Incoherent Scribblings

Today’s SBQ was suggested by Danielle and is:

What company produces your favorite hand-dyed fabric? Are there any companies whose hand-dyed fabric you do not like? If so, why?

I like to hand-dye my own fabric, so I guess my favorite hand-dyed fabric is produced by me! However, I do have a few cuts of fabric from Silkweaver and I like them so much I haven’t even stitched on them yet.

I received my Winter Quaker Exchange today: A beautiful little pinkeep stitched over one all the way from Linda in Singapore! She also included some DMC Light Effects in blue and a handful of other goodies. Thanks Linda!

When I stopped by the SBEBB a little bit ago, I saw that Aniza has received the exchange that I stitched her for the Winter Quaker Exchange.

This was the first time I had ever attempted anything Quaker and to be honest at first I wasn’t exactly sure what constituted a “Quaker” design, so before I even started the stitching I had to do some research!

After some investigation, I found some Quaker freebies to my liking and since I don’t think they get much snow in Malaysia I thought it would be fun to send Aniza a Quaker snowflake or two. Consequently, I chose to stitch two snowflakes in B5200 on some 25 count baby blue Lugana.

At first I was going to make her a little scissor fob, but after a little bit of thought I decided to try my hand at making my first biscornu instead. I absolutely loved making the biscornu and couldn’t believe how easy it was. In fact, my 6 year old niece “helped” me do the finishing by picking out the center buttons.

Though I enjoyed expanding my stitching horizons and trying my hand at a Quaker design, I can’t say that the style made that much of an impact on me and I doubt that I will stitch another any time in the near future.

The biscornu on the other hand… I will definitely be making some more of those!

This weekend was our monthly stitch-a-thon over at the Robin’s Nest and my goal was to finish the geometric designs on the right-hand border of “Celtic Spring.”

It was a small goal because I worked on Mae most of last week and only had one and half motifs left. However, I chose a small goal because we had my nephew’s first birthday party yesterday and I wasn’t sure how much stitching I would get to do this weekend.

Luckily I managed to get more stitch time this weekend than I thought I would, so not only did I finish the designs on the right side, I managed to get about half the ones on the left side done too!

Now, according to my sophisticated guesstimation system, I am now about 70% finished with this project. I am not quite ready to venture a guess as to when I will be finished with Mae, but I am going to aim to finish her by March 11, 2007… exactly one year to the day since I started her.

I asked this SBQ last year at this time and decided it was a good time to ask it again, so here goes:

Have you had a happy dance yet this year? If so, tell us about it! (Or just point to the entry that talks about it.) If not, when do you predict it will be?

Yes I have! Actually, I have already had two happy dances this year. Read about them here and here!