Round Robin Part 1 (a little early)

Inspiration section 1 completed.  It will be handed off to the Crone (or Maiden- I have to check the list) on October 30th.  Almost 2 months before it is due!!!  This chart is a really fun and quick stitch.

IHSW delayed update

I was so in love with the Mother's Halloween post that I did not want to put up my IHSW progress, but as I am 2 days late it is time. I worked on Shores of HRH, and am secretly cursing adding this into the rotation! As soon as I finish this box I am sure my love for it will return.

At least the wording is complete! The Maiden

Fright - Framed!!!

Here it is, finally.  Fright (completed almost 2 years ago) is finally framed.  It is set a little crooked, which ticks me off (especially when I think how much I paid to have it done).  But has inspired me to learn how to frame them myself.  I had a hard time cutting out the glare.

~Mother

To Manbroider

Dear Manbroider,
I will happily give you my July 2012 Cross Stitch Collection issue 211 for you are the guru of getting Joan Elliot's done.  I tried to figure out how to respond on your blog and subscribed and everything and still came up short.  So if you are still in need of this magazine (I am missing a few here and there so I won't stress too badly without one missing number-usually I would but I have tried to let some of those things go lately!).  So...if you come across this post let me know so that I can get an address and ship it out.  I love seeing Joan's materials worked, I own so many and have yet to go there, even have the Polstitch fabrics...but you are the man, so. Let me know.
The Crone

As I am working on the Mother's sampler, "Sweeter Love" I have come to realize that neither the capital letter alphabet, nor the lower case alphabet has the letter J.  I thought I could rework the pattern, but with my two fellow stitchers thought that might throw it off completely.  So I guess we will be J-less, pretty weird right?

Well, the Maiden, Mother, and Crone were finally all in the same part of the state over the last two days.  Being the industrious individuals that they are it was decided to begin their second Round Robin event.  You could call this-Go Big or Go Home.  The stitch count was done and the levels of stitching for each of the rounds are approximately the same.

The Maiden's choice is The Shores of Hawk Run Hollow by Carriage House.  The fabric of choice is a 32 count spice.  One reason for each of the choices, is that all three projects were already kitted and ready to go.

The Mother's choice is a beautiful sampler called A Sweeter Love, by Plum Street Samplers.  It will be cone on a 28 count Over Dyed Linen called Maritime White.

The Crone's choice is the gorgeous sampler Inspiration designed by Karen Kluba from Rosewood Manor.  It will be stitched on a 32 count yellow fabric known as Magnolia.

All projects require a half yard of fabric to give you an eye's view of how large each project truly will be.  We are very excited about our level of commitment to getting these done for each other.

The Mother's!

The Crone's

The Maiden's

The Rotations:

A Sweeter Love					Inspiration		A Sweeter Love			The Shores of Hawk Run Hollow
Joy	Carol	Ren		1	Ren	1, 2, 7, 8	Carol	2		Joy	4, 8
1	2	3		2	Joy	3, 4, 9, 10	Ren	3		Carol	2, 3
Carol	Ren	Joy		3	Carol	5 ,6, 11, 12	Joy	1		Ren	1, 5
4	5	6		4	Ren	15, 16, 21, 22, 27, 28	Carol	4		Joy	6, 7
Ren	Joy	Carol		5	Joy	17, 18, 23, 24, 29, 30	Ren	5		Carol	11, 12
7	8	9		6	Carol	13, 14, 19, 20, 25, 26	Joy	6		Ren	9, 10
				7	TBD		Carol	9
The Shores of Hawk Run Hollow				8	TBD		Ren	7
Ren	Carol	Carol	Joy	9	TBD		Joy	8
1	2	3	4
Ren	Joy		Joy
5	6, 7		8
Ren	Ren	Carol	Carol
9	10	11	12
	Inspiration
Ren		Joy		Carol
1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12
Carol		Ren		Joy
13	14	5	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24
25	26	27	28	29	30

IHSW and Market!

The owners of my LNS, Stitchers Paradise, just returned from market! Preview day at the store is always exciting, so I wanted to share my finds! First is this great embroidery kit, which I will be substituting with butterflies from Chatelaine's Butterfly Mandala ( Joyce inspired this one).

Next are these cute pin keeps, I could not decided on a color so I bought both!

A few new patterns...
And finally progress on Mediterranean Mermaid!

Even though I forgot it was IHSW (Gasp!) I did manage to squeeze in some stitching. The future owner of MM wanted dirty blonde hair for her, which has been quite the challenge!!! I only had 2 symbols to work with, so I needed a dirty and a blonde (he he).

The Maiden.