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the queen s stitch her majesty s record of needlework knitting and royal proclamations home about the queen s stitch her majesty s record of needlework knitting and royal proclamations feeds posts comments progress report april 27 2011 by queenstitch since my last post i emailed scarlett letter and ordered the au ver a soie for mary burgess from wyndham needleworks it appears that my silks shipped yesterday so they should be appearing in my mailbox shortly as i hadn t heard back from sl i followed up a phone call she wasn t sure what it was i wanted so she hadn t gotten back to me i thought it was clear that i wanted a new piece of fabric but in any event that was finally made clear and she is shipping out a new piece today sl also said if i run out of silks to let her know so it is a happy resolution even though she told me that my 19 square piece should have given me 1 25 of margins for my piece i had given myself 2 5 at the top which i thought was thin at best a way long time ago i worked for a needlework shop in connecticut 18 years ago and our practice then was to give 3 on all sides for a piece that would be framed without a mat and 6 on all sides for a piece to be matted but that s just my opinion and now i know going forward to measure my linen beforehand and not just assume that what comes in the kit will be adequate i have never in my 25 years of needlework not had a large enough piece of fabric has anyone else run into this so while i am impatiently waiting for linens and silks to arrive in the mail i have been knitting on an afghan my library knitting group started well over a year ago it was my grand idea that we knit this and raffle it off to benefit the library so we all did 4 squares although some came in at 4 5 5 or even 6 square then i seamed them up and it looked like crap so i stuffed it all in a bag and hoped no one would remember but of course someone did and as our big annual fundraiser is in may wouldn t it be a great idea to finish it up oy i dragged it back out cut it apart and decided piece the squares together in blocks of four and knit a border and sashing like a quilt how do i get myself into these things this is what it looks like now i m going to hand it off to the group to weave in the ends this slideshow requires javascript posted in uncategorized 7 comments ann smith april 13 2011 by queenstitch because i am dumb stubborn pig headed persistent i spent a few more hours yesterday going back through those totes completely emptying and refilling them because the threads for mary burgess must be in there somewhere right wrong i did find several kits with avas in them and tried to poach but could only find 2 colors and if i took them out what would i do when i wanted to stitch those so i m just going to buy the missing colors and get on with it and then i came across this this slideshow requires javascript i had forgotten all about ann smith but i do have her threads and directions in fact i thought her threads were mary burgess but i digress i was very excited to find this until i remembered why it ended up in a box and off the scroll rods see down in the bottom right corner that is about an inch away from the end of the fabric and there is still the entire bottom border similar to the top border to be stitched the fabric is too short i had put a lot of work into her already but thankfully not the entire middle section a large part of which is over 1 see original here so my dilemma at the time and today was whether to omit the bottom border and delete and save what i had done so far or contact scarlet letter in an attempt to get a replacement and start all over i think if i kept what i have i would always look at it and think it would have looked better with the bottom border what do you think posted in uncategorized 4 comments mary burgess april 9 2011 by queenstitch hello thanks for stopping by my revived blog it s so encouraging to see comments from old friends i had every intention of working on abigail brown by examplarery and ran out and bought new scroll rods and some new velcro tape what do you think of velcro tape by the way and got it all set up and going but i stopped fairly quickly i was not enjoying the weave of the linen or dmc threads this is my first foray back into sampler stitching in years and it wasn t cutting it i wanted the feel of dense smooth linen under my hands and smooth silk sliding through my fingers last night while putting something away i found the cover of mary burgess isn t she beautiful i remember how badly i wanted this kit from essamplaire and i m pretty sure my friend lisa bought her for me as a gift and maybe even one for herself lisa is that right at sampler gathering i have no idea why only the cover page was stuck in a drawer but i immediately set out trying to find the parts i found the linen rolled up in a basket already attached to scroll rods i had gotten in the blue row at the top as well as the first line of salmon montenegrin after a few hours spent digging through four large totes of my stitching stash i found the charts and threads they weren t even in the same tote so i got it all set up in my stand this finally all happened at almost midnight and i sat down and wanted to just thread a needle and get in one length of silk before bed aren t these silks lovely yeah too bad they don t go with this project i was staring at them wondering what was wrong when i realized there was black silk here yet there isn t any in the project and after looking at the list i realized they don t belong to mary at all so i spent some more time digging and came up with these equally lovely and just as equally not belonging to mary burgess sigh somewhere there is a bag of silks that belongs to my mary but i have no idea where i m going to poach what i can out of these two and then order whatever else i don t have this sampler is being stitched no matter what and i ve decided to buy much smaller totes and organize my