Bargello Tree

Phew!  All that bargello stitching.  I thought I'd never get done.  I finished up the stitching just in time for our EGA meeting where we will be doing the finishing!  Hooray!

Bargello Stitching for Christmas Tree

Bargello Stitching - Detail

Summer of Stitching

Despite the lack of posting, I have been having a busy summer.
I have done a bit of huck weaving. I made tissue pack covers for the guild's boutique sale at our upcoming needlework show. I also made a couple of huck towels for my sister. I signed up for the region meeting this fall, and have started the pre-work for a hardanger bookmark. A few more rows to my bargello tree.  Last night at EGA, we made cording and tassels for finishing projects.  I made mine from gold DMC to use on the ornaments I am making as part of my pay-it-forward project.

Huck Weaving Towels for Nikki

Huck towel detail

Huck Towel Detail

Tissue Pack Covers - Huck weaving

Tassel and cord made at EGA meeting

Turkey Family 7/2011

Here's a photo album with pictures of a turkey hen and her 6 chicks that spend a few days hanging around our house.

Turkey Family 7/2011

Stitching Funk

Since I finished the fun and beautiful bookmark, I have been in a little bit of a funk.  I can't seem to get my enthusiasm up to stitch much.  It might be the summer weather, but I think it was the bookmark.  I need to find something to get me going again.  Maybe I'll start thinking about those huck towels I got up in Fargo.

My hummingbirds are back, and we have a fence up around the garden!  

Hummingbird, female

Two turkeys in the yard

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there's the male hummer, and two female turkeys

Peacocks and bookmarks

Just got back from a lovely weekend in the great north.  As always, it included a trip to Nordic Needle.  In fact, I am sipping my tea from my new NN mug right now.  I got a bunch of fabric, and supplied to make my sister some huck dish towels for her new and improved kitchen.  And, a nice laying tool so I can uncramp my hands when working on my bargello tree (I am currently using a large needle).

I worked on my bookmark while I was up there.  Here's the progress before we got in the car to go home:

Elegant Bookmark - almost done

I finished it last night and it's so very very cool!

Elegant Bookmark, EGA Needleworks Magazine, March 2011

Elegant Bookmark, EGA Needleworks Magazine, March 2011

We took the kids to the Red River Zoo and my 2YO son, who is obsessed with peacocks got to see them for the first time.  He was in heaven!

Peacock, Red River Zoo, Fargo, ND  6/4/2011