of Multiply. I've lost too many typed paragraphs to the void and minutes waiting for pictures to NOT load. I've started a new blog with a different service. I'm not sure what will happen with this one - maybe I'll try to pick this up again if Multiply does great and wondrous improvements. Thanks for following me here. I appreciate everyone's feedback and support. Until then, please find me at my new Pencil Circles spot.  For some reason (months ago) I decided that I should attempt to paint in acrylics. I had purchased supplies. I know I am too uptight/controlling to paint those expressive watercolors, but I had seen some remarkable acrylic paintings with lovely amounts of detail.
I had done this mermaid sketch in a little notebook and about a month ago transferred it to a canvas. And there it sat. Last night I dreamt I saw the finished painting. The mermaid was red - why not? Fishes come in all colors. For some reason most are portrayed as blue or green, but with plenty of red hair. So she was red. (I also noted that she was biting the head off of a chicken, but that hasn't made it onto the canvas.) I only like to paint when nobody is watching, especially if I have no idea what i am doing. When my son decided he needed to stay home from school today, I wasn't sure if he was truly ill or had just sneak-read all night long and looked like a zombie. I told him to take a nap and decided I would paint as long as he slept. Five hours later... It took me about four hours to establish a palette and to block in the colors. I'm wondering if any number of subsequent layers of paint can transform this into anything that isn't an eyesore. It looks like a crayon coloring by a five year old. Notes to myself as I painted: - Paint on a brush should be more forgiving than inking by brush where there are no take backs or do overs.
- Certain stroke directions are easier than others and I twirl my paper to get the best angle. Easels don't twirl.
- Paint leaves raised lips on the edge of a stroke. Ink never does that.
- I am afraid of big brushes.
- Canvas is bouncy. I don't like it when it moves on me.
- Smart people have learned to apply fixative to their pencil lines so they don't smudge.
- Just like the living room ceiling, no matter how many passes I make with the brush there are still those little white missed spots that peek through.
- There was zero point in working on her facial details since I painted it all over.
I'm not sure if I can stomach another session, but I don't want to give up totally just yet. In any event, it's more than enough for today. My son is awake now and is watching that insipid dinosaur cartoon Land Before Time - now I know he is really sick.
  Spring Break Report 2010. I think this was the earliest ever that the kids have had their week off of school. This was also the most northerly spring break destination. Consequently, it was cooold, but that didn't keep us from having much fun. It was actually SNOWING on Snoqualmie.
 We rented a small beach house on Whidbey Island (in Puget Sound here on the WA coast). We got to watch some wonderful storms move through. In between them, we had some lovely hikes, built sand castles, found shells, clammed, stitched, knit, ate lots of pre-prepared food. We were joined one day by DH's brother, his wife and our niece. She was big into jump roping (big hopes of joining the Jump Rope Club next year in first grade).
 I must be cut from a different cloth than the standard beach goer. There were a handful of books and movies in the cabin. I just can't see myself reading Nora Roberts, and there were enough romantic comedies on VHS to make me nauseous. Julia Roberts and Meg Ryan figured heavily.
 Lacking internet connectivity and the ability to stream manga, DD finished Frederick the Literate and started a new piece. I worked a bit on Cercles (no pic) and got the back mostly knit for my purple vest. The yarn is nice and soft but the vest is so plain, it was driving me nuts. I was thankful to have packed some yarn and a mitten book to break it up, but like an idiot I forgot to pack the needles. We visited Coupeville one day and managed to find what I needed at a nice little yarn shop.
   The dog was very happy to see us when we got home, just as DD and DS were happy to plug back into their media. 
I've been having computer woes, including a complete loss of my email messages, a dead modem, days without internet...yada yada. Besides some hard-learned lessons on how to do things better, I reacquainted myself with a Knit Picks gift certificate from my Mum for my birthday moooonths ago that had gotten lost in the inbox snafu. 
I decided that I was foolish to hang on to it, waiting for just the right thing I would buy, so I decided to shop right then. I also had a stupid Visa rebate card sitting on the desk that was just as likely to get lost in my meat-space disorder. Fast forward one week to today, when Toaster announced loudly the delivery of a package containing this:
Lovely purply-blue silk/alpaca blend yarn for the Classic Elite vest on the cover of this pattern book that I bought last summer. Amigurumi Knits, because everyone needs a knitted praying mantis on their desk. And, random balls of Palette (which is a nice weight for the Selbuvotter mittens) until the gift cards maxed out. And it looks like a ball of kettle-dyed sock yarn in there too. Forgot about that, until now - can't have too much sock yarn. Thank you, Mum. And thank you Staples (for giving me my own money back in a less than convenient form.) 
