Penelope Has Been Fobbed!

Continuing my quest to "fob" all of my Gingher Designer scissors, I have completed Penelope's. Here is the front...



And here is the back...

2003 Scissor Fob
Shepherd's Bush
32ct. Antique White linen
DMC and WDW as charted
Date Started Stitching: 2/4/2012
Date Finished Stitching: 2/6/2012
Data Finishing Completed: 2/6/2012

Even though it says "2003", I stitched it as charted. If you look closely, I stitched "Penelope" and "2012" on the bottom of the back.


I also did the finishing on my Red Exchange today. When it is received, I will share. Fun stuff!

Happy Stitching :)


JillMN

Fob-u-Less Frenzy

In an earlier post I talked about my Gingher Designer scissors. I am going to make a scrapbook of them so they were gathered up for photos.


Now mind you, I do not own all of them. There are some that I do not have.

I decided that I can't wait for 2012 to start my fob project. Last night I had an open window of time so I decided to get started. I am going to do these in chronological order. My oldest one is "Cheetah", I already have a fob for this one, thanks to Chris, one of my stitching buds. And now I realize I should have a picture of it but I don't. I will next post.

The next one is "Katelynn", which came out in 2002. Here is what I came up with for Katelynn.

Bloom

Lizzie Kate
28ct. Graziano home-dyed pink
DMC #333, 915, 3354, 3787
Date started stitching: 12/5/2011
Date finished stitching: 12/5/2011
Date finishing completed: 12/6/2011

What do you think? I like it! I tweaked the height a bit so the design would be 36 x 36. I had wanted to use just plain Pink Graziano, but I was out. Since I am all about using stash I already have, I settled on this home-dyed piece.



My Other Pastime...
I had some interest in seeing my advent scarf. Here is a photo of Days 1 through 5.


I am learning alot doing this and am very pleased with the results so far. I have always loved projects with a variety of things going on.

Anyway, that's it for today. Thanks for visiting.

Happy Stitching :)

JillMN

More to Share...

Just two days and I already have alot to share!

First, as you probably already know, October is Breast Cancer awareness month. Annemiek over on Once Upon a Stitch wrote a post about pink threads. She is asking people to leave comments about their favorite pink thread and is going to donate 25 eurocents for each comment to Pink Ribbon. I encourage everyone to do this. If you know anyone who has gone through this, it is a terrible disease.


I participated in Round #26 of the Fair and Square. Marie W. was my partner and here is what I stitched for her.

JBW Designs
French Apple
32ct. Natural Lite Belfast linen
GAST Cherry Wine

And here are the squares I received from Marie.


They are very stunning! Marie says this is from a charted folk designs book by Dover. They are lovely and I love the thread choice too! Thank you Marie.


And last but not least, and I can't believe I forgot to share this on my last post...the new Gingher scissors...Tessa! I got mine on Sunday. This one is a little retro looking.


Now, we had heard that this was going to be Gingher's last designer scissors. However, the packaging is a little different and it says on it "Manufactured for Fiskars". Not sure what this means, if anything. Only time will tell.


Well that's it for now. Thanks for visiting and have a great day!

Happy Stitching :)

JillMN

Where Did Alicia Come From?

Scissors. Gingher Scissors. Gingher Designer Scissors. OMG!

What is it with these that we go to the extremes to get? Why do we have to have them? Not sure but another one made an appearance today in this part of the world.

My friend, Joanus, called me from her Joann's and said that they had Gingher Alicia scissors. We knew about the ones coming next month but not this one! They were not on sale and she only had a few coupons. I said I would be right over. Jackie got there before me and purchased 3 pair for our group. I got out there and met her in the store and when we were standing there planning our action, I was examining the scissors. What? Could it be? YES! These Alicia's have peacocks feathers on them! Outstanding! Needless to say I was so very excited. Then Joan remembered that Joann's honors their sales 7 days before they start. She checked with a clerk and yes, we didn't necessarily need coupons for them. Hot-diggity-dog! I knew then for sure I was getting both the 4" and the 8". Did I say I was very excited? We briefly looked around for a couple of things and checked out. We managed to get scissors for our whole group.


