The Hole Stitched

So, I stitched over the darned area. Fortunately most of it falls in the house roof area. The remainder, above the roof, will have trees stitched over it. Aside from a slight bowing in the linen, I don't think you'll be able to tell it's there after I get it all stitched. Since I've been working like a fiend to meet the competition deadline, I was glad to get back to this no pressure project. I will post a picture of the finished area in the near future.

The HOLE Crisis

I know it's a bad picture, but it really does show my problem off very well. A few weeks ago I put my Prairie Schooler project in my bag and when I got to destination and pulled it out, there was a HUGE GAPING HOLE in the middle of my already-been-stitched-on-a-lot Linen!!! Yikes! I was despondent. What was I going to do? After a few weeks to recover from the terrible shock, I decided that the only thing to do was take a cotton thread in a color close to the linen (sky blue) and darn the hole. Hopefully I would do it in such a way that I would be able to see some sort of grid so that when darned, I could actually stitch over the darned area (because, thank goodness, the hole WAS in a place in the linen that was to be stitched over - otherwise, I'd have had to scrap the linen and start all over again). So, this picture shows the hole, darned - or is it the darned hole? You know what I mean.

Sneak Peek of Bee Line March Box

This is a sneak peek at my design that I am submitting to a competition. The design is mine and is copyrighted. Please do not copy it. I am grateful to Kreinik Manufacturing for their Silk Mori that I used for the entire project. Sometime later this year I hope to show you a picture of the completed project. Depends on contest rules. I also hope to make the chart available in 2010.

Name Tag

For my partner, Cheryl, and myself, I made name tags that have the house on them. Same design - my own - as for the owners gift, but without the dog and house name - adding our names. I could just be catching up to those in the know, but I used floral pins on the sides. Please do not reproduce the designs.

House Tour Gift

This weekend is the house tour. I have wrapped up the gift we are giving the couple who own the house my partner and I are hosting. It's a rendition of their house.