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The Victoria Sampler – Gingerbread Stitching House Collection Very cool looking, but just might take a whole year to make!

After coming back from a metrostitcher meeting in NYC, I actually had a bug for stitching for a while. I worked on my Halloween piece for a bit but it was still hard on the eyes. Went for another kit and this is as far as I got before school started. Lizzie*Kate K29 2007 Special [...]

Just in time for Thanksgiving. (Only a little over a month away!) Z25 kit Gertie Gobble by Bent Creek.

Looks like I was definitely slack this year compared to the last. However, I have to say that having spent most of the summer on Mystery Stole 3 and most of the year on a unfinished cable intensive sweater, I’m not surprised that the numbers are so low. But here they are anyway and I [...]

For the first time in a year, a stop at my French Magazine store in Yorkville yield a Cross-Stitch magazine. The dearth of them was the reason I started subscribing in the first place. Any hoo, the issue was okay and didn’t really capture my attention from the covers, good thing I browsed in the [...]

It feels like I’ve been playing catch up for weeks. It’s seemingly never ending. This weekend, another one full of catch up activities before a work bonus trip next weekend. (Yay!!) I’ve been knitting, as well as stitching! But haven’t been feeling up to any photography or updating the sidebar of projects. Next on my [...]

I’ve been snowed under with work for the last 15 days. So, while I got this issue maybe last week or the week before, I’ve only gotten to showing it to you now. Another good issue with some really solid designs. Some I’m showing you here, and some, I’m not, since I might make them [...]

I know I’ve been rather remiss in my cross-stitch lately. For some reason I’m in a bout of not being really into doing it lately. However, it’s not as if I’m not still stash collecting and enjoying cross-stitch. I’ve recently subscribed to De fil en aiguille. I’ve been rather afraid to subscribe to French Magazines [...]

There’s a certain kind of stuck that if you had friends around, you’d be out in two seconds, but when you are alone, You stay stuck. Then there’s the kind of stuck that if you don’t have friends around, you’ll get out of, but those around you tends to pull you down. My cross-stitch is [...]

The Profit Calculator — New York Magazine [via] Great little feature about how different types of business makes money. I found it a little strange how they profiled many Upper East businesses. But maybe the feature writer is from the neighbourhood. Also captured my attention for a profile of my old employer, Goldman Sachs. As [...]

This piece will take a LONG time to do. Here’s the latest: Peace Out. Enjoy the long weekend. I’m hoping to be doing some stitching and swatching.

This is my most recent Stash of patterns that arrived on my birthday. The details:

I’ve been slowly getting the urge to do some stitching the past few weeks. After the last big project finish, I never did manage to start a new big project, just small or medium size ones. On a whim yesterday I decided to zig-zag a bunch of kit fabrics so that I could work on [...]

Some very beautiful pieces. I’m not a reader of Piecework Magazine so I was not aware of this contest. It looks like a great way to promote needlework. I also like the idea that the nominations are by shops (I’m assuming their Local Needlework Shop -LNS). I think I like the idea that there are [...]

Start Date: January 30, 2007 Finish Date: March 21, 2007 Design: Picoti Picota: R .. comme Rose (blanche version) Comments: A total joy to stitch. I was a little concerned about having enough floss to finish kit, but there was just enough. Probably more than enough if you didn’t have to rip out like I [...]

There are precious few occasions when I’ve had to pull all-nighters. During university, I think there was two or three times when I had to stay up late to finish a project. Once for a civil engineering course bridge. (Boy that was challenging.) Once for design lab (we built a voice recognition controller). Once for [...]

Here’s the most recent progress on the cross-stitch piece I’ve been working on. It’s really moving along. It’s so close to completion that I can taste it. Flour poses here nicely sitting but it took a while to stop her from tasting the cross stitch herself. It’s a good thing I’ll wash this one before [...]

For the last two years, I’ve had the honour of being asked to Nashville in early February for a weekend to attend the Nashville Needlework Market. I fly in for the weekend and help out my friends with their exhibitions and get to have an early look at what’s coming to the stores.

It’s a Metrostitchers tradition to start a new project each New Year. I’ve been so re-missed to start on my new year start. But no more. I also wanted something French to work on during the holidays when my friend Theresa went to Paris for her holidays. I managed to work through the holiday season. [...]