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Fern E	Summer's fast approaching	Lead	[-]
Posts: 40 (06/06/09 06:38:26) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Hi everyone, I haven't posted for a long time although I have been following you all. I'll try a quick update. We went to Florida for Easter, spent a week with DD#3 and her family. Thoroughly enjoyed our little 6 year old GD. Went to a beach for the weekend with her and she loved the ocean. We drove down and visited other family along the way in Texas and back up in Illinois. Beginning of May I put in my annual 500 plus annuals. God is good. The arthritis has been really bad but during that planting time the barometer went up and my pains decreased considerably. The flower beds are looking great. The last two weeks I've been working really hard at deep cleaning my house since I'm still pretty pain free. Amazing how many dust kitties hide behind the refrigerator, behind the beds, and many other places. But that job is just about all done too. So it's on to my 60th high school reunion this coming weekend in Minnesota, also my family reunion there the same weekend. August 1rst a wedding in Atlanta of a granddaughter ( so another trip) and hopefully at the end of September beginning of October a trip East to see our daughter with the 16 kids, (by that time there will also be three greatgrandkids there) and a few days up into New England to enjoy the fall leaves. That plus church committee work will keep me busy the next few months. Stitching: I've been keeping at it and this huge piece is coming to and end I hope by the end of June. My goal is to finish it then. It has meant about 400 stitches a day since Christmas but I have managed to keep that up. Then I will go back to a simple MB ( at least they seem so after this huge piece). Have a great week everyone. Fern
deanna		#1	[-]
Posts: 5 (06/07/09 10:51:06) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi Fern, As always, it sounds like you have been busy. My garden is all in, and I have tomatoes setting. They should be ripe in about 2 or 3 weeks. My cucumbers are setting too, and the peppers haven't started setting yet. I'm still not doing much stitching, although I'm working on some old Christmas ornaments that I started about 10 years ago. I'm still working on my chemo caps. I am well on my way to reach my goal of 100 for the year (I have done 50). They are distributed by Knots of Love.Org to cancer centers throughout the U.S. My roses are in full bloom and it is a beautiful time here (Southern CA). My brother-in-law has outlived two of the estimates given him, and is in remission, for which we are grateful. I read the board often, but don't post too often. It is good to see what everyone is working on. I hope to get back to MHG later this summer. Take care. Deanna
Fern E	Hi Deanna	#2	[-]
Posts: 41 (06/08/09 05:42:42) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm having a little problem trying to use the quick reply but I'll try again. It's so good to hear from you again. Southern Cal sounds lovely this time of year. I checked out the Knots of Love Org. I neither knit nor crochet so that won't work for me but I think it is wonderful what you are doing. I see that you can get a starter kit from "Laurel something" for $19.00 and that they then donate $3.00 to Knots of Love. Also the cap goes to them and they distribute them. I'm assuming that after you have the pattern and the needles you buy your own yarn and go from there. I also found a page with comments from knitters. Noted there was a large church in Riverside, CAL. doing a large project. Are you part of that group? Our denomination has a large women's hospital in West Africa. Our ladies group has been making layettes to send over to them. Those Moms have absolutely nothing for babies when they go home, so each new Mom gets a layette. Have a good week and keep us posted. Fern
Marian	Fern!	#3	[-]
Posts: 1 (06/08/09 20:07:34) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Is that you? Long time, no see. Which is my fault because I got off the beaten track. I still stitch MB's but have developed a great love for anything Quaker. And stitching necessaires. And anything Jane Austen. As we speak, I am looking at Miss Hathaway and Wepham Cottage. They hang in my small foyer. I have one more piece to be framed and the wall will be complete: one MB for each of my grandkids. I can sympathize with the arthritis problem! I keep telling myself that the more I stitch, the less my hands will fall prey to the Big A. Right! I love forums, blogging and Facebook.If you go to my blog, you will see some great links to some great stitching blogs. And those blogs will lead to even more blogs. Addictive, but not fattening. I'm going to stay in touch more. I miss all of you, believe it or not. Helen and I exchange emails often: mostly political stuff. We're two old time Republicans commiserating over the sad state of affairs in D.C. http//gumboandgrits.blogspot.com/
deanna	Fern and Marian	#4	[-]