I tried to do a closeup so the feather would show better.



Whew! What a whirlwide afternoon. I am very excited.

Have a great day!

JillMN

Another Scissors

The long-awaited, highly anticipated "Sonia" Gingher scissors are out. I got mine yesterday.


They look pretty much like the pictures I had seen on the internet previously. Not too much variance on this one.

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Today my mom would have been 82. Her first birthday she's not here happens to be on a Thursday, her favorite day of the week. She called Thursday's "maids day off". She cleaned on Tuesdays and Fridays and did laundry/ironing on Mondays and Wednesday. So on Thursdays she usually went "bumming", aka a trip to the knitting store. LOL! Happy Birthday Mom! I miss you lots.


Thanks for stopping by and have a great day!

JillMN

Just For Me

Hello Friends...I hope everyone is having great spring weather like we are here. It has been quite nice.

After I stitched that Hardanger Cloth for Joan, I told myself that I am going to do something for myself next. I decided on a CA Wells piece.

Here is what it looked like earlier today.


Her pieces are so beautiful but it is amazing how much work they are. I spent a good part of the day putting it together.






I am so glad to have this piece done and am very happy with the results. Now I have to "regroup" and decide what to work on next!

So...what about these Gingher Charlene's? It seems there is something peculiar about these. They don't seem to be as readily available as others have. When I got my 4" pair at Joann's, they did not have any of the 8". However, they did have both on-line. Since they were 50% off, I decided I needed an 8" too--besides, they are purple. But by Sunday, the 4" were no longer on-line.


Well, that's all I got for now. Have a great rest of the weekend!

Scissors from Yuko

I received the scissors that I ordered from Yuko in Japan. I love them. I just don't seem to have enough scissor yet! LOL!


It's almost the weekend--YAY! I will be doing some finishing this weekend.

A Few Things to Share

I heard from Nancy K. that she received my Fall Fair Squares. Here is the front square...


And here is the back square...


Does anyone recognize the design? It is part of Carol R.'s "Sew Autumn". The thread is Silk n'Colors "Autumn Bouquet". I love how it turned out. I wonder what Carol will think?

I got 2 new pair of scissors today! There was a "pink" exchange over on the HoE and Margaret gave her partner a pair of scissors with the pink ribbon pattern on the handles. I inquired about these to her and she graciously sent me a pair. I will be going to the LNS to get a few things in return for her. Thank you Margaret!!


The other pair I order from Joann's on-line with a gift card I got for my birthday. They are like scissors you used in school, rounded tips and everything--except they are Gingher's. I just had to have them.

After quite the day, I am going to honker down, stitch and sip hot drinks!

Have a great weekend!

Weekend Update

I can't believe the weekend is over already. I probably say that every Sunday night. I didn't get too much stitching in this weekend as there was too many other things going on.

I did do my Sunday Ackworth Friendship square, though. This is square #8.


Now I only have 4 left. YAY!

I saw a very cool idea over on Staci's blog. Staci is quite the knitter and knits alot of socks. Instead of putting these socks away in a drawer, she puts them in a basket. I thought that was very cool. I do not knit, but thanks to my mom, I have quite a few pair of knitted wool socks. I didn't have a basket, but I have this cute little bucket that Joan gave me at our retreat.


I think I have more, but this is all I could locate right now.

And, last but not least, I did get a Gingher Mia this last week.


This one kind of reminds me of a comforter that my dad had. I posted it here with a part of the scissors that my mom found in his belongings.

Thanks for visiting and have a great week!

Thank You Margit

Awhile back, Margit, who I consider a blogging friend, but is acually closer to my friend, Joan, was nice enough to get us some scissors, pictured on side, that I had been lusting after for quite some time. For whatever reason, we cannot get these in the U.S.

I sent her a little thank you gift and she received it this week.


