Geez Louise...... I forgot my TUSAL Update! Oh.. and a UFO Sunday update too.

Of course, this little stitch a long is very important! Why you ask? Well, Daffycat is having a totally useless stitch a long and I've been participating in this little event for the year so I have to update this from time to time. How often you ask?? Well every new moon cycle of course! So a bunch of us crazy, fun loving stitchers gather all of our thread ends or frogged threads and make fill a container of some sort for our own little show and tell.

So without ado, here is my ORT jar so far this year. I did manage to make quite a bit of contribution to this jar and while it is in the same jar as before, I keep stuffing them a little tighter every time.

My other update for the week is the work on my Starlight Sampler by Little House Needleworks. I don't know what happened, what clicked or whatever, but I have been stitching on this for a couple of nights this week and made a good amount of progress. Of course, I have been tying off and starting a new thread for each set of letters and the leaves on the tree which I think is important in making a stitching piece neater and possibly help with preserving the piece for years to come. This is something I picked up on while viewing a sampler show for Maryland Schoolgirl Samplers from the 1600's a couple of years ago. The samplers which were in really wonderful shape did not have any threads dragging across the back of the designs and everything was very neatly secured. I am hoping to get to Williamsburg one day to view their extensive sampler collection there.

Front of Design

 Back of Design

Until next time, enjoy stitchin' and knittin', enjoy time with family and friends and as always, enjoy life.  ~ Carol