tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-95116262011-04-21T19:20:31.380-04:00Welcome to my stories and meanderings that will be a mainly focus on my love of needlework. How well does Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Embroidery/Needlepoint blend? I guess that time will have to tell :) Someone finally talked me into adding my photo - so you get to see what I look like after a long day at work!Catrinnoreply@blogger.comBlogger531100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511626.post-34406708263613635812007-03-30T21:58:00.000-04:002007-03-30T22:01:13.098-04:00

It's moving time....I LIKE World Press, they have some nice features that Blogger doesn't have - and I suspect I will soon be opening a professional indexing site via World Press. It just seemed a good time to move. All of my posts and comments from this blog have moved to the new neighborhood - just click here to get there!

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Wow, I haven't posted here since January 9th! It seems like I either have time for stitching or posting, rarely both :)As today is Meatfare Sunday, aka Sunday of the Last Judgment - which means that Great Lent begins in one week. I won't be posting again until least Bright Week (the week after Pascha, in early April).There are still a few blogs that I will be reading from time to time, but things

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It had to happen, eventually :) Meg tagged me and it looks like I am supposed to list 6 things that are peculiar to me... hmmm, ONLY 6? How to possibly choose? Let's give it a try :)1. Television. I used to be a tv addict, now I don't even have cable! I do, however, have this love for a very small number of movies, which I watch from time to time when I HAVE to turn the television on. 2. Tea?

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This idea was cribbed from Mimi and Meg.The idea is to take the last sentence from the first post for each month. Considering the very narrow scope of this blog, this shall be interesting :)There have been those who have wondered about me, and looking at this selection of comments I can see why :) No posts before April in 2006.April: It's a good thing I rarely, ever watch television - who has

Catrinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511626.post-67871808658251737872006-12-28T06:43:00.000-05:002006-12-28T06:46:43.872-05:00

Christ is Born!Glorify Him!Has anyone pieced together a set of chalice covers from brocade? I am embroidering a set of chalice covers for a skete, and have been asked to piece the two smaller cloths together instead of just cutting one piece for the entire cloth. Orthodox liturgical brocade is very expensive (can be over $200/yard), so of course there should be no waste if at all possible.I

Catrinnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511626.post-10448500622070617912006-12-28T06:35:00.000-05:002006-12-28T06:42:51.287-05:00

The kit for my EGA group correspondance course, Luck of the Irish, that is.Let's see what the kit includes:11x8 cut of Emerald Green SilkMuslinLacing, basting AND cuching threadtissue paperwax paperbeeswax5 different sizes/kinds of needlesfeltpadding gimp (looks like floss to me :)ANDthe English Metals (remember, this is a goldwork course)Pearl PurlCheck PurlSmooth PurlWire Check

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I wanted to wish a wonderful and blessed Nativity to both people who are kind enough to read this blog :) I can't say anything better about it than the tropar for the Feast that I have pasted below:Your Nativity O Christ our God has dawned to the world the light of wisdom, for by it those who worship the stars, were taught by a star to adore You the Sun of Righteousness, and to know You

Catrinnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511626.post-61246462096674924762006-11-30T18:03:00.000-05:002006-11-30T18:11:59.734-05:00

So what IS the HSS? Such an odd combination of letters, what could it MEAN? If you are a member of the Cyberstitcher chapter of the Embroider's Guild of America you would already know.HSS = Head Slap Society.That would be your OWN head...as in....what WAS I THINKING?:)Why am I a member of the HSS? Let me list the ways....1. Luck of the Irish goldwork group correspondence course. Class is starting

Catrinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511626.post-30238439482028517072006-11-17T19:29:00.000-05:002006-11-17T21:06:17.310-05:00

Well, I've been back for a week come tomorrow afternoon, but it took me awhile to sit down at this blog and do something. There is something about blogs, it is challenging at times to come up with something to say on them that someone might actually WANT to read. So, I try to avoid that little problem by giving links to pretty pictures.... see the following :)I am taking, not 1, but TWO group

Catrinnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511626.post-29176076778009172592006-10-29T06:17:00.000-05:002006-10-29T06:21:11.575-05:00

I know it's difficult to imagine. ME? Away from a computer for 2 full weeks? O the horror of it :)Ok, so that's laying it on a bit thick, and chances are I will at least be able to check my email a time or two in the next two weeks, but that will be about it.When I come back I will, perhaps, have information about new needlework projects! I am starting a new set of chalice covers for a monastery

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I don't generally post on things unrelated to needlework on this blog, but I had to provide a link to this wonderful post on Second Terrace. I am unsure whether to call it a poem or reflection, though it is probably both. It speaks of forgiveness, and certain sad events in an Amish community a little more than a week ago.

