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slight thickness where it joins i have to look for it so it isn t very noticeable either maybe i ll have it done enough to take a photo of the totally finished project tomorrow i worked some on the bookmark i need to fill in all the stitches before i will let myself go on to page two of the chart i took an up close and a farther away photo just to see if it looks better from a distance what do you think a posted by amy at 12 18 pm 3 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 28 2012 a rainy saturday morning today it is raining and dreary i went to pilates i am sore from all the exercise classes this week i have been steadily working on the edging for the vierlande winders keeper i m getting close to the end i have one side of the edging to go one more mini soccer ball and a bobble on the drawstrings and oh yeah eight thread winders to make on the edging i am getting ever closer to the snag in the thread i m crossing my fingers that it will not show or that the edging is finished before i get to it i made it to the left edge on the bookmark i discovered i needed one more color of floss so i stopped by michael s on the way back from pilates i stopped by the bakery and got buns and a donut i fear i have undone all my work in exercise class i worked just a bit on the french pouch that is on 40 count it was feeling neglected i have many more neglected pieces to get back to poor mr snowman i saw a sweet drawn thread chart give peace a chance on giovanna s site she said it was a digital download so i tried to find it on the drawn thread site couldn t find it so i googled it and it led me right to it two dollars and i had it in my hand i love digital downloads a posted by amy at 11 39 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday april 27 2012 miniature soccer ball i feel like i am making a miniature soccer ball i have twelve tiny pentagons and i am finger pressing the edges and lacing the backstitches together first you attach five pentagons around the center pentagon i looks like a flower then you make a second flower and then sew the two flowers together i decided after the first flower that i would iron down the edges and see if it went together better it did i am now sewing the flowers together it is the same process as when i made the pin ball all those little pentagons were a real pain to stitch but when it all comes together it seems worth it these balls that i am making will go on the ends of the drawstrings i reached my goal of getting one whole side done on edging the vierlande winders keeper i am almost half way round if i can finish a side a day then i ll be done in no time i really like how it looks very nice and neat i m glad i learned how to do this i worked a bit hours on the bookmark solid stitching takes a long time i m making good progress most of the girl is done i am working on the first of two pages of charts so there is a bottom half to this my goal today is to get to the left side i m so lucky to have cross stitch as my work a posted by amy at 11 42 am 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday april 26 2012 thread by thread i was very disheartened yesterday when as i was working on the edging for the vierlande winders keeper my thread broke oh no can it be saved well i ended up taking out a few stitches one stitch was too big anyway then i thought i ll just try and straighten out the threads and continue it worked out amazingly enough i got to the corner and now i m going down the next side it is very slow going as you have to switch the top and bottom threads on the tool after every stitch i work a few stitches until my back starts to hurt and then i work on something else sitting in my chair the edging is going to take a long time at this rate but it is three weeks until the amy mitten class and i m sure i ll have it done by then my goal for today is to get to the end of the side i m working on i worked a bit on the bookmark i discovered that i used the wrong color floss i bought my floss at joann s you have to be very careful as the floss is sometimes are not in the right bin i was using dmc 814 instead of dmc 815 argh i am contemplating taking out the 814 in her hair and replacing it with the right color 815 i m not in the mood to do that right now my baby turns 33 next week and we are getting together a box for him time flies when you re having fun and even when you re not a posted by amy at 11 03 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest wednesday april 25 2012 my aching back well i got brave enough to set up the edging scheme for the vierlande winders keeper i decided on doing it in sewing room as the set up won t get in anyone s way dh doesn t venture in there if he can help it after much cursing i got the threads all lined up it is hard on the back to bend over and go back and forth switching threads there is a knot in one of the threads and i tried to take it out but i just made it worse since i don t have any extra thread my choices were to go with the knotted thread or wait until i see amy mitten at class may 20th or try to order some from her which also means waiting well i didn t want to wait i ve only done about an inch but i can see a pattern emerging i should have done a practice piece with pearl cotton but i have been going over the steps in my head since i read the instructions i wonder if i would ever do this again it is a lot of work to set this whole thing up it is much easier to do twisted cording which reminds me that i want to try doing twisted cording on this new tool i got a couple of things done yesterday the basting is all done for the amy mitten class in may the purple thread needlebook is done if i were going to do this again never i would put in some interfacing to make this less floppy i like the button closure i stitched the scissors keep for the second class of the june retreat most of this project is done over one but i stitched the scissors keep over two i like it anyway i considered stitching another one and going over one but i like how it turned out it looks way better than the original design it s kind of oriental looking i enjoyed adding to the bookmark i really like this design margaret is giving me a tour of her needlework in her home take a look at http margaretmyblog blogspot com thanks margaret a posted by amy at 11 57 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tuesday april 24 2012 how about something different i decided to do something to help alleviate the mess in my sewing room a front end loader would help i want to finish up some of the stuff that is laying around and get rid of it so i finished up the shepherd s bush eden s lament pin cushion i left off the words and i think it looks fine this would look good mounted on a box it would look even better if i ironed it then another thing laying around was the purple thread needlebook i just need to sew the wool lining in i m about half way done with it then i need to sew on the button closure the pre stitching for mute but not silent sampler is laying around and i want to finish the basting and stick that away until the class i have the second class of the june retreat to finish up stitching as well i found a flower and vine design on the web and want to try that out on the scissors keep i just have too many things started the piles grow when i am not looking so i have my work cut out for me today i enjoyed seeing dylan another boy was playing with the rush hour game so we played with snap circuits it s another sunny day a posted by amy at 11 34 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday april 23 2012 monday it s monday and my bathrooms are clean everything is right in my world i worked hard on those drawstrings for the vierlande winders keeper and i got them all done they aren t perfect one is pretty close and the rest have a slight bobble in them but i don t think it is noticeable so what s next the bobble on the end that joins two drawstrings together i haven t done this before i started on it last night and it is a learning experience next one will be way better because i won t pull it so tightly and i ll make it slightly lower on the drawstring this one is not quite done i have been avoiding the edging actually i have been trying to figure out where in my house i can do this as it involves tables and chairs and an alligator clip as well as my new tool i m thinking the back porch might work i finished attaching the lid to the needlebook i must have a slightly obsessive personality i want to keep working on that bookmark just to see how it develops i can t seen to put it down dylan and i will probably do the rush hour game he wanted to go through all the cards starting at the beginner level through intermediate and on to advanced he is on intermediate right now it involves critical thinking and he is very smart we are also starting a new set of readers we only have 4 more sessions after today the year has gone so fast next week we celebrate his tenth birthday a posted by amy at 11 34 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest sunday april 22 2012 one step back i had a great deal of fun yesterday but not much to show for it i finger looped braided two of the drawstrings for the vierlande winders keeper the first one was pretty good but has just one bobble in it the second one was going great until i dropped a loop and in trying to pick it up i dropped more loops and disaster i was almost at the end too when you drop more than one loop you have no idea how to get back which finger does the loop go on and where am i in the pattern i already started over several times but i am getting the idea and picking up speed doing this i have to take the braid apart and try again we only have enough thread in the kit for the four drawstrings so i just have to keep taking apart and trying again i wanted to try the bookmark pattern i downloaded i wanted to see if i could tell what i was stitching so i did a part that was very important the face i wasn t sure when i started if it was going to work out as the floss colors are so much brighter darker that i expected i thought it was going to look awful but i kept going knowing that in watercolor the colors around a very bold color soften and change the look i was glad i kept at it as it looks okay so many orange colors in her face dmc 815 in her hair ugh but it looks better from a distance than right up close it is always fascinating to see a picture develop i didn t get much else done as i didn t touch the shepherd s bush kit and the lid to the vierlande needle book is still half on i hope to get lots done this afternoon a posted by amy at 11 49 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest saturday april 21 2012 sunny it is a beautiful sunny day that always puts me in a good mood i made terrific progress yesterday i successfully braided using the finger loop method i used some 12 pearl cotton to practice and it worked out i think i ve got it so that means i can braid the drawstrings for the vierlande winders keeper i have been trying to attach the lid to the needlebook using the knotted antwerp stitch not so successful i am on my third try it is sort of a blanket stitch with a knot it looks crummy now if i can just get it to look consistently crummy all the way across it may work out this is a very challenging project but the big news is that i finished all the 24 eyelets yeah we are getting to the end i hope to have this finished so i can take it to show amy mitten at the class in may i ve been working on this since january right before we left for the airport last week i got my order from the attic so i took the kits i ordered along on my trip one of the kits was shepherd s bush s eden s lament pin cushion it is a fun stitch i don t think i will put the wording on it though if i worked hard i could get it done today the threads got all messed up as i didn t sort them and put them on a card as i usually do and some orphan threads got mixed in so just finding the correct color floss is a challenge two of the greens look just alike the only difference is that one green is longer than the other there is scrunched up seam tape type ribbon for the edging but i don t know if i want to put it on i think i ll look through my stash and see what other things might look good at the retreat one lady had a project that had folded up gathered large ric rak on the edge it looked really nice i should get back to mr snowman stocking but i m just having a ball working on other stuff i went to joann s to get the floss for the bookmarks i downloaded they had the leftover easter candy at half price and on the bottom shelf were some chocolate covered marshmallow bunnies several of them came home with me a posted by amy at 11 46 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday april 20 2012 friday already i can t believe it is friday again already time just flies i got the lining done on the sugar plum fairy stocking yeah i put three more eyelets in the vierlande winders keeper only 6 to go i tried some finger looping but decided i needed to review the directions some more i still haven t caught on to how it s done i tried to skip a step and i probably shouldn t have do you really need to tape the ends down each time maybe i got the pre stitching for the amy mitten class mute but not silent it is a big piece of linen but there was no chart to begin the actual stitching only directions for basting so i got about 1 4 of it basted last night i was hoping to get a good start on it before our class may 20th rats i ironed the purple thread needle book all i have to do now is sew the lining wool to it and attach the buttons i looked at the online needlework show and noticed a company called pinoy stitch i love the idea that you can download patterns and don t have to wait for them to come in the mail i downloaded two bookmarks it will be interesting to see how they turn out i really got burned with a heaven and earth chart that nobody can tell what it is so we ll see so much to stitch and so little time a posted by amy at 11 50 am 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday april 19 2012 back to my real life well now i am back home and trying to get back to what i was working on before my trip when i got back home i had a package waiting for me it was the tool to make the woven edge and drawstrings for the vierlande winders keeper i want to try it out using some pearl cotton i read through the finger looping instructions which are for the drawstrings yesterday the instructions are very good and nicely illustrated i got two more eyelets done nine to go since i found some swe...