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I was so excited Monday evening that I was able to finish, completely FINISH one of my needlework projects. Thanks, mostly, to my stitching buddy Barbie, (without whose help it’d still be waiting to be finished)!

When we talked on Sunday afternoon (Apr 26th) she asked me what I was taking for show & tell to guild on Tues. (May 5th). After lamenting that I didn’t have anything finished she urged me to get out the Milady’s Acorn Box that I’d purhchased on our last trip. I decided to take up the challenge and set my other work aside and started stitching in spare moments ending in a marathon finish Monday evening in a hotel room in Dallas, stitching, glueing, twisting, and finally hitting the sack at about 1:30 a.m! It was so much fun, although I wouldn’t recommend it. Barbie was so patient with me.

Never having done any finish like this, I truly didn’t know what I was asking when I’d asked her to help me achieve this. We’ve long wanted to get to the final stages of assembly with one of my projects, but never in such a frenzy.

I tried to have everything we needed but didn’t realize that I needed to serge the edges of the box top for lacing. She galantly took up needle and quilt thread and did a button hole stitch around the piece. She showed me how to assemble the pieces and the lacing technique, tucking in corners and finally gluing the twisted cording for a final touch. While I did the lacing she applied the twisted braid to the scissor fob and the project was complete!

My sweet hubby & I had to be in Dallas Monday (May 4th) for an all day meeting so I got the bright idea that instead of riding home with him and riding back to Dallas Tuesday morning that Barbie ought to drive up Monday after work and we could have a girls’s night out! Well, as you can see, it was actually a girl’s night IN! It was great fun, but I promised not to ever do that again!!!

The designer, Gloria Moore, is a member of the guild and it was a special treat when she praised our work. So, now it’s back to my other projects for a while; Catherine Theron’s Williamsburg Remembered…see previous post…the Alphabet is now complete and I’ll post pictures and updates on that next week. Then I have to finalize the layout for the last meeting of my Scrapper’s 10 group this coming Tuesday evening. We’re taking my husband’s mom to church Sunday if she’s up to it and I’m cooking lunch for everyone at her home in Winters, TX. Much to do as always.

I’m so blessed to have such a wonderful friend! One of many great friends that the Lord has blessed me with. I hope that you have sweet girlfriends who you can share your passions with, it really helps make life so much more enjoyable. May your week be a glorious one!

Katherine

Project particulars:

Milady’s Needle Designs by Gloria Moore
Milady’s Acorn Box
Fabric: 40 Count Pearled Barley (Lakeside Linen)
Threads: Crescent Colours Red Fox and Rustique
Design is stitched over one with a single floss

Happy Easter Monday to you! I hope your weekend was wonderful and that the good LORD blessed you and your family in many ways. We received some much needed moisture bright and early Easter morning…(so much for sunrise services, sorry guys!) but later in the day it was absolutely as pleasant as anyone could wish.

I thought I’d give you a peek at what I’ve been working on…this is from a set of needlework accessories called Williamsburg Remembered, designed by Catherine Theron. This is the largest of the five pieces in the set and is the Outer Cover for the case that holds all the goodies.

Laast month, by friend Barbie and I attended her workshop and had a delightful day. I had never attended a ‘workshop’ before and it was quite a lot of fun. It was a special treat to get to meet and talk with the designer herself, she was very generous and gave each of us a selection from her ‘stash’ that she’d brought along.

The pieces are worked on 30 count Northern Cross Linen which is also a first for me, and I kind of like it. It is a stiffer fabric than what I’m used to and works really well with the silk fibers provided for the piece.

There are some very challenging specialty stitches later on in the piece so please, do not expect it to be completed anytime soon…I’m hoping that by the end of the year to have it completed…(‘hoping’ being the operative word there!) We’ll just have to see. I will keep you up to date on progess from time to time, but for now I wish you a pleasant and wonderful week!
Enjoy the Spring, it only comes once a year!
Katherine