Yes, there is much more of New England to share, but that will be interspersed in between life.
A friend gave me this little plaque, she knows me well. And yes, I need to get back to quilting, my next quilt will be in the colors of a New England Fall, I have plenty of scarps as well as buying some more fabric. Green to be exact – for the back sound. I have some ideas, but nothing concrete yet.
This is where I left off on Ceesie Smitt. Since being home
, I have added some stitches, not enough for a new picture yet.
This is where I left off on my one thread a day project. Since coming back, I’ve been doing more like 2 threads a day. First of all to make up for lost time. Second of all, I’m getting a little tired of this and want to see it done.
Done with the inner border, now I just need to finish the second lower border.
I will have to share another picture soon, since by now, I’ve finished the bottom.
I started on the October section, well, I had done all that outlining. Turns out, I was two rows short. I thought this was a duplicate of the upper Octogons. I was wrong. I’ll be honest, I’m ready for this to be over, a year long sew along is too much for me. I love Jacobs’ work, I might even buy 2022 if I really like the design, but I won’t work it as a monthly sew along. So yeah, there was a lot of ripping out of the bottom third of this section… I was able to salvage some of it, turns out, those threads are in very strongly.
Done! and yes, I continued on into November. Looking at this image, I see I forgot something in the half triangle. I’ll fix it now, before I forget.
I found a needlework store in VT. Luckily not too far out of the way. I bought some linen, and a few patterns. Notice I actually bought a Mirabilia – we shall see. I got the Krinik thread for it, but when I decide to start this, I’ll figure out all the other threads. Funny thing, the Proprietor told me she is retiring. another customer told me that she has been saying that for years. Anyway, she said if it weren’t for Needlepoint, she couldn’t keep the store open. Can’t make a living on Cross-stitch. I believe that. She also complained that the internet took away her cross-stitch business. I didn’t say this – except to myself – if it weren’t for the internet I wouldn’t be doing cross-stitch and I never would have set foot in her store. Life is trade-offs.
I bought yarn at two different yarn stores. Wonderland Yarns are dyed in VT. so that was cool. I bought the pattern for the Grand Teton shawl, because it will be perfect with the purple. They had a sample, store samples are great advertising. I think I already made this pattern, but if I did, I no longer have that shawl and I definitely don’t have the pattern. So I spent another $6.
Speaking of yarn, look who showed up at my local LYS. MadTosh was sold about two years ago to Jimmy Beans. Luckily they saved a great company and they left it in Texas, didn’t move it to Reno. So Mike is out driving the west selling their yarns.
That is a lot of yarn and a lot of people in a small shop. Yes, they have masks, I hate the masks, but at least no one was social distancing, a tiny bit of normalcy in our crazy world. I didn’t buy anything, having just bought yarn in Vermont.
Also, for all the insanity of what is going on in CA and LA, clearly plenty of people still have money to spend on their hobby. I bet that outside of Texas, CA is still the biggest market for this yarn.
Leah