You Make Me Smile

I received this award from Jaimie AND Suzanne. Nice of both of you to mention me in your posts. Thank you very much! Your blogs make me smile, too.

The rules are you have to pass it on to ten people that make you smile.

There are many many blogs that I enjoy visiting. Bloggers make me smile every morning while I am browsing all their posts & drooling over their projects -- hard to narrow down a list into just ten (I think I listed eleven -- could have listed 11 more!) ... I agree with Suzanne that it is an excellent way to showcase blogs, I have tried not to duplicate the blogs they listed & perhaps there is one or two that you have not visited in the past.

Anna, Stitch Bitch
Barbara, Mainely Stitching
Cathy, With Needle and Thread
Chelle, Totally Toadlily
Gina E, Patra's Place
Jenna, Tale of a Shooting Star
Judy, Crazee4Books (and her stitching is lovely, too)
Monique, Inside No.20
SharonB, In a Minute Ago
Von, On the Dry Side
Vonna,The Twisted Stitcher

Now I know my A-B-C's ...

Letters, so far.

I've been adding more letters to the Child's Early ABC Sampler ... I have a few more to stitch [maybe tomorrow]. Eventually, this will be finished into a pocket for stitching stuff ... I am determined to finish this up before Thanksgiving.

Sew With Kindness

Sew With Kindnessc.1997 Mary Garry's Sewing Cabin
50 x 76 stitches. Sampler Threads: Blueberry; Brandy; Cinnamon; Cherry Bark; Evergreen; Midnight; Mulberry; Maple Syrup. DMC: 632; 950; 3064. Zweigart Dublin - 25 count raw linen.

Nick's Progress

Looks great so far : )

more links

Stitching pictures later tonight or tomorrow a.m.; meanwhile, thank you for your kind comments & e-mails .... a few more links you might find interesting.

DAS DEUTSCHE STICKMUSTER-MUSEUM CELLE Very nice pictures

Article re. Museum Celle

Operation "I Embroider & You?" Trust me, check it out : )

Westmoreland Museum pictures of PA Samplers

The Embroiderers' Story Blog: "Over the next year, we will be recreating a 17th-century embroidered jacket. The Embroiderers' Story will chronicle its progress"

The Needle's Excellency by John Taylor -- Godfrey's Bookshelf has many on-line books from the 15-19th century.

Maryland Sampling 1738-1860, samplers

Interesing links ...

After reading Monique's post about Designer Blogs and enjoying browsing all her links, I decided to share a few on-line places I found interesting:

Burrell Collection Seventeenth Century Samplers

Charleston Museum - repro sampler kit

Online Digital Archive which includes excellent sampler books

V&A Museum blog

American Needlework at the Met

Tennessee Sampler Survey

repro kits

Berlin Embroidery Designs

CQ Mag Online

Samplers of the Pennsylvania Germans book I want to get my hands on some day !!!!

Stitching & Reading

Good Morning : ) I'm still coughing; however, feel much better. I stitched on this freebie until about 1:30 in the morning. That was fun. I have more to stitch -- couple more things in the skirt, the crown, star on the tree & more wording!!!

The alarm clock was NOT FUN ...

Anybody notice Oprah's new book selection??? This one was on my 'to read' list. And, it is on my bookshelf.


Spark Notes.

Movie site.

Book Info here.

Anybody planning to read along?

Progress by Nicholas

This is quite beautiful -- the photo doesn't do the pattern justice