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Time is flying by here in Central Indiana! Between my new working schedule (four 10-hour days a week), as well as working to start up a book indexing moonlighting business, there seems less and less time to spend on things like this blog. However, I will post as I can, and as I get used to my new schedule it will probably get easier.

Catrinnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9511626.post-1156894899372404772006-08-29T19:30:00.000-04:002006-08-29T19:41:39.386-04:00

I decided to not remove all of the photos, just the two detail images. You can still click on this image to see a larger imageI used garment-weight burgandy wool to embroider this. I will not finish it, someone else will "finish" the covers, which entails adding a lining and adding galoon to the edges, and a fringe to the end of each "petal" of the covers.I've been asked how I stitched the vines

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The pictures are coming, but my friends with the digital camera hasn't had time to actually download the pictures to their computer yet. Some excuse about school starting (we are talking about someone who works as a university librarian), I think I will accept that excuse :)So what am I working on know? Not much, at least for a few weeks. I am also trying to start up a side-business in indexing -

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Is it actually possible that I just might be posing pics of my newly completed chalice covers sometime this week? It IS! Well, assuming that she who took the pics with her digital camera actually gets around to emailing me the pics this week. We will see, her pictures are far better than mine, so I hope the subject matter will be worth her skills.This has been such a nice August in Central

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Twilight has not returned to the Stitching Garden... but a bit of break has arrived. I am very busy right now with a whole list of things, and I hardly can find time to do needlework - let alone post about it.I will be back when there is news about new or completed projects :) It just seemed fair to let those know who have been reading lately (and sending me such nice private notes), that you

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I hope everyone is doing ok with the terrible heat that is over so much of the country. Indiana certainly got a taste last week, but it has passed, at least for now.Ive started working on the small chalice covers, and my original plan for stitching them seems to lend itself well for such curvy lines. As it turns out I have to get them done rather quickly, but hope to get a picture of them before

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I am looking forward to hearing what my few readers think of this in-process project photos. Between work, indexing, and parish life - I don't have the time to put into needlework that I would like to... if anyone has figured out how to live without sleep PLEASE let me know :)This first image is of an icon I have been working on for several years. If I live long enough to complete it, the

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I know, I keep promising, pictures and more pictures :)Well, those who are interested will, hopefully, be pleased to hear that I dropped my camera off to be developed today! Next week, at some point, I will go pick up my nice, new, photos and photo CD so I can post the current pics of my needlework. So, by a week from now at the latest, the pics will be posted.All of the projects I have new pics

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A blogger asked me if I needlepoint regularly. Actually I rarely work on what would be considered needlepoint. I AM currently working on a design by Amy Bear (her Night Flight), but right now I only seem to be able to devote about 1 evening a month on it, if that often.Mainly I do free-hand embroidery, with the occasional counted-work tossed in. Most of my work has some connection with liturgical

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This is a link to the website of Novo-Tikhvin, an Orthodox women's monastery in Ekaterineburg. Aside from some interesting information about the monastery, there are links to beautiful photos of the needlework that some of the nuns do to help support the monastery.I still haven't had time to get those pictures developed.... I will TRY to remember to take care of it tomorrow :)Here is a link to a

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Enough said :)

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I had intended on completing this before leaving for Memorial Day weekend, but didn't get it completed. It seemed best to just continue this in another post. The Skinner Sisters site deserves special mention though, so I do recommend your visting it - especially if you like Blackwork and historical forms of embroidery in the English tradition.Solaria Gallery, for those who love cross-stitch and

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Well, THE race hits Speedway this Sunday, so will be leaving town tomorrow to escape all the activities. Before I go though, I wanted to post a couple of the links I referred to earlier this week. As I type this I am trying to decide if I am hearing a tornado siren, but am not sure. I have tinnitus, and all those sirens are close to the pitch of the sounds that tinnitis has going at all given

