Got A New (Old) Chair!

My daughter loves to find deals and she found a good one on an old chair in a consignment shop. It's a nice chair, just needs a little upholstery work sometime down the road, but all in all it's in fine shape. Last semester she used it in her bedroom in her apartment, but this semester she rearranged the furniture and doesn't have room for Paula (I forgot to say she also like to name everything) so Paula came home for awhile. Paula is a very comfortable chair so I thought, "Hey, why not use Paula as my stitching chair?" It's working out great. I don't get as tired so I can stitch longer. I forgot to take Paula's picture so I'll do that next time. I did, however take some pictures of some things I've been working on. Remember I'm a slow stitcher but here they are.


This is Edward 1874, a Bristol Orphanage sampler. I've started it on Vikki Clayton hand dyed linen in cream with Vikki's Midnight Madness silk fibers. This one is alot of fun to work and I'm loving the variegation in this Midnight Madness silk. The original sampler was done in red and of course my first thought was to do mine in red. Then I thought I would do it in black, but when the variegated red and black came out I thought it would be a great way to have the best of both worlds. I think it is working well so far and I would like to use it on something else also. I don't know what yet but I'm sure I'll find something.




The photo on the right is my start of Pelin Tezer's "Muska". It is done on Silkweaver's "Jamaican Sunset" 32 count lugana with Vikki Clayton's hand dyed silk in Dragon Droppings with extra sprinkles. This one is loads of fun also and an easy stitch because of the repetition in the pattern.



That's it for the strands today. Keep working them.