Needleworker's Samplings asked:
- How many project do you have in progress at the moment? Twenty seven
- Do you prefer to stitch with other stitchers or alone? With others, I bet some of you are surprised by that!
- Do you belong to an organized group. i.e EGA, ANG, local, etc? Nope.
- Do you read stitching blogs? Yes.
- Your favorite stitching blog – no more than 5! Mine! HA. Bet you didn't think I'd say that.
- Name your favorite needlework tool. Needle. You're lost without one.
- Things that interfere with your stitching?? Life?
- What type of stitching do you prefer, i.e. cross stitch, needlepoint, crewel, etc? Cross stitch.
- How many years since you started stitching? Twenty five.
- What type of stitching project, i.e. sampler, geometric, etc? My gut instinct is pictures (representational but not necessarily realistic) but I look up and see samplers everywhere!
- What is your favorite project you have ever completed? Today it is my City Stitcher Willow Sampler.
Riona of Oubliette asked these questions for her fifth blogiversary giveaway:
Sherry of It's all About Sherry asks:
- Who are your five favorite designers? The girls at Blackbird, Bent Creek, Shepherd's Bush, Twisted Threads (I wish she'd come back to it), and Amy Bruecken.
- Name your five favorite LNS/ONS: Strawberry Sampler, Silver Needle, Elegant Stitch, Yankee Cross Stitch, and I don't know...what else is still open?
- Name your five favorite stitching themes. Samplers, willows, pumpkins, Santas, and I think I'd do a lot better if this only asked for four...
- Other then mine, of course [she said with tongue firmly in cheek], name your five favorite stitching blogs. Oooh I hate doing this. Someone will get their feelings hurt.
- Name your five favorite stitching websites: these could be shops, designers, fiber/fabric/tools manufacturers, etc.
- Even though it's not what it once was, I still rely on Kathy Dyer's site Counted Cross Stitch, Needlework, and Stitchery Page especially for the fabric calculator
- I like to go on Hoffman Distributing's site, especially if I am traveling
- Pinterest--which isn't so much a stitching site, but certainly has loads of interesting ideas and patterns
- I like reading what Alma Allen contributes to the blogisphere
- Yeah, again with the five, huh?
- Do you stitch/sew in the same spot? Do you have a nest? I do always stitch in the same spot, but it's not very nest-like. It's the end of the couch near the end table.
- How many pairs of scissors do you have? 23
- Do you have holiday or seasonal fobs or other accessories? Oh yes.
- Are you a many project stitcher or one at a time? One at a time, what's that?
- Do you watch t.v. while stitching, listen to books on tape? TV.
- Idea project--designer, fabric & count, fibers? I like stitching on high count fabric with one strand of silk.
- If you read, what types of books? literary fiction and really crap mysteries.
- If you stitch reproduction samplers, do you modify and put in your initials, date, etc? I don't stitch that many reproduction samplers. Depends.
- How do you store your projects--bags, cases, boxes, baskets? I have all my projects in plastic bags--mostly I've recycled those containers sheets come in. Then they are in bags or baskets depending on how long it has been since I worked on them.
- Do you do any other craft or sewing things? Of course! I sew a bit and knit a bit and do a lot of paper crafting.
- Do you shop at primarily one shop or many? I spend most of my disposable income at Strawberry Sampler.
- How many cross-stitch patterns do you own? (Insert evil cackle) 454--they are countable people.
- What's your ideal stitching retreat? Good light, good people, comfortable chairs, awesome store to shop at.
- Have you been or does it only exist in your head? If they could upgrade the facilities for Camp Wannasew, it would exist.
- What are your favorite stitching tutorials? I think Vonna improves us all as finishers...
- What is the smallest count fabric you've ever used? silk gauze
- What's your secret to keeping cool? (No really, what? It's going to be 102 tomorrow.) Apparently it's staying inside in the A/C. When we lived in Los Angeles in an unairconditioned apartment, we'd go to the second run movie theater (started off at $2 a movie!). But the public library usually has free a/c. Oh gosh, I started this post so long ago...
- Have you found any cute crafts to use up leftover/unused floss from kits or other floss unsuitable for actual stitching? I think I showed you that.
- Starting or finishing? (Not finish-finishing obviously.) Starting.
- Favorite DMC color? 341, but I don't stitch with it much...
- What other hobbies are undertaken in your household? (roommate, spouse, children, pets...) My dog enjoys obedience classes (the classes more than obeying) and agility for fun. She also enjoys crazy-dogging in the yard. The dude plays competitive chess, reading, and makes preserves, and pickles.
- Do you ever make those recipes you tear out of magazines and stack in your kitchen? I'm concentrating on that now. I've made four--and thrown away two!
4 comments:
First, as a blogger looking at another 29 days to post in November, I admire you for making this one post instead of 3 separate ones.
As a reader, how many books do you read at one time? Seeing how many projects you have going at once reminded me of this. I always have more than one stitching project and book in progress, definitely not related to each other.
I loved your answer about scissors. I also have a collection of scissors and another of thimbles.
I'm so glad you have more scissors than I! At a quick count I have 13 - but I could be wrong!
I never thought about using the plastic sheet containers for stitching. I'm all over ziploc bags of various sizes though, and plastic page protectors. I don't stitch from the original chart, so the plastic page protectors are great for the copies I make.
I detest answering these things, but love reading others!
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