Vera (no blog) recently sent me a picture of her finish of Sew Animalistic that she stitched last year. She tells me that she used some old 'dirty linen' from her stash with 'Calico Kitty' thread which she thinks is a Sampler Thread. Whatever the fabric and thread it's a very pretty finish! Thank you Vera for allowing me to post your picture.

Sew Animalistic is still available *here* or by clicking on the CHARTS button on the sidebar.

I don't feel too great today - I had a dental checkup last week and this week I have a bad toothache - how typical is that?

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Thyra (no blog) sent me a picture of her Sew Animalistic which she stitched with HDF Old Maid of the Clay on Sassy's Mink 40ct linen. Thyra says 'It was a fun stitch ... and once I hit the animals I couldn't put it down'! I'm glad you enjoyed stitching this one Thyra and thank you for allowing me to post your picture here.

Sew Animalistic is available *here* or by clicking on the CHARTS button on the sidebar.

It's dark, gloomy, extremely windy and raining heavily today so I am going to work on a bit of personal stitching. I finished stitching the model for Sew ABC last night and will be releasing this shortly. I need to stitch some ornaments for the children; every year I have good intentions of stitching these during the year but ... every year they get left to the last minute!

I have gone back to using the 'old editor' for uploading pictures as the 'updated editor' won't allow me to post pictures. I have been uploading my pictures directly from Picasa which is a bit of a pain. Hopefully Blogger will sort this out at some point.

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Sew Animalistic is the name chosen for new iStitch chart! There were so many good suggestions that I ended up putting those I liked into my little Nantucket basket and drawing one out - the winner is Barb of Barb's Ramblings - Stitching'n Things. Thank you Barb (please get in touch with me and I will send the chart out to you) and thanks to all for your suggestions.

Sew (or should that be So) - Sew Animalistic is the latest addition to my range of 'Sew' charts and is available *here* or by clicking on the CHARTS link on the sidebar. It is stitched on walnut dyed 36ct Edinburgh linen with Japanese Cosmo thread 2311 (kindly sent to me by the lovely Yuko) and hem-stitched with a DMC thread to match the linen.

By request, I am preparing a hemstitch tutorial and, although the text is done, unfortunately the pictures didn't turn out as well as I had hoped so please bear with me.

As I reported on January 8, Beatrix Potter is finally finished! It has taken a whole year to stitch this and I did not enjoy it at all but I persevered, mainly due the SAL blog, which blog is now open for new members for 2010. I personalised this by adding both my initials and my sister's initials, '1950-2010' and '60' in the spaces available. I really hope she likes this!

And here's WIP of the Travelling Sisterhood. As can be seen I am stitching 1*1 on, I think, a deep cream 30ct linen with the recommended DMC threads. I have not made any changes to the colours although, being a brunette, I would have changed this if she had been a blonde!

The snow has all but disappeared leaving dark, gloomy skies with occasional rain. Kirby has managed to return to Uni after her original plans were disrupted by a heavy snowfall last Friday evening resulting in Deal being completely cut off from the outside world over the weekend.

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