tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77405015364076759672024-03-13T07:47:09.950-07:00Soothing StitchingPennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03176536538696622641noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740501536407675967.post-55169724611078365572012-04-20T17:42:00.000-07:002012-04-20T17:49:50.136-07:00What’s a girl to do?Earlier today I caught myself singing “My momma told me
there’d be days like these. There’d be
days like these my momma said.” I’m
finding there are more and more of these days lately. Last Labor Day, one of my cousins hosted a
Family Reunion in South-Central Kentucky, where my mother’s family
originated. My mother came home from
that visit sick, and we had to hospitalize her.
While she was in the hospital, we also started my daughter in a daycare
program one day a week, to help her develop social skills. The combination of those two events started
me down a path that has led to the complete and utter destruction of my immune
system. Next month I meet with a new
ear, nose and throat specialist to schedule the removal of my tonsils, but
right now I find myself struggling with the little kiddie disease Hand, Foot
and Mouth. Oh the joy! With tiny blisters all over my hands and feet,
there is just not a lot for a girl to do…seriously! My
husband played Mr. Mom today taking my daughter to daycare and then to
dance. After three days of pulling out
my hair, I decided something has to give.
At home, all alone, all day long and I can’t stitch? This is the stuff of nightmares! I’ve decided this is the perfect time to
update the blog and at least show you why I’ve been so remiss in that lately.<br />
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Noshi Ribbons, so I’ve tried to focus on other things. The wonderful group of women I stitch with
has undertaken Stars for a New Millennium, another fabulous Toni Mineri piece. This is the second time I’ve stitched this
piece. The first time I followed the
suggested threads for the Fall Foliage color way as laid out. This time I want to hang the piece in my
living room and there isn’t a color way that “fit” the colors I wanted to
use: chocolate, teal, rust and a dark,
but a true, red.…so I made my own. I need
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enjoyed working on it a great deal lately.
After staring at Santa for about a week wondering how I was going to
stitch that gorgeous coat and do it half the justice Liz did in painting it, I
stumbled across the article Elegance in the Sept/Oct 2011 issue of Needlepoint
Now. I chose to use the Vertical Satin
Diamond stitch for the bulk of the coat, only enlarging it (2,4,6,8,6,4,2) for
the large sleeve and portion of the cape closest to the viewer. The farther side of the cape and the sleeve
farthest from the horse are done as diagramed (2,4,6,4,2). Ann
Strite-Kurz’s article Using Common Stitches in Uncommon Ways (Mar/Apr 2012)
provided the diagram for my horse’s collar (diagram 6). I like the way it is coming together, and
more importantly, he husband seems to approve.
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I’ve also stitched these little hats in times when pulling
up the big frame has been inconvenient.
My husband signed me up for a Christmas Club at Pocket Full of Stitches
several years ago and I rediscovered them while we were moving. I’ve changed some of the stitches from the
stitch guide, but the threads have all still been appropriate. They are still a work in progress, but they
have been so much fun!</div>
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I have class tomorrow to work on Stars, but I think I’m
going to stay home, just to be safe. I
don’t want anyone else getting sick, but I sure am going to miss Miss Polly and
my stitching group! Hopefully I’ll be able
to stitch at home.<br />
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Penny</div>Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03176536538696622641noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740501536407675967.post-23475161536336401532012-02-06T20:13:00.000-08:002012-02-06T20:27:50.083-08:00Blue Ribbons and Prior Commitments<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">After still not being satisfied with the stripes on my blue
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favorite girls, Jill and Peggy, at my favorite needlepoint shop, Amy’s Golden
Strand, pulled some additional threads for me late today. I am going to go by tomorrow and make a final
decision, but in the mean time…</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve made some prior commitments and I should start getting
to them. We moved into a new house last
year and my husband asked me to finish up our Christmas stockings so we could hang
them from our new mantle this year. I guess I should confess
that I’ve had these stockings at least four years (one of them for a decade or more I
bet), but who’s counting?</span></div>
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BQsnYjTPzfA/TzCi62coUMI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/ldFlkJ0f8uI/s1600/Noshi+IV+and+Stocking+Starts+010.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-BQsnYjTPzfA/TzCi62coUMI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/ldFlkJ0f8uI/s400/Noshi+IV+and+Stocking+Starts+010.JPG" width="266" /></span></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is my husbands stocking and I have stitched a great
deal of the back ground already. I know
what you are thinking. “You’ve gotten that much out of the way and stopped at
the fun part?” Well, see, I actually
like skipped tent; it’s that color of
blue that I hate. Hate may actually be
an understatement here. I really want
to finish it for him, but I have to talk myself into it, can you tell? He keeps telling me I won’t think it’s so
yukky when everyone is ooohing and ahhhhing over it, but I’m actually self
conscious about some of that skip tent.
