Thanksgiving dinner

We walked over to friends (1 hour walk per way) and had the most yummieh Thanksgiving dinner. It was so good I could eat that every day. We started with a very tasty pumpkin soup and then we had this:


I can't tell you how boring it is to stitch the black skirt.... I'm pretty sure it will take me a while.

So I put a very few stitches in JD's Take Time to Quilt - Spring yesterday evening.

It is the first time that I stitched the outline of something first and now just have to fill in the skirt with black. I'm a little bit afraid that you can see it later....
On my pictures the colours are so fading and it looks so shining throught. To give you an idea, I am stitching on Summer Khaki Edinburgh from Zweigart. I really don't know why it is so pale.

The weather is rainy and stormy just like a typical autumn day in Germany and it leaves me with a blue feeling....I am very happy that days like these are very rare in Manitoba. Hopefully the sun will be back tomorrow. Just in time for the Canadian Thanksgiving. We are going to have a wonderful turkey dinner with friends tomorrow at noon. :) Yummieh....

I don't have big progress on There Was an Old Woman to share as I stitched very little this week. One of the highlights was Lisa's swimming class on thursday. It is so much fun to be in the water with her. She enjoys it so much she can't stop smiling and giggling. :)


And guess what.......yes, of course, I got weak and bought this lovely "small" winter scene by HAED....my first and hopefully last weak moment. I got really scared when my printer went on printing and printing pages and pages of instructions and chart....and when I put it all together on the floor I had to laugh out loud!!!! 24 pages alone for the chart LOL. I know someone who will never ever make it through stitching all 24 pages. But hey, I can at least stitch a few stitches ;) A little bit crazy is cute.....but what the heck am I??????? LOL Verena, you were right. There are 90 colours in this design. You are one of the few people I know that are really able to stitch such an unbeleivable big project. You should give it a try one day.

I don't know if I can stop myself from purchasing this lovely Christmas Chart from Jane Wooster Scott by Heaven and Earth Designs

Nobody knows better than I do, that I will never finish something this size....but I really would love to have it and put a few stitches in it.

I must be crazy. I'm sneaking around this chart for a few weeks now.......

Is there anybody stitching one of the Jane Wooster Scott Designs?

We had friends to visit us last night for supper. A lot of chatting in laughing as always :) but no stitchingtime.

Instead I would like to show you a picture of what I got as a birthday present from my friend Manuela in Germany. She gave me the most wonderful birthday present ever!!!!! (I know my birthday was end of July but as I wasn't blogging at that time I want to show it to you today)

Isn't this the most beautiful doll quilt ever? I love it! And now she made a very similar one for herself....my baby quilt got a twin :)

Halloweeeeeeen :)

I mailed out Carol's Hello Neighbor RR right after work...just as promised yesterday :) Hopefully it doesn't take as long as usual because I put it in a smaller envelope as usual and they could send it out as a small package.

I placed a few pumpkins on that ol' ladies shoe ;)

My house on Carol's RR is finished!

My house for Carol is finished and the envelope will be mailed out to Karen tomorrow. Just one house left to be stitched and then the RR can go back home to Carol....

We spent most of the morning outside to "cleaning" the yard from fallen leaves....but we will have to spend some more hours there during the coming week. We didn't have enough bags for all the leaves...but Lisa loves all the bags so far :)

And now, that we already have a few raindrops coming down and the wind blowing around the house I will put some stitches in my Prairie Moon WIP There was an old woman....while waiting for my traditional German Gulaschsuppe that is cooking on the oven with very unusual (for Germany) Bison meat cubes... yummmieeeh

Just a few stitches left...

A few more stitches to put in Carol's RR...I hope to finish it tonight while watching "The brave one" with Jodie Foster. It is on my must see list for a few months now but we are not the most avid movie watchers since we don't even have a TV. We are watching all our movies on DH's laptop ;)

We enjoy the last warm days of the year. At night the temperature goes already down to 0-2 degrees Celsius and during the days we make it up to 15-20 C. And with the sun shining so bright it is just gorgeous.

A lot of you asked for more information about the red sampler: Bonjour


....strange....this picture seems to be slightly different to my chart. I think I have an apple instead of an elephant on my chart and some other things are different, too.
Anyways it is a wonderful design. :)


A lady from Belgium designed it Mariska. You will find it on her site if you click on catalogue and then on abecedaires.

