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i d rather be stitching skip to main skip to sidebar thursday august 14 2014 a busy week so it s been a busy busy week for me so busy that i neglected to post a pic of my latest finish after finishing american pride for our anniversary i went back to my janet carsels by the scarlet letter i really have a thing for scottish samplers i love the illuminated alphabets and the fact that they usually are full of bold reds and greens is also an attractive feature for me i m trying to get ready for the counted wishes online needlework show in september so i was making laying tools since i was really low on inventory so i decided to post this pic of all my new ones in a needlepoint group on facebook let s just say that not only do i need to make some more i need to order more supplies what a great problem to have tweet posted by tommye at thursday august 14 2014 labels counted wishes janet carsels laying tools the scarlet letter tjbdesigns monday july 28 2014 american pride yes i m still stitching but my life is so boring and i like it that way that i rarely have anything interesting to post about i don t stitch several pieces in rotation and i hate to show the same thing every other day with a few more stitches done i ve done some smalls that i can t show you for the usual reasons some people actually look at my blog and i don t want to give any secrets away however now that my anniversary 32 years has passed i can show you what i stitch for my husband american pride by aury tm designs i stitched it on 32 count twilight blue with dmc it s been so long since i stitch with two strands of floss that i had forgotten how tedious railroading is now i remember why i like to stitch on 36 and 40 count most of the time tweet posted by tommye at monday july 28 2014 labels american pride aury tm designs sunday may 4 2014 who knew i d still be struggling with the alphabet at my age i think spring is finally here the pine pollen has come and gone so we can open up the house and enjoy a few days of bearable humidity i might even take my stitching out to the screened porch for a little stress relief i finally got to the motif part of janet carsels i had to make a couple of color adjustments because the chosen colors just didn t look right it could be that the dmc to avs conversion wasn t accurate or more likely the colors dye lots themselves have changed that seems to happen a lot i had three different dye lots for one of the colors i switched to and the best match was the oldest one so even when there s a printed conversion it s probably best to confirm it whenever possible fortunately i have a fairly large stash of avs that makes that possible one of the perks of having owned a couple of needlework shops in the past these illuminated alphabets take a lot more focus and therefore time than you might think especially when they aren t necessarily symmetrical a little froggie told me that this is probably a good point at which to switch back to le jardin de plaisir but who knows stay tuned tweet posted by tommye at sunday may 04 2014 labels janet carsels reproduction sampler the scarlet letter wednesday april 16 2014 one color at a time it s the beginning of the season so things are getting a little hectic around here any of you who live in a vacation or resort area know what i mean even though the weather is still a little spotty folks seem determined to go to the beach i drove into town on monday and noticed the difference immediately traffic is way up then i went to the grocery and wanted to pull my hair out way too many people already as usual i didn t get any stitching done while visiting my mom this weekend but i m learning i only took one project with me instead of my entire stitching bag so after four days of stitching celibacy and a stressful monday i was ready to park myself on the couch with my stitching it s been a couple of weeks since i showed you any progress on the two pieces in my so called rotation the plan was to work on each piece for a week and then switch but i m am somehow compelled to keep working until i come to what i consider a good stopping point now give me some credit because normally that good stopping point is when the project is done in this case i finished the red portion of le jardin de plaisir so i decided it was time to switch projects just to be contrary i did a couple of tiny motifs in the black before i packed it away i just love the center arrangement of flowers even without the black parts done janet carsels continues to be a fun stitch with a variety of alphabet styles and only a few colors involved tweet posted by tommye at wednesday april 16 2014 labels janet carsels le jardin de plaisir long dog samplers the scarlet letter tjbdesigns sunday march 30 2014 frog fest i m not even going to apologize for taking the month off just accept it i m an inconsistent blogger i have found some time to stitch even though i lost about 4 days while visiting my mom things were just too chaotic between creating photographing and listing over thirty new items to my etsy shop i managed to make significant progress on le jardin de plaisir and janet carsels hard to believe that any one of these little sections could be more trouble than another since they re all basically the same just in a different orientation but i stitched one of them three times i frogged the first time but didn t go back far enough geez how dumb so i had to rip it out a second time but as they say the third time s the charm jc has also presented some difficulties on what should have been a simple vine the flat part of the vine is eight stitches and the angled parts are nine stitches how hard is that to remember well apparently i m easily distracted of course it is ncaa basketball tourney time and i tend to get emotionally involved but i can t watch without doing something so stitch and frog it is i love stitching reproductions because of the stories behind them even if i just make them up they feel real to me this is the first one i ve done where the personalization is at the top of the sampler i didn t even notice until i started stitching what i thought would be the alphabet and i said to myself hey self that s not an a maybe janet had a little ego thing going on maybe she was worried one of her sisters and i don t even know if she had any would steal it and try to take credit for stitching it but it s an interesting change to the norm tweet posted by tommye at sunday march 30 2014 labels etsy janet carsels le jardin de plaisir reproduction sampler the scarlet letter tjbdesigns saturday march 15 2014 the counted wishes cross stitch festival spring 2014 is now open a long winter of stitching has probably used up your stash well then we have just what you need to lay in a supply of great projects and the fabric and accessories to go with them tweet posted by tommye at saturday march 15 2014 labels counting pins cross stitch marking pins needle threaders patterns scissor fob stitch pickers supplies tjbdesigns tuesday march 4 2014 going to the dark side well i m going to give it another shot i m going to try to work on two projects at once in some sort of rotation whether my brain can handle it or not remains to be seen i started le jardin de plaisir for a long dog sampler sal but i ordered several scarlet letter charts about a month ago and the silks just arrived this week so i m torn not really after a couple of hours of ljdp it has become abundantly clear that i will need something a little less geometric for some balance so i ve chosen janet carsels from the scarlet letter i also have some more sweetheart tree needlerolls kitted up and ready to go should a stitching emergency arise tweet posted by tommye at tuesday march 04 2014 older posts home subscribe to posts atom join us about me tommye i am a retired software engineer and needlework shop owner i m married and currently have two pug babies otis and puggy i try to stitch every day make that i need 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