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Last night, it was maybe 9 or 9:30 p.m. In the distance, we heard thunder. It wasn’t loud. It didn’t sound angry. Vince said “We’d better get the dogs out before it starts raining again.” I took Oscar out. Then Vince took Rita out and I got Cooper’s harness and was on my way out...

Once the floss was organized, I was ready to do a conversion and pull the floss for No Bees by Birds of a Feather. I started by pulling the called for floss. I pulled the Gentle Art floss if I had it and if not, I pulled DMC. In the photo below, you can see...

Yesterday I was going to get “No Bees, No Honey” kitted. I knew I didn’t have all the called for Gentle Arts floss and I figured that was a good time to match up some Victorian Motto floss and use that. I have ordered quite a bit of floss from them through the years and...

A friend and I had both bought this chart and had planned to stitch it together but I’ve gotten so behind on finishing projects that I couldn’t start any more til I finished something and could take it off the frame. Yesterday my friend asked me if I wanted to start No Bees No Honey...

If you thought I would have Faith, Hope, Peace and Love finished by the end of last week (or whenever I said I wanted to have it finished), it didn’t happen. I’m am hoping to have it finished by Sunday. Surely I can do that. This time of year, rain is my friend. The garden...

I’ve been using the Markup app for several months now and I love it so much. I had been using Pattern Keeper almost since I got back into cross stitching in 2020. It’s still a good app but for my stitching, I like Markup so much better. Some of the things I’m going to say...

There are so many of those little slips. Yesterday afternoon I cut off as many slips as I could, leaving a bit of the potato attached. There were 32 of those. I planted those in cups and put them in the greenhouse. There are at least that many more slips that I pulled off the...

I’m not sure if it’s the colors, the four small squares, the sentiment or what but I want to sit and stitch on this piece until it’s finished! You can see that I’ve started the border on the next square. I had thread on my needle that was for the border so I finished off...

Handmade by Sarah W. is a flosstuber I love. It seems that almost everything she shows is on my list of things to stitch or after seeing what she’s making, it gets added to my list. I’ve been noticing the cutest little stitched “calendar” sitting behind her and I’ve almost written and asked her about...

After working five days on A Symphony of Friendship, I felt like I needed a break from something so big. The stitching is fun . . most all stitching is fun for me or maybe I just don’t do the pieces that don’t look like fun, but with it being so big, it’s a big...

Last night Cooper and Oscar slept for four hours or more under the stitching frame. This piece (A Symphony of Friendship) is so wide I’m not even able to use a stand because to work on the far right side, the tiered stand next to the sofa is in the way. So, it makes it...

It was back in February that Denise came up with the idea for the April Fool’s Day start. I wrote about my plans here. I bought the chart and copied it to a PDF so I could work from a tablet. I ordered Vikki Clayton’s silks and never got around to deciding what fabric I...

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Having Oscar and Cooper together can be like having two out of control children together. I feed them in the morning and again at 5 p.m. By 4 p.m., they’re apparently hungry. Oscar gets much more grouchy and Cooper seems to get much more – just out of control. Other times during the day, Cooper...

There’s a little cross stitch shop in a little town in southwest Missouri. The shop is With Needle and Thread. They don’t have a tremendous amount of info on their website but it does have their hours, phone number, email and a few other things. They’ve been open almost a year and I had never...

This is a problem of having too many projects started, as well as not labeling. I’m trying to do better but I’m always trying to do better at something. For weeks, this project in a frame kept calling out to me. Every time I would go to get a project from the bin, or replace...

You know how I want to stitch as much as I can on each piece of linen before taking it off the frame. I have all kinds of “scraps” of linen that I’ve cut off other projects but since I can no longer stitch in hand, those pieces are sometimes small enough that, unless I...

Yesterday I finished everything on This I Know except the grass fill in and I stitched around it to measure for the frame. You can’t see the outline I stitched because it’s done in yellow thread. It’s just a basted line and that’s the line that I measure across to get the frame size and...

The sheep on This I Know are stitched – their bodies anyway. I hope to stitch remaining body parts today, then I can get started filling in the background. It’s hard to see them but with the background stitched, they should show up nicely. Otherwise, all I have left to stitch is the bird’s beak,...

I love my scroll frames and the lap stands that hold them but they aren’t the best for traveling. Since I don’t travel, I guess I should say . . they aren’t the best for stitching away from home. When I was at my uncle’s last year, he had a great little chair but it...