HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

Well, it must be midnight, because there are a lot of fireworks going off around the area!!

I've watched the ball drop in NYC on Fox at midnight as I am stitching on one of my challenge pieces for 2011. I'm working on the needlecase that was a 10th anniversary piece for the chapter back in 2004. I've attached a picture of the status of this as I started stitching tonight.

One of the things I'm missing is the finishing instructions to put the needlecase together. If anyone still has their instructions, could I have or borrow them please. Thanks!

Ok, back to a little more stitching before I quit for the night.

Elaine B.

new years challenge

Can you pick one project that you have been wanting to finish? Garden Gate ,Five Friends, or Fire and Ice. Now is the time to pick one project and commit to finish it by next Dec. 31,2011. Post pictures as you work the piece. We need to get these big projects finish! My project is the Norwegian White work correspondence class...........Whats yours??????

Stitching Christmas

I got one new project for Christmas. I received the kit for Stitching for Autism from my daughter-in-law. It is a neat project - small but wonderfully colorful. I'll try to bring it to the next meeting. Niel also brought me a bunch more scissors holders - he is getting better and better. He also gave me a beautifully turned small bowl.

'Twas the Night Before

Happy Christmas to All...and to All a Goodnight!

Family Silliness

Okay - no one is posting anything so I decided to tell you about my daughter's latest stunt.  Go to
http://www.amestrib.com/ and click on the third story down ont he right hand side and see the flaming craziness.

Sampler

Carol and I are teaching this same sampler here in our park. They have elected to all do it on canvas. Can any of you lend me your pieces on canvas so I can show different color ways? It would be nice if you could bring them to the Christmas party. I will show them at the beginning of January and have them back to you at the January meeting. Thanks so much.

Fun new "Dictionary" series by designer Cherrywood. Also released "Stitch" & to be released in Feb. "Thread". Another great finishing idea from Vivia!

ARABIA

Needle Delights "Arabia" framed - the mats really set it off ! Thank you, Jewett for another beautiful finish for me !

3rd Times the Charm

Okay ... I told you I was new at this ! Thanks to Elaine she walked me thru it again ... finally here is the picture - he really sparkles with all the embellishments, which doesn't show in the picture.

REINDEER

OOPS - I forgot to attach the picture ... I'm new at this !

Mirabilia Reindeer

One of Santa's Reindeer arrived today - isn't "Prancer" pretty with all his sparkles - you must see him in person. Vivia finished for me in a flat fold - great job!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I would like to take a moment to wish all of you a Happy Thanksgiving! One of the things I give thanks for today is all the friends I have made as a member of Tip of Texas Embroiderer's Guild. God's blessings to all of you!

Austin Seminar hotel

I was able to book three non-smoking rooms today for the seminar. They cover the 3 T's and a room for Sandra and Gerilyn. They also offered upgraded rooms. Trudy

Southwest boot

Finished the serape and pants, almost finished with the adobe house. Actually had a day to stitch since I was home with a sick child. Will post pictures of my progress Sunday. I am really enjoying this venture into randomness instead of using set, counted patterns.

Today

Barry's reunion is over and a great time was had by all who attended. Jewett and I are spending the day stitching. Looks like you all had a great time at the boot class. Joyce

Boot Class

What a great time - not only for the class but also for the friendships. We got a chance to become better friends with some members who don't get to come often. I am determined to get Callaway done yet this year so instead of working on the boot today, I've finished one more square - the chapel. Next are the little girls or women whichever. After that I need to put the date on and do a little beading and I'm finally through. Stand by for pictures later.

O HAPPY DAY!

We had such a great day stitching today with Jeannette Rees our southwest boot teacher. Jeannette is the GREATEST! I personally had so much fun being with friends and doing something I love....STITCHING. If you were not there....you missed a special time. O....and of course, we will all be finished with our boot by the end of class tomorrow! Ha! Ha! Just a little humor!

ARABIA COMPLETE

Finally Arabia is finished.  I will deliver it to Judy's  on Saturday and you can see the real thing there after it is framed.

Congratulations

Wow Tami - way to go - they look great.

EGA SCR Beaded Bag back

I finished beading the bag...

SCR EGA Beaded Bag

Mystery Sampler done

class

I can't ask two questions at once - what size stretcher bars?

Boots

Remind me again what time to be there please.

Southwest Boot class

Talked to the Hotel today and they are working on getting us in the back room ( the same one from last year) for the class. Keep your fingers crossed as that room has GREAT lighting! The teacher will provide kits for the three members that can not attend the class! See you Saturday! Its going to be GREAT!

Question Fot Queen Carolyn

What material do you use on the back of the paper/bead ornaments? I'm making a paper ornament and want to back it with something. Trudy

FINISHED PROJECT

Finished this TT last night at 12:15 am .... Dutch Treat Designs "Diamonds & Swirls". These are very relaxing projects to me & always have one working in my stash.

