Throwback Thursday....

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....

My stitching journals

Like many of you, I kept a "journal" of sorts in
a yearly calendar documenting my stitching days.

  My "blog" posts

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.

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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.