HI!
Well, I have a new blog site, and I am enjoying learning how to add posts and pictures to it. It has been wonderful being able to share my pictures on line through on-line albums, and blogs give you a whole new space to share your thoughts as well. Since I have many friends and some family in different parts of the country, this is a marvelous way to stay in touch and let them know what's happening in our neck of the woods....Though I'm not in the woods.
So you know a little about this page and me, I'm enjoying the midlife years...And that is actually possible. Young enough to still be able to do most everything I want to do, and old enough to stay out of trouble for the most part. Married, no children -- though I love kids. Have lots of family and enjoy them often as almost all my family lives in or around the same area of New Mexico. My DH's name is Roger, and he's an engineer, and we've been married 14 years. Seems like we were married yesterday -- and thankfully -- we really do love each other . I thank God for that, because today so many married couples are stuggling or worse, divorced after only a few years. We really do like each other .
My life consists mostly these days of taking care of our home and landscaping, and doing lots of volunteer wrok at my church. I teach two classes a week, help with the accounting, and sing with the praise team. Keeps me busy! I also am an avid needleworker -- started that early in my life -- maybe in my teens. When I was older and on my own I spent quite a lot of time crocheting and doing surface embroidery, which I enjoyed. There were lots of crewel kits around at that time. Now, I stitch mostly cross stitch, and that includes other forms of needlework with special stitches (more complicated ones). My love is samplers -- reproduction samplers and some modern samplers. I used to stitch a lot of 'cute' things at one time, but have gotten away from that. Somehow my love of books, history and linen/threads, led me down the road to reproduction samplers, and I have sort of settled there in my tastes for needlework. There are loads of styles and offerings for this type of sampler, English, German, American, French, Canadian, Scottish, Norwegian, Spanish style samplers, so I won't be running out of options for projects for a very long time.
Right now I am working mostly on the following samplers:
Dutch Beauty - A Permin Design. This is a German Sampler, and it's huge -- I'll hope to be sharing a picture of this before long with you so you can see the entire design. It's quite impressive. I've not even finished page one, but I am working on this more regularly now.
Marquior Sampler (French Free Sampler) - This is a Free sampler you can get on line, and it's quite a fun piece to stitch with all sorts of motifs. It consists of 9 rectangles, and different motifs that reflect happenings and special memories in life. The original sampler is offered with all the motifs that reflect the owners life and interests. I have substituted some designs to show special memories, or meaning in my life. So there isa piano in mine as i am just learning to play, and a church which is a very signifiant part of my life. Also there is a ligthhouse which has nothing to do with my life except that I have always loved them. I will be posting apicture here for you to see before long.
Hope Needleroll - By The Heart's Content/Maureen Appleton - Needlerolls are little pincushions made in a roll shape. They sometmies have hemstitched edges, which are very delicate and pretty, and finished off with ribbons, they look like a very small bolster pillow. This one I am working on is stitched over one thread on linen, using one strand of fiber (overdyed cotton in this case). I am almost done with this project, just need to add one pot with flowers and the words hope in the center of a cartouche. After that I'll do the hemstitched edge and assemble it. This was a great project to work on, but over one is not fast stitching. So I have stopped and started this project several times. Pictures will follow -- you might even get to see the actual finished piece before long .
Cross Eyed Cricket's - Acorn - I have about 2 - maybe 3 hours left to work on this and it will be finished, at least the stitching. I plan to frame this piece. I've used a victorian red fabric (lugana) which is a very rich red. The colors are very autumn, and of course, so is the theme. It's a large acorn worked almost like a patchwork pattern. This will be completed by next week (9/17/05) and I will then post a picture for you to see.
Quaker Huswife - By The Sampler Cove. This is a project I started this year, using one strand of thread on 35 ct linen. It is of course, Quaker motifs that make up a long needlework tool kit. This one happens to have a tool pocket, a pincushion, a needlebook, and a woven pocket for 'whatevers'. When I first stitched this piece, I didn't like the coverage of the threads on the linen, and decided to go back and take out all the stitching and start over. I am now stitching the piece using two strands of Vikki Clayton silks, and it is looking lovely. Also I had the silk threads dyed special for this project, as well as the organza ribbons, so I am looking forward to getting this piece and all the inside pockets worked on. It will be a lovely piece to own and display in my needlework box. Though starting over has set me back considerably, but I hope still to get the piece completed by the end of the year. Hopefully I can start the pocket assembly in January 2006. Will have pictures to share soon.
Quaker Round Robin (my own) - This is a group that I led in 2004. We finished December 2004, and I have a bit of work to put in on this sampler before it is completed. I will have a picture of where I am with this project for you to see very soon. Then I hope to post some updates every month until it is done. It is done in burgundy, pink, rose, cream, pale aqua, and hunter green silks on a cream 35ct linen. Right now it seems I am in a 'Quaker Bent' ...that seems to be what I seem to want to stitch and collect as far as charts and patterns of samplers. They are lots of fun to stitch, and very pretty. They can be muted colors, or very bright, and both have their place. This piece when it is completed and framed will be hanging over our bed on a cocoa colored wall. I think it will be a lovely contrast, and should compliment the decor in my room very nicely. PIctures will be forthcoming....