Now I'm off to work....see you later and have a good day :)

Here's an update on Carol's RR as of yesterday late afternoon. I didn't do a lot of stitching in the evening because I felt reallz bad. I'm having a cold since monday but it got worse yesterday evening. When I woke up this morning I had a fever so I called my boss and took a sickday. I slept a lot but I also stitched a little bit.


And this is my start on There was an old woman by Prairie Moon. I had an eye on this design for a long time and when it was on sale at needlecraft-corner a few weeks ago I finally ordered it :)

I've just stitched the borders of Take time to Quilt - Spring by Jeannette Douglas. So the fun part starts now....

Gift of Stitching october issue

Wow!!!! Did you already download the october issue of The Gift of Stitching? If not hurry .... it is just fabulous! My very favorite issue so far. Everybody knows that I love Victoria Samplers and the cute sacket from Mingiustitch is adorable. The colours are beautiful....

October Goals

I think I should try to make a goal list and stick to it again.... I would like to see if that will help me to accomplish some more stitching.

October Goals
1. finish Carols Hello Neighbor RR within the next few days and mail it off to Karen
2. find a nice house and start stitching on Karens Hello Neighbor RR as soon as I receive it
3. finish There Was An Old Woman by Prairie Moon
4. put some stitches into Take Time To Quilt - Spring by Jeannette Douglas
5. put some stitches into an older WIP
6. maybe start something new ;)

do I need more stitching goals???? I don't think so

Reading
7. finish Dead over Heels - 5th of Aurora Teagarden mysteries by Charlaine Harris
8. order and finish or at least start A Fool and his Honey - 6th of Aurora Teagarden mysteries by Charlaine Harris

I made an update pic of Carol's RR but I need my husband to help me getting it off the camera....

Carol's Hello Neighbor RR

DH finally bought a new camera since we had so many problems with the old one after his tobogganing accident last winter. My first try with the camera I was a pic of Carol's Hello Neighbor RR on friday right after work.

But I spent quite a few hours stitching so it has grown since then. I'm going to post a new pic soon. :)

I had the idea to pull an old WIP/UFO out of the drawer and put a few stitches in it. It's such a lovely Sampler and doesn't deserve to lie neglected like that. That's what it looked like before I started:

And here it is after a few hours of stitching....not too much of a progress but at least a bit. I hope to get a few more hours of stitching onto it this month:

We had a wonderful warm and sunny Canada Day yesterday. The temperature was about 30 degrees Celsius and there was no cloud in the sky.
Today it looks as it will be as nice as yesterday but the forecast says it will only be 21 C. I'm pretty sure they are wrong :) ....we will see.

I put some stitches in Heirloom Homecoming during the last weeks and like it so much. The colours on the picture are very poor. Hopefully I can take a better picture the next time.

I'm off to work now. See you soon......

I stitched House on Booberry Lane by Brightneedle on Marie's RR. I was a bit disappointed because the colours turned out so much lighter than on the cover of the pattern. But I hope it will fit good into the RR. It was finished on June 11 and I had a lot of fun stitching this design.

Winter Holiday finished!

I finished Winter Holiday about April 27. I enjoyed stitching this colourful snowman so much. It was a real pleasure. But I still have to decide if I will frame it or finish it as a flatfold.....There's a lot of time to think about that till the next snow ;)

Winter Holiday

by Birds of a Feather

started: February 14, 2008

finished: April 27, 2008

I finished Leslie's RR on May 19 and mailed it out to Karen in Australia. I stitched Prairie Schoolers Rain, Rain go away......just without rain :) Here's a picture:

and one of the whole RR:

I really like how it turned out.

I'm done! :-)
Yesterday was my last day of work with Stream'n'Wood. It was a very intersting time and I had a lot of fun working with the gals. It's such a nice bunch of people working there.
Now I'm having a long, long weekend before I start my new work.
We are going to spend friday and saturday in Minot, ND, USA. It will be our 2nd trip to the States. I'm so looking forward to it....
It looks like the winter's coming back....after a wonderful warm weekend with 22 Celsius the temperature is down to -3 Celsius and it is snowing ... brrrrr ...stitching weather :-)))
See you later.

A little update on Winter Holiday. Now that the winter seems to be nearly over in Manitoba I should hurry up to finish this cute little snowman :-)

I stitched a bit more on Leslie's Hello Neighbor RR. Hopefully there will be a lot of stitching time this week as I'm just for monday and wednesday afternoon scheduled to work.

