Category Archives: Fiber

Down to six

I counted on my WIP shelf. I am down to six projects carefully stored in their project bags with origin dates from 2019-2022.  Looking at them, I don’t think I really have anything left over from last year. Strange that … Continue reading

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The 2022 Hanukkah SAL

Which I mostly stitched on while cruising or in Australia during the last quarter of 2022. And then I either forgot about it, couldn’t find it, or just plain ignored it for all of 2023. When I first pulled it … Continue reading

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my grey shadow

It has been a long time since I lived with a cat. Decades in fact. I am not counting  temporary cat sitting, especially of one that spent all its time living in the linen closet. This time it is different. … Continue reading

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and Libra is 23

Never mind that dyslexia struck sometime back in 2022. I decided that I am not frogging about 120 blended stitches and redoing them.  Additionally, I had assumed that a bit of backstitching & 250 beads was all that was needed. … Continue reading

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And 22

Of this one – there is really no excuse. It should have been finished years ago. The Tired Trio by Plum Street Samplers. Stitched on some nondescript 14CT Aida with the called for specialty floss. Start date? I think March … Continue reading

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Finish 21

So far this year..  Wonders of the Solar System. The 2021 mystery stitch-a-long from ClimbingGoat Designs. Stitched with DMC on 16 ct Navy Blue Aida. I had finished the comet and went on to those two bits of “rock stuff” … Continue reading

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and now found

As should be obvious, as soon as I didn’t need my mail-in ballot anymore George pointed to it sitting on my sewing table partly buried. It should have been obvious. But then, we often don’t see things directly in front … Continue reading

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Go vote

If you are a US person, and live in one of the states which are holding primary elections today – please go and vote. Or mail in your ballot, which ever applies. California is an automatic mail ballot state. This … Continue reading

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and on to Earth

This is the last planet that I need to stitch. Beyond that – there is a comet and a number of floating chunks of this and that. It should be complete by the end of the week. Then I need … Continue reading

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Saturn

is now stitched and I am one more planet close to a finish on this SAL which has been hanging out way too long. Perhaps it is because I didn’t touch it last year at all? Anyway – In family … Continue reading

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Aries Completed

Done, done, done and I still have both hair and some sanity – in spite of 437 beads today. Which took a lot more hours that I would have thought. I wound up having to make a trip to the … Continue reading

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Starting March

It is a new month, and I am trying to resist starting anything new until I am reasonably caught up on old projects. But there are three potential projects that are calling my name. Anyway – I finished the backs … Continue reading

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summing February

I could make all the bad jokes about leaping years, months, and extra days. But since poor February is still short a day or so, I am not going to indulge. Rather, I am just going to summarize what I … Continue reading

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Also too many beads

This is Aires – whom I stitched back in early spring of 2022. On the same  32ct Vintage Country Mocha linen as almost all of the rest of the series. She will be number 8 of the completion stack of … Continue reading

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She is finished

The last 169 beads – Pisces – by Nora Corbett on 32 Vintage Country Mocha linen. less than 5k stitches but it seemed like all the beads. Started about Feb 2022, finished 25 Feb 2024. Which is actually during Pisces.. … Continue reading

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And more beads

It seems like the beads on this project are never ending. I think this takes me down to the last 160 beads.  I really have little love for beading. I don’t think any of the rest in the series have … Continue reading

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Fish & Tea

As it turned out, Pisces might not have had any specialty threads, but it has an inordinate number of beads. So many in fact that I have decided that completing it in one go was likely to be 1) not … Continue reading

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Two-fer

I finished Capricorn this morning – And Scorpio this afternoon – I did make a few changes on each.  On Capricorn there were some small “antenna” type things scattered here and there among the flowers with a single bead on … Continue reading

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Number 15

Even though she needed over 1100 stitches today, it turned out that finishing Cleo didn’t turn out to be all that difficult. It was mostly blocks of color…. She is stitched on 16 count chocolate Aida with the called for … Continue reading

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April shower in Feb

And, although I really don’t like the colors – I finished April Quaker by From the Heart which had been hanging out for a couple of years. Notice I am not quite breaking my arm, patting myself on the back … Continue reading

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