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Showing posts with label New Friends. Show all posts
Showing posts with label New Friends. Show all posts
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Giveaway
Jan at http://belfontenotes.blogspot.com/2009/07/special-celebration-give-away.html has a giveaway in honor of her first grandchild! Both are beauties!
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Stitcher's Week-end
Let me start by saying that I pay dearly for having such a good time. It's Thursday and I'm just getting to tell of my wild week-end. First mistake, I forgot my camera! I do want to thank Vicki for opening her home to us. And to all the new friends I've made, you're wonderful and inspiring!
Oh what fun! I left home at O-dark-thirty to get to Pat's at 7a.m. We drove to Portland and arrived at a bulging Acorn's & Threads. Tracy Horner of Ink Circles had a nice display of her finished works and lots of charts for sale. What a thrill to meet Tracy! I've been stitching her almost-year-long freebie, BOINK.
After much oohing & aahing and touching & buying we left for Sweet Tomato's for a delicious lunch. (with much restraint I spent less that $100 which was my self-imposed limit(and against my new year's desire to resist buying stash and work only UFOs)).
Vicki's was our final stop and location of the Northwest Stitcher's GTG. I claimed a spot at the dining table although stitching sites were set up all over her house with ample lighting all around. It's guestimated 30 people were in attendance each day. Some, like my friend Rita, were only able to be there one day or the other. Food and drink were abundant all week-end. Thanks Vicki and Randy!
Oh my, there were some gorgeous pieces being worked on in this group! I only took along some smalls to complete, the SanMan freebie alphabet "It's All Square" and a Christmas Ornie. That doesn't mean I came away without a ton of inspiration and some freebies!
I'll should show off some of my stash so you can all be soooo jealous:
First are my A&T purchases. The threads are for the IC's "Cirque des Carreaux". Notice the A&T shoppiing bag?
Next are my Ink Circles purchases, "Bloomers" and "Cirque des Carreaux". Tracy and her DD Hannah entertained us all week-end. What a pair of jewels and so talented!
Then a freebie from Tracy, an Oregon ornament chart, "She Sells Seashells" by Country Cottage Needleworks and a Stoney Creek magazine from Vicki with the chart for the beautiful rooster on front. She has this hung in her kitchen and I fell in love with it.
These are freebies given out by Lynda Keske of Keslyns. She was with us all week-end and is quite a character.
Adelia "Dee" Childers of Sweetbriar Needle Design sat next to me all week-end and is such a delightful woman. She had quite a few freebies in limited quantities so I only got these two. Am planning to order several more for sure.
All in all a terrific bunch of ladies! We talked & laughed and sat & atitched and ate & ate 'til we were sore. I can hardly wait for the next GTG in May!
Pat & I left in time to make a stop at Fabric Depot (and spent less than $10 each). We arrived at her place well after dark. By the time I got home I was on my last breath. Right to bed and I slept for most of the next 36 hours. I have just now unpacked my stitching to take photos. Obviously I haven't been getting much stitchig done this week. Man, it takes me a long time to recover!
Oh what fun! I left home at O-dark-thirty to get to Pat's at 7a.m. We drove to Portland and arrived at a bulging Acorn's & Threads. Tracy Horner of Ink Circles had a nice display of her finished works and lots of charts for sale. What a thrill to meet Tracy! I've been stitching her almost-year-long freebie, BOINK.
After much oohing & aahing and touching & buying we left for Sweet Tomato's for a delicious lunch. (with much restraint I spent less that $100 which was my self-imposed limit(and against my new year's desire to resist buying stash and work only UFOs)).
Vicki's was our final stop and location of the Northwest Stitcher's GTG. I claimed a spot at the dining table although stitching sites were set up all over her house with ample lighting all around. It's guestimated 30 people were in attendance each day. Some, like my friend Rita, were only able to be there one day or the other. Food and drink were abundant all week-end. Thanks Vicki and Randy!
Oh my, there were some gorgeous pieces being worked on in this group! I only took along some smalls to complete, the SanMan freebie alphabet "It's All Square" and a Christmas Ornie. That doesn't mean I came away without a ton of inspiration and some freebies!
I'll should show off some of my stash so you can all be soooo jealous:
First are my A&T purchases. The threads are for the IC's "Cirque des Carreaux". Notice the A&T shoppiing bag?
Next are my Ink Circles purchases, "Bloomers" and "Cirque des Carreaux". Tracy and her DD Hannah entertained us all week-end. What a pair of jewels and so talented!
Then a freebie from Tracy, an Oregon ornament chart, "She Sells Seashells" by Country Cottage Needleworks and a Stoney Creek magazine from Vicki with the chart for the beautiful rooster on front. She has this hung in her kitchen and I fell in love with it.
These are freebies given out by Lynda Keske of Keslyns. She was with us all week-end and is quite a character.
Adelia "Dee" Childers of Sweetbriar Needle Design sat next to me all week-end and is such a delightful woman. She had quite a few freebies in limited quantities so I only got these two. Am planning to order several more for sure.
All in all a terrific bunch of ladies! We talked & laughed and sat & atitched and ate & ate 'til we were sore. I can hardly wait for the next GTG in May!
Pat & I left in time to make a stop at Fabric Depot (and spent less than $10 each). We arrived at her place well after dark. By the time I got home I was on my last breath. Right to bed and I slept for most of the next 36 hours. I have just now unpacked my stitching to take photos. Obviously I haven't been getting much stitchig done this week. Man, it takes me a long time to recover!
Monday, November 17, 2008
Making New Friends...
WOW! I don't think I've ever done so many posts in one day before! Just a lot going on and I haven't been very faithful to my blog.
I answered an ad in our utility company's magazine a week or so ago. Someone was getting rid of cross stitch supplies... Turns out to be an 84 years-young lady in a near-by town. We've struck up an e-mail friendship and I intend to pay her a visit when I return from Alabama. Her name is Jeanne and she sent me three wonderful charts (Ursula Michaels and Linda Myers), two hand towels, a Christmas Ornament kit and a lovely piece she had stitched but wasn't planning to frame. I had told her I do some charity stitching and she thought it could be donated. I hope to incorporate it into a quilt next year. Here's a photo... I don't know what the pattern is called.
Jeanne says she's had an enormous response to her ad. She divided her stash up and sent off many packets. She had several stitchers stop by her home to choose some items also. You see! There are stitchers out there! I'd sure like to get to know some in this area.
I answered an ad in our utility company's magazine a week or so ago. Someone was getting rid of cross stitch supplies... Turns out to be an 84 years-young lady in a near-by town. We've struck up an e-mail friendship and I intend to pay her a visit when I return from Alabama. Her name is Jeanne and she sent me three wonderful charts (Ursula Michaels and Linda Myers), two hand towels, a Christmas Ornament kit and a lovely piece she had stitched but wasn't planning to frame. I had told her I do some charity stitching and she thought it could be donated. I hope to incorporate it into a quilt next year. Here's a photo... I don't know what the pattern is called.
Jeanne says she's had an enormous response to her ad. She divided her stash up and sent off many packets. She had several stitchers stop by her home to choose some items also. You see! There are stitchers out there! I'd sure like to get to know some in this area.
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