It happened again.... I couldn't stop myself from starting something new yesterday..... It's a wonderful Quaker Sampler by von der Wiehenburg. I stitch it on the same linen as my Prairie Schooler ornaments. It's the dark 40ct. Weddigen. The picture doesn't show the right color. I hope this will work better tonight. My choice of floss is the DMC 3750 a blue with an antique touch. I'm sure my friend Manuela will be angry with me because I started this without having finished an older WIP .... ;-(

I wish I had my camera today.... I started to snow again yesterday and everything is wonderful white again. The sun was shining and it was simply beautiful! But the forecast says that it's melting away tomorrow or the day after tomorrow. ;-(

Today I stitched a small gift for a friend. So I can't show it ;-) And......I finally completed part 4 of Chatelaines MTM!!!!!! I'm so happy. It's the first part I really completed... I would love to stitch a bit on DT's Game Board Sampler but I have to stitch another gift first. There are a lot of birthdays to come in february.....

Last weekend, from friday morning 7am to sunday evening 9.30 pm I was away from home for a wonderful time full of chatting, stitching and sewing. We had a great stitching retreat from my german SAL Yahoo Group in the South of Germany. I sew a bag to carry MTM with all the needed charts and threads. And I plan to do another bag. We talked a lot about crazy patchwork and looked at some CP squares .... I will have to do at least one of them as well.....

One of the women had birthday on sunday so there was a big party also :-)

But I forgot to take my digital camera back home so I have to wait for the postman to bring it home ;-(

I stitched only a little bit during the last two weeks but I will post some pics as soon as possible...

Hei, did you see the 2 new Drawn Thread designs at Stitching Bits and Bobs? This one I have to add to my wishlist: Three Friends the other one doesn't look like a real DT design in my opinion: Red Lace Sewing Case
What do you think about these designs?

Oh yes, Anne, come here and we're goingt to have a wonderful stitching and chatting retreat. Does anybody else want to join? :-))))

Annemiek, let me know when you are going to start My Stitching Treasures maybe we can do a SAL....

I indulged myself to stitch an CA today. It is such a big fun.....

Yesterday at 7pm there was an unexpected knocking on our door (we don't have a bell) and two very good friends of us were visiting us. I haven't seen them for nearly a year. So there was again only a little bit stitching during the day.


Look what was in the mail today. My first Vikky Clayton silk. The conversion for Jeannette Douglas' My Stitching Treasures. I'll bond my hands behind my back to make sure not to start it immediately :-)

A fellow stitcher visited me and we made a little trip to my local Quiltshop. She had a lot of WIP's with her to show and there were some I really loved..... No, no, I will not start something new ;-) I made a little progress on MTM but I will work on it tomorrow as well.

Look what was in the mail yesterday..... Carol sent me this wonderful gift: a Tacky BOB. I've never heard of a Tacky BOB befor Carol told me about it. And I love it!!! I'm so excited to use it for MTM :-) Thank you so much, Carol!




My first monthly Prairie Schooler A Prairie Christmas ornament is finished and I love it.











I stitched a few more crosses on february Lizzy Kate Flip it Block.










The last days were a little bit like a late christmas. At first I received the wonderful Tacky BOB. Then my Accessory Pack for Heirloom Homecoming Sampler by Victoria Sampler was in the mail and than I got the Just Cross Stitch October Issue containing Jeannette Douglas's Autumn Stitches..... Yummy

Today I stitched some hours on MTM and had to undo every single stitch of it.... Cathy, we're getting every 1'st of the month a new part of the chart. This will be the last time in september this year.

Now I'm off giving MTM another try.

Worked a little bit more on MTM today. I haven't finished even one part of MTM and it would be really good to catch up with the other parts so this will be my most favored WIP to work on this month.

Selina, this design is called Medieval Town Mandala by Chatelaine, a german designer. You can find her designs on www.chatelaine.net

I've nothing to tell today:-) I'm still having a cold and that's really annoying...

I started February Flip it Block and I'm sure this will be a quick stitch. But that's good my stitching schedule for this month is very tight :-(



Oh Cathy, it's wonderful that you started the DT Game Board Sampler that will keep me on track :-)

Annemiek this dark Oehlenschlaeger fabric is great but I had another one before that wasn't so good. The vertical and horizontal hadn't the same thread amount so a square wasn't a square....

Happy New Year to Everyone!!!

I was totally hooked when I saw Carols massive big Q-Snap. I fear I will have to order one for myself too ;-))))

Though my opinion about asking Martina for sending the chart and password is the same than Carols I couldn't resist to start part 4 when receiving the password yesterday. I got it at 8pm and that is what I got done while waiting for the New Year.


Today I stitched quite a lot on the first A Prairie Christmas ornament by Prairie Schooler. I'm so excited how it will look on this dark fabric when it's finished...

















