Weekly Dose of Serenity

Wow, It's been a long time since I've had the chance to blog! I really need to get better at this - LOL. As the title of this post suggests, I thought I'd start posting pictures of what I consider my Dose of Serenity. I'm not a well seasoned traveller but I consider the place we went in the Bahamas as the most Serene place in the world. Just can't get the place off my mind so I hope you enjoy seeing our trip pictures in the upcoming weeks.

The second picture is of the Biscornu I received from Karen in AZ. Her stitching is superior! I love the button she selected to finish it off - matches the fiber just perfectly. I can't wait to use the fiber and fabby she sent along with her package too.

I haven't been stitching much lately. The third picture shows the progress of Rites of Spring which I haven't stitched on for about a week.

I have to blame it on my love for reading! I go through spells when I can't seem to put a book down. Right now I'm reading a series of books by Larry McMurtry call The Berrybender Narratives. There are 4 books in the series and I just finished book 2 while lounging in the pool this afternoon. They are title Book 1 - Sin Killer; Book 2 - The Wandering Hill; Book 3 - By Sorrow's River; and Book 4 - Folly & Glory. It's a story of a wealthy English family who travel to the New World during the 1830's. They encounter all kinds of characters along the way. I guess they would be consider Western Fiction. If you have similar tastes in reading material I would highly recommend this series.

Well I hope I don't stay away too long next time! I'm going to try and get in some stitching time this afternoon, hopefully the temptation of Book 3 of the Berrybender adventure dosen't distract me!

Thanks to all of you who enjoy reading my blog! Until next time!
Malinda

LeNouveau's coming along....

I hope everyone has had a great weekend! Other than stitching I haven't been doing much other than the usual housework and laying low. My allergies have started like gang busters so I've been avoiding going outside. We had a beautiful afternoon on Saturday but Sunday was a very overcast, cold day. It's been the wet kind of cold around here for the last week.

Well I've been working all week on my LeNouveau Sampler. I'm so happy that the castle is complete. I went ahead and completed most of the inner garden backstitching which just makes it pop! I'm ready to move onto the other half of butterflies and alphabet part but I've still got to finish the right side of the garden gate and topiaries before I can do that. I also ran out of Kreinik 202 #4 braid so I've got that on order.....I hope it comes in soon.

I hope everyone has a great start to the week! Again, thanks for looking :)

LeNouveau Sampler WIP

Well I guess I have to admit it to myself. I do have a lot of "big" project WIP's. I didn't realize it until I started to pull out my projects when I finished Earth Dancer.

I mentioned in an earlier post that Celtic Autumn was going to be my next big WIP to finished, but I can't get motivated to work on her......So I pulled out my Mirabilia LeNouveau Sampler. This is a pretty big project, but the stitching is going fast. I started this piece sometime late last year. She's coming along pretty good. I substituted Kreinik 202 #4 for the DMC #5282. I don't know what you think, but Kreinik is so much easier to work with than the DMC metallics in my eyes!

Picture taken February 18, 2008

I'll keep you all posted on the progress of this piece in the future.

Thank you all for continuing to follow the progress of my pieces. I really appreciate all of your encouraging comments!

Huggs, Malinda

Nashville Market Stash

I picked up my stash from Nashville Market this weekend. I wish I could have bought one of everything! Since I couldn't do that, I put in my request for a few items with my LNS. This is what I got requested:

With My Needle - Alphabet Samplings Book- If you haven't seen this, you've got to check it out! I love the idea of having a booklet of sample alphabets! I can't wait to start this one :)

Dinky-Dyes / The Cat's Whiskers - Winter Wonderland - You can never have to many Biscornu patterns. The silk that came with this pattern is so pretty and soft. I started this one yesterday and finished in the evening.

JBW Designs - French Country Lark & Cat

Crescent Colours - Snowball; WDW - Beachcomber; GAST - Bluebell

There is a lot of nice new releases that came out in Nashville. I can't wait to add more to my stash.

Earth Dancer is finally finished!!!!

After I don't know how many years, I can finally say she's done!! Now I don't know what to do
with myself - LOL! I'll have to wait until later in the year to even look into having her framed, but that's alright. It'll will give me a chance to decide what I want. I know I don't want her matted - but I'm not sure what look I want for the frame. I may have to puruse Sarah's frames for a while until I find the right one.