Bermuda Triangle of Thread

Have you ever had this happen?




It's a mystery... You start with two even strands of thread and somewhere in the stitching process, you loose thread.

Where does it go? There's no knots ore loops in the back. It's just gone!

As the title says, there must be a Bremuda Triangle for thread out there.


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PhotoHunt : Model

Its been awhile since you've seen one of these ... right.  Its about time I start getting my blogging back to normal after loosing my Mum suddenly in June.

This week's theme is : model

Here's a model of the iconic Millennium Falcon from the original Star Wars Trilogy.  At the tail end of my holidays Bonnie and her husband Blair came for an overnight visit so we and Christin (her blog is worth a visit lately she's done a series of posts about "taming the stash monster") could go visit the Star Wars : Identities exhibit at the Aviation Museum.  Its a cool exhibit that's worth a visit!

Time For The Travelling Pattern To Move On

Well, I've finally downloaded all of the pictures off of my cameras from the last month or so!  Next step is to start going through them, keeping the awesome shots and getting rid of the ho-hum stuff.  That takes so much time!  That and I want to do noting but stitch!

Life's A Stitch

cLizzie Kate

Stitched on 28ct Cashel - Amertine from Silkweavers

Stitched with - Old Willow Rebekkah Green & September Sun

- Carrie's - Sassy & Spring Delight

I'm sure you'd prefer something more exciting like a.... Travelling Pattern giveaway!  Would you like to be next to stitch Lizzie Kate's Life's a Stitch please leave a comment here.  I'll pick a winner sometime next week after the Labour Day Weekend!

Summer Holiday Stitching

Wow what a summer holiday I've had! I've flown to Charleston, S.C, turned around and drove to Cape Breton, Nova Scotia the day after I returned from my first trip. Then there was a week at home, a trip to LaRonde, and a weekend spent with good friends.
During my travels I got to visit three different LNSs! Bought a fair amount of stash too. I'll take the time to review and share pictures of each shop... And my stash too in future blog posts.
Despite travelling a couple of thousand kilometres in the last few weeks, my visits have been low key. I've got pictures to share, but I need to replace my card reader first.
As mentioned in my pre-vacation post I mentioned I was going to work on Ink Circles Cirque des Cercles. Here's my vacation progress. :



At the beginning of my holidays I had last worked on this during my Dominican trip in February.



After a week in Charleston S.C. (July 23-31)



After just over a week in Cape Breton (August 2-8)



After a week at home (August 10-18)
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Starting Out Right

Oh my goodness!!! Two posts in one day!




As you can see last night I had a little help packing my suitcase.




This morning I was all ready to go, one last day of work and three and a half weeks of sweet, sweet freedom!



I stopped for my last descent cup of tea before entering the US (according to my Dad descent tea does not come in a paper cup). Sadly my southern friends just don't know what a good cup of tea is, I'd rather go without for a week.

My drive down to Syracuse was uneventful which is what we all want. The border crossing was actually pleasant this time, had a bit of a chit chat with the US Customs guy. I have to say its "quite boring" sticking to the speed limit.






To try to start relaxing I treated myself to a pedicure... There is also the fact that I was so exhausted last night I just forgot to do it and my red chipped polish was quite unsightly.



I had dinner in bed...



I'm about to pick up my stitching, I've packed Cirque des Circles by Ink Circles for this next week. Here it is before I pick it up, I last worked on it during my Dominican Experience trip this past February. This is becoming a well travelled piece!

I'm up early tomorrow morning for my flight, next time I'll be blogging from Charleston, S.C.


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Summertime Adventures!

After today I am offically on my SUMMER HOLIDAYS!  This year it seemed like it took a long time to get here and I'm so ready to be off of work for three and a half weeks!!!

My first adventure starts after work today.  I'm driving down to Syracuse, NY where I'll be flying out early tomorrow morning to spend a week with my best friend Claire in the Charleston, SC area!  I'm looking forward to checking out the LNS Keepm 'em in Stitches.  When I return a week Wednesday, I'm landing early enough in the day that I'm going to have time to go check out Stitcher's Garden near Syracuse before I drive back home.

I may follow this up with a drive out to the East Coast to visit Tracey at her cottage in Cape Breton.  It'll all depend on what the budget looks like after this first trip!   Hopefully I'll find a little time to blog here and there from my ipad on my Summer 2013 Adventures!

Happy Dances and Road Trips

Happy Dance Alert!  Happy Dance Alert!

I had a happy dance on Wednesday night, but I wanted to keep it to myself until I could show the piece to the owner.  Which I did on Friday, so now I can share it with you.

How I received Kathy's ABC Christmas Sampler

Last September a group of us were stitching at Kathy's she was going through her pile of WIPs and made a comment wishing that this piece would just show up "finished".  I took it and put it in my stitching bag, there were immediately offers by others to help finish it up, but I had this little plan in the back of my head that I would try to finish it myself... or work on it until it ticked me off.  Either or.

ABC Sampler - Kit

cKrista Hamrick

Kit by Design Works Inc.

Towards the end I was getting a little tired of seeing it, but here we are!  I triumphed and can proudly say that I finished it for Kathy!  The last time she had seen it (the day I got the call that my Mum was in hospital) I was just starting letter "V".  In a month I managed to finish it off.

After visiting with Kathy on Friday for a few hours, to help her with some finishing I popped down the road to Ann's and Knowledge and Needles.  I spent the afternoon stitching with her "Friday Stitchers", Bonnie was able to take the afternoon off to come stitch as well!  Thanks Bonnie!

Chatelaine - sorry hard to photograph

Mystic Stitch

Ann had two new framed pieces to show off!  They are just awesome, a completed Chatelaine and a huge Mystic Stitch!

Ann's husband Dan also had something of his own to show off as well!  On Friday evening he threw me the keys to this.... and let me take it out for a spin on my own!

My shit-eating grin while driving Dan's 'Vette

It was a joy to drive his 50th Anniversary Edition Corvette ... convertible and he impressed me by having a 6 speed manual transmission.  A sprots car with an automatic transmission is just a waste of metal!  Oh my what a pleasure it was to drive!  It had a gorgeous purr/rumble, I didn't mind downshifting for a change, the power was there when I wanted it, and the transmission was nice and tight!  Thanks Dan for letting me take her out for a spin!!!

I worked on a couple of projects this past weekend.

I put in a little more on this travelling chart, Life's a Stitch by Lizzie Kate.  As you can see I'm working with my own colour choices.

Christmas Tags

Kit - Cross Stitcher Issue 260

I finished up these little "Christmas Tags" one of those little kits that come with the British Magazines.  I finished up the Candy Cane and the Red Mittens on Friday night.

Saturday that left me with a new start!  Yes, I had plenty of other projects to stitch up but I have this gift that needs to be done.  I can only show you a wee corner since the recipient is known to read my blog.  I'm now over 1/2 way done this piece, and its looking great!

So that's it for my wee road trip, I had a great visit with friends, and got a lot of stitching in!  Oh wait and I did get a little stash!  I picked up the latest JBW Wreath Charts and a piece of pretty fabric!