Febuary Wrap Up

My house at Hollyberry Farm now has a roof and I have started building the walls.








Margery Dean's honeysuckle border is growing.









The bunny from the tease in my last post is the main attraction on my latest finish Bunnies In The Garden. My  biggest accomplishment in February was the assembly of this project that has been sitting around for too long. The assembly instructions were well written and easy to follow. I should never have taken so long to do the finishing. In addition to the three pieces in the char, needle roll, pinkeep and scissor weight, I stitched 2 additional bunnies and covered a retracting tape measure. The bunny on the back is over one.

 Bunnies In The Garden
With My Needle
Ellen Chester










stitched with recommended fabric and threads

Since then I have been roaming the stores looking for trim and embellishments for things in my To-Be-Assembled Basket. I am working on getting a few more projects out of this basket.Hope to have some more to share as the 2013 rolls along.



Gwen

Needlework Weekend

I traveled to Atlanta on Thursday for my class with Ellen. Friday was my class 'Long May She Wave', a small needlebook featuring the American flag as the cover. Each stripe is a different stitch and you have the option of working a 13 star or 50 star flag. Did you know that you can make a perfect 5-pointed star with 1 snip of the scissor? Check out this link 5-pointed star.

By evening my friends had all arrived. After dinner we gathered in one room to talk and have show and tell. Soo.. many projects, soo... little time. After breakfast on Saturday we attended the second class 'A Needleworker's Sampler Huswif'. This sampler gives you the option of finishing it as a sampler to be framed or a Huswif. The colors are wonderful. Ellen is a great teacher and kept us on task, informed and entertained during class.

I enjoyed both classes, seeing my friends again, and making new friends. The weekend was over way to soon.