Announcement!

I am sad to announce that I will be closing Olive Hope Design on June 30, 2009. If there are any designs you want, you will need to place your order by June 30, 2009.
 
 I want to thank everyone for their support. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if there is anything I can help [...]

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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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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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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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Needlework Show and New Design

The Needlework Show started yesterday afternoon. I once again have a page set up, and am offering doorprizes. I also have a new design:

I hope you enjoy the show!

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Progress on “By the Sea”

I’ve been making lots of progress on this one since the last time I posted a picture. I’d left it for a while since I was madly working on my model, and then also knitting and crocheting. However, I’ve felt a push to get this done now, as I don’t want to start anything new [...]

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Afghan Progress

Well, I’ve gotten a few more rows done since I posted about this afghan last. Notice that pile of yarn? Well, 2 nights ago I was working on it, and I came to the end of the row I’m about to start next time, and I realized that somewhere I missed a stitch. I ended [...]

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Design Contest Update

Thank you to everyone that voted on your fabric and thread combination perference. I think I’ve allowed enough time for everyone to vote that wanted to, so it’s time to post the results! When I first started tracking the votes, it seemed pretty close, but in the end there was a clear winner:
Lambswool with DMC [...]

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A New Start, and a Contest

I decided that the perfect pick-me-up for the gloomy, rainy day that we’re having today, is to start a pretty spring design. With the colors and fabric picked, I’m all set to start stitching 2 designs from the Spring Bulbs issue of Linen Scenes. It’s all DMC floss, and I’ll be stitching on 28 ct [...]

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