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Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Just Call Me... Beatrice

My dear friend Beatrice loves new starts and does so frequently, of course she's retired so has a lot more stitching time than I do!

Well it seems I'm taking a page out of Beatrice's book lately, I've got another new start for you! I just fell in love with Hallowscornu by Barbara Ana Designs! So of course I bought it and started it! I'm stitching it on Wichelt's 28ct Blueberry Joblean hand dyed fabric. Here's my progress since Sunday evening's start.


I had a great weigh in yesterday at Weight Watchers! I'm down another 3lbs which makes up for my 1.5lbs gain last week plus some. Unfortunately this most likely isn't enough to make my goal of 40lbs total for the first day of school as I'm now sitting at 35.5 lbs total. I've got one more WI before school starts. Of course it could be totally possible that I will make that 40lbs on the first day of school, since I have a WI that night.

21 comments:

Olga said...

Congratulations on your great start, and weight loss too.

Ginnie said...

I like your new start, well done on your weight loss too.

Anonymous said...

Way to go DANI!! Ann

Rebel In Ontario said...

Very cute, the pattern was adorable so I'm sure stitched up would be even better :-) Congrats on the lose this week, I was down 2 as well so I guess we behaved ourselves enough this weekend...

Chiloe said...

It's a beautiful new start Dany!

COngrats on your new weight loss: you won't reach your goal on the first day of school but you'll reach it very soon ;-)

Kajsa said...

I love that design too, I might get it for this halloween.

Congrats to the weight loss! I think you are doing so good and you should really pat yourself on the back for sticking to it for such a long time. You have lost so much weight and you will reach that 40 lbs milestone real soon!

riona said...

Congratulations on the weight loss ... you inspire me to set a goal of 30 lbs off by Christmas.

And I love your new start, the fabric is really quite lovely.

CritterLady62 said...

I love that biscournu design and the fabric you chose sets it off nicely. Congrats on your weight loss!

Carla said...

great start on your biscornu! I love that design and plan to sttitch it over the weekend or at least start it :)

Ruth said...

You go GF! 3 pounds is WONDERFUL!!! And so is that biscornu start. :)

Shelleen said...

cute Halloween piece and congrats ont he weight loss.

tkdquintmom said...

Dani, I LOVE Barbara Ana! Her designs are so easy to stitch. This one has been on my hit list since it came out. I'm the Queen of Halloween, as my stitching buddies call me....LOL. Love the choice of fabby! Hang in there with the weight loss! My sister lost 100 lbs on WW...took her a year but she did it! You go girl.
Lori :-)

Crazee4books said...

Hi Dani,

Aw...to heck with it. Go ahead
and have some fun. After all,
it's almost the end of summer
vacation. And therefore Fall
is just around the corner.

This looks like it's going to
be a cute design and I love
the fabric that you've chosen
to stitch it on. It's lovely.

Congrats on the great weight-in.

Cheers!!

Karin said...

Congrats on the weight loss. Great new start - I love the fabric.

Sally said...

Fantastic new start Dani. I'm looking forward to seeing that one all finished and made up:)

Congratulations on your weight loss!

Bette said...

Congratulations on your weight loss. WW is wonderful. And with 2 weigh ins left till the start of school (I'm counting the one on the first day), I'll bet you can make your goal.

Angela said...

Congrats on the weight loss! I love the fabric for the new Halloween start. The retreat looks wonderful and it's in Ontario too, is it something that anyone can attend?

Julie said...

Well done on the weight loss, you are amazing!

Love the new start, the fabby is so perfect for it

Anonymous said...

Nice start - Beatrice is a bad influence ! It was wonderful meeting you last week and I look forward to next years retreat.
Clare

stitcherw said...

Your Biscornu is looking so cute, what a fun start. Good going on the weight loss too, you're making excellent progress with the WW program. Loved your earlier entry on the retreat, it looks like it would have been such fun. I'd have loved to see all the beautiful pieces you all were displaying.
Sue

Beatrice said...

You make me chuckle.
Congratulations on the WL. That is amazing!!!!!!