My new website and New Chart!

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I know I have been quiet on this blog lately-I apologize!! I have had life going 90 miles an hour lately!
I was in Washington DC when I got the sad news that my father-in-law passed away, that was a week ago last Friday. So we had the whole unpleasant task of funeral arrangements which fell heavily, but not solely, to my husband. We had a beautiful service on Monday.
At the same time I have been trying to meet some deadlines, get some model stitching done, and finally get my website completed and open for business! Yay! I am so happy to have a home on the web again! Please come take a look and see what you think! There are even some patterns on sale, and within the next week a new cross stitch chart!

Here is my new chart!(click on pic for a great close-up!)
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1808 Pinkeep Trio
Cross stitch and satin stitch on 40Ct. Light Examplar from Lakeside Linens
DMC floss

Scattergories

If you play leave a link in the comments so I can go and look at your answers!

Rules: IT'S HARDER THAN IT LOOKS! USE THE 1ST LETTER OF YOUR NAME TO ANSWER EACH OF THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS. THEY HAVE TO BE REAL PLACES, NAMES, OR THINGS--NOTHING MADE UP! TRY TO USE DIFFERENT ANSWERS IF THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU HAD THE SAME 1ST INITIAL. YOU CAN'T USE YOUR NAME FOR THE BOY/GIRL NAME QUESTION.

Have Fun!!

1. What is your name: Annie
2. A 4 Letter Word: Able
3. A Boys Name: Andy
4. A Girls Name: Amy
5. An Occupation: Artist
6. A Color: Auburn
7. Something you wear: Anklet
8. A Beverage: Apple juice
9. A Food: Apricot
10. Something found in the bathroom:
11. A place: Air Freshener
12. A Reason for being late: Absent minded
13. Something you shout: Aaaagh!!

Tagged

I have been tagged by the very talented doll artist, Jenny, of Wonders of Whimsy. Thank you Jenny!
I am to list 5 things that keep my mind healthy and my life balanced. Well, I hate to really do that because people usually get so offended by religion, especially orthodox religion. But my faith is the thing that keeps me balanced. I won't go into my daily norms of the faith, I will just say that I make a sincere effort to keep God at the center of my life throughout the day. It is not easy, and very often I fail, but I get up and try again every single day!
I am not going to tag anyone, if you would like to play along please just send me a reply and I would love to go and read your answer. Happy day everyone!!~Annie
Here is my progress on Sharon Cohen's "Her Majesty's Glove":

My new focus piece

Now that I have finished The Marriage of Minds, I am focusing on 2 pieces. Toccata 1, which I started over the weekend, and The Golden Age Sampler.I have been a little stumped on the GAS because I have to do detached buttonhole stitch, and it is tricky. I got some good advice at my sampler guild on Sunday. A lady there suggested I look up the stitch in several different sources, because when you read how to do it from different explanations, sometimes it suddenly becomes clear. So I did that. I looked it up in 2 different books, and 2 online sources.There is a wonderful tutorial on Jeanne's blog here, and another one from Sharon B. here. So I plunged forward and got quite a bit done. I found that my biggest problem was being able to see. So I will be doing the rest of this by daylight, and with the highest magnification I have, which I think is 4.0. I wish I could find reading glasses with a higher magnification. I don't like to use those mag-eyes, but I may have to break down and get some.

So here is my progress on Toccata 1. I planned to do 2 motifs a night, thinking I could finish this in a month. But surprise surprize!! I finished 5 the first night and 6 1/2 the next!!So hopefully I will continue to zip through this piece. It is really great fun, I am enjoying it very much!



And here is Golden Age from Sharon Cohen:

And as for my bread and butter work, this is a crazy quilt heart pillow which will be up for sale at ebay very soon! LOVE these surface stitches!!

TAST week 2

Buttonhole stitch. Check out this gorgeous hand dyed perle #5 from Stef Francis-it is delectable!!! There are so many scrumptious threads here at Joggles, do check it out.

Whoopie!! Happy dance with me!!

I'm finished!!!




The Marriage Of Minds
Drawn Thread
125 wide by 415 long
32ct Natural Linen Silk by Wichelt
Needlepoint Inc. silk and Gloriana

Take a Stitch Tuesday

Here is my progress after week 1 of the TAST challenge. This is a challenge from a few years ago, so I am just doing this on my own. I hope to end up with a sampler(or several) of many different stitches to refer to when I design. Week 1 was herringbone stitch, and all of these rows are variations on that one stitch. I used Watercolors, Desert Sunset on 32 count Belfast linen.