A Stitching Meme

1, How do you hold your fabric? Either on a Q Snap or scroll frame
2, Floss licker? Always have and always will
3, How do you thread your needle? I find putting the licked end through the eye works really well :)
4, What needle do you like best? 26 or 28 Piecemaker for pref but they are a little hard to find here so I'll use whatever make I can get as long as it's a 26 or 28
5, Are you a needle loser? I can count the number of needles I've lost in almost 17 years of stitching on one hand
6, What fabric do you prefer to stitch on? One with holes works well :) (you have no idea how tempting it is to leave it like that!) seriously 28 evenweave or 40 linen
7, Bobbins or floss bags? My DMC & Anchor goes on bobbins, silks go in bags while I'm using them
8, Are you a scissors collector? Not in particular although I have aquired a fair few pairs over the years
9, Do you do your own framing, and if so, do you lace or pin? This I leave to the experts
10, Are you a floss floozy? I refuse to annswer that on the grounds I may incriminate myself :)
11, Silk? Yes please
12, Railroader? When I remember
13, Are you a pattern or designer snob? If owning almost every TW makes me one then I guess it would be a yes but I don't think of myself as one
14, Do you get antsy when you give someone a stitched gift? No but I rarely give my stitching as gifts to anyone other than close family
15, Have you reached S.A.B.L.E.? Oh yes and I had a lot of fun getting there
16, Do you wash your projects? If it's stiched in DMC on normal fabric and it needs it then I do, if it's on Hand dyed fabric or use silk/ overdyed floss then no but I do pay more attention to making sure my hands are clean and don't eat/drink near my stitching

Be a Dragon HD

9th one of the year so far, not bad going
Enchanting Liar design on Dying4u Fuchsia Fizz and I subbed NN Calypso for the wording (love that floss!)
The fabric was a gift several years from a friend after a trip to the US and at the time she said something along the lines of I'd have a hard time finding something to stitch on such a bright pink, well it's taken a while but I proved her wrong :)

Fantasy Sampler

It's been a while since I last did an update for this WIP even though I've been working on it most Monday's (although some weeks it did get ignored for a different TW)
Today I'm going to work on the left hand greenery border that you can see partly done while I'm in the mood for confetti stitches on it, that border is (for me at least) the worst part of FS to stitch.

Sometime in the next few weeks I'll be making my 100th post to this blog and when I do I'll send a little something to the first person that makes a comment on that post.
I've actually had this blog since 03 but at first couldn't get on with it so used my MSN space instead but got fed up with and some of things I couldn't do started to annoy me so I revived this one and have used it ever since.
I think that 100 posts is a bit of a milestone for anyone but esp. for me as I'm not one to talk about my life which is why this mostly a stitching blog and that should be celebrated in some way

Home of a Needleworker(too)

For the last couple of days I've been working on this
My first Little House Needleworks design and the first time I've stitched with Crescent Colours, fingers crossed I'll have it finished next month

At last, The Riddle framed

I've actully had this pic for a few weeks now butkept forgetting to post it!
I think Chris did a fantastic job with it and when I do it for myself in the future I'll have it framed the same way

I've been UFOing

I'm taking part in a UFO RR again this year and for round two I've had Polar Lights to work on those that know me well know how much I dislike Chatelaine's so to have to work on one has been hard work for me but I knew when I signed up that I could well end up not liking something, it's part and parcel of the RR.
Here's what it looked like when it arrived
And this is how it leaves me todayI think I've made pretty good progress on it and as I write the postman has brought me the next one to work on, talk about good timing!

Isn't he a little sweetheart

We went down to Heather's yesterday to visit Caleb and of course I came home with lots of pics but this is one of my favourites taken just after he'd been fed and burped so he's a little sleepy

I wish I was able to see more of him than I'm going to but for a whole host of reasons that's not going to happen so I'll just have to treasure what time I do get with him

March Progress & April Goals

A few days later than planned but at least I've remembered them :)

For March I said

Finish the Peacock Chair Yes and I'm really pleased with it
Make progress on the Birth Sampler I managed a little bit, he decided to arrive while I was working on it!
UFORR A little but not as much I'd like
Become a Gran Yes but it was a close call

For April

UFORR
Progress on the Birth Sampler
Stick to the UFO SAL

I stitched for a total of 78 hours 9 mins, had 4 new starts and 3 finishes and just one day with no stitching but I have a beautiful Grandson to show for that day

Crimson Poppies

So before the mad dash down to Northampton for Caleb's arrival I was working on Crimson Poppies.
This time round I filled in some of the leaves at the bottom and worked on the large bloom and before you wonder what the line is across the pic it's the shadow of the other half of the washing line

More pics

I was right when I said a few days ago that DD would go into labour in the early hours of the morning
She rang me a little before 5am and I was out the door within 15 mins!

Fast asleep

Heather & Caleb Auntie Mel & Caleb

And a rare event, me posing for a pic with Auntie Mel and Caleb

There are a few more pics in my Webshots album and I'll get the one's off Mum's camera tomorrow