Medieval Herb Garden Chatelaine Piece progress

I have been cross stitching like crazy on this piece. Once I finish with the cross stiches then on to the Rhodes Stitches. All of the blocks in the arches are rhodes stitches. Her basket on her head will be a woven stitch.

Arabia Continued

Arabia Section E

WOW

Judy, that is absolutely gorgeous.  What a challenge.  Thanks for posting it.

BLACKBIRD SAMPLER

This is my current project from Blackbird Designs "Anniversaries of the Heart" - I am on part#6 - there will be 12 total. Loving this & it's hard to put down.

Christmas Ornament Exchange

I am so excited! I have chosen something from my stash to stitch for the ornament exchange!
Now all I have to do is get it done! Who else is stitching their ornament? Are you going to be one of those who misses out because you just didn't get around to it?

Arabia again

My friend Lucy is here visiting from Iowa  and we are doing lots of talking, so I am stitching while I talk.

Sections B, C and D are done.  Watch here for E.

Sunday stitching

I'm going to work on my ornament for the Christmas party...what will you be stitching today? Trudy

Arabia Update

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I have returned from Branson and am back to stitching on Arabia.  I have now completely finished Section A and am on to something totally different.  Sign in for future developments.

Welcome

Welcome Linda  - I'm a little late, but I've been out of town.  Hope you enjoy reading and posting.

I got my SCR class.

Finally got on my very first blog thank you David and ToT Linda Tomelloso

seminar 2011

So far Tami and I are both in for Tony Minieri's class. Still waiting on Trecia!

Back on the blog

Yes, I finally am back on. I want to thank David for the time he took to help our group to navigate the blog. I spent Sunday stitching and radioing. Joyce

Sampler

Trecia - welcome to the blog and glad to see you posted.

No, there is no border around the center - just the borders around each square.

Question about mystery sampler

Hi ladies! Is there a border around the middle section??? I didn't see any directions for one. Just thought I would ask. Thanks

Let's get Blogging

David S gave ToT Members a quick tutorial on how to access and use the blog. We certainly hope to see more postings and pictures of fabulous projects from everyone.

ToT is Sweet "16"

Everyone enjoyed celebrating the 16th Anniversary of Tip of Texas' EGA founding.



If you were not here, we missed YOU!

Oops

I said I wasn't a techie.

Arabia 3

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I have now completed section 3 of Arabia.  The stitches are fun.  There is a lot of compensation, but it is fully diagrammed so that helps.  I will post more when all of Section A is complete. 

Hopefully after yesterday's meeting, more of you will be encouraged to start posting pictures of your work.  Pictures are what make our blog really interesting.  If you haven't learned how to manipulate pictures, start trying.l  It only took me about a year to figure it out, but I never claimed to be a techie.

Blog Update

We have now removed all references to member's addresses or e-mails.  Also, all comments will now be check to make sure there is nothing unpleasant in them.  This does not mean you can't express your opinion, but that opinion can't be libelous or obscene.

Hello to all. Mom passed away at 1:30 am Monday. We are all doing well as she was 91 and so wanted to go to heaven. Her name is Katharina Louisa Sheldon. We are having a memorial service at 7 PM on Wednesday, October 13 at Trinity Funeral home. (Paper misprinted it today). I will miss stitching with her everyday. See you all at the meeting Saturday, both girls will be there again and Brownsville girls Susan has Pampered Chef for you. Lenore

Arabia next installment

Pictured above is the next installment of Arabia.  I said I was going to post as I went.  Sections 3 and 4 are done.  You can also tell that I'm not a photographer.

Bargello Cat

Pictured above is the bargello cat that is being considered for a future workshop.  What do you think about it?  This one was worked by Martha Schwartz.

Martha Schwartz's latest

Pictured is Martha Schwartz's piece entitled Strawberry Shortcake.  Sorry for the reflections but you get the idea.

Iowa

All I see is corn....and more corn.......great to be back!

Stitch In at Trecia's House

A great time was had by all. We were treated like queens and ate like princes!

ARABIA

Now that I have learned how to put pictures on the blog, I'll probably drive you crazy, but I have decided to put up pictures of things in progress, not wait until the piece is complete.  I encourage you to do the same.

This is a piece called Arabia.  It is by Kathy Rees from Needle Delights Originals and I'm doing it for Judy.  The first time I saw the threads I wasn't impressed, but I wanted to stitch the piece.  The photo above shows the smyrna cross dividing lines.  They look simple, but I couldn't count straight and kept going to Carol so she could find my mistakes.

This picture shows parts 1 & 2 of section A.  These were really fun to stitch.  The colors don't seem to be related, but I just started part 3 and that watercolor starts to tie it all together.  I am starting to really love it.  Hopefully in a few days, I'll have 3 & 4 completed.  Stay tuned.

