Happy 2012!

It’s the New Year!!!!  Wow!!!

Christmas was a blur…but enjoyable nonetheless…with a flu virus (but not stomach, hurray!) things went a little quickly for me.

Will post some stitching updates soon.  Blogging has NOT been ‘my thing’ lately but hopefully 2012 will make a difference!

Here are my boys fooling around….and meanwhile, happy stitching!

Theresa

 

 

There and Back Again…

well I’m not Bilbo Baggins, but I’m back!!!

I took a looooooong blog vacation! No obligations…just time to quit for a bit. Life just got too busy for blogging. But I kept up with all of YOU! and boy am I impressed by the wonderful projects I’ve been seeing!

Here’s one of my recent finishes, a gift for a friend.  One of Anne Brown (Goode Huswife)’s charts done with HDF Imperiolosity and Ex. Moon Called Sea:

A Gift For A Friend

 

I made it into a small pillow and it turned out great! It was a quick stitch.

 

 

I wish I had more of Anne B’s designs, they are all wonderful.

Spring is late coming here, we still have piles of snow on the ground and more coming today!  But, maybe next week.  In the meantime,

Happy Stitching,

Theresa

A Small Start

Here is my start on Elizabeth Welford:

Not a good picture, the flash was too bright but when I tried to re-take it the camera was full. So after” somebody” (meaning whichever kid loaded six hundred pictures of their old Dodge truck on it) downloads their pics, I’ll have room to take a few more!

Sigh.

Anyway, yesterday I stitched and watched “Cranford” on dvd (BBC television!)

Summer is flying by and my stitching time will go way down once Fall begins…but for now I’m enjoying it while I can!

Happy Stitching,

Theresa

Tablerunners too

My mother kept a gentlewoman to teach us all kinds of needlework which shows that I was not brought up to an idle life.  –Anne Halket (1623-1699)

I made a tablerunner yesterday and I love it! Pink and beige and black…. it was a kit and I am so glad I bought some fat quarters of the material because a lap or twin quilt in these colors would be awesome!

It looks great on our kitchen table.

and I can’t wait to stitch this sampler! The Elisabeth Welford with these awesome silks from Vikki Clayton on legacy linen.

It’s only 30 ct linen and the model is stitched on 40 ct but I need the lower ct. fabric!

Hope your summer is going well and you have time to do something relaxing… like stitching, or reading, or sewing , or gardening…

or just enjoying the scenery of a summer day!

Happy stitching,

Theresa

Birthdays and Summer Stitching

Wow it’s been hot lately!

For once I will be glad when September rolls around 
I had a fabulous August birthday….spoiled to the max! Here are some of the birthday gifts the family gave me.

a tea set from Jennifer, Jonathan and Annie:

 

decorative angels to put around the house from Christina and Debra (and I think Jesse):

cookies, chocolate and a book to go with my tea from Megan:

a silly card with an “official You are our adopted kid sister” note from some good friends of ours:

a phone card from Stephen:

a computer card from Michael to store my writings on:

and here is a picture of Stephen enjoying the plant Frank gave me.  It was almost “The Berenstain Bears and Too Much Birthday!”  I was quite overwhelmed.

and to get off birthdays and into a stitching mode, here is the Gold House Sampler I’ve been working on:

This is Examplar Dames and I’ve been enjoying stitching it with Vikki Clayton’s silks. I’ve gotten quite a bit more done since this photo from a few days ago and will take another picture soon!

Happy Stitching,

Theresa

Emma Project

Here’s an update on my Emma Project.  This has been quick and easy and I’m almost done!

Hot week last week but this week is so much better! We’re getting ready this week for another graduation party, this time a high school one!

Hope you’re stitching something and enjoying your summer to do something fun!

Happy Stitching,

Theresa

My Learning Hands

I have made a lot of progress on this sampler, by Examplar Dames. It’s done in Vikki Clayton’s silks (Hand-dyed fibers).

It’s been a lot of fun doing this one!

I love all of Vilma’s samplers and am slowly collecting them, hoping to make an Examplar Dames wall in my home!

And here is a picture of Jennifer (the oldest) with her brother Stephen. This was actually taken on Christmas morning! Don’t they look content    

Happy Stitching,

Theresa

New Things

Dell has had our computer for a loooooong time, to fix problems we had with it.  So after being AWOL for several weeks, here I am again!  In the meantime, we installed a new floor in the kitchen, family & dining room and entryway.  We were on a time limit…the floor was in 24 hours before we had 72 people in for Jennifer’s graduation party.

Even the girls helped!

I think it looks nice. Don’t you???

And in stitching news, just for an update, I am working on a Quaker sampler that I began several months ago…and started Sampler Girl’s Emma Project…and am almost done with Learning Hands.  Here are a couple photos with my very new start on Emma and one of Vilma’s samplers (Examplar Dames) I’ve started.

Happy Stitching!

Theresa

More Spring Events

We went to a wedding recently. Here’s Kevin surrounded by his family…doesn’t he look thrilled???

Here are Jesse and Jon just hanging out:

And here are the boys,  installing the new kitchen/family room floor 24 hours before we hosted a graduation party!

Whew!

and here’s another graduation party picture:

Hope you’re stitching something! I am … and will share more photos soon!

Happy Stitching,

Theresa

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Graduation Party

 

We had a graduation party for Jennifer a couple of weeks ago. Whew, it was busy! A lot of people came and it was a lot of fun.

Here are a few pictures from that day:

Megan with her childhood friend, Regina.

friends at the food buffet.

and more friends,

Jennifer with her childhood friend, Nicole.

And still more friends!

and more people in line for the buffet,

and still more friends.

I wish I had a picture of everyone who came!!!!

Happy Graduation Jennifer!!!!