stash i ve sold off a lot of it over the past 6 years but even if i stitched every day for the rest of my life i don t think i could finish what is in my stash and after pouring over it last night for several hours i wonder how on earth i could have shoved it all away in a closet and not picked up needle and thread for so long it s like falling in love all over again posted in uncategorized 5 comments starting over april 4 2011 by queenstitch so apparently i haven t read my own latest post of over a year ago on how to blog it might have helped i did move on january 1 2010 and moved again a month and a half ago for the past two years i have been back in the town i grew up in and i love it for the past four years or so i have been knitting non stop and haven t had much stitching to show but since moving into the new place i have a strong desire to stitch i dragged out abigail brown by the examplarery but i am not in love with the linen so i have spent more time looking at it than stitching i think i m going to put that one back in the wip pile and start something else i did pick up a small piece by little house needleworks and have done a little on that but i want a big sampler that i can use my lovely gazelle for so there s a little stitching done and a blog post to boot i ll try to post something else tomorrow posted in uncategorized 4 comments how to blog january 1 2010 by queenstitch step 1 request username and password because it s been so long you can t remember it step 2 log in step 3 type wow that was pretty hard i wonder if i can do it again tomorrow maybe not tomorrow because it s moving day wish me luck posted in generally 4 comments an abundance of bs august 15 2008 by queenstitch two b charts on seascape finished blueberries and blackberries from my garden and bees in the hydrangea bush bee posted in uncategorized 3 comments rain rain go away august 10 2008 by queenstitch honestly it s been raining here in southern maine for weeks we re building an ark in the backyard just in case the pool has been neon green from the algae and yesterday we had a peek of sunshine just enough to mow the knee high grass and dump a bunch of chemicals in the pool to remind us of what summer looked like about a month ago here are some photos from the knitting experience cafe christmas in july party held at my house posted in uncategorized 5 comments wip wrestling july 31 2008 by queenstitch there is a new event happening on ravelry ravelympics the challenge is to finish knitting something before the conclusion of the olympics start time to be the opening ceremonies in beijing on 8 8 08 at 8 pm there are events such as itsy bitsy bikini breaststroke the cable steeplechase the bag n tote backstroke etc i am entered in the shawl relay where i hope to start and finish my seascape shawl from knitty it was a kal with my group from the shop but after frogging two or three times i lost count i gave it up hopefully a deadline will help to motivate me because i know it will be worth the effort i m doing a heavier version in summer by spunky eclectic a dk weight with a lovely sheen and drape one of the more popular events in the ravelympics is the wips wrestling i have been doing my own mini version lately i finished the soleil tank see previous post and the following herringbone lace socks from getting started knitting socks by ann budd in cascade fixation azure socks by debbie barnhill for knitty com in artyarns ultramerino4 this yarn was fantastic to work with and the color gradations and fabulous the pattern was perfectly written and a joy to stitch i also finished the button band on my sprout and completed my blizzard stole pictures to be taken when the sun comes back out now my wips have all be completed so i need to cast on for something now this morning i wound some arucania ranco yes i put my yarn on a pedestal isn t is gorgeous i m either going to do the master coriolis by cat bordhi or the river rapids socks by sockbug posted in uncategorized 1 comment field trip july 14 2008 by queenstitch max and i recently went on a field trip to longwoods alpaca farm in cumberland me we had such a nice time there was supposed to be a picnic lunch as well but the weather did not permit the owner s friend was also there to give a spinning demonstration on her ladybug but max was not too interested in that i think he knows it leads to knitting and this was about him and dumb me didn t even think to ask if they had yarn for sale duh posted in uncategorized 2 comments vacation july 7 2008 by queenstitch yay we survived max s 1 week vacation from pre school we spent 4 days in mass visiting nana grandma and everyone else we could think of we visited the fabulous look park in florence mass we went on the train the bumper boats but not the pedal boats the water spray park the playground and visited the zoo and we went 2 days in a row here are max and nana running barefoot through the grass after an excellent breakfast at sylvester s in northampton here is nana modeling the moutonne soleil tank that i made for her well i made it for me but because i didn t know at the time that bust size is not the same as bra size it was too small for me but it s perfect on her so it was meant to be i even made it to webs twice on thursday we headed for home and stopped in north hampton nh to visit yankee cross stitch and i picked up a thing or two now to find time for some stitching on friday we had our neighbors over for a celebration of the 4th i have no idea of what we did on saturday but yesterday we spent the entire day out by the pool and my friend madeline and her 3 yo son sammy visited us as well it was a perfect end to a great week posted in uncategorized 2 comments older posts recent posts progress report ann smith mary burgess starting over how to blog blogroll becky bee s stitching hive ravelry smalls too crafting angry chicken not martha soule mama knitting a verb for keeping warm anna s flying needles g bella 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