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Thursday, January 31, 2019

I AM IN LOVE--

I am in love and it isn't even Valentine's day yet!!!!
One of the supplies that was on the list for the
Crabapple Hill Studios embroider along that starts tomorrow--
Feb 1st--
was these--
They are called 'blending sticks'--
never heard of them before--
and luckily they were not expensive--
so I ordered them--
oh my goodness--
they are really a great tool--
after you color the square with a colored pencil--
you use of them to 'blend' that color--
it works like 'magic' to blend that color and smooth it out!!!
and here is my sampler --today it is hanging in a closet after
painting on the textile paint to seal the colored pencils--

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and why is Meg doing this Embroider along in the month of Feb---
cause it is--
I had forgot-- I think-- to tell you this before!!!

And I love my  cell phone--
that is what I stitched on yesterday's Inchy--
I got a text from my son--asking if I was making out ok in the freezing weather!!!
that made me happy!!!
and the Inchy on the left is for a white feather--
when Anne and I went to Arby's for our fish sandwich this week--
we ate inside together--and outside the window--
I watched the prettiest white feather floating around--
(and if you don't know this about me--I love feathers--
and am always picking them up when ever I see them on the ground!!)

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And in the mail yesterday--

I got more hexies to stitch on for the Inchy club--
will have enough now through June/July!!!
Thank you Shell at theraspberryrabbits.blogspot.com
for creating this Inchy Club!!!!

AND in today's mail--
I got this magazine--
I actually won this copy from beehavenacres.blogspot.com
she had a drawing last week--
because look who is in this issue????
She and her husband and some of their 'family' of animals--
nice article and I had me a cup of tea and sat and read the whole magazine--
thank you Beverly--!!!!

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Ok--lets see where are we--
hummm????
I have a whole wooden bowl of work that is all prepped and just waiting
for me to stitch the blocks and such--
so far--
I got the "Tiny Tuesday" bow tie block--(hand pieced)
a couple more of these "Tiny's" ready to stitch--

OH wait--why am I doing the 'Tiny Tuesdays"- 
beats me--I will blame it on the cat!!!

I know I don't have a real cat--
but I did make the Tiny Tuesday cat block--
so it is her fault!!!!

and I did get this week's Hand piecing block stitched--
but did not get it pressed yet--
will do that tomorrow when the iron is hot from heat setting
the Embroider sampler!!!!

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Ok--what's left to talk about--
the weather?????
All I am going to say is--
even Penguins needed hats and scarves the last two days!!!

BE SURE TO GIVE SOMEONE A LOVING HUG TODAY--
LUV, DI


Tuesday, January 29, 2019

FUNNY STORY

Monday's Inchy--
has a funny story behind it--
About 9:08 yesterday the phone rang and it was a girl-friend-
she invited me to go with her and a friend of hers shopping--
so I asked her, when I needed to be ready--
and she said 10-15 and she was just getting ready to take her shower--
I did think to myself that 10-15 minutes was really tight--
she not only had to shower, but warm the car and she had a 10 minute drive to my place-
so I gave her half hour--
well she did not show until 10:30--a good hour and half nearly after out talk--
and after she picked me up--
we had a good laugh--
cause I was thinking she meant---
        10-15 minutes--
she had meant--10:15--
therefore here is Monday's Inchy--
it really was funny!!!!

I did get to Hobby Lobby for a couple skeins of blues of my cotton yarn--
need to do some blue Christmas stockings--!!!
and these 2 pieces of fabrics did jump into my arms--
have 2 fussy cut projects in mind for this one--
and--
I love this one too--
reminds of the visits to the Zoo for the flamingo's--
and the river for the blue herons--!!

and here is Sunday's Inchy--
I use my Ott-lite every day now--
for doing my counted cross stitching and other stitching projects---
have had this light for a long time--
and she made it to Florida and back!!!

Well--got lots of projects planned for the rest of the week and week end--
while we all freeze up here--so take care!!!

TAKE A MINUTE AND CALL AN OLE FRIEND AND TELL THEM YOU MISS THEM--
LUV, DI

MAYBE THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO ME YESTERDAY MORNING--
THE TRAIN HAD ALREADY LEFT?????

Sunday, January 27, 2019

IT'S SUNDAY--

so you know it is time for some reporting--
what do you want to hear about first????

I love my Hexie Inchies--
so here is this past weeks ones--
all sewn on now--I do wait until Sunday morning to stitch the weeks worth on to the main body--
and here is Saturday's Inchy--
this is for the prep work I did on crabapplehillstudios.com
embroidery stitch along for Feb--
now to do the coloring on it--!!

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and for Slow stitching Sunday's here is where I am on the May sampler--
I am half way finished now--will now work on the left side of this --

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and for--
I am happy to say that -again--
I was able to stitch 7 out of 7 days--
and am up to 41 hours worth of stitching time for January--
this is for actual stitching--
no prep time or knitting time is added here!!!

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And the big news is this weather report--


we will be freezing all week here in this part of New York--
Days will be in the single digits--nights--well--we really don't want to talk about that--
and this is all without what the wind chill factor will be--
so I will have to have my blinds and the drapes shut for 3-4 days in a row--
it will be hard to see to stitch--ouch!!!!

BE SURE TO TELL YOURSELF THAT YOU ARE LOVED--
LUV, DI
I WANT SOME FRESH BAKED CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES--
ANYONE HAVE SOME????



