Busydebbie 11 months ago

colonialstitcher Nice project and nice work as always! 11 months ago

Busydebbie Stitching finished 11 months ago

colonialstitcher Wonderful work! Do you give pieces as gifts or do you keep all of them (as I almost always do with mine)? 11 months ago

Busydebbie Gifts...best chance that the finished stitch will continue to see daylight...otherwise even framed they end up in the closet 11 months ago

Busydebbie Pressed and Framed 10 months ago

colonialstitcher I don't do as many pieces as you do - and they take much longer (sometimes years - found some started pieces when mom moved out of the family house so actually some are waiting decades to be...I don't do as many pieces as you do - and they take much longer (sometimes years - found some started pieces when mom moved out of the family house so actually some are waiting decades to be finished). If it is something that I intended to hang in the house husband frames (when he can, he makes his own frames) it and hangs it. If it is a gift - rare - ditto. Other pieces that I have stitched just to learn a new technique or to demonstrate stitching at reenactments or because my EGA chapter was doing the project I leave with the stitching finished, but nothing else done with it or I finish it as soft piece (like a mini quilt). I then can bring it to demonstrations to show the various styles of needleworking easier than if they were framed. A piece I had stitched and given to my parents for their 35th anniversary - when we were taking apart the family house as mom was going to assisted living, I was told to take back. Robert hung it (it was framed by him before I gave it to them as a gift back then) on my our side of our main studio (originally a den off the kitchen) for the family who owned our house before us. Show more 10 months ago