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Continue reading →: Mrs. Campbell and Friends
"Mrs. Campbell, 1805" by Hands Across the Sea. I started this just before New Year's and am enjoying it tremendously — amused at the same time that I looked at it a bit askance for a while after first seeing it, for Mrs. Campbell's rather severe motto "Keep your work…
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Continue reading →: Page 2, and Some Other Things That Are Taking a Long Time
Page two is the next-to-last page in my journey through the "Quaker Virtues" chart! I made an effort the past few weeks to focus on this and get to the join between pages two and three — and page three is less than half of a page of chart, because…
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Continue reading →: Books to Movies and Back to Books
I got on a bit of a mysteries kick after watching Kenneth Branagh's new version of "Death on the Nile". I confess that I did not like it much — it not only didn't compare well to the 1978 version with Peter Ustinov as Poirot, but even if I hadn't…
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Continue reading →: Sampler September, and a Free Cross-Stitch Sampler Chart
It is Sampler September 2023, which seems to be not a stitch-along or even anything really official, but just is, as a time to celebrate cross- and counted-stitch samplers. In honor of this, and in thanks to those before me who have posted free charts of samplers, here is one…
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Continue reading →: That’s Better!
Now the boulders look like “three-dimensional” boulders, after switching out the errant DMC flosses for ones that more resemble the picture on the cover of the chart. I meant to take a photo of this at the time, but clearly I was enjoying stitching too much to think of it. …
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Continue reading →: Chairs for the Tea Shop
I had long intended to scratch-build the chairs for my 1:12 tea shop, and was hoping to re-size this 1:24 tutorial from Little Architecture (which is actually the Sibbo/Pinnockio chair by Yngve Ekström), but after a great deal of math, some trial and error, and months of dawdling, I saw…
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Continue reading →: Jilted, and Thwarted
Not that I haven't been enjoying and appreciating the "Wisdom Sampler," but I got this far and found myself unable to stop wishing that I'd started "Laurence Briquet" instead. I've set things temporarily aside before — I mean, started another project simultaneously in another frame or hoop (or set of…
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Continue reading →: A Mini BBBB
Messing around with some 1:12 knitting. This pattern may be obvious to folks who were knitting a few years back — it's a miniature version of Lisa Shobhana Mason's "Big Bad Baby Blanket" from the first Stitch 'n Bitch book (2004). It's in Caron's Impressions wool/silk thread, in the "Abalone"…
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“This Needlework of Mine”
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Continue reading →: “This Needlework of Mine”Progress as of today. The colors seem very vivid to me, after a string of "faded" samplers! The little blue splodge behind Young Mr. Wisdom's head is the beginnings of a bird, but I think I might change the colors to browns, as with the two blue birds right there…
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