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Continue reading →: “Margaret Ann Klinedienst”
"Margaret Ann Klinedienst" sampler by Queenstown Designs. This was certainly a challenging piece. Some of the inconsistencies are mine, such as the slightly-yellowed flower in the top border, when I must have picked up the wrong bobbin and didn't notice until quite some time afterwards, but most of them are…
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Continue reading →: After the Fact (Christmas Ornament)
I had had this piece finished for some time, but waited to post it as it was a gift! then blog ennui happened and now it's March. Heigh-ho. Anyway, it's the "Christmas Angel 1997", a free chart by Marilyn Leavitt-Imblum of Lavender & Lace. I'm very impressed with the shading…
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Continue reading →: The State of Things
I am still knitting, though there is little sign of it here, as there isn't much progress visible, I'm afraid — the "Camptown Races" cowl is still making a grandmother's-footsteps advance towards the finish line, five rows forward, one back, seven forward, two back — the ski balaclava for David…
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Continue reading →: Re-coloring the “Floral”
I was dismayed for more than one reason recently to find that my local needlework shop — who had a wonderful assortment of threads — closed its doors with a thwack of finality and no notice whatsoever. I had been hoping to go and compare in person the threads I’d…
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Continue reading →: Margaret 2.0
I'm happy with my revision of the colors for "Margaret", wh. are a bit darker but look much more like the photo than what I had in my hands before. Now I'm a bit bemused by the satin-stitch blocks on the basket, as the line across the middle of the…
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Continue reading →: Oh, Margaret, Margaret!
This is the start of “Margaret Ann Klinedienst” by Queenstown Sampler Designs, which I was charmed by I think almost immediately. The naïve flowers, the more-than-slightly wonky basket (she was nine, Margaret Ann, when she stitched this!), the softly-faded colors — oh yes! I’ve had the chart sitting on my…
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Continue reading →: Page 4
Page four of the "Quaker Virtues" sampler. There are nine pages in the chart, and with this I've done six of them. The middle runs through the lower part of the R in INTEGRITY, so I'm actually well over halfway through — that seems hard to believe, although I must…
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Continue reading →: “English Cottage Sampler”
I'm still trying to figure out my new-to-me photo-editing program, which is very different from my previous one, a demo version that was no longer available by the time I got my new laptop in January — gee, yes, it's September already, and I'm still trying to figure things out. …
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Continue reading →: Hard Lessons
I wanted to love this, the "Floral Sampler" by Darlene O'Steen. I still do, the arrangement and the variety of stitches and the general air of it. But I really don't like these colors. I kept telling myself, "She knew what she was doing, Darlene O'Steen, who am I to…
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Continue reading →: Slowly But Surely
What with computer problems, camera software issues, phone camera difficulties*, &c. &c. &c. and the general ennui of summer in Southern California on top of post-2020 malaise, well, I have not been blogging. This is not to say that I haven't been stitching, wh. is possibly the one thing that…
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