Royal Wind by Carlene Harwick

"Royal Wind"

"Royal Wind", designed by Carlene Harwick, is an ANG Workshop by Mail. I believe it is available until June 2010.

I stitched this piece in January and February 2010. Color changes, small design changes, and all the mistakes are mine alone. ;) Stitched on congress cloth with DMC floss and spools and spools and spools of Kreinik Metallics.

Pat Van Cleve's Iris and Butterfly

This is a charted canvaswork design from Pat Van Cleve. It is called "Iris and Butterfly" and is from the 2005-2006 ANG Chapter Project Booklet. I will be teaching it at our guild meeting this week. Fun!

Needlework stuff and more...

The new ANG catalogs came in yesterday's mail. "Fantasy Fish School" is in the March / April Needle Pointers. It is neat to see it in print! Along with that came the Milwaukee National Seminar offerings with my Folk Santa Spinner. Very exciting afternoon for me.

MTP update... Continuing onwards... I finished the "paper line drawing" of the new design and I'm quite pleased with how it came out. I pulled the threads and printed out the thread sample card and attached the threads. I was feeling quite industrious at that point so I pulled out the other design (a four-day class) and pulled threads for that, printed out the thread sample card and attached the thread. I worked out the legend with what stitches will be in each area and it's all done. :) Now I have to make color copies of the design and the thread charts and mail it all off to my proctor.



I have some other composing I need to do - outlines are done but it takes time for me to write out the papers. I also updated my resume; this one is more a functional design resume so I dropped the stuff that was not relevent to needlework and expanded on the areas that are relevent. I'm quite pleased with it.

In stitching news, I'm still working on Royal Santa. Almost done with the bag!

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This afternoon I'm taking the children to Lego club. We skipped Book Report Lunch yesterday (shhh!) and went to the park with some of the other parents. It was a lovely afternoon. I even managed to get to the gym beforehand - that's twice this week! I'm planning on going later this evening to swim. Did I mention I'm swimming again? And that I'm terrible at it? :) I have some movies to watch later so I'll get some great stitching time done this evening.

Last night I went to "Mom's Night Out" with some of the other homeschool moms. We went to one of those Japanese steakhouses where they cook in front of you. The food was really good and I had a glass of plum wine that tasted like syrup. Very sweet! We had eight moms there and it was a lot of fun. The chef kept making awful jokes about call 800-hot-chef and he'll come cook for us at home. Poor guy. ;)

Isn't it exciting?

Well, I think it is exciting. :)

http://www.needlepoint.org/Seminar-09/classes/1day/10234.php

Why is it that EVERY picture ANG takes is much better than the crappy ones I take?

Marnie Ritter's "Scotch Ya!"...

This is the Workshop by Mail piece for the first half of 2009. Isn't it lovely?

Stitching notes are on my Marnie Ritter page -

http://www.summerlouise.com/albums/stitching/designers/marnieritter.html

You can order your own on the ANG website -

http://www.needlepoint.org/byMail/index.php

Mukilteo Library Exhibit...

Because I love all.things.needlework I was able to pull the stuff for this exhibit purely out of the storage bins in my garage. Kind of worrisome when you think about it. I didn't have to take a thing off my walls!

This is at the Mukilteo Library. The three posters detail when appreciate viewers can *join a guild* by coming to ANG or EGA meetings. Truly exciting!

A New Project…

Followed me home from guild last night. It’s a Pat Mazu stocking from the Chapter Project Booklet. It’s very cute and a bit bigger than her other stockings. I finished the chevron top at the meeting and did the red stripes this morning. I’m going to take it to the beach with the kids this afternoon and we’ll see how far I get! I just need a quick break from Twister.

The grass is getting pretty long and I’m out of gasoline for the mower. Perhaps that will be something I do this afternoon.