Question of the Week 12 July 04

How do you choose a project? What “calls” to you the most?

Hmmmmmm...generally, it's something totally different to anything I have on the go at the moment.  Like just recently I did the needlepoint because I had never done any before....mind you I am now an addict!  For a while, it seemed that everything I started was green or varying shades of so I couldn't wait to start something with colour and LOTS of it!  Now, If I am 'bored" I just pick up the project that is yelling the loudest :)

This is probably why I have 13 works in progress!!!!

Cheers

Tannia

Question of the Week

Which project (finished or in progress) are you most proud of? Explain why.

Good question....well asked!

My greatest achievement in stitching is finishing Indigo Rose's "Desiderata".  It's the first sampler I finished, the first piece with specialty stitches of any great number and the first 'real' hardanger I completed!  I stitched the date on upside down.....but never fixed it before it got framed, so it reminds me that I'm not perfect!  Stitching the verse as well made me really take it to heart.  It's hanging in my lounge room and I look at it every day and it makes me feel good to see it.

I am also stitching a sampler for my dad (pic in a previous post somewhere) which is really hard going...I guess when it's done I will have to rethink my 'most proud stitching achievement"

Blessings

Tannia

Wacky Week

I have had a fairly weird week.  Work has been "weird", personal life has been "weird", love life even weirder (but I wont get into that here)!   I feel a bit like I am sitting on the outside watching what's going on in my life and I have no control....all kinds of things happening that I don't like but there's not much I can do!  Hmmmm.....all I can say is....weird!  Ever have a week like that?

 

Stitching wise, I am working on the Fairy (MvS' Night) it's so close to being done but it seems like every two or three stitches I have to change colours so it's not moving along as fast as I had hoped.  I had wanted to finish her this week -  but that's not going to happen. Maiden's walk is having her cut threads removed and I am terrified that the last thread I cut will be wrong or something horrible like that - so as all the good books all say I am counting three times, cutting once!  Hopefully it will be fine.

 

I was so tempted last night to start something new...but I was strong...I resisted...went to bed instead (actually come to think of it this morning, it was pretty weak of me really).  I know if I had stayed up I would have started....DT's An Open Heart, or Sew to Be Seen's Silent Thoughts, or Antique Fancy, or one of a dozen things I have kitted up already...but I just want to get these two models finished before I start anything new!

 

I have been bidding on a few things on Ebay...unsuccessfully...bummer although I did win a lovely beaded pincushion for $10 (AU).  It arrived this week and is lovely although I thought in the picture it looked more purple, but it is actually quite pink.  I also won a collection of needlework/craft books and I am looking forward to them arriving this week.  Some good ones amongst them, some I am not interested in but I might be swayed.

 

The LHM comes home today after spending two weeks with his Dad in Sydney.  I have missed him, but he told me last night he didn't want to come home...*sigh*.  I am sure he will settle in at home ok.

 

Apologies for not posting for a while, things have been getting away from me.