Posts: 6 (06/09/09 13:24:49) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Fern, Thanks for responding. Once you have the pattern and the needles from the kit, you can use your own materials for the chemo caps. They have a list of recommended yarns as they want to make sure that the chemo hats are soft on bald heads. I use primarily Caron's Simply Soft. I usually buy mine at Wal Mart which is less than at our local Michaels. KOL has patterns on line which you can download, too. I had my needles, so I downloaded the patterns I wanted to use, and purchased the yarn. The caps I make are made in a spiral, and then I finish off the edge in a different stitch. I am in Hemet about 40 miles from Riverside. We started making the hats at the church I used to attend as a small ministry group. One of the ladies has a daughter close to one of the drop off points in Huntington Beach, so she collects our hats and drops them off when she visits her daughter. Since she is driving down for us, we assist with her car gas. Also, if she doesn't go for awhile and mails the hats, she and I usually split the postage. Even though we have moved to another church, I am still involved with that ministry there, as we are good friends. Our Hemet group averages somewhere between 60 and 80 caps a month. There usually are 4-5 of us on a regular basis with other people participating on a non-regular basis, if that makes sense. When I was with our local EGA group, we embroidered baby blankets and took them to the nearest hospital so no baby would ever go home without a new blanket. They still do the baby blankets, lap ropes for the nursing homes, and one of the mothers does premie hats and booties. There is always much need for using our talents for others. When the ladies at your church make the layettes, what all do they make? Marian, I too can sympathize with the arthritis problem that you and Fern have. If I am careful and I stitch on a regular basis (and not overdo, which is easy to do), I find that it helps my arthritis, especially my fingers. It is a good excuse to do something we love. Hopefully everyone continues to do well, and I'll be checking in again. Deanna
libertycorner	Hey Marian!	#5	[-]
Posts: 68 (06/09/09 14:02:51) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Welcome back to the board. Don't abandon us this time. I think you got lost when we changed boards. You've been busy! How are things down in Louisiana these days? Have you been to your favorite haunt lately? (England?) Ladies, Marian is in Anglophile. She sometimes hops over to England just to go cross stitch shopping. Lucky lady. And can she ever cross stitch! Stay in touch. Helen
Marian		#6	[-]
Posts: 3 (06/09/09 16:13:55) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Well, we are now about 10 days into hurricane season and we haven't repaired all the damage from Gustav. New roof, but still have the hole in the bedroom ceiling. I have nightmares about what may crawl over the roof, through a hole or something and come down that hole. I haven't been to England in three years. My body has been acting up a bit. The last trip over I served as a tour guide for a friend of mine. We had to leave London a day early because the Houston airport had been closed in preparation for Rita. We flew into Newark, spent the night and flew onto BR. We were sitting in the plane on the tarmac at the BR airport when Rita hit. Terrible way to do rock n' roll. I saw in today's news that the idiot New Orleans mayor, Ray Nagin, was quaranteened in Shanghai--swine flu--and we all hoping Shanghai will keep him. God help NO if they have another hurricane hit while he's still in office. I've been finishing some projects today. Sometimes I think it may be more fun putting things together than stitching.Blackbird Designs has a freebie on their blog. I just finished stuffing the two I've made and am going to try to stitch the trim on tomorrow. I used crushed walnut shells-it's the upcoming thing for stuffing pin cushions-and the smell is still in the room. Anyway, I'm not going anywhere. I have a space on The Stitcher's Showcase. Don't have the url handy or I'd post it. There are some photos of my work there. I'll go get those addresses and come back. Or you can go to my blog and follow the lead. A lot of stitchers of all types are joining and it's great seeing what everyone else does. Be back in a minute!
Marian		#7	[-]
Posts: 4 (06/09/09 16:20:10) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Okay. Here they are: http://www.stitchersshowcase.com/profile/MarianHarden The freebie is here. It's called "Souvenir de France": http://blackbird-designs.blogspot.com/ Here's another one that's fun. It's called the "Totally Useless Sal". We all save our orts, thread wrappers. broken needles, etc., and put them in bowls, etc. Once a month, at full moon, we post photos of our "accumulations". Follow the directions tot TUS: http://dragonmyneedle.blogspot.com/ Last Edited By: Marian 06/09/09 16:32:49. Edited 4 times.
libertycorner	BlogSpots	#8	[-]
Posts: 69 (06/10/09 07:26:12) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Marian----I perused the sites, and there is some very, very fine stitching there. I was particularly interested in the LeRouvray quilt shop in Paris. I've been in the area, but I don't think it was there at the time. I have their quilt book, though, which came out some years back. But anyway, at this time, I don't think I'd like to pay Euro prices for fabric there. Helen
fenny		#9	[-]
Posts: 71 (06/11/09 04:32:14) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Hi everyone. Everybody has been doing sooo many things, wow. Can't say that for myself, but for Fern, you almost finished the SQ picture, what an achievement, so many stitches, must be such a wonderful feeling! Marian, nice to meet you, saw your links and the SAL, that's so nice, I only put the threads in a pot and put it later outside for the birds, if they need it for their nest. Hope all the gardens are doing well, must be so good to get your own vegetables from the garden! - Happy Stitching :) My cross stiching album: http://s245.photobucket.com/albums/gg72/fennymrf/
Marian		#10	[-]
Posts: 5 (06/11/09 10:17:23) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	In time I may put them outside. We live in a wooded area, so there's lots of goodies for the little fellows to find. Plus what is available in construction sites. I have been putting the accumulations in clear Christmas balls. I have almost 4 now and they aren't too bad. Don't know what I'll eventually do with them:very colorful sitting in a bowl. I've been finishing some long-started projects and hope to have snaps soon. Working on my granddaughter's cushion right now.

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