A busy Spring

Yes, can you believe it, I am leaving again very early Monday am. I think I just got home didn’t I? It sure feels like it. I couldn’t write upon return from my fabulous trip to Toronto and Needleworker’s Marketplace and then the Stitchville USA Spring Fling as I would have only spouted off my feelings of complete overwhelmingness(is that a word?)…. I took alot on and was really feeling the pressure, but….. YAY! I am almost done, and not a moment too soon as I leave in the morning for Sackville, New Brunswick and EAC Seminar!! How exciting! We shipped our boxes this past week… with my nails all bitten off because the fabric was delivered at only the very latest day it could; but come it did; although Pat at Lakeside and I were having fit with the border keeping the shipment way way too long…. oh it was an awful feeling. But all is good. I can say that now, so I can write without feeling sorry for myself anymore.

The events in Toronto and Minnetonka were totally awesome. I think just the best part of both was so many of you stitchers – are repeat attendees ( if you know what I mean! …. I love seeing you again that’s what I mean!) and took the time to come to either event and I just love that we can continue where we left off and share our lives for those few days and feel the sense of belonging that the stitching gives us.

So it’s off to seminar and meeting stitchers at the Maritime event. What a treat. I get to go see the Anne of Green Gables house, which I have always wanted to do ever since I designed Atlantic Seaboard in which the Heirs of L. M. Montgomery foundation so kindly let me use the house in the design.

The 2 new pieces for Where Victoria’s Angels Stitch in Clifton, NJ and Golden Thread Needlearts in Rochester, NY are beyond my expectation! I am so so excited for you to see. They both turned out so special and I am delighted.

Check with Pam at Red Apple Stitchery for a celebratory pattern of her 20 years in business! It’s applicious( okay I made that word up too!)

Looking forward to meeting you all again or for the first time. Don’t hesitate to come and talk to me, it’s what it is all about…. our shared love of stitching.

Jeannette xx

Spring!

I am just putting some finishing touches on things to take with me for the Needleworker's Market in Toronto and then on the event at Stitchville USA. It is all exciting. My pile in the office will be cleared today and that will be great.I wanted to post some pictures. One is of Paoloa Botti's work out of Luxembourg on My Stitching Album. I love how she put the titles of each page on the opposite side to show it. The spine is beyond what I had imagined, and well just the whole vision, it is just magnificent. Enjoy!

I do have more stitcher's work to load and if this works well I will try the others too!

It's about time!

I hope that you have been able to take the time to enjoy the new patterns on the website. I kept meaning to post them here and I just never got to it. If you haven't looked at the events page yet, then maybe that might give you the answer why I am so tardy with everything.I have totally snowed myself under. I said yes to too much! My poor gals in the office this week, well suffice it to say I had a big laugh when Wilma said " I haven't had my bun yet!" - it was 3 o'clock! way past lunch. There is a behind the scenes story on the word 'bun' just ask Pat and Ann from R & R!! Anyway I said yes to doing a piece for Red Apple Stitchery - a piece to celebrate their 20th Anniversary! Congratulations to Pam McIntosh. It turned out just great, check in with her shop early in May to see. I agreed to do the JCS Christmas Ornament and an ornament for the Preview issue. I agreed to do the Hallowe'en Ornament Issue, plus use my one from 2008 - and good grief I can't find the darn thing and now have to redo it. I agreed to do 2 pieces for JCS - one of them Strawberry Stitches- coming in the next issue of JCS, look for it to come, and yes it is the next in the 'Stitches' series! I love it. We have lots special things for the upcoming events. We did the last stitches on our classes for this spring and I hope to start stitching the fall pieces soon. If you know me, you know I like to have things done early, I have been working on relaxing and going with the flow as this is not the case this year. I think that I thought 'I've got new knees, I can do anything and everything" forgetting the day is only so long! Do join us in the fun upcoming at the Needleworker's Marketplace, check out their website. www.needleworkersmarketplace.com The following weekend I will be at Stitchville USA, Minnesota. Looking forward to going, I do hope that it is not as eventful as 2004 where we had a very adventurous trip from Calgary to Minneapolis. In South Dakota every hill looks the same as the other and we were very lost, my friend and I! Ask me, how can you get lost in South Dakota, but we did! I see Dyeing to Stitch has put up the registration dates for their retreat and you can register starting March 28th. I am looking forward to teaching at the EAC Seminar in Sackville, New Brunswick. A chance to meet some of the stitchers from the Maritimes, how lovely. The 2 pieces that I am teaching there are only available through class. I worked out how to do powerpoint from my ipad!!! I was so excited when I figured it all out and now I have a great presentation, yay! From there I go to New Jersey and then upstate New York, it is in all the places beginning with 'New'! I am so excited about the piece for Where Victoria's Angels Stitch- you will have to ask her! And the piece for Golden Thread Needlearts in Rochester, well, I am absolutely thrilled with it too. Come join us at an event. See events page for details. Do check out the new patterns in the What's new section, I did get them all loaded before Nashville and made them live while I was there, so that was nice that worked out. Till next time... I promise to do some wonderful pictures, I have some awesome finishing on the album to show you etc.