Happy International Women's Day!

Celebrate the Goddess in You!!!

more stash...

St. Patrick's Day is just around the corner. To celebrate I've added one more HAED (Heaven and Earth Designs) chart to my collection:

 I have the chart, floss and fabric are on the way - I think that will be my next start. For now I brought from the darkness of my stitching cupboard the Guardian Angel and decided to work on him for a little while.That's my progress so far...

I absolutely love this piece. Hopefully I can spend a little more time with it.

So long my friends,
Evalina

Happy Sunday!

For some reason time goes much faster for me lately. I wonder, it's just because I'm getting older or because my time management sucks? It must be the time management because I'm not feeling any older, the last couple of days I'm actually feeling younger!

Remember my shoulder problem and the awful doc who told me to "Google the net" for more info? Well I did and while searching I came across The Vitamin D Cure by James Dowd, MD

I bought the book a month ago and started to take vit. D immediately, 25IU per pound of my body weight. The result? Well, no more shoulder pain! It's gone! I can sleep a whole night and there is no pain when trying to turn. I can do my hair, it is easier do dress and my arm has about 50% mobility back. I can't believe it, I suffer for so long (almost a whole year!)and the solution was so simple and it came from the net! I think I will buy a hard copy of this book and send it as a gift to my doc.

And I was stitching... a little too much. I didn't budget my time well and got scared before exams... I decided to get easy on myself and I differed these exams to next session in June. By doing this I will have to write more exams in June but it will give me a little extra time for studying. Unfortunately (since everything has to balance and there is only 24 hours in a day) I will have to cut on my stitching time. I think I'll be able to spare few hours on Sundays for my hobby, otherwise I will go nuts and even vitamin D will not help!

In one of my yahoo groups was an emergency to put together a quilt from stitched squares and I jumped right into it (to stitch I mean, I have no idea how to quilt). I thought that squares are quick and easy, you know, like an evening stitching. I was wrong! Or maybe I'm a very slow stitcher... Anyway, Catia of Catia Crafts (check her site, she has some awesome ornaments!) donated patterns and we were stitching like mad. Here are my squares:

I loved stitching them, thank you Catia for lovely designs!

In January I was in that Crazy January Challenge and I started Irish Blessing Sampler from The Sweetheart Tree. Since St. Paddy's day is just round the corner (I'm not even little bit Irish but I love this holiday!) I wanted to stitch something Irish and green. With an ache in my heart I noticed that I used a wrong color for vines... so there it was - rip it, rip it, rip it - until all was gone. And I started all over again

I'm sure I'll not finish it before March 17 but I enjoy stitching it. There isn't many cross stitches in this design but a lot of specialty stitches. When done it will look like this:

So long friends,
Evalina

Oh my, my!

It started as a dream, later it went on my Bucket List, and now it's in the planning... my trip across Canada.


View bucket list - my trip across Canada in a larger map

For a better view zoom out (click on the "-" on the map)

About 17,000 km (10,625 miles) round trip. If all goes well I'm starting my adventure in September. I would love to do it in the summer but, unfortunately, that is a very busy season in our office. I am so excited! I hope I can have a cup of coffee with a few stitching friends on the way, for sure I'm meeting one in New Brunswick!

So long my friends,
Evalina

Secret Stitching Sweetheart

Look what I found in my inbox today:

Thank you for the lovely heart! It's beautifully done! Jo had an awesome exchange idea, now I have to find out who got mine!

I have 2 finishes!!! Can you believe it? The first one is my ruler. I had one before but never stitched the inside part. And I'd lost that ruler somewhere during my trip to Alberta. So I bought another one, I designed the pattern and here it is:

I stitched on the vinyl provided with the ruler. I tried it and I didn't like it. My next insert will be stitched on linen, that's for sure!

My second finish is Cottage of the Month - January.

I still have to do something with it, but as of now - I have no idea what. I will do all 12 of them and I thought it would look nice as a quilt or a wall hanging. I also though that I could finish them as cubes... 

I will leave you with a picture of sunrise in Yukon. Last weekend I captured it's lovely colors

Have an awesome Valentine's Day!

Evalina