And next week I'm starting on a new job!!!! I'm so excited! That one will be a fulltime job....more money but less time for stitching :) I will see how it works out......

Hopefully I will get rid of the cold I have for 3 weeks now before starting the new job. I don't want to start it sneezing and having a sticky nose...

RR's

I also finished my little stitching on Glenna's RR. The original french design was in completely different colours but I tried to find some that looked nice with the other ones beeing already on the RR.


This was the RR when I sent it to Karen in Australia:

On monday 24th of april I got Leslie's RR in the mail and started stitching immediately. I want to send the RR prior to the mailing date which is june 1st.

And here ist what I stitched so far. I'm sorry that it is a little bit blurry:

I'm back again. :-) Life was quite a bit busy during the last weeks....
There wasn't a lot time for stitching. But I finished the Heart Treat Bag by Shepherds Bush and sent it to my friend Manuela.
And she had the wonderful idea of letting her friends each stitch a heart for her Carriage House Samplings Friendship Sampler.

Thank you very much for all your nice comments on Prairie Sampler. I loved reading every single comment....just as always :) comments are so much appreciated.

I was a bit restless last week and couldn't settle on a project...so I started several new !?!?! and put a few stitches in an older project Toccata 2. Here's a pic of it how took it out my WIP-box


and one how it looked when I put it back in there ;)


On friday I got mail from Jennifer my favorite online store. She's so wonderful nice and friendly and her service is phenomenal. I ordered from her when I lived in Germany and I still do it. ;)

She sent me some 32ct grean teal linen fabric (the darker one) and these WDW fibres:

and so I started a new project immediately..... That's how it looks now. But I definetly want to finish this one soon. The colors on this pictures don't do it justice. It is so much brighter in real life....

Last Monday it was Louis Riel day and we had a day off. We went out for a walk and a little bit tobogganing. It was really cold again. The temperatures are going up and down like mad....

It's finished :-)

I really wanted to finish it yesterday evening but at 1 am I was so tired.....So I stitched the last leaves of the tree while having my saturday morning cup of coffee in bed :)

Prairie Sampler
Little House Needleworks
40ct Sandstone Linen
with yummieh Crescent Colours Belle Soie Silk
started 2008-01-14
finished 2008-02-09

Nothing to show you. Coz' as I wrote yesterday Lisa and I went swimming in the evening and guess who was dead beat after that.......me (and Lisa) LOL
I was so tired I didn't stitch at all I went straight to bed :)

....but tonight I'm stitching up a storm LOL

....and again I put a few more stitches in the Prairie Sampler.

Derek and Lisa picked me up after work and than we went to get some passport pictures. Why do passport pics always have to look so awful? Is it to make the guys laugh you have to show them to???? They make me always look like a criminal... :) Don't worry, I'm not going to show mine... LOL

A little progress on Prairie Sampler but I have to hurry if I want to be finished with this one before starting something new at the weekend. It's not that I don't like stitching on this one any more (the design is a big fun and stitching with the Belle Soie Silk is great) but I LOVE to start new things and at least I want to finish this one (even better if I get the Lovebird finished by then...) before another newstart.....

I decided which colors to use for Glenna's Hello Neighbor RR and started with a tree. I plan to finish this RR in february and send it immediately to Karen in Australia assuming that is OK for her. I was so often late in the past....and never want to be late again. Not to much to see right now....the big white space is some fabric shining through :)


I have to hurry with Prairie Sampler and the little Lovebird....I've a NEWSTART in my mind.........

I decided to put some stitches in AAFG in the evening. Maybe I can finish it this year ... or is that a little bit to optimistic for me? ;-) We'll see.....
I enjoyed stitching on it very much so I will hopefully get back to it very soon.

While we are having a light snowfall the whole day long, I spent a lot of time on stitching my Prairie Sampler. It is so cozy to sit at the window in the livingroom while the snow is falling down.
Lisa is busy with her legos and drawing pictures and DH is looking for a motorbike on the internet ... I love these lazy sundays :)

I was a bit lazy with my stitching during the last days.... I started to unpack my craftboxes and gave my sewing machine a try. But that's not a lot of fun unless I haven't found all the necessary things like the rulers and the cutter and lots of other things you need. So I've just a very small progress on Midsummer Night Designs freebie to show: