Birthday Beets - Mission Accomplished

With the help of a month long extension,

Carol and I were able to finish our birthday beet project for Rose

one day before the scheduled gift giving. 

We are both happy that these are completed,

and anxious to give them to our beet-loving friend.

P.S. Thanks Toni and Terri for your help and moral support.



Here is the basket of beets, ready for giving, sans basket.

 

The darling needlebook that Carol stitched.





Hearts - Many Meanings

These are some of the hearts we exchanged

during our fun "heart day" a couple of weeks ago.

We had a really nice time.

Hearts had extra meaning in February -

Valentines, Love,

and Healthy Heart Awareness.

Today this post extends warm hearts and prayers

to the family of Lisa Roswell.

Such a sad event.

I hope their hearts will heal soon.

Winter Beauty

Hand decorated by the hands of Mother Nature and Father God.

Hearts Galore

Yesterday we had a little heart get together and we had pretty hearts all over the place.  It was great fun.

Here are a couple of photos of what we did:



We made these little pin/needle booklets -
a project that Toni came up with.
Unfortunately I took this photo
after Terri and Toni left.




These were the pincushions for our exchange.
Fun stuff!
I'll have more photos another day.



February Pincushions

Here are a couple of pincushions that I stitched recently. 

One is for an exchange. 

I hope to show you some others later today.



This is the one I made to exchange. 
It's an old Prairie Schooler pattern
that I added the word friends to in place of the alphabet letters.
I hope whoever receives this likes it.
It was a fun stitch.



This is from a BBD Reward of Merit pattern.
I didn't center it properly on the fabric,
so I had to leave part out.
Made into a cute little pincushion.

A Fine Finish From LZ

Linda - aka Super Stitcher! - finished her Mary Wigham just in the nick of time to frame it

and enter it in the WRSG 2010 Contract Piece Challenge. 

The sampler didn't win, but received many oooohs and aaaahs.

The actual piece looks much more beautiful than this photo. 

Linda used the hand dyed silks from Vicki Clayton for this piece. 

I can't remember the name of the Lakeside Linen she used,

but it is a beautiful green and goes great with the silks. 

She won a free frame at a shop hop contest and chose this one for Mary.

Great job, LZ.

I'll post more projects that were in the Contract Piece Challenge soon.

The lower left hand portion of the piece.

Sorrow

I was so sad to hear of Elizabeth Edwards' passing this week.  She was a remarkable person for so many reasons, and we all can learn much from the way she handled life.  Hers is truly a courageous life to be honored. 

I just learned within the past hour that my former next door neighbor, Terry, passed yesterday from breast cancer.  I think it was three years ago at this time of year that she was diagnosed.  I am so sorry to say that I hadn't kept in touch with her for the past year plus.  She was in my heart and some prayers.  My prayers go out to her husband, Dick, and their four boys and their families.

I have a friend who is very stubborn about things like getting mammograms, etc.  I so hope that she will reconsider.  I do a lot of the "it's easier just not to know" thing, too, so I can't be too forceful with her, but she has had enough life experiences that she should know how important this is.  Three out of the five members of my neighborhood book club are survivors.  Four out of the eight women who were at a stitching weekend this summer were survivors.  It is an honor to know these women and to learn about their experiences. 

God Bless Us, Everyone...Those who have been blessed and who have survived, and those who fought this battle and have gone on to their new lives.