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Terri over at Dixie Samplar is doing a giveaway!

She just restarted her blog and wants to give a lucky reader a welcome back present.

Entries here for the next hour (man I procrastinate)

Please do go visit, I am a new reader and so far I like what I see.

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New Stitching project

A couple weeks ago I treated myself to a Lizzie Kate pattern at the local needle shop. It is the called Summer Alphabet.

My progress so far:

I am using DMC floss and 16 ct mocha colored aida. I didn't like the way the colors looked after stitching these, so I've been frogging them out and substituting colors that are a little brighter (you can see there's still two yellows). I still need to change the brown and green, but it's never any fun picking stitches out.

Also pictured is my cup of scraps. Though not actively participating in TUSAL, I have been similarly inspired. It's pretty to look at anyway.

I have come across others stitching this piece as well:

Nicole's Needlework

Suburban Stitcher

progress!

and my progress as of this morning:

Stitching Progress

I decided to start a large project. Since grandma got me a pattern book for Christmas- I picked one of the designs out of it. There are 21 different colors and the design is on 4 pages.

I started from the center and am doing the bottom right corner first.

Here is my work as of 1/27:

Paper piecing

I decided to have mom teach me to paper piece.

I made a quilt block from the Harry Potter Paper Piecing Project of Doom at http://community.livejournal.com/hp_paperpiecing

I chose week 2 because it was mostly straight lines and we thought it would be a good first try.

Picture:

Birthdays Calendar

Instead of cleaning, I decided to complete one of the many crafts on my craft idea list.

I followed this idea from eighteen25 to make this perpetual calendar to hang on my wall.