I'm not really driven to stitch anything lately. I took my needlepoint crab in the water to The Stitching Post (Catonsville, Md) for framing a week ago. I think I'm going to be really pleased with the results. Double matted with red and yellow in a black frame (three of the four Maryland flag colors; only color missing is white, but I guess I can consider the white mat core to suffice).
I can't find my LK Good Things Come to Those Who Stitch that I finished. I even had a frame for it. Bummer. So I'm stitching it again, this time on sky blue with the fibers called for. I like it better, but I dislike stitching things more than once.
I placed a nice order from the last online Needlework Show. Although I can't recall any of the titles of the charts, I'm looking forward to stitching the portraits of the women that are actually pictures of birds in flight near a tree and a flower. The county fair has a pairs category that these will be perfect for! Just have to get them and stitch them!
I also placed an order from a French designer for some nice heart designs with houses and trees trimming the outer edge of the hearts. One design is of a village using all sorts of colors. Online they had the same design, but monochrome! I had the monochrome one in my cart, but decided I'd rather have the option of doing it in color. Stitching it in one color doesn't require the abilities of a rocket scientist! :)
I'm still plugging away at Shepherd Bush's Sail Away. I really want to get it done before it's released (probably in September 2008) to all the world and enter it in the fairs this year. Tick tock! Tick tock!
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