I've noticed a weird trend in last several photos I've tweeted from my phone. 
I got myself one of those new fancy phones last month and have had fun seeing just all the amazing junk it can do. It can be a full chromatic tuner, a metronome, or an instant chord chart for my mando. I can listen to streaming radio, browse the web, translate random words into French to plug those gaps when I try to carry on a conversation with my daughter who is studying French. I can speak the word "monkey" and it googles up monkey just like I had typed it on my laptop. Oh yeah, and I can make phone calls. Pardon my blathering if you have had one of these phones for years and aren't experiencing the same Ghee Whiz factor I am. Another trick this pony does is GPS. I pull up google maps and there is a blue dot on my house...in my living room. I had this idea that geocaching would be a cool activity I could do with my son, and by God if there aren't about 800 caches within the Tri-CIties area, including one on our block and one right next to the place I mail out my orders each day. It's like a big scavenger hunt. My son is very much into scavenger hunts, and adding technology to the game is like throwing gasoline on that fire. It took an inordinate amount of time to get the software all set up and installed on both the laptop and the phone. In the end, I still haven't figured out how to beam the coordinates down to the phone. So we wrote down the numbers on paper and headed out. With packages mailed, we spent the next hour in the parking lot and to the best of our abilities determined that the cache was underneath a parked car. Probably not it. The second one in the park was another hour in the wind, skinned palms from climbing trees and still nothing here either. I think we don't know what we are looking for. We've not given up hope, and in fact have enlisted the assistance of our friendly neighbor (a smart, energetic guy who retired too early and is always up for an adventure.) So, at the end of the day as the giant space dragon eats the sun*, we perhaps have started a new hobby. Hopefully, we'll score a success in the weekend ahead before total frustration sets in. *per FakeAPStylebook usage Here is a peek at the train of thought for what it takes to release one itty-bitty xs chart, and mind you - this is only the final announcement stage! 
Write the newsletter and send it out. But first, prepare the mailing list addresses, because the newsletter tool and the addressing are done using two separate programs that don't talk to each other. Use Excel and a macro to convert the csv list from one format to the other. But before you can send it, add the new chart to the Ink Circles site so people can go buy it if they feel immediately inspired. But hey, first fix the broken cart button that I found while proofing the new pages- it appears to be broken across the whole site. And it's time to move the Huddle ornament off the front page, since we're updating the catalog anyway. And also, put a new update in the Ink Circles blog since the newsletter gives the link. It would be swell to have some fresh content. Oh, and on that blog, update the "New Releases" sidebar. The October releases are so dated! Speaking of sidebars on the blog, the Etsy shop gadget is looking a little stale. Actually the whole shop is a bit empty. I'll update it with the new markers and relist the cards that I've sold. Oh, yeah, I should scan in the new art I did and put it on a card. 
Well, in order to do that, I guess I need to photograph the stitch markers and cards just sitting there. They aren't going to jump onto Etsy by themselves. Oh, the camera battery is dead? Oh wait, it's actually me that's out of juice. Yesterday, it was a Monday straight through to the core. Nothing was easy. Nothing was a single step from point A to point B. Today is a bit better. The newsletter has been sent. I have vented. Ahhhh. Time for a cuppa tea.  Okay, I really should learn to not date things until they are actually finished! This one has been in my WIP pile for more than a few years, as you can see by the inscription. LOL. It's a chart by Elizabeth's Garden.
It's been a super, casual week with the family at home so I don't feel too guilty as I've worked on my stitching and knitting. The weather is better now, but it has been so icy that the police closed our hilly street and we all just stayed home and drank appropriate beverages ;o). Everyone goes back to their regular routine tomorrow. The 4:45 am alarm clock will be quite a rude awakening.
 Santa came. And he delivered. Everyone here had a wonderful Christmas and received the most lovely gifts. Thank you for the time, for family, for health. Life is good.
