A New Beginning…

In a few days, I will be closing Olive Hope Design. I’m saddened by that, but also excited about what the future holds. This will likely be my last post here, but I’m not leaving the blogging world just yet. I’ve started a new blog here, which will be in some ways much like this [...]

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Feeling Scatterbrained

The past 2 weeks I’ve felt like I’ve been trying to do a number of things, but not really finishing much of anything. Last week my son got sick with some stomach virus (the first one for him!). He was only really sick for 1/2 a day and then his energy was mostly back. I [...]

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Needlework Show and Stitching Progress

The Needlework Show opens in one week! I finally finished everything up yesterday, and aside from getting a few last minute things ready, I’m all set. I have 2 new designs (just put the last stitches into the last model yesterday morning) ready for this show, for a total of 6 new designs since the October show. Now, to [...]

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Stitching Progress

My progress on the Ellen Maurer-Stroh Rose Sampler; not as far as some of the other stitchers taking part in this SAL, but I’m on track to finish it by the end of the year (which is the group’s goal). Surprisingly, I’m really enjoying this monochrome stitching; I though I would find it boring.
I’m not [...]

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A Post a Day…

…until the end of March. At least I am going to try a post a day Monday though Friday until the end of March. If I can get a post or two in on the weekend, I will, but it will be quite an accomplishment just doing Monday through Friday.
I hope you won’t find this [...]

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Coming out of hibernation…

Well, what was supposed to be a 2 week break from blogging, turned into nearly 2 months. I didn’t plan it; it just seems that for the past 2 months, blogging never made it to the top of my to-do list, until now. I’m happy to report some progress on the design front: 3 new [...]

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A New Start, and Some New Stash

I started a new ornament over the weekend:
This arrived in the mail the other day:
I had hoped to make the nativity that was part of a series in the Cross Stitch & Country Crafts, but once I’d found all the issues, I discovered that all but the Mary and Joseph patterns were in the issues. [...]

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Published in The Gift of Stitching

I have an ornament published in the lastest issue of The Gift of Stitching magazine! The whole issue looks great, and it reminded me that I need to go through those issues as well to add to my ornament list!
Apparently I was in such a time crunch to ge the ornament off to the publisher, [...]

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Christmas Ornaments!

My goal is to someday have a tree on which I hang only handmade ornaments. I’ve been really slow so far to stitch ornaments (I keep getting side-tracked with something else), and the ones I have stitched in recent have all been given away as gifts. I’m hoping that if I commit to stitching ornaments [...]

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New Finish, and Door Prize Winners

 
This was a quick stitch, which was just what I needed. I actually feel ready to get back to stitching some on Fish City, which I think I might do tonight. I’ve got to tidy up my stitching bag first; it gets so cluttered that it often is fuller than it needs to be.
Door prize [...]

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