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I started No Bees by Birds of a Feather on May 14. My goal was to get the words and one color of the borders stitched and I finished that last night. With the linen drooping in the frame, it looks wonky but it isn’t. In this post, I shared a photo of the chart...

The cross stitch shop in Granby, MO posted on FB yesterday that they had gotten in some Nurge framers and I wanted one (or two) so I asked Vince if he would mind going over there this morning. I had to agree to eat at the Chinese restaurant in Neosho, which I did . ....

This chart arrived today. The chart is Don’t Cry Because It’s Over by Lizzie Kate. I wrote about how I found this chart in this post. If I have a blank spot on a piece of linen on a frame, I’m going to start this right away. I think it should be a fast stitch...

There’s a cute little needlework shop in Granby, MO – With Needle and Thread. They’re a small shop but they have TONS of charts and so many stitched samples. They have linen and they have DMC and Weeks’ Dye Works floss, as well as some specialty floss. They had ordered a few things for me...

Last night I finished the top border and started down the left side. Normally, I would stitch the entire border, then go back and do the rest of the project but I was so anxious to get started with the fun stitching that I did things a bit differently. The corners bother me a bit...

I love this project and would sit and work on it all day if I didn’t have other stuff that has to be done. It’s a big project and it’s going to take a while but I think it’s so pretty. According to the Markup app, I’m a little over 5% done. That means I...

I have a lot of catching up to do. When I last stitched on And God Saw, Markup told me it would be completed July 17 if I kept up at the same rate of stitching. A few days of very little stitching and when I picked it up yesterday, Markup said it would be...

As mentioned yesterday, I’m working on And God Saw and this is going to be kinda my tribute to Rita. If you missed that post, you can read it here. You all know that I love Teresa Kogut’s work and this chart really has me wanting to do nothing except stitch! You may notice I...

Thank you all for the comments. I haven’t read them. Yesterday I was a wimp all day. I went over to a neighbor’s yesterday evening to share some of my veggies I had started from seeds. She shares hers with me every year. It seems that the seeds I started this year either ALL germinated...

Dang . . my recent posts are entitled “lightning” and “weather”. We watched the tornadoes cross Oklahoma tonight and I’m praying for my Oklahoma friends. If you’re reading this, please check in when you can. My guess is that those of you in the worst hit areas probably don’t have power or cell phone service...

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...