I thought I'd post a few more handmade finishes. I'm down to 7,999,992 to do. Manga-head girl was much pleased with her new big pillow thingie, Totoro. My son was also quite happy with his Domo-kun. If you don't know who these guys are you can google 'em up. They were sewn out of polyfleece and really didn't take that long to do. Actually, they were quite fun - I didn't use a pattern (just winged it) -my favorite mode of sewing. Arms too long? Lop some off. Oooh, wouldn't these legs make cute zippered stash spots...etc. Also from the sewing room, after incubating for more than five years, I finished up this holiday runner. I have to be very careful who I send this to, as it was one of three identical. I remember the custom & requested items, but this is in the more arbitrary category. I can't remember who I sent the others to - brain fade. I should keep a log. I was delighted to find the water-soluble magic marker I had used to draw the quilting pattern was actually still water soluble. Yay! I have another small quilt that I can't post up since the recipient actually reads my blog, imagine that. My son helped piece the top - a rather abstract design. Perhaps a pic later. 
And the Parcheesi Board gift was another project that had a wee bit of time pass between first and final stitches. But it is DONE, Done, done now. If I didn't have all this left-over fleece and a huge swath of cool fishing-print flannel that was going to be some lounge pants for the guys, I would actually have come out of the holiday season with more room in the stash cupboard that I started with. I do have a few boxes to mail that haven't left the house yet, so who knows - there may be progress to be made.
Santa came. And he delivered. Everyone here had a wonderful Christmas and received the most lovely gifts. Thank you for the time, for family, for health. Life is good. I thought I'd post a few more handmade finishes. I'm down to 7,999,992 to do. Manga-head girl was much pleased with her new big pillow thingie, Totoro. My son was also quite happy with his Domo-kun. If you don't know who these guys are you can google 'em up. They were sewn out of polyfleece and really didn't take that long to do. Actually, they were quite fun - I didn't use a pattern (just winged it) -my favorite mode of sewing. Arms too long? Lop some off. Oooh, wouldn't these legs make cute zippered stash spots...etc. Also from the sewing room, after incubating for more than five years, I finished up this holiday runner. I have to be very careful who I send this to, as it was one of three identical. I remember the custom & requested items, but this is in the more arbitrary category. I can't remember who I sent the others to - brain fade. I should keep a log. I was delighted to find the water-soluble magic marker I had used to draw the quilting pattern was actually still water soluble. Yay! I have another small quilt that I can't post up since the recipient actually reads my blog, imagine that. My son helped piece the top - a rather abstract design. Perhaps a pic later.
And the Parcheesi Board gift was another project that had a wee bit of time pass between first and final stitches. But it is DONE, Done, done now. If I didn't have all this left-over fleece and a huge swath of cool fishing-print flannel that was going to be some lounge pants for the guys, I would actually have come out of the holiday season with more room in the stash cupboard that I started with. I do have a few boxes to mail that haven't left the house yet, so who knows - there may be progress to be made.
 I just wanted to post up pictures of a few finishes before they are wrapped up and shipped out tomorrow. It's probably too late for Christmas arrival, but I hope the recipients don't mind. I'm never quite ready for Christmas. My daughter asked last night, "Isn't it about time we went out and bought a tree?"
 Bubblegum pink and white Selbu-style mittens for my sis. She has a bright pink down parka and requested these to match. The pattern is from Selbuvotter, NMH #3, although I had to rechart/modify everything because I used a different gauge yarn. This style is the absolute best fitting mitten I have seen - the thumb gusset is in just the right place. Love 'em!
And for my niece, this fine tiger sweater. My son says, "I hate to bring this up, but I don't think it's going to fit her!" I concurred (she is 11) and the sweater body is only ~15 inches around. But since it is for her Build-A-Bear, things are fine.  #3 is a Thorpe earflap hat. It needed a head in it for the photo, but I was unable to get any of my darling children to pose, so you get this ugly middle aged lady's face. I think she needs a haircut.
Now, back to work for me. There are still about 8,000,000,000 more things to get done.
