
Her first Halloween and I think she was a little excited. At only 6 1/2 months old she is already getting the hang of so much. Not sure where my daughter found this lamb costume but it was just right for her.
Ok I am done bragging for today. 
An old yankee stitcher, sharing my random stitching attempts, progress or lack there of.

Ok I am done bragging for today. 
So here is an Earth Threads design called Indian Summer that I finished earlier this year. It will be a great tribute to my friend that is visiting this weekend. Maybe she will be able to help me decide what to do with this. So far a pillow finish is the consensus.
Talk to you all soon.
Happy Stitching,
CJ ok;-)
Edited the post on 10/30/09
Even my Happy Halloween got a little start this week but I have to admit it was after I got home from the stitching weekend. It's not much but it was fun so I will be going back to this soon.
In fact I have another weekend of stitching with other friends that starts this Friday afternoon. More eating out and shopping too. Plus more of us will gather together on Saturday for some serious stitching before the trick or treaters descend.
So my plan is to continue alternating between my Happy Halloween and To All a Good Night, plus the Sled-ters will be coming along for the ride. But of course there is one more project I have yet to start, it's the The Victoria Sampler freebie biscornu that didn't get started at the last EGA meeting, but that needs to be stitched and ready to be put together at the next meeting. So that will be the little project I take along and hopefully finish while I am there.
This is the post I had planned to make on Monday but that's when the hangover from a weekend of to much stitching and things had me to tired to move or post. I'll have to play a little catch up this week to get all the posts in I need to stay on schedule for the 150 post by my 4th Blogaversary.
So maybe a short post tomorrow to tell you how the cook off went. (oops, did I forget to mention I am in a chili cookoff at work today) more later.
Till then Happy Stitching, CJ ok;-)
Oh yes, and then this evening in celebration, I took a beaded scarf class at The Gourmet Yarn Co. Here is my start, it was actually easier than I imagined and I really love the Prism yarn I picked to use.
Tomorrow will be a long day at work but the reward in the end is stitching with friends, PRICELESS. I even have another knitting class scheduled for Saturday morning.
To mark the passing of another year (ugh!) I spent time last night going over my past blog posts and realized that in less than two month I will be celebrating my 4th Blogaversary. As I was comtemplating this milestone ;-) I noticed I had only acheived 126 posts in this almost 4 years, so I set a goal, I want to hit 150 POSTS by DECEMBER 20th. That's 24 posts in the next two months, I even scheduled it out for myself so I could keep up. Whether you like it or not you will be hearing more from me and a lot more often. Feel free to make requests and if you haven't heard from me in a week or so please feel free to heckle me.
In order to make this interesting I will have to keep up the stitching and knitting and dyeing, I'll do my best not to bore you, although something a little shorter than this post may be called for.
Talk to you soon, CJ ok;-)
The Cricket Collection chart is a new release and so is "The Library" from Little House Needleworks. I just loved that halloween design on the cover of "At Home with Needlework" so that had to go home with me along with the JCS Ornament magazine for this year, that was waiting for me to pick up. There is one other magazine in there and two skeins of Caron Waterlillies, the last threads I needed for the Quaker Stocking from The Workbasket that I have always wanted to stitch for myself. This may be the year I start that project.
I spent the early hours yesterday organizing and adjusting my wishlists and progress lists which is what prompted the stash shopping. I had four other charts I wanted but they are going to order those for me. It was probably for the best that it wasn't all there at the same time, this way I can spread it out. Because this isn't the only place I stopped yesterday.
From 4-8PM I was in this amazing yarn shop called The Gourmet Yarn Co (yes, these are shameless plugs) where they were having their monthly Stitch-In. Yes, it's true I went to knit. I haven't done much knitting in the last couple of years but the cold weather snap made me think about knitting. While I was there I just had to pick up a couple of new projects. First I signed up for the baby bootie class (left pic) that is suppose to be really easy and when I got home I realized they had this great wavy, bead adorned scarf class that I want to try too.
Here is what I was working on while there, the French Market Bag from knitty, I will felt it after knitting. The green yarn is for another little free pattern that I couldn't resist, see here. The fun part was the cool little yarn tote I had to get, it keeps the yarn protected and untangled. A friend had given me the plastic canister container that I had all the yarn in for my market bag.
This was great fun and everyone was very friendly and welcoming. But not to worry I will not be giving up my cross stitch, it is still my first love, but this yarn shop was just to great to ignore.