Rose Quaker Page 4

I told you I was having trouble putting this one down!  I had planned to stitch one page each month until it was finished, but it kept calling to me....so I stitched a second page this month. 

May IHSW Results

All in all, it was a productive stitching weekend.  I finished the stitching on page 3 of Rose Quaker, I stitched quite a bit on LHN Lavender Hill (which I am stitching for the second time), I finished the Cubistic Mini Color Wheel by Handblessings Designs, and I got a good start on page 4 of  Rose Quaker on Sunday.  Unfortunately, the dreaded frog came to visit and I had quite a bit of reverse stitching to do on Sunday evening.....

Cubistic Color Wheel

At our ANG anual luncheon, we all recieve this design by Handblessings Designs all kitted up.

It's a small counted canvas design, and it stitched up very quickly.  Not sure how I will 'finish' it yet, but I will be inspired someday.

Just finished page three of the Quaker Rose Sampler by Stickideen von der Wiehenburg. 

I am really enjoying this one and hate to put it down! 



International Hermit and Stitch Weekend

Today marks the beginning of the May International Hermit and Stitch Weekend.  Let the stitching begin!

Looking for Congress Cloth

Southpaw Stitcher showed a finish on her blog a little while ago, that I just felt the need to stitch immediately!  It's a counted canvas piece call Variations on a Rhodes Theme by Freda's Fancy Stitching.  Rhodes stitch are my absolute favorite, especially Rhodes hearts and butterflies, so I got the chart and started to kit it up.

Welcome Stitchery had the chart and all the fibres but not the congress cloth.  The chart says Pewter Congress cloth.  The search for this is proving to be much more difficult than anticipated.  After contacting numerous LNS, I finally called Zweigart, who told me they never, ever had a color of congress cloth named Pewter.



I then contacted the designer to see who the manufacturer was.  Freda replied to my e-mail very quickly to tell me that I must have an old chart.  When she originally designed the piece she used a sample that was mismarked, and that the real color is Dusty Blue.  I then started searching for Dusty Blue congress cloth and have not been successful.  Freda then let me know she had a piece and would be happy to send it to me.  I sent her payment via paypal, and had an envelope in a few days.  Right before the envelope arrive, Freda let me know that she had mistakenly sent me mono canvas, and would look for the congress cloth.  She did refund my payment, and let me know her LNS as ordered the congress cloth, which is labeled Zweigart color number 594 in Canada and was probably called something entirely different in the US.  She mentioned that it would take quite a bit of time to get it in and she would let me know when that happened to see if I still wanted it.

So....does anyone have a 12 x 12 piece of congress cloth in Pewter / Dusty Blue / color number 594?  I will be happy to pay you, or give you a pint of blood or my left arm.......

May TUSAL

Here is the ort jar from this past month's stitching.  Lots orts = lots of stitching!