Author: Mary-Frances

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Happy New Year!

I haven’t done my “word of the  year” yet, but I will, however, I hope you all do something fabulous for New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day and I’ll meet you back here to start on my stitching resolutions in a few days!

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Projects for 2012

Projects for 2012

This post has taken me longer than I originally thought it would – making goals and organizing my year has become a yearly goal, but this year I’m looking back and my fiber art really took an interesting turn. I’ve had some time to evaluate and have really loved a

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New Fabric and progress on the tea towels

Woo hoo! New fabric! (who doesn’t love that!). This fabby number is for our kitchen curtains. Yep! My duaghter’s comment was  “Wow! Daddy will like cooking in here!” ha ha! But I have to say, I think this fabric is really cool. I’ll put up a picture when I’m done,

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TAST – a great way to finish a project!

Actually I’m tackling this as a way to FINISH a project. TAST or Take a stitch Tuesday was started several years ago by the amazing Sharron Boggon  – I’ve officially signed up and am listed on this post – so I have to do it! 🙂 If you’ve never heard

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No, “Art Abandoned” isn’t abandoned

No, “Art Abandoned” isn’t abandoned

Yikes! I haven’t posted since Halloween! I can’t believe it! I’m actually still “finding my feet” on the new direction of this blog, but here’s an update on what’s going on with me. I’m busily working on 3 towels for a friend for Christmas – I’ll be happy when it’s

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Embroidery project and new sewing machine series

To kick off my new and re-invented blog I’m going to have one day a week where I feature what I’m working on – this is what I’m stitching currently. Above is my new martini towel (for a friend). The one below is for Missy C’s collection of cat stitching

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Doing the Turkey – the turkey work! Woo hoo

Somehow that should be a song, shouldn’t it? Anyway, I bought this totally cute little crewel project at an estate sale – I have a brazilian embroidery project to do that includes Turkey work and was warned off of it (and this is from some AMAZING stitchers). So, you know

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