Originally posted 2008-02-04 08:02:29. Republished by Blog Post Promoter
Yesterday was the Super Bowl and it was a game I actually wanted to watch. Then there was House (great episode), then there was the Jane Austen biopic (not very accurate) on PBS. This made for a seven hour stitching binge.
The Gay Ann Rogers classroom on SNS (Shared Needle Society) is a free group of stitchers in a Yahoo group who work on Gay’s lovely projects. They had a Stitch-in for the Super Bowl, we were all encouraged to stitch. I decided to take the day and work on the charming Hawaiian Quilt ornament from Keri Designs.
Stressless stitching, it’s done in Basketweave with T Stitch for the background. I only used threads which I hadn’t put away, back into the stash. The blossoms are a great coral shade of Spring II and I used almost all of it. The yellow and green are Rainbow Gallery’s Mandarin Floss, the navy is thinned down DMC matter cotton (no longer made( and the background is Rainbow Gallery’s Nordic Gold in white, which is one of my favorite backgrounds.
As you can see from the picture above, it’s quie charming. I only need to finish the background and stitch the green border. It was a perfect project for a day of TV watching, not so big I needed to look around it to see the TV, not so challenging, I needed to think too much, and small enough I could feel like I made progress.
Good day all around! I’m making it the car project and should finish it later in the week, probably on Wednesday.
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