I've pulled out a project started long, long, ago when I was a fairly new stitcher. Teresa and I traveled to The Attic Needlework in January 2011 for A Primitive Gathering and this was one of the projects from Linda of Chessie and Me. The project is called Needlebook of Stitches. We assembled the cover in class and made the cording. We did a little bit of stitching as well.
The inside is really a sampler of stitches.
The linen is stitched onto wool.
The back cover has some cording with which a pair of scissors can be tied. The front cover can be used to store spare needles. When I got home, I finished almost all the stitching except for some of the nunn stitches on the border of the "pages". This finished really quickly when I pulled it out and realized I was pretty close to a finish. It's not my best work but it's a project that reflects my journey as a stitcher and I'm very ok with that!
Today, I actually turned on the sewing machine and used it! I made a grime guard using the tutorial from The Left Handed Stitcher. Here is also a great tutorial from Tonya at Tonya Stitches if you only have a fat quarter of fabric. I've learned a couple of things to improve on my next time around but for now, this is good. You can also see my new start - Heaven and Nature Sing from Kathy Barrick. This has been fun to stitch. I'm using NPI and 40 count Lakeside Linen Vintage Pecan Butter.
Last week and the end of the week before was all about Hurricane Irma and prep and then cleanup. We are high and dry/not in an evacuation zone so we stayed. It was a 5 days of prep/waiting and then several days of cleanup. I was outwardly fairly calm but I had a headache for 5 days. Here is a video from the hospital where my son works. The entire city has felt the impacts in one way or another. I've heard from many of you checking to see if we are ok. I so much appreciate that!
Hoping you have plenty of time with needle and thread this week and wishing you happy stitches!
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