Thank you so much for your wonderful
comments on my previous posts....
they really do make my day!
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While visiting my mom awhile ago, I really
took note of how many stitched treasures
(her eyes rolling)
of mine that grace her walls. It got me
thinking about how I wish I could have started
this blog many years earlier. Well... actually
I guess I was "blogging" on paper....
Like many of you, I kept a "journal" of sorts in
a yearly calendar documenting my stitching days.
a yearly calendar documenting my stitching days.
I love my blog.....
just for the fact it is now my "stitching
journal". I can look back over the last few years
and see what I was stitching and I am surprised
how I can remember what was happening in my
life at that time. I've been toying with the idea
of sprinkling stitched pieces from the past so I
could enjoy them on my blog and decided there
was no time like the present to start.
was no time like the present to start.
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In keeping with the seafaring theme this week,
here is one of my favorite finishes from 2000.
The Need'l Love Company
"Ship of Life"
Started: 1-16-00 Finished: 4-9-00
I remember I originally started this one on 14 ct
cream aida......don't ask me what I was thinking.
After stitching a little of the wave, I quickly
realized this just wasn't right. I restarted on
32 ct. linen with DMC. At the time, this was
a very different stitch for me....this was my
first sampler of sorts. I am so glad I
stitched this on linen and stuck with it.
To this day, I still love this piece.
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BD "The Lighthouse"
Stitched 1999
I just loved the older Bent Creek designs and
probably have most of them between 1998
and 2006. I especially liked the Word Samplers
and this is one of my favorites. I attended one
of the now defunct cross stitch festivals where I
was able to pick up the frame. I didn't have a
LNS and remember being in awe of all the
cross stitch "stuff" available to buy. O how the
world has changed thanks to the wonderful web!
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If you made it this far, thanks for visiting.
I would love to know if anyone
else has these stitched and on their blog.
