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Entries from February 2010

Hope

February 28th, 2010 · No Comments · Gardening

On Friday morning, I walked out of my front door and found a blanket of snow on my front lawn.  It almost made me cry.  Here it is, almost March, and we STILL have snow. Yesterday, I went out, and found these in my front yard: Crocus.  They are always the first flower to arrive [...]

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Can I call it a finish if I’ve not stitched the background?

February 20th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Barbarg Bergsten Designs, Christmas Stitching, Ornaments, Painted Canvas

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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First Finish of the New Year!

February 6th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Bargello, New Needlepoint

Since we’ve been going on 8 days without any sun shine, I decided to go ahead and photograph my newest finish with crappy in door light and be done with it! I know it is probably wrong to whine about the weather when half the county is getting hammered with unprecedented amounts of snow but [...]

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