Posted in Books, Design Endeavors, cross stitch designs, tagged basket, biscornu, Books, cross stitch designs, lulu, nantucket, needlework, self-publishing on October 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Without further ado, I am pleased to announce the release of the new book “Busy Bees Needlework Accessories” by Medeiros Needlecraft Design. This is a 32 page spiral-bound book of five original cross stitch designs to include a biscornu, needlebook, scissor fob, stitch band for a Nantucket basket and a Nantucket pincushion basket. The book includes full-color [...]
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I have been busy stitching a “Welcome Home Sampler” for one of the two Habitat houses to be built in my hometown this Fall. I took a ride over to see it and discovered the walls have been raised already and good progress is being made by the work crews. My initial thought was that I [...]
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Over the weekend, I went to a White Elephant sale at a community group. What fun poking around. In amongst everything, I found an old wire bird cage and had a crazy moment… and bought it. My daughters and I headed to the local pet shop and spent some time looking at birds. No parakeets, please, too [...]
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I don’t know why, but I am always amazed at my personal reaction to completing a project. I have an initial “whew” it’s finished and then it flows into a need to get going on another one. Almost a sense of loss that the project is over, all the challenges that I set for myself [...]
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I had the most wonderful visit yesterday with the Cape Cod Chapter of the EGA, a local guild group in my area. They are working on a correspondence course on making a crazy quilt. What wonderful color combinations I saw. I love crazy quilts as they are just so imaginative and amazing to look at. Best [...]
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The girls and I spent the weekend outside as much as possible. The weather was just wonderful. Saturday we took a trip to find our pumpkins and found three very nice ones. I put some time in raking up some leaves. Sunday was our big day for carving. I worked on another area of leaves [...]
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Overall it has been a nice week, though I’ve been sidelined a bit with a cold and didn’t feel like posting. I made some very good progress on my Busy Bees needlework project. As promised, here is a picture of one of the projects - the needlebook- an inside view. This and the biscornu are my favorites of [...]
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It’s a curious thing that work does not seem so much like work when you love what you do. It has been five years already since this needlecraft journey began for me. My, time flies. It has been a wonderful learning adventure all along for me in so many ways. My very first cross stitch design [...]
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Posted in Design Process, Nantucket basket, cross stitch designs, needlework, tagged , apple pie, busy bees, cross stitch designs, honeybees, Nantucket baskets, needlework, strawberries on October 2, 2007 | No Comments »
Done! I completed all the cross stitching and assembled the needlebook today. In addition to the needlebook, the set includes a biscornu, scissor tag, small Nantucket basket pincushion and stitch band for a Nantucket basket. I am pleased at how the “Busy Bee Needlework Accessories” turned out as a set.
My next task is to take my [...]
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