Sweet Free Prim Valentine Cross Stitch Chart

Here's a nice Valentine cross stitch design from
http://e-subrosa.blogspot.com/2012/01/valentine-free.html 
You'll have to have Google Translate, the blog is in
Hungarian language. Not necessary if you just want
the design I guess.

                           Copyright Sub Rosa


For everyone who's been so wonderful and thoughtful about leaving comments about my health, 
THANK YOU!!! And I feel very good today, I haven't had
pain since late last night and I hope I didn't just
jinx myself!!

Hugs,


Susan

Check Out This Idea From The Pickled Herring Blog

                                                Felted Dryer Balls - The Pickled Herring

These cut down the time for drying your clothes.

http://the-pickled-herring.blogspot.com/2011/09/felted-dryer-balls-tutorial.html?showComment=1327763445473#c6417031388010861729

Update On My Stitching Progress

Hi, Primmies -

I hope everyone is safe and warm tonight. I stitched today on

the Polly Daggett sampler and I have some more pictures of

my progress so far. It doesn't look like I've come very far

when I look at the photos, but Mr. Glen Oaks said I've stitched

more than one third of the sampler so far. That was very

encouraging. Thanks, hunny!

So that is where I am in the sampler. After the dividing band of

X  X X 's comes Polly's name, another easy band, the numbers, another band and then the beautiful basket designs.

There will be the soft blue-greens, golds and ivory. 

The borders would have been stitched first and then the main

designs but it didn't work out for me doing it that way. I kept

coming out uneven so I'm going right to left but I'm doing the

border as part of each row. There will be more boo-boo's on

this sampler besides the ones Polly made. I hope she will

forgive me!

I'm framing this sampler but I don't think I'm going to frame

it under glass. I don't know for sure but I don't think a

colonial stitcher would have had hers under glass. I'm going

to investigate this as best I can, and if any of my readers knows

about this glass/no glass please let me know.

I would appreciate any information that you have. I do know

that most work was simply rolled up and put away in a dresser

and when they needed to refer to their sampler for stitches when

marking their family linens, they took them out. Of course they were framed, too. I imagine to show the talent of the girl who stitched it. Some samplers have survived in beautiful condition because of the fact that they were stored away, where light could not deteriorate the threads and fabric. 

We are feeling about the same, unfortunately. I do not think

that the shots have been successful. We can go for another one

in a couple of weeks. We're wearing our TENS units and I'm

getting much relief from that. They sent me a new unit that

has more settings and does deep muscle penetration. I'm just

learning the different settings so I'll hopefully find one that

works for me. I'm putting the electrode pads on my left leg

tonight and I'm hoping that I'll really get some pain relief.

I haven't eaten anything today so I should go and have

something now. 

Have a good evening everyone.

Hugs,

Susan

Cute Tutorial For Valentines

Hi, Primmies -
I found a cute and easy tutorial for these  Patchwork Cones  from the people at Crafts n Things magazine.

I see these made from old quilt scraps, burlap with
a muslin liner. The muslin could be gathered at the
top making a ruffle and of  course tea/coffee dyed
and as grungy as you want. A cinnamon dough
heart on the outside, a rusty heart or even a rusty snowflake. You gals are all so creative I'm sure you
could take this basic tutorial and make a great prim item from this. Maybe a red osnaburg fabric cone grungied and/or sanded worn spots, burlap or muslin liner ruffled or not. *i like ruffles*
I worked on Polly Daggett sampler this afternoon
until I made my first mistake and then I stopped.
That's what I do, stitch until I make a mistake cuz that  means I've stitched too long for my old eyes.
I felt much better by tonight, made Swedish meat-
balls in brown gravy, buttered noodles and a salad. Not really allowed on  my new diabetic diet but I ate small portions. 
Mr. Glen Oaks is doing poorly tonight. He had a bad pain day and can't get comfortable. Poor guy.
I don't know what to do for him.
I've got to clean up the kitchen so I'll close now.
I hope sometime tomorrow I'll have really gotten
far on the sampler and have another picture for you. Take care and have a very nice night all.
Hugs,
Susan

PROGRESS ON THE POLLY DAGGETT SAMPLER

Good Afternoon, Primmies -


Here's an update on my stitching  progress on 
the Polly Daggett sampler:

I'm not pleased with the color of the linen. But for  my first attempt at this in over 20 years I'll have to

be satisfied. 

This picture has all of the floss colors that I haven't stitched yet. They don't appear in the sampler until

the middle and the end. I'm sick of black!

I'm hoping to finish the alphabet today and start

on the pine trees. There will be a dividing band of

a rust color, her name in black (again) and then

the pretty colors. Lots of teal and light blue, cream

and yellow/gold. 

The color for the border looks nothing like the

original border. I'm supposing the true colors are

on the back of the sampler and what I'm stitching

is what they must have looked like before fading and aging.

So we have some snow and it's pretty and we didn't get too much so I'm happy. I'm having a hard time

keeping the house warm today. It's really cold

outside today. Just have to turn the heat up more.

I'm sorry to say that the spinal injection did not

help me. I think it actually made my pain worse in that I have no relief as opposed to before when I could have some pain-free time with ice packs and

medicine. Mr. Glen Oaks got relief for his problem

(one of them) and I'm happy for that. Thank good-

ness his leg pain is gone. His back is still very bad

and they are talking about doing 14 levels of spinal

injections of corticosteroids. Oh, boy - not me. I'd

be too afraid. I'm supposed to have another round or two of these injections and if they don't work I

don't know where I go from there. Probably crazy.

Stay warm and safe today.

Hugs,

Susan