I have no idea where that notebook went. It's probably still in the house. It probably didn't get updated once I moved here to DC in 1999. It'd be fun to go back and review the projects I did.
This blog, which I started at the end of 2007, is now the record of my projects. It's incomplete, but it's what I have. I keep the same information as before, plus fabric and thread details.
I would say that I'm a bad archivist, by not keeping a record of my projects, but the job of the archivist is to preserve records, not to create them.
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