Dee,
You stated that you never ever have seen a finished piece of needlework
at a garage sale.
I am very lucky. I live very near to a Goodwill that has a new piece or
two every week. I don't know where they come from but someone, or quite
a few someone's, in my neighborhood is constantly dropping off kits and
finished framed pieces. The women who do the pricing obviously do not
put any value in these things because they sell them cheap. I seem to
be the only one buying them. I like flowers and plants, sort of country
garden type stuff. I also like pinks, purples and greens.
Patricia in Maine,
The name of the big piece that I am working on is Wish You Rainbows
Picture from Candamar Designs. I bought this too in the Goodwill. I am
using this as my "sampler" or practice piece before I begin the
beautiful and expensive (for me anyway) things I have collected from
Michaels. The only LNS store in my area has only needlepoint. The Wish
You Rainbows picture is of a country type cottage with a rainbow
surrounded by trees. This is in the background. The foreground is
large blades of grass and pink and yellow tulips. You are supposed to
stitch I'LL ALWAYS WISH YOU RAINBOWS over the rainbow, but I am not
going to do that. I think it takes away from the beauty of this piece.
The aida is stamped in some way with color variations that add to the
stitched piece. A great deal of the blades of grass and tulips are done
by tweeding the floss or mixing two different colors together. I have
made some mistakes on this piece.
My next big piece will be a wizard from Dimensions for my husband. I
also have a lot of small pieces waiting to be started. I really want to
do only one piece at a time, but I found out recently that it is good to
have a small travel piece going so that you have something to take with
you when waiting in the Doctor's office, etc. I took my Rainbows piece
to the emergency room with me last weekend when my poor husband cut open
his foot and found it okward to try and maneuver it there. The next
time I need to take something to work on with me, I am going to start a
small, I believe Dimensions, piece called Home is Where the Cat Is. It
has a cat sitting in a nice comfy chair all curled up.
Enough for now, back to lurk.
Tina
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