I know I can’t be alone in thinking that some of the stitching I did
early in my needlepoint career is less than spectacular. I did get a great idea today to try some of the <span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 21px;">DMC Memory Thread to make the silver ornaments hanging from the trees. Perhaps my procrastination wasn't all bad. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 115%;">I
picked out the Tapestry Tent Snow Bear shortly after I started working on my
husband’s so they would coordinate. </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">Little did I know I would have such a love to
hate relationship with blue.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">It is such
a gorgeous design, but I will be stitching it last I think.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">I even convinced my husband last night that
if I finished both his and my daughter’s stockings this year I should buy
myself a new one.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">After all, to have two
that are so blue and one that is not blue at all might look awkward hanging
from the same mantle.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">I’m not to that
point yet though.</span><span style="line-height: 115%;"> </span><span style="line-height: 115%;">As I mentioned, it is
such a gorgeous design! I have lots of ideas for it as well, but my mood really is blue enough these days.</span></span></div>
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Toy Maker Santa by Melissa Shirley. I
will be stitching it at the same time I’m finishing up Mr. Blue to break up the
monotony if nothing else. I actually
bought it during one of Amy’s after Christmas sales right after I found out I
was pregnant and months before I knew I was having a girl. I am
so eager to get started on it. All this color and happiness on one canvas who wouldn't be?!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I've also committed to stitch Stars for a New Millenium with my stitching group. I've already stitched it once, but I would like to do another one to match my new decor. I make my daughter an ornament every year for our tree and I haven't even begun thinking about this years yet. I also found a great idea on Pinterest a few weeks ago I am planning for as well, but again, that is a project for another day. It's all part of keeping busy, right? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I hope you'll stick around to see how everything turns out!</span></div>Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03176536538696622641noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740501536407675967.post-10778876386867015912012-02-03T22:09:00.000-08:002012-02-03T22:09:21.415-08:00I Can't Get No Satisfaction<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm not through with this ribbon yet, but I think I'm going to stop where I am. I am not sure what it is that I do not like about it, but from the first layer where I changed colors I've just not been satisfied. Part of it I believe is that I should have broken the color change up instead of doing it with the pattern as I laid it, but the middle segment of color looks stripey to me. The two colors of blue are just so far apart that when it's stitched it gives the appearance of having stripes. I thought as I stitched in the additional layers it would be less apparent. I will admit that I am happier with it now that I've begun to stitch the third color (of the three colors in the ribbon--blue, red/orange and orange/yellow). I am going to stitch in the next ribbon and see how the two look side by side, but I may end up ripping out the lower two thirds of this ribbon.<br />
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The lighting here isn't great, but you can see the stripey effect a little more clearly here. There was a bit of this effect in the second ribbon (the green and red) but I don't think it's as pronounced as it is here. This is a diagonal stitch so I only used two strands here, one of each. In the green ribbon I used three and actually had four color breaks because of that. I'm still amazed at the effect that tiny little accentuate has. Here it is tying down the orange/yellow long stitches.<br />
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Hopefully my opinion will change as I stitch that next ribbon because this will be a booger to remove!Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03176536538696622641noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740501536407675967.post-58646156681424812182012-01-30T22:17:00.000-08:002012-01-30T22:34:11.169-08:00Minor Part--Huge Impact<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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my husband and I watched The Greatest Game Ever Played. As we watched I finished up the third ribbon
which was really quite tedious. As you
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I also took the time stitch the plaited cross on the cross
stitches in the second ribbon. What can
I say but “Wow! What a difference that
tiny little thread makes.” Much like the
character of Eddie Lowery in the Greatest Game Ever Played, this piece just
wouldn’t be the same without the Accentuate.
Eddie Lowery was Francis Ouimet’s caddy in The Greatest Game Ever
Played, a young man of only 10 years old.
He was full of one liners that kept Francis’ mind on the game and not on
those who would see him fail, a cheerleader, so to speak. As you can see by the following pictures,
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">I’ve also started the fourth ribbon. My color combination for this ribbon is
blue/red orange/yellow orange. I’ve only
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<br /></div>Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03176536538696622641noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7740501536407675967.post-48703445813767893872012-01-25T20:27:00.000-08:002012-01-25T20:29:13.488-08:00"That's not needlepoint. I would call it needle art, but it's definitely not needlepoint."<br />
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Welcome to my world!</div>
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I laid out this blog a few months back, but my life was
turned upside down shortly thereafter as my mother found herself in end stage renal
failure. Not only was this blog put on
hold, but my stitching practically ceased as I found myself suddenly thrust
into the position of her primary caregiver.
My mother passed away on 12 Jan 2012, and I now find myself relying on
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As I searched through my stash to choose the right piece for this therapy, I'm reminded by something my mother said to me when I first showed her something I was stitching; "That's not needlepoint. I would call it needle art, but it's definitely not needlepoint." We are fond of saying "It's not your grandmother's needlepoint."</div>
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The piece I find myself gravitating to is Noshi Ribbons by Tony Minieri.
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I started this piece three years ago when my stitching group
chose it as a class project. At the time
my daughter was six months old and I simply could not devote enough time to
really do it justice. Right now I’m
looking for something to bring a little sunshine back into my life. As Noshi Ribbons is a not just a beautiful design,
but also a study of the color wheel, I think it will be quite therapeutic. Because it is a Tony Minieri piece worked on 24 count congress cloth, I'm sure it will be challenging as well.</div>
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I hope you will return often to view my progress.</div>
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~Penny</div>Pennyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03176536538696622641noreply@blogger.com3