Any minute the children will be home from school - early release prior to this Thanksgiving holiday. I've got so much to do, but wanted to say out loud how thankful I am. One of the reasons I'm behind is that I helped a neighbor out of a tight spot this week. Her 11 year old son with Aspergers had no school, but she did. It was definitely an eye opening experience. He is a nice enough kid, and I had met him before, but six hours at a stretch without his mom in the background to give him cues was enough to get a new feel for him and what their lives must be like. He would have easily plugged himself into the TV or video games, but those aren't options I offer here. Intensely curious and not understanding the boundaries of politeness in someone else's house, we bounced from activity to activity. Legos and the marble chaos tower kit were big hits. He tried out every musical instrument in the house - we have a LOT, with much time on the piano. Unlike other kids we've had over that have played at the piano, he didn't try to pick out familiar songs - just a steady stream of noise (loud). I have no idea how my neighbor manages, especially separated from her husband and trying to go back to college and start a career for the first time. The experience has given me a new appreciation for so many aspects in my own life! Having a happy, healthy, together family is priceless. Business with Ink Circles has been going great, at least by my ruler. So much so, that I made the very tough decision that at the end of the year I am ceasing to distribute patterns for the other designers I have been working with. There just aren't enough hours in the day to do everything I wanted to do, and to do right by them. It was good that we were able to find new distributors for each of the gals. And actually, since the new distributors are REAL distributors with the right connections and business models, it was probably a good growth step for each of them. So, next year, look for AAN at Yarn Tree and European Cross Stitch, and Seba Designs, Monasterium Designs, and Stickideen von der Wiehenburg at Dinky Dyes. Thank you to everyone who has let a few Ink Circles charts find their way into their baskets or has printed out a few freebies and said a few kind words.  Music and crafts fill in the gaps after family and work. I'm thankful that I have so many cool things to work on, perhaps too many. I lose track sometimes of the projects I start, setting them aside when I need to transition to a new step (change needles, weave ends, etc) instead of setting it up to move on.
I found an embarrassing number of 90+% done projects in my knitting bag. In the last 24 hours, I've finished a hat, gotten a pair of socks ready for mailing, and finished up this fingerless mitt (except for buttons - imagine 3 silver buttons closing the cuff). This Sourwood Mitten will keep my strumming hand warm, although all of our Christmas gigs are indoors this year. I need to get its mate done for my fretting hand. Then I can have a button sewing party, since I also have this lovely cabled vest that is waiting in the basket for its buttons. I'm trying to get some Christmas crafts done. I'd love to give everyone handmade things, but I don't always know what people want or have the time to do it all. Non-subtle hints are always appreciated. I guess I should get off the blog and get onto doing. As my hubby says, things get done a lot faster if you actually do them. :o) 
 Some friends of ours through the local Farmer's Market invited us to their orchard Sunday for an old-fashioned cider pressing party. A whole lot of people showed up, which was good since there were a whole lot of apples and a whole lot of empty jugs.   Apples were sorted, washed, run through a chopping machine, packed into bundles, and hydraulically squeezed until all of the sticky goodness was removed from the sticky badness. Actually, we were told the pigs would be in hog heaven with the pile of leavings. Everybody got to try as many stations in the cycle as they liked. Even very little kids became quite proficient at dropping apples into the hopper. Everyone was excited to see "product" coming out of the assembly line. My son's favorite job (left in blue) was the post-squishing unpacking. I packed pulp until my hands were blue. Literally, my fingers were stiff and not working right all evening they had gotten so cold and beat up. My Dear Daughter thought the labors were beneath her and chose to sit by the fire pit and cuddle with the numerous farm dogs. We snacked on treats that everyone brought and drank hot cider while, as a team, filling (I can't even guess how many - ~150?) gallon jugs. Much fun! 
Here it is the 23rd already! How did that happen? The Online Needlework Show that ended last week went just swimmingly and things have wrapped up there with the exception of the couple hundred door prize messages still in the inbox. I was able to keep up with them the first few days, but as orders came in (and I played hookey for the weekend) they piled up until their inertia held them fast. I'm a glutton for punishment and asked for meaningful input the I intend to read, not just a "send me your name and I draw randomly" scheme. So - there is still hope if you entered! My trip that weekend was to visit my not-so-local Local Needlework Shop in Portland - Acorns and Threads. They were having a grand Open House Event that I was lucky enough to coincide with my Ink Circles trunk show there. All of the new models were unveiled to a crowd that was big enough I was concerned what the Fire Marshal's opinion might have been. Of course, the stitchers were there not just to see my stuff - there was a wagon load of new things brought back from the St. Charles market and a few other guests of honor! 
When the throngs finally had their way with the interceding pile of limited edition Belle Soie skeins, I got to meet Sharon Crescent. She had a number of lovely models done up in these lovely silks. Maybe it's beca use I am reading The Maltese Falcon, as part of our "The Big Read" library program, which makes me think of Bogart, who in a different movie (Casablanca, of course) says the phrase that comes to mind. "I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship."  I was also lucky enough to meet fellow designer Jamie Beam of Knotted Tree Needle Art. Acorns & Threads was her old stomping grounds, but it turns out that her current home is only an hour away from me. We won't have to drive four hours each to meet up next time (which will be soon, I'm sure)!