Saturday, January 26, 2019

WHAT'S UP--

on this beautiful Saturday-
(that is if you can stay inside and sew --
where it is warm!!)

I got this little block stitched yesterday--
and did it by hand piecing it--
It really was not bad to do--
even the half square pieces where ok--
now to decide if I want to do the other 'tiny Tuesday'  projects that I am behind on--
or if I just want to do a cat each month in the color of the month--
Humm?????
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so yesterdays "Inch along"--I did this --
a red kitty--

And for Thursdays 'Inchy"
I did this hexie--
for starting sewing for the 'hand piecing' quilt we are doing--
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MAIL CALL--
and in the mail I got the supplies I need for the  Crabapple Embroidery stitch along-
that starts Feb 1st-
There is 2 trays of colored pencils there-
total of 48--
but--
only 2 are the actual numbered colors that Meg is using--
but there is enough shades for me to substitute and be really near the other 3 colored pencils I need--
and may even use a different  'pink' one--a bit more pink, even than the one she used--
we will see how it looks on the fabric--
I already had the 4 floss skeins in my stash and a new sable paint brush I bought on sale a couple years ago and have not used--
the fabric is bought (I could not believe I was out of white cotton fabric--so had to go to town!!)
and it is cut--later today or maybe tomorrow I will start tracing the designs off onto the fabric--

oh and I did reorganize the colored pencils--so now all the greens are on one section, blues are together ect--where they had some of each color in each tray????

TAKE TIME TODAY TO TELL AN ANIMAL OR PET THAT YOU LOVE THEM!
LUV, DI
Seen this on the knitting paradise site this morning--
and she made me laugh!!!
it's like she is looking at me and saying--
"Lady what are you lookin at???? My head is cold--soooo????"

Thursday, January 24, 2019

PROJECTS--

I did not think I had signed up for much
so far this year--
but maybe I did after all--

Here is one done though for this month--
the first block in this one--
and I have decided I will use this sal to find fabric for each of the blocks we do--
though I am also working on another block for this one in red!!!
I really enjoyed doing some hand piecing again--
and it is helping to fill a void for quilting that I have --
as I don't have a sewing machine right now--

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I also got into some more trouble--
thanks to another blog site I read--
over on--catpatches.blogspot.com
she found this sal to start on Feb 1st--
crabapplehillstudios.com but there is more information on their facebook page--
she will have a demo for us to fill in one square a day for the month of Feb--
and I am sure you can tell by this photo one of the reason's I just have to do this one!!
I got on line yesterday and ordered the supplies I did not have and they are suppose to
be here tomorrow--we will see!!

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And here are my hexies so far this week--
the Mom one was for Monday--it would of been my Mom's birthday--
I think she was born in 1923--so she would of been in her 90's--

and the snow one was really for Sunday, and Monday--bitter bitter cold and very windy--
at one point they said the wind chill had us at -23 degrees-(temp was -3) now that is cold!!!

and on Tuesday I looked out the window and seen this--
a squirrel had--moved the snow aside-so he could--
get to some leftover seeds in the bottom of the planter--
so this is Tuesday's hexie--
gotta love those squirrels!!!!!

DO A KINDNESS FOR A NEIGHBOR--SHOW THEM A LITTLE LOVE TODAY!!
LUV, DI





Sunday, January 20, 2019

SUNDAY'S REPORT

And hopefully I won't freeze before I get this written!!!!

I am really enjoying the Inchy club
by #raspberryrabbits and my friend Shell--
but before I could stitch on this last weeks hexies
I had decided I needed to redo the thread color I was using
when sewing them together--
so here they are now--
3 weeks worth are here--
yesterdays hexie is this one--
(and I did add 2 more colors of threads to be using in stitching the hexies--
yellow and a red shaded ones--)
seen a woodpecker feeding at a suet cake that is hanging in the tree outside the
community room window--first woodpecker I have seen here in NY--
don't believe I seen one before when I lived here!!!
and here is what the inchy's looked like last week
with that color thread--
It is nice to think about 'what' spoke to you the most for that day--
some days are hard--some days there is lots one could stitch--and then one must
decide what spoke to you the 'loudest' that day!!!

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and now for some real exciting news--
I actually finished a couple fabric projects--
This is for week #1 in Fee's 52 week challenge--
I made 3 pockets for the gift box--
I found some bird fabric and fussy cut me 3 birds to applique to the top of purple
wool and added a bit of lace around each one--
the person who receives one of these can hang them up and fill them with 'whatevers'--
even dried or silk flowers would look nice in them--!!
and here is Week #2--
I think I already know who might be receiving this little gift--???
And I already seen Fee's post for week #3--
and I am excited--
cause I already have something in this line started and want to finish them--sooo????

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And here is more stockings--
I now have 30 knitted--
wonder if I will stop now and go on to something else--
or keep making them?????

and for this challenge--
I have stitched 7/7 days this week --and 20/20 days so far this year!!
and have stitched a total of approximately 34 hours total!!

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and for this one--
I have been working on Counted cross stitching--
but today's would be the 'redoing' of stitching the hexies together with the new color thread--



Now for today's weather report--
Here in central NY state--
we have--
so far we have about a foot of snow--that is--
if it stayed in one place so you measure it--
it seems the 'wind' is moving it around--
from here to there!!!!

BE SURE TO CALL SOMEONE TODAY 
AND TELL THEM YOU LOVE THEM--
LUV, DI
yep--even in Florida it is chilly today!!!!
but awhole warmer that in New York!!!!!