Now to figure out how to add pictures. Hopefully i can do it now that I have promised you all kinds of updates on my needlework projects 
hmmm....
Well, I have a new blog site, and I am enjoying learning how to add posts and pictures to it. It has been wonderful being able to share my pictures on line through on-line albums, and blogs give you a whole new space to share your thoughts as well. Since I have many friends and some family in different parts of the country, this is a marvelous way to stay in touch and let them know what's happening in our neck of the woods....Though I'm not in the woods
So you know a little about this page and me, I'm enjoying the midlife years
My life consists mostly these days of taking care of our home and landscaping, and doing lots of volunteer wrok at my church. I teach two classes a week, help with the accounting, and sing with the praise team. Keeps me busy! I also am an avid needleworker -- started that early in my life -- maybe in my teens. When I was older and on my own I spent quite a lot of time crocheting and doing surface embroidery, which I enjoyed. There were lots of crewel kits around at that time. Now, I stitch mostly cross stitch, and that includes other forms of needlework with special stitches (more complicated ones). My love is samplers -- reproduction samplers and some modern samplers. I used to stitch a lot of 'cute' things at one time, but have gotten away from that. Somehow my love of books, history and linen/threads, led me down the road to reproduction samplers, and I have sort of settled there in my tastes for needlework. There are loads of styles and offerings for this type of sampler, English, German, American, French, Canadian, Scottish, Norwegian, Spanish style samplers, so I won't be running out of options for projects for a very long time.
Right now I am working mostly on the following samplers:
Dutch Beauty - A Permin Design. This is a German Sampler, and it's huge -- I'll hope to be sharing a picture of this before long with you so you can see the entire design. It's quite impressive. I've not even finished page one, but I am working on this more regularly now.
Marquior Sampler (French Free Sampler) - This is a Free sampler you can get on line, and it's quite a fun piece to stitch with all sorts of motifs. It consists of 9 rectangles, and different motifs that reflect happenings and special memories in life. The original sampler is offered with all the motifs that reflect the owners life and interests. I have substituted some designs to show special memories, or meaning in my life. So there isa piano in mine as i am just learning to play, and a church which is a very signifiant part of my life. Also there is a ligthhouse which has nothing to do with my life except that I have always loved them. I will be posting apicture here for you to see before long.
Hope Needleroll - By The Heart's Content/Maureen Appleton - Needlerolls are little pincushions made in a roll shape. They sometmies have hemstitched edges, which are very delicate and pretty, and finished off with ribbons, they look like a very small bolster pillow
Cross Eyed Cricket's - Acorn - I have about 2 - maybe 3 hours left to work on this and it will be finished, at least the stitching. I plan to frame this piece. I've used a victorian red fabric (lugana) which is a very rich red. The colors are very autumn, and of course, so is the theme. It's a large acorn worked almost like a patchwork pattern. This will be completed by next week (9/17/05) and I will then post a picture for you to see.
Quaker Huswife - By The Sampler Cove. This is a project I started this year, using one strand of thread on 35 ct linen. It is of course, Quaker motifs that make up a long needlework tool kit. This one happens to have a tool pocket, a pincushion, a needlebook, and a woven pocket for 'whatevers'. When I first stitched this piece, I didn't like the coverage of the threads on the linen, and decided to go back and take out all the stitching and start over. I am now stitching the piece using two strands of Vikki Clayton silks, and it is looking lovely. Also I had the silk threads dyed special for this project, as well as the organza ribbons, so I am looking forward to getting this piece and all the inside pockets worked on. It will be a lovely piece to own and display in my needlework box. Though starting over has set me back considerably, but I hope still to get the piece completed by the end of the year. Hopefully I can start the pocket assembly in January 2006. Will have pictures to share soon.
Quaker Round Robin (my own) - This is a group that I led in 2004. We finished December 2004, and I have a bit of work to put in on this sampler before it is completed. I will have a picture of where I am with this project for you to see very soon. Then I hope to post some updates every month until it is done. It is done in burgundy, pink, rose, cream, pale aqua, and hunter green silks on a cream 35ct linen. Right now it seems I am in a 'Quaker Bent' ...that seems to be what I seem to want to stitch and collect as far as charts and patterns of samplers. They are lots of fun to stitch, and very pretty. They can be muted colors, or very bright, and both have their place. This piece when it is completed and framed will be hanging over our bed on a cocoa colored wall. I think it will be a lovely contrast, and should compliment the decor in my room very nicely. PIctures will be forthcoming....
Now to figure out how to add pictures
hmmm....
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