Open Window sort of a day ....

Honey sees the camera.

Nikki licking Honey's face.

Nikki curls up on the throw rug + Honey stretches out in the track of the door.

Tulip Slip

Tulip Slip
Copyright Tricia Wilson Nguyen for Thistle Threads, 2010
Stitched by Kris Andrews

To raise $5000 (to complete budget) for a new
(per blog) .... exhibition being planned/worked on at Winterthur is With Cunning Needle: Four Centuries of Embroidery.
(It will run from September 3, 2011 – January 8, 2012. )


Tricia Wilson Nguyen, Thistle Threads has a Tulip Slip kit for sale. $10.00 of each kit is being donated to Winterthur.

Per blog: The reproduction Needlework Nibble is worked on 34 count linen with Soie d’Alger thread. The stitching kit is $18 with $10 of the kit price being donated to Winterthur in support of the exhibition budget.

What a beautiful design --- for more information
check out
tent stitch: Tulip Slip
and details for kit purchase

Per blog: The Tulip Slip is based off of a real 17th century slip in private collection.

Land of the Free

Today is my youngest son's birthday. After a salad (and dessert) at Panera,
both of my sons and I went to Barnes and Noble.

I found this issue of Cross-Stitch & Needlework magazine & thought the BBD was nice:

If you are interested, this is the front cover:

Cross-Stitch + Needlework magazine

July 2011

Maggie Sefton - Knitting Mystery Series .... continues

Unraveled by Maggie Sefton

Available June 7, 2011

Anybody planning to go?

Bead and Button Show
June 4-12

Frontier Airline Center
400 W. Wisconsin Avenue
(Downtown Milwaukee)
Milwaukee, WI

I've never gone ...
tho, know a few ppl who have.

Maybe this year I'll be able to go!

Stories in Cloth

May 21 – July 31, 2011


Loyola University Museum of Art
820 North Michigan Avenue
Chicago, IL 60611
312.915.7600


Hours

Monday: closed
Tuesday: 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. (free admission)
Wednesday – Sunday: 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Closed on Mondays and the following holidays: New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Day, Good Friday, Easter Sunday, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day

Happy Mother's Day

Flowers from the Boyz

May Day

I managed a few letters in the sampler. I think my left hand is healed and I should be able to get moving along on some projects.

To see what this should look like: link to photo here.

I am still baffled that needlework caused so much pain in my hand, while tatting didn't bother me at all. It remains a mystery.