Christmas earing

This pattern is from I-Bead.

Hioge framed

Back from the framer

Holly and Poinsettia

little ornament

Here are 4 of the 8 ornaments I done. The other got wrap before I took a picture.

12 Days of Christmas

I did it got the all done before Christmas.

Day 12 complete

I did it completed all 12 before Christmas.

day 11 complete

Pipers Piping

Sake box 11-07-09

This is what it look like at end of class Sat. It on the way home now. I thought I posted this Sat. check mine blog today it was not there.

sake box 11-06-09

Did a gold square, gold silk, and getting ready for a ribbon on top of the box.

Sake box 11-05-09

I completed a gold flower today.

sake box 11-04-09

I did a little more. Slow progress and this is a all day class. Hope I get more done Thursday.

Sake box 11-03-09

What I did in class today all day. I outline the design in gold silk thread. Then I remove the special paper. Tomorrow gold thread.

Day 10 complete

Front Porch View North 11-1-09

Beans are cut and they was cut when the ground was soft. So the combine made ruts. This had to be done sometimes. The beans was ready to be cut. Most of the field will look like this or worst. This is a wet fall.

Knit Your Bit

These scarves are for an organization call Knit Your Bit.

Sake box 10-20-09

Need to get more black ran out thought I had another tube. Don't know if I like the gold holding stitch. Going to class is Troy, MI in two weeks. Only another week to work on the pictures. Have to ship it to class I flying.

Turtle

As a member of CyberStitchers EGA chapter they want you to do outreach projects. One of the outreach project I am doing.

The title of this year project is “Remember the turtle; persistence, not speed, counts; a cure for breast cancer will be found.” The group is http://shanigansbeadshenanigans.com/

So this is mine first turtle I did.

Lords Leaping

Sake box 10-7-09

front Porch View North 9-30-09

It been awhile since I took a picture off the front porch. Fall is hear soybeans are about ready to harvest. There is weeds in the field.

Day 9 complete

Ladies Dancing. Birthstone Sapphire.

biscornu six

Sake box 9-10-09

I been able to work some on Sake Box. Things have been busy. I thought I better update mine blog it a week.

Ladies dancing

Biscornu five

Mom's garden

Mine Mom is proud of her garden.

day 8 complete

Maid a milking. August birthstone Peridot.

biscornu four

These are fun to do. The part I like least is sewing them up. The size is 3 inches.

I getting behind on mine beading working on the 8th beaded ornament about half way done I hope I can finished it today.

Japanese Embroidery I have not posted any thing for a month. I think I have work on it. The frame is put up right now needed the space for something else. Now the space is clutter been going through mine fabric and threads looking for what I can use to make biscornu. I need to put things away so I can get back to stitching on Sake box.

Will I do it today maybe depend if I finished the ornament and have the to energy to do it.

Biscornu three

Maid a Milking

Waiting for beads to come to finished the ornaments.

Questions for stitchers

I found these questions on Cindy blog which she got them on Melissa blog

1) Why do you stitch?

I need to. I need to have something in hand what better than something to stitch.

2) On a scale of 1-10 with 1 being least important and 10 being most important what is your cross stitch passion level?

Doing just “x” low right now if was high at one time but now stitching other things is high.

3) If you're only option for cross stitch supplies and patterns happened to be the major chain craft stores would you just walk away from the little X? Kiss it goodbye?

Not all the way. There is mine stash. There is also beading mostly peyote and some string of beads. There is always Japanese Embroidery for me.

4) Also are you so passionate about cross stitch that if indeed your only option was the major chain craft stores, would that inspire you to create your own cross stitch pieces because you have to stitch and you've stitched your way through the whole of Dimensions catalog--because you must stitch and the thought of life without a relationship with the little X leaves you feeling empty?

I like to many other type of stitching. I would design if I need to.

5) Finally what do the cross stitch magazines on the market offer you? Do they relate to you as a cross stitcher? Do you look at them and think to yourself, who do they think buys this magazine? I guess what I'm asking, when you see the current cross stitch magazines do they make you feel like they know their readers or do you find it's more of the same? What could they do to be ambassadors for the art of cross stitch other than putting a sampler on the cover with "F-U" on it? What are we missing on a PR level that could change the opinion of cross stitch itself?

Only magazine subscription I have Sampler & Antique Needlework I don’t know if I will renew it when it come up again. I alway get Just Cross Stitch ornament one day I might stitch something from the magazine other stitching project get ahead of them. Also I get the EGA and the ANG magazine

6) And finally, finally, do you do other crafts and if so what are they and why do they pull you away from cross stitch?

Beading because you can hold it and feel.

Japanese Embroidery the challenge.

Crochet it easy to take with you.

Biscornu Second

snowflake biscornu finished

day 7 complete

snowflake biscornu top

Finished the top.

Sake box 7-23-09

Another flower finished.

snowflake biscornu

I started working on this biscornu. The pattern is from the floss box.

Sake box 7-18-09

Finish some ribbons.

Japanese Embroidery frame

Japanese Embroidery is work on a frame. I attach the frame to end of a table. That leave both hands free to work right on top left on bottom.

sake box 7-14-09

Flowers and leaves.

swans swimming

Day 6 complete

Another ornament by Deb Moffett-Hall.

Front Porch View Northeast 7-3-09

front Porch View North 7-3-09

Sake box 6-27-09

Sake box 6-25-09

Hioge Fan June 24, 2009 finished

It is finished. It took around a year and four months. I finish it in Troy at Shay Japanese Embroidery Retreat. I am with a great group.

Sake box 6-18-09

Sake box 6-13-09

Done with short stitch holding on black, now doing some foundation stitch with brown.