St Patrick's Day

Hey, Friends!

Don’t forget to wear a touch of green on Monday so you won’t get pinched!  Are you preparing the St. Patrick’s meal?  Would you believe I’m making my first attempt at Corned Beef Brisket following The Pioneer Woman’s recipe?  Sure does smell good!  

It has been a very South Carolina March this week - starting with 70s Monday, and it was 24° when I left home Friday morning, and supposed to be 72° today!!  There are a few payoffs...

I took this sky cloud shot yesterday and noticed the semi rainbow.  I read a while back what those are, but can't find it again.  Does anyone know what these are?

Next on my stitch list for 2014 is a Heartstring Samplery piece, but will wait until a bit more is done to share it with you.  I’ve seen several people, like Garden of Stitches and The Twisted Stitcher, working on their BBD Anniversaries of the Heart projects recently.  It’s not on my list (yet), but I’m tempted…  We’ll see: 

Did you see the finish work that Faye – AKA Carolina Stitcher – did recently on the LHN Sheep Virtues?  If not, go take a look. They’re a beautiful set!

I mentioned a couple of posts back that my DS had asked about me knitting a hat for him.  Well, I showed him my experiment piece the other day and he said, can I have it?  Guess that means he liked it well enough.  Have been playing around with size of yarn and needles, and I picked up some wool to try next.

Thanks for stopping by to say Hello!  I appreciate your comments a lot!

Charlene♥SC

Peace♥Love♥Joy

Happy Stitching!

Yarn 'n Silk

Hey, Friends!

Remember that I was the lucky winner of the gift from Patty of Hanging on by a Thread.  Here’s the lovely project she stitched for me.  I love it, and the way she chose to finish it. The La-D-Da chart also fills an empty spot in my collection.  Thank you so much Patty for your generosity and sharing your talents!

You know I’ve been looking for Midsummer Night Designs, Memorial Sampler.  Thanks to a recommendation by Ranae, it has been ordered.  Thanks so much for keeping an eye out!

Guess what I was at Walmart the other day?  They have brought back the fabric aisle and a few groupings of DMC.  Funny – they had them arranged in plastic drawers by color!

Have you noticed how early fall seems to be coming?  I was so surprised to see the dogwoods with full, red berries the other day. The other morning there was one little blue morning Glory on the trellis.  They always remind me of fall – the beginning of school, waiting on the front porch when I was a girl.  This morning was almost chilly when Pixie and I went out.

I’ve still be stitching on Gobble, until I ran out of one of the Hand-Dyed fibers colors!  I was certain there was enough – or at least a color close enough – but not so.  It’s ordered so should be on the way soon.  In the meantime, I’ve pulled out some pretty cotton/wool/silk yarn called Coconut Shell and started a scarf. 
Yesterday I stopped by a little shop and picked up a new to me type – Manos silk blend.  It really looks like fall, doesn’t it?

Thanks for stopping by, today and always.  I appreciate your thoughts and comments!

I'm grateful for a little chill (not so humid) in the air!

Peace☮LoveYJoyJ
and Happy Stitching 
Charlene♥SC
and õPixie

No Snow Here

Hey, Friends!

Have you been seeing the snow of all our stitching friends?  Judy commented that my sidebar thermometer stated that it was 71 degrees (the thermometer was wrong) and it was snowing at her home.  It still is, by the way, and beautiful.  The outlook isn’t so positive around these parts this year (February?).  But if you want to see some lovely snow, grab a big cuppa something hot and take a look over at Michele’s or Beth’s. 

I live in the country which means there’s a horse pasture across the road and a creek beside my house, and we use well water.  When one has a well there are parts (don’t know exactly what they are) that are above ground and should be covered in some manner. I’ve always said NO to fake rocks, so for that first Christmas I asked my folks for a ‘wishing well’ cover. This is a spring picture from 2009.  We’ve been here about 15 years and it finally crumbled.  I have been looking all around town at hardware and places where there were wooden swings, etc. but couldn’t find another wishing well… so I crumbled, too, and now have a fake rock!