Biscornu

This is the biscornu pincushion I did for the Jungle basket

Stitch in at Trecia's on Sat.

If you are planning on going to Trecia's house this Sat. give her a call at (956)787-2322 or 821-1265. Her husband is cooking so she needs a count. Thanks!

Needlework at Judy's

 These are pieces I now have recently put on display at Judy's.

Congratulations

Judy, that is a really good piece.  I can't imagine how long it took.

Tami - thanks for the facebook page.  It fits the bill of what national suggested chapters do.  It may help newcomers find us.

Quaker Diamonds Sampler

I recently finished this piece after 2 months of work.

Facebook Page for TOT

If you use Facebook we have a facebook page called Tip of Texas Embroidery Guild of America. Please go to the page and click like.

Must Yarn

Don't know if this is the right stuff, but here's a couple links

www.onefineyarn.com

www.knittingfever.com

Must thread

That's a new one on me. Maybe someone out there is a crocheter but my first impulse would be to google it.
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Cyberworkshop on Faberge Eggs

I received the kit for a ANG cyber workshop. It calls for Must brand crochet yarn. Whats this and where can I get it??? Trudy

Progress on my Chatelaine Piece

I started working on my Chatelaine piece by Martina Weber called "The Medieval Herb Garden Midi" while at the Great Escape. Lots of cross stitch in this piece and so here in my progress so far.

Rainy Days and Sundays are great days to stitch

Today I stitched the 3 blocks given tous yesterday at our September meeting. I did the Coral Stitch around the middle block and it looked great! I have not completed the pull back ground work on my blocks yet as the weave on this linen is so loose that it distorted the piece when I tried with the first block months ago. I will do the pull work once I complete all the stitching in the middle block. Rainy days are great for stitching. Not to good for taking pictures though.

Posting

When I suggested this blog, I was hoping lots of us would post pictures of our projects and comment on the stitching of them. You don't have to wait until a project is finished, you can just put up pictures along the way. Now I know I haven't done it either, but I want to do a better job from now on. Why don't you try to. If you want to see a blog with lots of needlework pictures on it and comments about same, try www.frontrangestitcher.blogspot.com. Right now she is writing about cleaning house, but scroll down to some older posts and see what I mean. She also has lots of links to other blogs. Try it someday when you get tired of stitching.

Saturday ToT meeting

Hello ToT members! Don't forget our meeting on Saturday, Sept. 18 at the First Community Bank at 10 a.m. Come at 9:30 and visit with your friends. Our meeting will be followed by a luncheon. Bring your projects from the summer to show and share. I will look forward to seeing you.

Viva and Nancy working on their projects at the Great Escape

Lenore and Trecia at the Great Escape

Lenore and Trecia at the Great Escape

Marge working on Five Friends

Judi beading away at the Great Escape

Joyce working hard!!!!!

The sisters checking into our room at the Great Escape

Nancy and Carol

Trudy and Jewett at the Great Escape

We all had a great time at the Great Escape. Carol took pictures and so did Tami so watch this space. Also one of the Austin girls took a picture of the "Valley Girls" and promised to e-mail it down so it can be on the blog. I did a lot of work on Callaway but didn't finish it. Joyce finished stitching a project and Viva finished a sweater. Tami decided to take up beading and we all ate well. See you Saturday at Joyce's.

Trecia searching for YO Ranch Great Escape

We leave for the Great Escape

Many of us will be leaving town over the next few days for the Great Escape in Kerrville. We will have lots to show at our next meeting with us all working on our projects for 3 days in the Hill Country.

I am finally home with not enough stitching done. I can hardly wait to go to the Great Escape and to see all of you at the Sept. stitch-in and meeting.

Southwest Boot class

Are you planning to take the class in Nov? Let me know...I want to get a count. Thanks! Trudy

StitchIn at Kathy Morrow's House

Saturday, August 21 is our next Tip of Texas Stitch In at Kathy Morrow's house in Brownsville. Hope to see you all there.

Have you ever wanted to show a piece across the room in frustration???? Well that is the way I felt this weekend. After stitching over 8 hours on 40 ct. linen - I discovered I had made a mistake - one stitch -yes, ONE STITCH. I thought surely I can make this work, but it was too much to adjust .... SO I spent over 2 hours cutting out! The next night I began again & was about 45 minutes into the journey again & YES, you guessed right - a mistake again - ONE STITCH. I took out a second time (only 30 mins this time) - stopped - took a shower - then started yet again. I "think" I am okay now. I'm thinking I should work on a BIG 28 ct tonight & rest my nerves - sigh!

