I love long weekends. The only bad thing about a long weekend is when it ends. 
Oh well, at least I have another one coming up this next weekend, so I only have to work three days this week. 
I managed to put together a bundle this weekend for the Iraqi Bundles of Love project that I posted about on Friday. If I had more time to gather stuff up, I could easily have filled far more than one box, but this was what I was able to assemble on such short notice.
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Since it’s already bundled up, you can’t see the contents, but it has a variety of eight quilting fat quarters, 10 balls of matching yarn (can’t remember the brand now), five balls of novelty scarf yarn, two skeins of Lion Brand Homespun yarn, knitting needles, and crochet hooks. It’s then all wrapped up in a half yard of Moda sampler fabric. I also included a handmade greeting card thanking Major La Flamme and the other volunteers for coordinating this project.
In other stitching news, I was surprised at the end of last week with a gift certificate to my LNS from my friend Nicole in Chicago. I headed over to the shop on Friday to pick it up and, naturally, had no trouble putting it right to use. 
Here are the goodies I picked up:
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The charts are “Pumpkins 4-Sale” from Little House Needleworks and “An Apple a Day” from Plum Pudding Needleart. The fibers are for the new “Romantic Rose Garden Mandala” design from Chatelaine Designs that appears on the cover of the September issue of The Gift of Stitching digital magazine. I have no clue when I’ll ever get around to stitching it, but it’s definitely one I want to stitch at some point, so I figured I might as well go on and kit up the fibers. 
Here’s a partial pic of it from the cover:
After I left my LNS, I headed over to Joann to buy the ribbon to tie up my bundle for IBOL. While I was there, I stumbled across a little bundle of fat quarters of Halloween fabric that was on sale for $1 off. As much Halloween stitching as I do, I grabbed it for finishing. Here are a couple of pics. The first shows the whole bundle, and then the second one shows a better view of one of them since it was a large print.
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Lastly, I put in some stitching on Hagatha’s Slipper. It’s amazing how much longer it takes to put in that purple background stitching than you would think. I’m really trying not to focus on the fact that I have to do this all over again for the other side when I finish this piece. I’m really hoping this doesn’t turn out to be like so many single socks I’ve knitted over the years.
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Ok, that’s it for now. I really need to be in bed! Until next time …
Good that you could send fabric and yarn for IBOL. Hagatha’s slippers looks very pretty….
Enjoy your new stash…Halloween fabric looks awesome
Hagatha’s Slipper is awesome! Maybe you could commit to doing at least one length of purple every day. If you felt like doing more, you could…but at least it would be in smaller doses.
Great Halloween FQs. I have that black with the eyes.
Good for you! Great bundle.
I LOVE the fabric!! Hagatha’s slipper looks very nice. Take consolation that it’s only one shoe
Lovely stash–both sent and received!
Your Hagatha’s slipper looks like it’s coming along so nicely. Love the Halloween fabric!
Great stash! I love the quilting fabrics too. Any your witches shoe looks awesome!!!
Woo! I’ve made it down to T in my Reader! I wish I had known about IBOL before my trip. It’s such a good cause and I have TONS of yarn I will probably never use. Great package and I love the moda fabric you used as wrapping paper! Yay! Stash…I’ve been eyeing that Pumpkins 4 Sale chart and don’t even get me started on the Mandala in GoS. Must stay focused! OMG…too much to stitch and not enough time. Oh yea…and Hagatha’s Slipper looks like a fun stitch and unique decorating item for the “holiday”.
Ahhh…. but purple is my favorite color…..so I would be okay doing all that fill in color….not if it was white or black…..well I would be missing a sock too!
(It will be so cool when it is done. Halloween is my favorite holiday!)