Labor Day

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Birdy Stitching Roll

Three day weekends are great, aren't they?  Labor Day weekend 2014 found me spending stitching time with kindred spirits.  There was also time spent dropping off the Aunt Maggie's stitching roll to the LNS for finishing.

Picking up the latest Colonial Gathering finishing.

Cotton Bird Kit #3 from the Colonial Gatherings Club was finished into a purse--inside is my Kindle.  Betty, the finisher once again worked her wonderful magic!

Stacy Nash

Whaling Ship

I started stitching Stacy Nash's Whaling ship.  Am stitching on 35 ct Hog Wild Blue linen from R & R.  This is a fun stitch.

Discovered a new to me shop in Clarksville called The Old Mercantile.  One of the stitch girls had lined the bottom of her carrier with a needlework piece.  Stacy finished this piece of needlework into a tray--the carrier will be a perfect fit.  

Picking up and dropping off finished pieces of needlework, discovering new shops, time with cherished stitching friends, progress on projects--a perfect Labor Day weekend.  

I almost forgot--Dying to Stitch has a photo of the next Colonial Gathering kit!  Looks like a beauty--a coverlet candle mat!  I have put Callie Mae on postman watch.

Birdy Stitching Roll

La D Da 

Birdy Stitching Roll

30 count  Weeks Dye Works Cocoa

NPI Silks

Between canning green beans, tomato juice, downpours, cutting the grass, deadheading flowers, pulling weeds, nursing a kitty with an upset tummy, cleaning out kitchen drawers and just the everyday run of the mill things, I have been stitching on the Birdy Stitching Roll by La D Da. Yes, I also spent a fair amount of time searching for sneak peeks of new designs coming from the St. Charles needlework market.

The stitching roll is a fun stitch and is working up nicely--30 ct linen and NPI silks--two of my favorite things.  Fingers crossed to get it completed before the next Colonial Gathering shipment. I am stitching my Great Aunt Maggie's name into this piece. (Maggie was Grandmother Bessie's oldest sister--the oldest sister of the five Shults sisters.)  Grandmother Bessie and Aunt Maggie shared many things including the death of their Mother and two sisters, Kittie and Bonnie at early ages. During the challenging times in their lives, Maggie and Bessie learned to rely on each other.

When I am in the homestretch of completing a project, I start thinking ahead to the next piece/project.  Grandmother Bessie had blue eyes and while I was digging through my linen stash I found some R & R overdyed linen called Hog Wild Blue.  Also in my stash was some great backing fabric which complimented both the linen color and fiber colors.  (The backing fabric is by Andover and I think it is from one of Jo Morton's line of fabrics).  Fingers crossed I can complete Grandmother Bessie's needleroll before the next shipment of Colonial Gatherings arrives.