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Please note the expanded list of blogs and favorite needlwork sites in the sidebar.I do have a question and would like to know what others think. Some of my favorite needlework sites are commercial sites - my favorites in this category generally have a good amount of historical information, or interesting instructions that are difficult to find, etc.What I am trying to decide is if I should list

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I promise! I have to be one of the very few who do not have a digital camera. I am too cheap to buy one of those things, I would rather pick up a toss-away camera from time to time and save my extra money for fibers. and needles. and charts.... :)My camera is almost full, so I will be finishing the film up this weekend and having it developed - so you get to see what I've been working 0n (

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A rainy Saturday in May, temperatures are about 20 degrees below normal. This is the kind of day I would LOVE to have in mid-January.... Then it would seem warm (as long as it was only 20-degrees below that is normal in May, NOT in January).Generally I do housekeeping chores (or would that be apartment-keeping chores?) on Saturdays. Today I've been doing other things though, and one of those

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If you have not been to either of these sites, I encourage you to change that :)Matushka Galina Tregubov is an iconographer and embroiderer who does the most wonderful work. I could never be as good as she is, and, just so you know, she publishes a book on how to embroider a traditional Orthodox Guardian Angel banner! When I get the chance I will find a link to the book and post it in a later

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It is Spring in Speedway, Indiana... more importantly, it is the first Saturday in May and that means something happened today.When you live in the Speedway, the Home of the Speedway International Speedway, May just doesn't REALLY begin until that first Saturday in the month... this is the day of the Mini-Marathon!The race begins in downtown Indianapolis, winds it's way out to Speedway (yes, it

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As I promised Meg, following are links to the GCCs I am taking from my chapter of the EGA.EGA = Embroider's Guild of America (I belong to Cyberstitchers, an online chapter that is very active and lots of training opportunites.GCC = Group Correspondance Course (yes, you DO need to be a member of the EGA to take any of these wonderful correspondance courses, and there are also Individual

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I knew this would happen eventually...I did know this...But I had no idea it would happen with the second comment to my blog!Mimi sent this comment: Ooooh! Dawn on the Stitching Garden! I'm so excited! The projects sound incredible.Such a nice comment too :)So I went to the "moderate comments" section, and carefully selected "approve" and clicked! However, what I clicked wasn't "

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Perhaps, perhaps not, I haven't decided yet how active this blog will become. However I DID want to catch up those few who are still checking this site from time to time on my needlework progress.I am working on a LOT of projects, which means none of them are being completed very quickly.1. Chalice Cover set: I have completed the large Aer, but am awaiting the two smaller cloths from my priest

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I have been debating for some time if I should continue with this blog. It seems that the things I really want to talk about - I really don't think should be on a public forum. I have been going through some interesting changes, but I become less eager to make them public. Sure I talk about them to certain people close to me - but I keep coming up against the idea of keeping those things that

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Wheww, I feel a lot lighter. I just returned from visiting my mother, and left her with 6 different needlework projects that I KNOW I will never have the time to finish. Two were small, three were quite large and two of them were already kitted up and were NOT inexpensive, on any budget.I am thankful that I gave them to her though. It doesn't matter how expensive they are if they never get

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I am not sure what it is about Spring - perhaps because it IS Spring - but there is this struggle between sitting down and actually stitching, and going outside to smell the flowers blooming and to see the wonderful breezes. Hmmmmm, that should be to see the flowers and smell that wonderful spring air that can't be beat. Pity that eventually summer comes, as well as the *wonderful* smell of

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It has been a LONG time since my last post, over a month! Lent was so very busy this year, and during Bright Week (the week following Pascha) I have been really enjoying being lazy and not doing much of anything aside from staying home. There wasn't much of a chance for that during Lent :)I am still considering if I am going to continue this blog or not. There are a lot of things that I would

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I just returned from a trip and found out that some have had problems getting to my project pics - I probably gave the address from my account and not the public address - which is here.This really should work.My trip was very nice, and of course I am really stretched for time so I can't add much to this post. Tomorrow begins the first day of Lent, we call this first week *Clean Week* for

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This is not a new post, just an updated link to some old photos :)Thankfully I have enough time for one more post today - and to post links to several completed and in-progress project photos:Completed: Amy Bear's Heavenly Stained Cats (modified by yours truly)Completed: Analogian cover - the one on the left - the one on the right is applique, not embroideryIn progress: Christ the Teacher - Chart

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Someone was kind enough to point out that my date for Pascha this year was off by one day, and so it is. Pascha is May 1 this year, not April 30.