Remember those knitting needles from the consignment shop?  I took a couple days off from stitching and started a few scarves.  That didn’t last very long – but they’re there when I need to busy my hands!  A little stitchy gift surprise is in the works, so I won’t show it just yet.  

Then I pulled out Mary.  She’s been napping since the urge to stitch smalls hit me – when was that … October? Nope, it was November 6.  Oh, Mary Who?  Why, it’s Mary Gibson.  I was happy to see her and get reacquainted!  She’s a very light and bright girl!

I'm grateful that DS visited on Saturday! 

Thanks for all your kind words and comments.  Sometimes they feel like hugs, don’t they? 

PeaceëLoveëJoy
and Happy Stitching
Charlene♥SC

Snow? Ice?

Friday:  We are supposed to get some ‘wintery mix’ this evening through the day tomorrow.  I’m looking forward to it – just watching the snowflakes fall.  They say this is our best chance so far this year…we’ll see. I know SO many of you are buried deep in multi-feet of snow and are sick and tired of it, but forgive your South Carolina friend the excitement of having a few flakes, please.

Saturday:  Well – they were right! Not so much with the timing, but it did… something!  I just took Pixie out -- she was not impressed!  There are two plus inches of … some icy mixture.  I think it’s mostly sleet with a little snow mixed in… some minute flakes and pellets (?) are still falling, and if their prediction is correct, will for most of the day.  It’s not the beautiful huge flakes one loves to see falling, but it’s ‘snow’.  That prediction also says the temperature will be below freezing through most of the weekend, so what’s here is likely to stay for a while.  Yes, I stopped by the grocery a couple of times during the week: well stocked and ready!  Enjoying hot, flavored coffee while browsing this morning…

One of my long-time, online friends was doing some organizing – imagine that - and decided to share some magazines she thought I might like.  There wasn’t a duplicate of what I have in the group she sent, AND she also sent a couple of snowman charts that I don’t have.  How special is that RAOK?  Thank you so much, Lesa.  I really appreciate your generosity and thoughtfulness – and Maddie’s approval!!

This week’s stitching has been good.  I finished “B” is for Buttons, with the exception of beads, with Brooke’s Books Alphabet SAL.

Finished Fa-La-La with the Little House Needleworks Monthly Ornament Stitch-A-Long Blog, Too group.  I had ‘finished’ stitching, then noticed the red bottom border on other members’ pieces… How did I miss that on the chart? It was quite a fun piece to stitch!  It, as the others will be, is stitched on 28 ct Tea Monaco 1x1 using the recommended fibers. I did add beads for the snowflakes and the candle's flame.       

Finished part 3 of the Needlemania 2 SAL with The Sampler Life.

On Friday night with Let’s Stitch, I finished the Sweetheart Kiss from Give Us a Kiss –Cricket Collection on 28 ct cream linen using recommended DMCs as another ornie for Friendly Stitchers’ Ornament-a- Month SAL.  Honestly, it's not as cute as I thought it would be - maybe when it is really finished...

I also started Lovely You, a freebie from Paulette at Plum Street Samplers on the same 28 ct cream linen using DMC 115.  With the encouragement of Edgar, I watched Great Expectations and Elmer Gentry last night  while stitching!  It was a tribute to the recently deceased actress, Jean Simmons. 

What?  Knitting?  Yes, I’m a very unskilled knitter!  I saw this on Snippets and Stash, and just thought it was SO cute – I even forwarded it to a friend who really knits.  When I was at Hobby Lobby – one of my favorite haunts – they had sock yarn on sale, so I went for it.  Now mine doesn’t look much like the one above, but it was a little something different while watching football last weekend.  Didn’t get too much done, you say?  Well… how many times did I pull it out before I got this far?  Let’s see – maybe five?  Found When I find the link again to an eerily similar story to mine – but very humorous, I'll update.  It made me laugh out loud and admire the fact that Annemarie ‘learns’ so much quicker than I do!

Well friends, that’s it for this week.  I hope you are having a great weekend, doing the things that you enjoy most!  I hope to be around your blogs to see you, soon!

    Peace~Love~Joy
and Happy Stitching!Charlene