Gentle Friends, just a quick post to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas!!
Gentle Friends - I finished up my Christmas stitch last night and here's a snaperoo...
Gentle Friends, we headed out into the cold last night for a little culture... the ballet to be precise. I missed it last as I was in ICU recovering from surgery and we gave away our tickets... but a year has passed, I'm quite a bit better and so off we went... to see the Nutcracker...here's a little taste of what we saw. This is from the ad that the Ballet runs on our local stations...
Gentle Friends, winter is truly upon us, here's some Vivaldi to welcome in the season...
Gentle Friends, this mid-week post is all about changing up charts and making them your own. I more often than not change floss and usually always change out the linen... I have also changed up whole charts or large sections to suit me and my stitching.
A while back... like a few years... I stitched up a lovely sampler that had been commissioned by the Knoxville, Tennessee Chapter of the EGA. It was in honor of the "Ramsey House" or as the property has been called for a couple of hundred years "Swan Pond." I saw the chart on another Blog and fell in love with the border, house, and very sentimental verse.
I changed quite a bit about this chart. I expanded the alphabet to complete all the letters. I also did away with the central medallion that had far more info about its original owner. Now, what prompted this post in the first place and my digging around in my completed pile of stitching to look at the sampler once again was a lovely email from another stitcher. She lives in Tennessee and had seen my version of the sampler and ran with it making it her own... here's a snap...
Gentle Friends, well, I got antsy about the border meeting up and so I went ahead and got the "vine" connected...here's a snaparoo...
Gentle Friends, not much stitching during this busy time of year, but here's a snap of FD...
Gentle Friends, still plugging away on FN... here's a snap...
Gentle Friends, our Christmas season has really gotten going now... we headed out last night to our first party of the Season... an annual event we've been attending for the last few decades... here's my annual shot of this year's magnificent tree in the front parlor...
