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Failed Exchange

As has happened to me a couple of times in the past, I have been a partner in a failed stitching exchange. I never heard from Claudia whether or not she received the squares I sent to her for Round 13 of the Fair and Square exchange blog. Sadly, nor did I receive any squares from her. Her blog hasn’t been updated in a couple of months either, so I hope everything is OK. I know she was planning her wedding, so my hope is that she just got busy and that it’s not something more serious.

Thankfully, one of the volunteer replacement stitchers, Corinna (doesn’t blog), has stepped in and graciously agreed to stitch replacement squares for me. In the meantime, the exchange coordinator (Jill) said I should go on and feel free to share my finish pic since neither she or I have heard from Claudia at this point.


Design: Celtic Knot (May 2007 freebie)
Designer: Ink Circles
Fabric: 32-count Natural linen
Fibers: Soy Luster (Purple Haze, Easter Egg Candy, & Heliotrope)

Tomorrow (Saturday) is the monthly open stitch class at my LNS, so I’ll be heading over for that. We always have such a great time, so I’m looking forward to it. I’ll probably end up spending most of the day working on catching up on my Plum Blossom Kimono class piece while I’m there. I missed the first session of the class last month and really need to get caught up before the final class session next Friday. Since the kimono is designed by Margaret Bendig who is also the teacher for the monthly open stitch class, this will hopefully be the perfect chance to catch up.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend. Until next time …

Tah-Dah! Fairy Happy Dance

She’s finished! 8) As always, you can click to biggify, if you like.


Design: Letters from Nora – Madeline Melissa
Designer: Nora Corbett
Fabric: 32-count Waterlily
Fibers: Crescent Colors, Treasure Braid
Stitched 2 over 2 except braid which is 1 over 2
Completed May 27, 2009

I did make several changes from the original chart. If anyone is interested in seeing those, just leave me a comment and I’ll post them.


Update to include my changes:

Hair:
CC Colonial Copper in place of La Tierra
CC Just Rust in place of Hickory Sticks

Skin (changed to better match the red hair):
CC Creamy Peach in place of Cobbled Peach

Wings:
Rainbow Gallery PB10 in place of Cloud
Added RG 032 Blending Filament to the Vintage Violet
Backstitched using RG PB62

Beads:
I did made changes to the beads in her hair & dress, but I unfortunately didn’t write those changes down in my notes and I don’t remember what they were. (


This puts me at 5 completed projects in my 25 Project Challenge. My focus will now shift to finishing up my squares for Claudia as part of round 13 of the Fair & Square exchange. I have the main square about halfway finished already. It’s due to be mailed by June 15, so I’ve still got a couple of weeks to finish them up.

That’s it for now. Until next time …

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