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Quilter's Garden Part Two!  

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I finished the outline! Also got the MIL a shower, fed her twice now, cleaned the kitchen and did a load of towels.  Now I have a few minutes to try and pick out some blue threads before I have to go and pick up Little Bit.  (love that baby!)  Yay for me! :-)

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Emie Bishop's Quilter's Garden  

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This is where I ended on QG last night about 10 PM.  I did that bottom center section.  The rest was done about 2 years ago at least I think that is when I started working on it.  The Kloister blocks work off quickly so I shoud be able to get the outline finished today and then I will do the cross stitching before I start the cutting and wrapping.  I am thinking about switching out the pinks in this piece for blues... We will see what I can find.

I cannot tell you how wonderful it feels to be doing this again. When I finish this, I want to order Glendon Place's Outrageous Owls to stitch for my son's girlfriend. I think that will be a fun, quick piece and she will love it. After that, I will pick another UFO if I have one here or a pattern that is in my stash that I have been putting off. I have a lot of Silver Lining pieces in my stash like these two in particular...





Then there is Zippy's Favorite Flower and Spike by Dimples Designs and the Big Mama of them all, Flower Power by Crossed Wing Collection, all of which have been patiently waiting in my collection for me.  SO!  I am off to stitch, I will post my progress in the morning so maybe Becky will get back to RMC!  My guess will be she looks for some hardanger!

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I am STITCHING!!  

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Finally at long last...I started and finished a stitching project.  It has been a nasty, long dry spell but hopefully it is now broken.  I joined the Nordic Needle Bookmark Club and got my first kit yesterday.  I started it yesterday afternoon and finished it today.  This is one of Roz's designs and certainly worked off quickly.  I had forgotten a lot but eventually got back in the swing.  The picots kicked my butt.  I think I will do the pattern again at some point  just to get them right. 

Three pix...Stitched:


 
 
Cut: Yipes...I had forgotten how scary this was to do but I got it right!
 
And finished!  I remembered to sign and date it too!


This is done on a 25 count prefinished bookmark with ThreadworX #8 Perle cotton. The color is 81156 Botanic Garden.  It is lovely creams, plums and greens. 

I am now inspired. Tomorrow I think I will dig out Emie Bishop's Quilter's Garden. I started it a long time ago but I might be able to finish it now!


I have also finished 8 more blankets for Project Linus.  The first 3 pictures are infant blankets, the next two are youth/teen ones.  I have two more infant blankets cut and punched ready to go too.







It feels so good to be creative again.  I think part of this is because my "girls" (the boys girlfriends) have been coming over to craft with me.  Part of it is I think I am finally over the awful stress that my job was causing me.  I don't really care what it is, I am just glad to get this part of me back again!

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