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Did a few more pages. I will be taking a break to work on Christmas gifts, so the next update won’t be until late winter, most likely. Hope you like it!

Over the weekend, I met my nephew's new wife, a London native who is trying to adjust to Chicago and the US. While chatting, she said she was wanting to cross stitch for the first time. So, I found her two starter kits at 123stitch.com: http://www.123stitch.com/item/Dimensions-Welcome-Butterfly-Lear...

Ha! Yeah, it does get a bit much. It is really a pain when I am almost done with the page and realize that I had missed a stitch or two of a particular color when I was working with it a few days earlier. So, I have to pull the bobbin back out of the floss bin, hope I already have a strand started, ...

Sorry for missing last month! I just finished off my second page on Row 2.

Just finished the first row!!! Now to start Row 2...

I finally got a photo hosting site that works!! Has anyone else been having TinyPic issues recently? I can't get it to work on my laptop, tablet, or phone. Grrrrr. Anyway, thank goodness for ThumbSnap. Here is my most recent update, from earlier this week, if a bit wrinkly. Only one and a bit more p...

My sister and BIL had the map framed--here it is!



This will be my last update on this project. I had loads of fun doing it, and love working with the Scarlet Quince patterns.

Oh, that's so pretty!

I did Nina's White Winter Santa for my mom years ago. I love her holiday pieces!

Just finished Page Two!! Moving right along on it, but I am debating if I will bring it with me when I fly out to the East Coast on April 1 to help my mom move to Florida. Lots of nights in hotel rooms on the drive down then a few days at my brother's near Tampa means I should have some free hours f...

Just finished page one! Lots of confetti, of course--it is a Scarlet Quince pattern!



Edited to add: Glad I posted that pic and looked it over! Turns out I missed a stitch! Took a bit to figure out which color, but it's taken care of now.

I know what you mean about having to choose! Having five different SQ designs, I knew that this is my favorite of the bunch, but I debated if I should do a smaller one that would take less time. But, as I get older and see family members become debilitated and have to give up lifelong hobbies (my da...

Since I like the big projects, my favorite chart site is Scarlet Quince. However, for a good selection of all different types of charts, I really recommend Mary Jane's Cross 'n Stitch: http://www.maryjanes.com/" target="_blank It used to be headquartered in my hometown back in the 1980s, a...

Thanks for all the responses! I love interlace and Celtic design. I actually submitted a carpet page from the Book of Kells to SQ as a potential future design for them to do, and it is all about intricate interlace and tons of stuff happening on every square inch. I have always seen Art Nouveau as a...

According to the pattern book, it'll end up 22 inches wide by 30 inches tall, on the 18-count aida that I'm using.

Here's where I'm at now:



It's just the outer edges of the neutral color border, but it's a start!

Since I have finished off the Scarlet Quince map, I am moving onto my next SQ project (I have four others in my to-be-done bin, so I'm set for the next decade!!). It's the Garden of Delight, by John Henry Dearle, designed for the William Morris studio in England in 1910. http://i66.tinypic.com/2vhtd...

Welcome, Michelle! I love your Suck It piece! A great example of Subversive Stitching. And another young "granny" here! I am 50 years old now, and when I took several pieces in to a local frame shop a few years ago, the elderly man who owned the place was surprised that I had done them. He...

Well, I finished this back in October, but I had forgotten to take a photo of the completed project before sending it to my sister and BIL for their Christmas gift. She just sent me a pic this morning, so I can finish off this thread (except for the framed version) with this pic: http://i68.tinypic....

My mom was thinking about me while on her Alaskan cruise/tour and she popped into a stitching/knitting store and found a puffin x-stitch pattern for me!! (Wendy Wombat, I was thinking of you when I saw it! Especially since your sig line is Mom's motto, too.) http://i64.tinypic.com/xp797t.jpg Can't w...

Thanks for the kind words, everyone!! My mom is coming to town for a few days (before meeting up with an old friend and flying north for an Alaskan cruise--nice!). I can't wait to show her the progress on this. She hasn't seen it since last September, so it'll be a big change. Also, we're having a g...

Missed the update at the end of June--sorry about that! It's not going as fast as I'd like, but I am almost halfway through the third page on the final row, so I might be on track to finish in October instead of September. Oh, well! Here it is so far (sorry about the poor lighting--I'll get a decent...