Happy Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a safe and happy Thanksgiving! We had a good time, drove to my mother's on Thanksgiving day and had another dinner with the inlaws on Friday. Everyone behaved themselves, which is surprising at the inlaws lol!

Say hello to Puppy and her babies! She had 6 puppies on the morning of the 29th, she's tucked inside a sleeping bag at the moment, nice and toasty warm~


It's turned cold, only going to be about 40 degrees today. At least it isn't snowing or sleeting. I haven't forgotten last years icestorm. Since the leaves have all fallen off the trees you can see all the damage still left from last year, I guess it will take a few years for the trees to come back from all that. I'm ready for spring again.


I've started my first large Teresa Wentzler pattern, the castle is the name of it. It's a really cool dragon wrapped around a castle. Most every symbol is a blended color so it's slow going but I'm really enjoying it. Haven't stitched enough for a picture yet but soon~

burden update

Here is Burden with another page finished! It's the short page on the right side at the bottom. I'm going to follow down to the end of the pattern on that side, then go sideways to finish it up. There are only 1 & 1/2 pages left to go until the bottom-whoohoo! lol

mini daisy dream finish

Tada! Here she is all finished, now all I need is a frame~

My Big Toe/Quaker Seasons wip

This is my newest start, Quaker Seasons by My Big Toe. I'm stitching this one 1x1 on 22 count hardanger with Vikki Clayton silks. I'm using the premiums from d-bags that I've gotten with several orders over the summer so the colors aren't going to match exactly with what the pattern calls for. I'm still working on Burden as well, I've gotten 8 of 25 pages complete on him.

Completely unrelated to stitching-today is November 4th! I voted, did you?! hugs Christine

Thursday wip's

Here is an update on Burden, by Heaven and Earth designs. After about 4 months of being put away I've finally gotten the desire to stitch on this one some more, his eye is starting to peek out at me, finally some details are emerging and he is getting more interesting to stitch on! I started this one in October of 2006! lol I'm hoping to finish him by the end of next year~

1x1 on 28 count evenweave

This little cutie is an artecy pattern from the artwork of Maria Van Bruggen, it's a mini-stitch called daisy dream. I'm stitching her on 18 count aida, this is halfway done~

another Inga's crochet bag/h-bag

I've finished another h-bag, this one is done in cotton worsted yarn & I lined it with plain white fabric. I was going to put a zipper in it, but it's been a long while since I've done any major sewing so I decided to stick with the basics on this one. I had to sew the lining in by hand after I got it all ready to put in as my sewing machine wouldn't stitch throught the thickness of it all together. This is going in the mail this week to my mom, her birthday is at the end of the month~