 I hardly put a needle to cloth the whole weekend due to all this gabbing and eating (I should have snapped a pic of the dessert table, it was as popular as any of the featured items!)...er "networking." My dearest daughter, who now looks forward to these road trips as much as I do, is not much for socializing and snooping. She pulled out her Frederick the Literate and stitched away. The most common comment was about her young eyes.
All in all, a lovely trip. 
My brain has become totally befuddled as to which season, which holiday is upon us. I have watched my brain shift from Christmas to Halloween back to Christmas already once this year. NO, not because the Christmas merchandise is already showing up in the groceries and department stores. As a cross stitch designer, it's been a really hard road learning to do things out o f season so that models are done and published in time for stitchers to get them (and perhaps even finish them) in time to celebrate. We have a local mayoral candidate named Donna Noski. I can't help but start humming "Dona Nobis" when I see her campaign signs everywhere by the roadside. I'm busily stitching a Christmas design, but should really be working on my St.Valentines Celtic Beasties. I've gotten a new piece back from a model stitcher - it's called "Spring Mandala". I'll be sending it off to JCS this week. Spring already! The only one of the four left on the drawing board is Summer. I'll be finishing it up mid-winter. Go figure. 
Above is the Christmas ornament in the current JCS Ornament issue. (I finished it back in March :o) It's a Pomander. Do you remember making these back when people MADE Christmas decorations. You start with an orange and poke whole cloves in, drawing out some pattern. The ones at the right were made by Right @ Home: http://www.rightathome.com/view.aspx?pid=484 They have nice ideas and instructions on their site. In any case, I am glad to know that it is Tuesday. My weekly calendar is much more aligned than my annual grasp on events. Tomorrow is Wednesday and is the start of the Online Needlework Show! Be sure to check out everything! Ink Circles has a booth there with my stuff and Alessandra Adelaide stuff, I've got a booth for Stickideen von der Wiehenburg, and one for Seba Designs too. Rest assured - we've got both Christmas AND Halloween covered. PS. Do I have a seasonal disorder?  I received in the mail today this fine little pocket-sized planner/notepad from a company that was trying to show me how I needed to order several hundred of these to use as gifts or promotional items (note the "compliments of Ink Circles" at the bottom.) One side is a blank pad, one side is a daily calendar - one week per two-page spread, with a section of handy maps, tables, etc.
While I had been planning on some logo-ed trinkets, they were going to be tape measures, so this item is a OOAK. Contest Part 1: If you are interested in winning this book, email/tweet/comment/whatever me. I will draw a name Monday morning. Contest Part 2: To win your choice of any new Ink Circles release, be one of the first two people to send me a list of all the new charts I'll be bringing out for the online show. Include titles that might have been in magazines, but are coming out as stand alone now. This part of the contest is over as soon as I get two winners. Note - it is a BIG list.  Although, as a friend pointed out, fishing is supposed to be a relaxing casual activity, motivating the family into action requires intense effort. Getting licenses (two trips since no one knew DD's social security number by heart), gathering equipment that hadn't been seen since last summer, making all-important snacking decisions and such took the better part of the weekend.
We made it down to the mighty Columbia River. It was a beautiful day. Wrong time of day, but a beautiful one. The fish were very safe. Many worms gave their lives, however. Which reminds me to check the fridge and release any survivors to the compost pile. I have discovered that my children are each an embodiment of a different physical property/law. My son is "Newton's First Law of Motion." A body playing video games has a tendency to want to continue to play video games. Once enough force is applied, the inertia is overcome and he would happily fish until external forces were re-applied. My daughter represents "elasticity". A body pried away from a stack of manga books will maintain the deformation only as long as force is continually applied. When the applied force is removed, the internal forces speedily restore the body back to it's original shape. "I don't think there are any fish here. Can we go home?" Thank you for listening to me blather about family activities. As your reward, you get a sneak peek at this Halloween design. I think I'll finish it up as a flat fold - it's too big for an ornie. It's called "The Smell of Sulfur." Carries Silk on Lakeside Linen. I just love the way the color came out on the raven! (The symbol at the bottom right is the alchemical sign for sulfur.) 
