Category Archives: Caribbean/Mystery 12

Enjoying your turkey coma?

I know I am. Love me some turkey. And tomorrow is turkey & dumplings – ambrosia in gravy.  Speaking of Thanksgiving, I’m so proud of myself. For the first time I made my grandmother’s stuffing/dressing. It’s a giblet dressing and … Continue reading

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The place where all the cool stuff is…

my stash. 😉 Yeah, I went shopping. Problem? Didn’t think so. Marie Antoinette. Oh yes. Floss toss on Silkweaver’s African Daisy. Planning to start soonish. Quilty magazines & JCS (it has a Brooke’s Books which makes it an auto buy). My problem … Continue reading

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Only one left

The second to last Halloween package has been delivered to its new home. Taken from Prairie Moon’s For Thine is the Trick and Treat. Stitched on 28ct black joblean with DMC glow in the dark (Cathey’s checking on the truthiness … Continue reading

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New Stitchy Nest

I has a chair! Many moons ago I had a stitchy chair, $25 auction find. We had a long and lovely relationship – sadly all things must come to an end. About 4 years ago it was retired to the great charity … Continue reading

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What I did this Sunday.

(Besides wish Jeff Reed to hell, or at the very least to the nearest Sheetz bathroom. Douche. ) I put 2 more lengths of thread into Eek! House. It’s actually done all in colonial & french knots (so far I’ve … Continue reading

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I'm just contrary

Remember how I stitched Salem Sisters with 1 over two? Well Cast Your Spells was supposed to be stitched that way too. Of course I did it my way, 2 over 2. (Thank you again Michelle for loaning me the … Continue reading

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In case you're wondering

It’s a lantern. What you thought my first shot would be a whole fairy? I started on the far right hand side. I’ll stitch the lanterns and then move on to The Leader of The Pack Fairy. I like it, … Continue reading

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A flurry of activity

Only 3 pictures to share but I did do a few things today. 1. Poor MMV, it’s lost it’s drawer (I keep all projects that have hope of being worked on in a 5 drawer cart next to my stitching … Continue reading

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You as burnout as I am…

on Caribbean? Don’t worry this is the last time you’ll have to look at it for a bit. I burnout on it Sunday evening. But I was mostly done with part 5 at that point so I pushed on and … Continue reading

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Part 4 Is Complete!

Finished it up Saturday and started in Sunday on part 5. Who knows when you’ll see another full picture of it, I won’t be loosing the scroll bars just for pictures. Bye-bye dancing starfish. Kinda sad to see the end … Continue reading

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