Now I'm off to work on the Lizzie Kate Flip-it Block that was officially started this afternoon.... :-)

My stitching goals for 2006

But I'm sure I missed some things :-) And there will come up more during the year as well, don't you think so?

Finish:
Drawn Thread - Gameboard Sampler
Chatelaine - Medieval Town Mandala
Indigo Rose - Catherine Agnes
Eventide - Autumn Needleroll
Permin - Sampler 1852
Acufactum - Findus der Maler

Start and Finish:
some gifts for special friends :-)
12 Lizzie Kate Flip it's with my Germand SAL-Group
12 Prairie Schooler - A Prairie Christmas Ornaments with Friends Gather BB

Start:
some ornaments
at least one needleroll
Jeannette Douglas - My Treasure Box
Drawn Thread - Summer into Autumn
Drawn Thread - An Open Heart
Drawn Thread - Souvenir Sampler
Indigo Rose - Armchair Pin Keep
Hillside Samplings - Seasonal Samplings
Little House Needleworks - Daisy Lane Cottage
Blackbird Designs - Summer House
Victoria Sampler - Heirloom Homecoming Sampler

Do you think it is too much ? ;-)

I made a little progress on Ilse's Christmas ABC:

Tomorrow starts the Prairie Schooler SAL. I'm going to stitch A Prairie Christmas

















on this 37ct Oehlenschlaeger Linen with one DMC over two.

After two days of stitching this is my MTM and it is still a LOT to do left.....


I just picked out the threads for the Prairie Schooler SAL with the Friends Gather BB. I want to stitch A Prairie Christmas. But before I could choose the linen it started getting dark so I have to wait till tomorrow.... :-( But there's a good thing with it... I will not be tempted to start it right now ;-)

The last snow melted away before christmas but last night we got snow again. I took this picture very early this morning. As you can see it's just getting light outside....
I'm stitching on MTM and will post a picture tomorrow morning.

I feel like coming down with a cold, but I applied for participating in a 15km run on New Years Eve morning....please keep your fingers crossed for me being healthy on saturday. It happened twice to me that I couldn't run because of a cold in the past years....

Unfortunately there wasn't much stitching for me today. Lisa was in such a bad mood today :-( But the good thing is, it only can become better tomorrow....

CA is really exciting but I have to spend some more hours on MTM there's a lot left to do before the 1st of january. I thought about a To Do list for 2006 as many of you made. I love to read them but I don't know if I find the time to make one myself the next days. But I promise I'll try to...

Today I ordered my copy of the Just Cross Stitch october issue. I hope it is the one containing the Autumn Stitches by Jeannette Douglas :-)

I stitched a few crosses on the gameboard sampler and now after we were out for a run I'll continue with Catherine Agnes......

Thank you so much for your kind words on HCS. I loved to read them :-)

When I got MTM out of my WIP-box I realized, that it needs 3 Gloriana Threads, 2 silks and 1 Luminescence.... but I only got 2 Threads *grrrrr* Of course I immediately checked my order and it said I ordered 3! Now I have to investigate the whereabout of the missing thread. I can't believe it that's still 1 Thread missing!!!! Anyway I started to fill the remaining crosses in part one and stitched some other on part 3.



Today we had a big lunch at my brother in law and his companion in life. My parents in law and my sister in law with her family attended as well. We had a great time and the children enjoyed to unwrap their christmas presents. :-)
Just after lunch it started to snow so driving home took us quite a long time...





From left to right:
Derek (DH), Lisa (DD), Hannelore & Ted (PIL)

I wish you all a merry Christmas filled with lots of love and a big bunch of family.
We had a wonderful cozy evening last night with Lisa's (DD) both grandparents and her grandgrandmother.
Our Christmastree is a very small one because we were frightened that Lisa could overturn it and hurt herself. We tied the tree on the table and even screwed the table on the floor. :-) It really doesn't make that much of a difference because we have a rustic wooden floor and you will not notice the holes.


On Christmas Eve's morning ( do you say so?) my still missing Gloriana Threads for MTM were in the mail!!!!!! I nearly didn't believed in receiving them ever any more...

Ahhhhh, I nearly missed to tell everybody that I finished my Heirloom Christmas Sampler on Thursday the 23rd at 11.45 pm. Just in time before Christmas :-)))))
And here it is:

Yesterday I started something new again :-)))) Do you remember my Christmas ABC-RR? There wasn't very much stitched on it when I received it back... Ilse a very nice german stitcher was one of the persons who offered to stitch a letter and motif for me. She gave me this Christmas ABC of hers to stitch on it.


I started to stitch a wonderful fireplace with three stockings hanging at it:


Annemiek, do you own a blog? I would love to take a peak at your Catherine Agnes and the other things you've done :-)

Carol, when do you plan to restart CA? Maybe we can do another SAL?