Okay, I was so totally taken for the sucker this week. And I let him get away with it, after all, he is the cutest little old senior I know. George gave me a case of the scaggiest looking peaches I've seen all season. Bruises, green ones, worms - yeah like I could put them in a kid's lunchbox. Ha Ha. So I selectively trimmed and got several bags "smoothie ready" in the freezer and made a double batch of peach jam, and cobbler twice. Still, I had half a box on the counter and fruit flies colonizing the kitchen. A couple days pass, and I bring George a jar of peach jam. He says he has something he has been saving for me and goes into the back room. He comes back with an empty canning jar with my label on it and says, "That was the finest hot pepper jelly I have ever had. We sure enjoyed every last drop of it..." Laid it on real thickly, he did, and ended with the, "You still make that ever?" How could I not give him my last jar of the stuff. (Side note: if you have never had pepper jelly, you are missing out - put it on a cracker with cream cheese, not peanut butter.) I was so tired of making jam this summer. I've done currant, cherries, plums (at least 3 times now!), peach, apricot, and plum/nectarine. All double batches - the cupboard is Sooooo full. I had to hire Toaster out as a dishwasher to cover pectin and jar expenses. No more jam. Period. But I didn't want to go all year with no pepper jelly. That wouldn't do. So, I brought down the giant stock pot one more time today to rectify that situation. In addition to my normal red hot pepper jelly, I made two more experimental types that I consider to have been overwhelming successes. We have peach+red peppers (came out so beautiful!) and a dark plum/poblano blend, which is WOWEE! Success, yes, but someone please slap me if I even suggest further jellin' this year.
 The kids went back to school this week and we are all adapting to the new schedule.
I'm usually taking pict ures of kids and socks, but the sunset last night was so amazing I couldn't resist capturing it. Saturday was Day 1 of the huge music festival our town hosts each Labor Day weekend: Tumbleweed. Our dulcimer group hosted a workshop, then we spent many hours sitting around in the park listening to various live music ensembles and eating festival food.
 It's perfect for sitting and knitting, but I was at a knitting turning point. I had just finished these socks improvised from the leftover bi ts of three other pairs (note the colors are not unlike that sunset!)
 I had stumbled across a Nancy Bush Mystery sock knit along on a Ravelry group. Obviously, they couldn't FORCE you to knit in "any shade of yellow", but to be fully compliant (and eligible for prizes) that was one of the rules. Fortunately I had just gotten some yarn from Knit Picks that seemed perfect. Unfortunately, I'm waiting for the next installment of pattern, so they are shelved temporarily. The obvious solution is to cast on something new, right?
 A few weeks ago, we had a lovely camping trip where we met up with some dulcimer friends (of the hammered persuasion - the dulcimers, not the players ;o) over on the west side of Stevens Pass. That would be the west side of the Cascade range, where even in August, it was cold and wet. It's tough to play an instrument with your hands all shivery; I had known a pair of fingerless mitts was in my future. I just wished they were already done. We made the best of it and had a fabulous weekend of jamming interspersed with wrapping of hands around hot mugs of tea.
 So, not to be caught blue-handed again, my Tumbleweed project was this lovely pattern from Knitty.com called Sourwood Mountain. THis picture looks like nothing, but this yarn is wonderful in real life. I spun it from a mystery batt I got at Oregon Flock and Fiber last summer. Now here is the part you may not believe: while I was sitting there in my lawn chair yesterday, listening to the music, casting on these mitts, the band started playing "Sourwood Mountain." Cue Twilight Zone music. Today is another day of the festival - I'm not sure if we'll spend as much time there as yesterday. We've invited a nice couple from a Bellingham dulcimer group over for dinner & jamming tonight. We'd been emailing about music activities and they were delighted to learn about Tumbleweed. They seemed friendly, but should we all be found ax-murdered tomorrow, this would probably be a place for the homicide detective to start. (Joking)  
Here is a sneak peek at two new Ink Circles models that will be coming out. Celtic Quilts: Kentucky Chain will be the 4th block in the quilt series. Tracy Yandle did a super job stitching it for me. I love the fall colors (Carrie's Threads). This one should be out in a few weeks along with Namaste (chakra banner) and Bright Idea (that silly light bulb.) Quaker Floral Puzzle will be coming out at the online show in October along with a companion piece of the same nature (Quaker Geometric Puzzle) and possibly a third piece <winks at Tina>. Kathy Bonham did the stitching on this one. I'm showing the cover as the muted colors on charcoal Lakeside Linen 40 count because it looks so awesome, but I'll include a colorway options for light background and count of your choice (of course). I'm so pleased with these and hope the stitchers are too. | |
