Some Sad News, Weekend Stitching and Some Mail

I just finished reading Daffycat's post about Yoyo, who use to have the Dragon My Needle blog and was the original host of  the Totally Useless SAL.   This wonderful stitcher and blogger suffered a stroke and can no longer stitch or blog.  I often thought about her since her blog disappeared and I want to wish her all the best.

((((Yoyo))))

Shelleen of Queen Stitcher recently started another blog - Weekend Stitch-A-Thon where members can post their weekend stitching pictures.  I joined on Friday and here is what I stitched on this weekend.  The first is something I just started on Friday and is called Sew Scissors.  It is available here.

I am making a display of my assorted embroidery scissors in flower frogs and what to make this as part of the display.  I am thinking of finishing it off as a flat fold.

The other two pieces are 2 charts I started during the Crazy January Challenge - Red House in Winter from Little House Needleworks and Merry Christmas by Waxing Moon Designs.   They are almost finished and I will be so happy to cross them off my list

Last week I received two more flower frogs to add to my collection (a BIG 3 now).  The first one to arrive was a pale green one and on Friday I got a nice large clear glass one.

I also received my May SEP package from Traditonal Stitches last week which included the lovely piece of 32 count Cream linen from Weberei Weddigen in Germany that I am using for my Sew Scissors.   And from Down Sunshine Lane I received the 4th 2011 Ornament from Little House Needleworks - Gingerbread Village.

That is it for now!!!!!!!!!!!   Take care and Happy Stitching!!!!!!!!!!1

Spring's A-comin'

I thought I would post some updated pictures so you can see that spring does eventually come here. It is not the prettiest time of the year. The ground is still frozen and there is still a few patches of snow here and there. Hopefully we will be seeing leaves on the trees and green, green grass soon.





As I mentioned in my last post, I just love the colours in BBD's "Bluebird's Message". I love them so much I took every opportunity I could this week to stitch on this project. Below is a picture of my progress as of 15 minutes ago.



I am currently missing the colour for the branches - WDW Havana . I didn't have it in my stash and my LNS was out of stock. I did order it online and I hope to have it by next weekend. I am really looking forward to seeing this piece completed.

A week ago my mother told me that someone had donated some embroidery floss to her knitting grou and since the members had no use for it she asked if she could give it to me. She was given the okay and I picked it up on Tuesday. It is quite a nice haul. The bag contains a combination of both DMC and Anchor.



A couple of weeks ago I read this post. I thought it was such a neat idea to display my scissors in a flower frog and I went and bought this little gem from a seller on Esty.





I know I will be picking up some more of these since I discovered all the lovely little scissors sold on this site - Anita's Little Stitches. Since January I have already bought 4 and have a few others earmarked for future purchases.

Well, it has been a long day. Take care and happy stitching!!!!!!!!!!!!!