Slackers

Isn't anybody down there doing anything? No one is posting. I finished "Two Cottages" and got it framed and have almost finished "Two Gingerbread Houses". That one will be finished tomorrow and then I am going back to Ode to Callaway and try to work some on it. I now have my "new"
used Dazor so I have light to work with. Boy does it make a difference.

Besides that I have painted faces on my nativity set and "completed ?" two paintings. One could use a lot more work, but not sure where to go next. Probably should stick to stitching.

projects sent to the finisher

Trudy and I mailed our Christmas Cones to be finished. Hopefully we will have them to show when we meet in September. The weather has been hot or rainy great stitching time. Hope everyones summer is stitching delightful.... Tami

I'm starting to feel like a real slacker. I have about 14 projects in the works and none near completion.
Martha

Opportunity knocks

Way to go ToT! We made $375 on the SCR 2010 seminar opportunity knocks item we created. Thank you to Trudy for the ideas and thank you to all who stitched, donated money, and purchased tickets.

Education/program meeting

Hey Jewett we're thinking of meeting on the 9 of Aug. Hope to see you but you sound busy! We will have the meeting and get with you on what we discussed! Trudy
Anyone have any ideas on next years program???????? Let me know...........

What's Stitching

I finished "Two Cottages" and started "Two Gingerbread Houses". These are really fun, but the
gingerbread tke a lot more than either the cottages or the lighthouses. I have to be here at least through the 7th and my daughter wants me to stay and take a painting class with her the 18-20th.
I haven't agreed to that yet. I miss stitching with all of you. See you someday.

ANOTHER FINISH

Finished my BIG sampler "Quaker Diamonds" by Rosewood Manor late last night. Back to my small ornaments, until I decide what next big project I will start ... I have a couple in mind -oh the joy of staring a new project just gives me a thrill - you too??? Judy

Finished the bear vests

I finished the bear vests last night. They go on the stuff bears that the club did as a group project years ago. Thank god for trash to treasure and Jewett since I get some really interesting stuff to work on. They were easy but it does take a little time to do the beading!
Now for a halloween project???? Trudy

Hi. I finished a halloween etui, will bring in September and 2 table toppers for gifts when I go to stay with friends and relatives in Washington state. I leave here Sat. 24th. Taking my Williamsburg church etui I started in 2003. Hope to have it done for Christmas. Have a great summer, see you at August stitch in. Lenore

Vacation

I don't know what the rest of you are doing - nobody's talking. Just before I left Texas, I finished work on two cottages. I brought lots of stitching with me, but so far haven't done much. I got my dazer Saturday and hope to start stitching a lot more now. So far I have d one a little painting and lots of reading and sleeping. Isn't that what vacation is for?

Jewett

Away again

Today I go to Wall,South Dakota for my family reunion. This is a three year event. we carry on for three days, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. the town has their annual event and celebration then. It is nice to see many old friends, those that I went to high school with and others.

I am the "registrar" for the reunion and we think that we will have 135 people there.

I return to RGV on the 17th and go to Wsconsin for one month on the 20th.

See you later Michaela

If anyone got pictures of the biscornu pincushion I made, would you please post pictures? I didn't get any before I mailed it.
Thanks
Martha

Greetings From Michaela

Hello You Bloggers

I am re-installed now on the blog, hope that I don't delete it again.

Thanks Jewett,

Michaela

Lea's Victoria Palms I

Hello all.
- two items - be sure to go to page 42 in the June Needle Arts. Lea has an article and a photo. Below, a photo of Victoria Palms I, a Lea Peacock design, just completed. She is such a qualified and patient teacher - but, we all know this.
Happy Fourth of July a few days ahead of time. Robin

seminar 2010

Here we are at SCR SEMINAR 2010! One of our members won our opportunity knocks! Come to the meeting on Sat. to find out!

June Stitch-In

What a great stitch-in. Lovely room, great food and wonderful friendship and we even got some stitching done. Laree Morgan was a very nice hostess - if you weren't there, you should have been.

The May Meeting

We were pleasantly surprised at the May meeting to have LaRee Morgan join us. Many of us had not met her before and those of us that had were pleased to renew acquaintances.

Several students worked hard on their sampler project.

Linda is working on something that doesn't look like a sampler and then of course there is Trisha doing more smiling than working.

May TOT Meeting

Hello Stitchers. This is a very late reporting of our last meeting. Forgive me for taking so long... this is my first venture with a new camera, and getting everything put over to the blog. Karen, Jewett and Janet don't seem to mind waiting.

Tami smiled for me, while she was working on the Sampler. Looks like she's having fun.
Our excellent secretary, Lenore was catching up with some good talk.
Mary Lou was asking for help on the hardanger, and having a good laugh too.
And after the meeting was over, where did we all go? Of course, to reconvene the meeting at Judy's. I hope you all enjoyed the meeting, and the aftermath. Carol