First of all, let me start by saying how completely overwhelmed I am by the amazing response to my blogiversary/1000th post giveaway. Thank you all so much for your well-wishes and kind words about my blog. As a reminder to those who may not yet have entered, you have until 11pm [...]

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I’ve had several people post comments & email me over the past couple of weeks asking me to post my Mary Wigham conversion. I’ve been holding off up to this point because I still hadn’t finalized it. I’ve been doing quite a bit of test stitching to see which fibers worked and which [...]

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Ta-dah! Yep, the Multiplicity piece from the class I took last weekend in La Jolla is finished after only six days. This piece was so much fun to stitch! Now I just have to try and decide if I’m going to attempt to finish it into the actual frame [...]

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I’ve been having so much fun this week stitching on the “Multiplicity” frame weight canvas project from the Margaret Bendig class last weekend. If all goes well, I hope to finish it up tonight. If not tonight, then definitely by tomorrow. Here is a series of photos that shows my progress on [...]

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I headed down to La Jolla over the weekend with my non-blogging stitchy friend, Lindsay. We had a great time! She’s a fellow IT weenie, so we had lots of fun stories to share with each other during the drive down and back.
When we arrived on Friday night, we immediately drove over to [...]

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Well, after much consideration & contemplation, I finally made the decision to pull different fibers and restart my Mary sampler. I originally started her on 32-count Legacy linen from PTP using the recommended DMC fibers. I then decided I wanted to stitch her using over-dyes, so I pulled over-dyes that basically coordinated with [...]

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I love this conversion that I saw for the Mary Wigham sampler so much that I just had to share it on my blog. This conversion was done by Katrina who prefers softer colors in her samplers, so she converted it to more muted tones using cotton over-dyed cottons (GAST, WDW, and CC). [...]

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Well, my hope of starting the new project I mentioned in my previous blog entry came around sooner that I thought. Initially I said wasn’t going to start this piece until I finished the exchange piece I have due on June 15, but I just couldn’t resist. [...]

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I was stuck at home all weekend nursing my injured knee. It started aching a bit last week, but then gave way beneath me on Wednesday when I was out running an errand. It gave way beneath me again on Thursday morning, so I called my orthopedist to have him check and see [...]

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