Ok, so when I started collecting the photos of the new stash I’ve gotten in the past month, I realized there was so much I needed to break it up into two posts. When I fall off the no stash buying wagon, I clearly do it in a big way. [...]

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Jeanie in Singapore received the Halloween squares I stitched for her as part of the Fair & Square exchange, so I can share a picture of them now. The design is by Prairie Schooler from their Boo to You chart.

I received my squares from Jeanie last week. She choose a couple of small [...]

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Wow, I can’t believe the new moon has come & gone and I forgot to post my TUSAL (Totally Useless SAL) update for the month! Thankfully, I saw Valerie’s update on her blog which served as a reminder to me.

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You’ll likely notice a lot of metallic ribbon and braid [...]

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Wow, I can’t believe that I completely spaced on posting a photo of the replacement exchange squares I received from Corinna. She kindly stepped up and volunteered to stitch them for me as replacement for the earlier failed exchange. The design is “Tiny Sampler” from La-D-Da and I love it! She did [...]

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Sorry for not posting in a while. I left last Thursday afternoon and was out of town for nearly a week visiting my friend Tracy up in eastern Washington. Even though she was feeling a bit under the weather, we still had a great visit.
On Friday, we headed over to Pasco [...]

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Well, as I suspected yesterday, I didn’t quite meet my goal of finishing my fairy before returning to work today. I got pretty damned close though! All I have left now is the swirly bit backstitching and the beading. As a point of comparison, here is the design as originally charted followed [...]

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