Finished my tiny pincushion today and it’s all wrapped up and ready to go out in the mail tomorrow. Hope it gets where it’s going in time.
Author: sympatheticthreads
Baby steps
Well, I’m sure that all six of you who read my blog will be delighted to know that I am back working on something again. I’m actually only finishing a previously-stitched project as a small pincushion, so nothing major, but hey, that counts, right? It needs to go out in the mail for someone’s birthday soon, so I better get crackin’.
Truth be told
I haven’t stitched a single stitch for over a month, and thus have barely updated here. Mostly I’d been preparing for my recent Chicago trip and have had other concerns on my mind unconducive to pondering linen and floss. And on the occasions when my thoughts did turn to stitching my hands were not cooperating.
I hope I do better now that it is September.
Art Institute of Chicago
While on vacation in Chicago last week, I paid a brief visit to the Art Institute. Although I didn’t have much time to wander I did snap a few pics of some of the highlights and other things I found interesting. I hope to go back some day and spend far more time exploring the Windy City.
A few earrings for fun
Made these simple earrings this weekend. The ones on the right are for my niece, and are a copy of one of my own favorite pairs.
Did a little beading this weekend
I now have a new scissors fob ready for when my stork embroidery scissors magically show up again. If indeed they ever do! Sort of a case of shutting the barn door after the horse has escaped, but I live in hope.
I’ve lost my stork scissors
They’ve been missing for about three weeks now. This is not the end of the world, I know. I have plenty of other regular scissors lying around the house (some might say too many, there’s a pair in practically every room), which all usable and perfectly capable of snipping strands of cotton floss. And I’m sure my scissors will show up eventually, hiding between the couch cushions or tucked away in a craft box where I probably placed them momentarily and then just forgot about them. I just miss them. Stitching is not the same without them.
And of course I keep thinking that if I’d attached a simple scissors fob to them I wouldn’t be suffering this loss in the first place. *smacks self upside the head*
Perhaps I should go and make a beaded fob right now in the hopes that the scissors will magically return to see what all the fuss is about.
Decisions, decisions
Can’t decide whether or not to break down and purchase this lovely little cross-stitch chart called “My Hearth & Home” from With Thy Needle and Thread. The sweet design really appeals to me, but I have so many other charts waiting to be done…and I swore I wasn’t going to spend any money on new charts for a bit.
Oh, the agony…
Sympathetic Threads 