Stitch With Me

I’ve decided the answer to the title question is “YES!” I finished this piece: On the 4th of February.  It was a very fun, fast piece to stitch. The Penguin is a Barbara Bergesten design.  I got the Penguin without anything across his belly and added the name and date using Barbara’s Letter Sheet and [...]

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I finished Barbara Bergsten’s Pink Tropical Fish on Monday night.  I’ve been meaning to post a picture. Colleen from the Needleworks called around and found a skein of the Watercolors I needed to finish my piece.  It took 4 1/2 skeins to finish this piece.   I got the final skein of thread from the kind, [...]

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The stitching on my Tropical Fish is finished.  I got the Silk Lame I needed from the Needleworks this morning and finished all the stitching on the fish. Alas the background stitching is not finished and I’m almost out of thread.  I have one strand with three plies and two other plies.  Not nearly enough [...]

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I don’t have any pictures today. It’s hot. I haven’t done much that’s picture worthy. I have put down the knitting needles for the time being.  I was frustrated.  I wasn’t accomplishing very much.  Which was frustrating me even further.  Then Jacob decided he needed one of my balls of yarn as a bed for [...]

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This is the background I’m using for my Barbara Bergsten Exotic Fish. Colleen, who owns the Needleworks, picked the background thread for me.   It is Caron’s Watercolours 233 Glacier.  Colleen suggested a different stitch (whose name escapes me right now) to look like water.  I tried it but was afraid it would get caught [...]

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