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I love this time of the year! Winter is reluctantly starting to give up its icy grip on the MidWest and Spring starts to send out tentative feelers to let us know that it's on the way! Don't get me wrong, there are things I do like about Winter and EVEN Summer (which is my least favorite of the 4 - I just don't like heat/humidity), but Spring and Fall have always been my favorite.This year Great

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My order came in a few days ago, and the Lugana evenweave in the Reflections line is just beautiful! It looks even better than the image on the website, and that is saying quite a bit. Now the problem is that I want to stop work on everythng else and just work on THIS :)Now that I have seen the actual material, it is just to beautiful to completly cover in stitches. Instead I have decided to

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I heard from Silkweavers today, my order is ready and will be shipped tomorrow! They wait to hand-dye their fabrices until they have an order - which makes very good sense for a small company that doesn't want to be left holding stock that isn't selling. It's kind of neat to think that when I am stitching on the Lugana fabric that I have ordered from them, that it was cut and dyed just for me.The

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I just found out, or realized, that my sister is going to be getting her Habitat for Humanity house at the end of this year! This is great news, as she has been through two abusive marriages and lost her home both times. She has two teenagers and this will be a definate blessing, and indeed this week she finshes her pre-payment for the appliances. Some seem to think that Habitat houses are free,

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This seemed an appropriate title :) I remember when I was growing up and learning to stich that first little X, and to crochet that first little row of single crochet (which has pretty much been left behind for needlework), absorbing the idea that such things were for girls/women only - that this wasn't a masculine activity. I remember wondering about this, but at that age you don't question

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Now that the first month of the year is over, I have resisted that new project long enough. Last November I kitted up "Night Flight" a design by Amy Bear and can be found here. I would post the picture here but it is quite large - and I haven't asked her permission yet. There is something about this time of the year, especially this time of the year, that I love to start new projects -

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There is a new list under the slowly growing list of my favorite links. It seems wise to separate my needlework and Orthodox links - simply to make it easier for someone to see what is there. This evening I start teaching a small group of youngesters, from age 6-13, how to cross stitch. Their first project will be a bookmark. It will be interesting to see who learns more, me or them :) It will

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Time does pass between one post and the next. Between work and church, as well as all of the other little neccesities of life such as sleep and needlework, weeks flow between posts :) The last time I promised a link to a couple of my current projects, so here they are! I think that I will post a link and a few words about where each one is. My most recently completed project was a tiny little

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I suspect that I do the same thing with my needlework projects at New Year's pretty much the same way that others choose a list of New Year's Resolutions - in a manner of speaking. I am almost done with the Pascha Basket Cover that I am embroidering for a friend in my parish. It isn't traditional, and not something that I would have chosen for myself, but I think that it will be very nice when

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For me at least, embroidery and needlepoint seem to go at two speeds - which reminds me of the old fable of the Tortuoise and the Hare. The icon I am currently stitching for almost 2 years on have seen times when I may go three weeks without picking it up - then I may stitch large parts of it in a month. As far as this particular project is concerned, for me, it is about my frame of mind. While

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Recovering from major foot surgery is a great teacher of humility. There is something about living alone and being told your foot can't touch the ground for 6 weeks, so you hop around the apartment on a walker, long-suffering parish friends come to help you to and from church. Suddenly those 12 steps to get to the door of the church seem like Mount Everest, though Mount Everest may be less

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Pithless Thoughts This is a good blog that I enjoy reading

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As most needleworkers, I have several projects in process. One is a Pascha Basket cover for a friend in my parish. For those who may not know, on Pascha (Easter), Orthodox Christians get together after the Pascha Service and have a meal with foods that we have fasted from throughout Great Lent. These are traditionally brought in a basket (though not really needed) and of there is often a

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I have read blogs galore over the past year or more, and always thought that I could escape being dragged into the "blogoverse", but it appears that I have indeed been assimilated. I have two main loves, one of which is the foundation of my life. I am an Orthodox Christian, and from time to time I will post about that, and perhaps talk about my journey from a very different past to the present.

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