It is a pattern that she had been wanting and some fabric for it. I really appreciate her getting the scissors for me. Thank you again, Margit.

And because I don't have enough scissors yet, I picked these up at Joann's today.


I just can't pass up the "pink" stuff and there is quite a bit out there right now as October is coming up and that is National Breast Cancer month. They also have a very cool sewing kit that includes a very nice sized zipper pouch. I will be going back for that.

That's it for now. Have a great weekend!

Just Had to Share...

My mom has been going through my dad's belongings and I have learned something very interesting.

This obsession that I seem to have with scissors is NOT a sickness. It seems that I inherited it from my FATHER!


This is just a portion of the scissors that she came across. She had already given some to a couple of my siblings.

Whew! What a relief to learn this.

Got Scissors?

About 2 weeks ago at our weekly Friday night stitching extravaganza at my good friend Joans, we were feeling like we needed a little scissor fix. There hadn't been any new Gingher's for quite some time. We decided to contact Mike & Carol's online store about the Premax scissors. Needless to say, here is what I own now.


The one on the far right still in the package, I did already have. Now I have all 6 Premax scissors. And wouldn't you know, as soon as we placed the orders for these scissors, these came out.


These are the new Gingher Criss scissors that just came out last week. They are a Joann exclusive and they aren't even at all the Joann's yet. My friend Joan, had to go across town to get these for our stitching group. Thank you Joan!

So now, I need to get some fobs made. This weekend I stitched Brightneedle's "Pretty in Pink" and changed the colors to fit one of the Premax's. This is my pink stitch for the month.


It is stitched on 40ct Ivory (over 2) with DMC. I am very pleased with how it turned out.


Becky's Ornament
I heard from Becky yesterday, the she received my ornament for our ornament swap.


This is Lizzie Block Flip Its--December. It is stitched on 32ct Lambswool Belfast linen with DMC floss as charted. I remember Becky saying on her blog awhile back that next Christmas she is going to decorate with gingerbread boys so that is why I decided on this one.

I hope everyone had a great weekend and a wonderful Easter. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great week!

Weekend Update

I wanted to do this last night but got home too late from my weekly dinner for my parents.

On Saturday, I received my Autumn Fair Squares from Stephanie. She stitched "Fall Squared" by Lizzie Kate. They are very cute. Thank you Stephanie!


I guess it was a "scissor" kind of a weekend. I got the 2 new Gingher scissors, Roberta and Sarah. My BFF, Joan, got the Sarah's for me at Joann's and she got the Roberta's thru Carol and Mike's online store.


Then, on Sunday, I went to my sisters, and she gave me these:



I was hoping to have my next pink stitch done, but hopefully tomorrow. I also have 3 exchanges I have to get out by Wednesday. Everything is done, I just have to put each of them together.

A funny thing happened to me on Saturday night. I was busy stitching away when the floor lamp I was using started blinking off and on. Hmmmmm, it puzzled me. I checked to make sure that it was fully plugged in and it was. However, it kept going off and on. I unplugged it and plugged it into another outlet. Same thing--off and on. Being the smart girl I am, I went to my closet to get the brand new extra bulb I bought a few months back. Put it in, plugged it back into the original outlet and voila'--I was back in business. Boy, was I glad I had that bulb. However, I do have another floor lamp, 2 table top lights and 1 that clips on the headboard of my bed. I could never be without a stitching light!

Well, that's it for today. Have a good one.

A Big Emma Too? Why Not!

My initial plan was to buy both the 4" and 8" Emmas when they came out as the name is dear to my heart. But when I went there earlier in the week, I wasn't really sure if I needed both of them.

But of course I have thought about it ever since and Michael's did have a 50% off coupon, so...


I am now the proud owner of both the 4" and 8" Emma's!

I Got an Emma!

I am so excited!

I stopped at my Joann's on the way home from work today and bought myself the 4" Gingher Emma's. I have been anxious for these to come out as Emma was my grandmother's name.