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On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:39:18 -0400, fran <...@volcanomail.com
Working on all my various WIPS. I REFUSE to start another piece until
one is finished!. Having some WIP's is fine. 10 or 12 is *not*!
On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:24:51 -0400, MargW <...@sympatico.cawrote:
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 16:27:18 -0700, Karen C in California <...@aol.com
Right now, I'm knitting frantically. A friend is doing a special event
in July and has requested I provide a couple dozen knitted fashion scarves.
Eventually, I have to get to a wedding gift. They've been on/off/on/off
enough that I'm not doing the big beautiful picture I picked out for her
when she was a child. I'm figuring even a 4x6 may take me longer to
stitch than the marriage lasts. :(
--
Karen C - California
Editor/Proofreader www.IntlProofingConsortium.com
Finished 5/21/08 - Helping the Hummers
WIP: Christmas Music Bellpull, Oriental Kimono (Janlynn),
MLI The Teacher (gift to the library), Bethany Angel,
Flowers of Hawaii (Jeanette Crews) for ME!!!
Retrieved from UFO pile: Marbek's Snow Angel
CFSfacts -- where we give you the facts and dispel the myths
Myths, with research cites: http://www.aacfs.org/images/pdfs/myths.pdf
Newest research blog: http://journals.aol.com/kmc528/Lifeasweknowit/
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On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 22:59:44 -0600, "Dawne Peterson" <...@sasktel.net
I went with a dear friend to a sidewalk sale at a quilt shop today, and
bought two batches of fabric, one of which is a selection built from coffee
designs, browns, greens and blues, and other an oriental collection with
black, grey, stone, mustard and teal length with touches of calligraphy on
them. Neither of these sets are colours I have in any way been drawn to
previously, which is odd. I think maybe my house is calling out to go retro
(maybe that's why I need the Lynn Nicolletti Hippie design!!)
So I will be cutting and stitching patches eventually.
I also hop to get started on the Monsterbubbles "Life", (Obla dee, ob la
da). I need to dig down to the bottom of my stash to see if I have
something in a purply or pink colour (the model is on blue). Always a
favourite song, gonna put it up as my motto instead of Home Sweet Home type
stuff.
Dawne
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Anonymous Wrote:
On Jun 22, 7:59 am, "Dawne Peterson" <...@sasktel.net
It iis very nice to renovate the main colors and style in your house ,
have fun doing it
mirjam
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 06:47:28 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/22/08 12:59 AM, in article
77Gd...@posted.sasktel, "Dawne Peterson"
<...@sasktel.net
I like that MonsterBubbles chart too. I'd like to get going on "(don't
delay) Joy"
Then again, I'm off to stitch while the world sleeps as soon as I finish a
few things on the computer.
Cheryl
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:10:56 -0400, Tia Mary <...@aol.com
I have been doing some model stitching for Just Cross Stitch since
APRIL!!!!! For those who don't remember -- Janet (my stitchin' buddy)
works for Hoffman Media and she sent the work my way. It's a series of
12 designs and I am stitching 7 of them and I am almost done!!! The
hardest part is that I have to measure every length of floss and keep
track of how many I use -- NOT fun but I'm getting paid so I do it -- LOLOL!
As for stitching for MOI -- I was about 2/3 finished with the SPRING
bell pull when I had to switch gears. VBS -- I was "really" hoping to
get the series of bell pulls finished this year but it doesn't look like
THAT is gonna happen -- LOLOL! At least I'm making some $$ working on
the stuff for JCS :-). CiaoMeow
PAX, Tia Mary Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
their whiskers!
Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:22:46 -0400, anne <...@comcast.net
I need to add names and date to the girls' birth announcement, a
Precious Moments Noah's Ark that I converted from XS to free style
embroidery. I plan to use bead letters for the text.
Finishing (literally) another Little Nell hanging. Little Nell was part
of a needlecase ensemble in an old Inspirations Magazine and is very
similar to Sunbonnet Sue. I used the first one as a teaching piece to
figure out how to do shadow applique. Thank goodness I used inexpensive
craft felt cause it took several tries to get the cutout to the point
where Nell's ink drawn outline didn't show. One of the cutouts served as
the basis for the soon to be finished design. This time, Nell sits on
top of another piece of felt instead of behind it.
Then I'm gonna doodle with rayon threads in preparation for working on
Sophisticated Lady, my Brazilian embroidery piece.
--
another anne, add ingers to reply
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Anonymous Wrote:
On Jun 21, 4:24 pm, MargW <...@sympatico.ca
I just finished packing a couple of projects to take on vacation with
us. I have a beginners' Hardanger table runner to work on, and a vase
of tulips in cross stitch for when I need a break from the hardanger.
Your projects sound fantastic, Marg!
Louisa
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:55:52 -0700 (PDT), Shanti <...@gmail.com
Hello everyone!
It's nice to be back reading about and posting to fellow stitchers.
I've been busy designing a sampler for a friend's daughter who is
going to turn 18 in August. I found a border of roses / rosebuds in an
old cross-stitch magazine that was just appropriate, as one of her
names is Rose, and her bedroom has a rose-pink colour scheme. It was
mainly a question of arithmetic, as I modified the border until it
went around her (rather long) name. On graph paper it looks super, and
I put needle to cloth a couple of days ago. I'm stitching it on 32-
count antique white linen (I mean, the colour is antique, not the age
of the linen!). I've just finished the skeleton of the border, so that
I can flesh it out without having to count threads for every motif.
Once that's out for framing, perhaps by mid-July, I'll turn my
attention to making lavender sachets, as I've been harvesting our
lavender and hanging it in bunches all around our kitchen. Hopefully,
the lavender will run to a sufficient number of sachets to be given as
Christmas presents! (No, I won't talk about Christmas!) In the
meantime, I got a remnant of pale green velvet cloth from a curtain
shop - it was in a basket at the door marked one pound(!!!) and I
couldn't resist it - on which I want to do some Jacobean embroidery.
I've never done any crewel or Jacobean work before, and I want to try
my hand at the colours and designs using stranded threads, both cotton
and rayon, before I embark on the expense of stocking up on wools.
Does that sound like a full summer or not?
Best regards,
Shanti.
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 05:45:49 GMT, "Mavis" <...@NOSPAMyahoo.com
Greetings, Everyone
This summer I'm working on a series of coffee cross stitch designs that are
found in the Feb., April, June, and Aug., 2004 issues of "Stoney Creek Cross
Stitch Collection." My sister has a coffee theme for her home office decor,
and these projects are a gift for her. Here is a picture of one of them:
http://www.xsmagdb.com/stoneycreek/feb_2004/espresso.html
--Mavis
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:28:53 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/23/08 1:45 AM, in article hMG7k.421$zE6.74@trnddc02, "Mavis"
<...@NOSPAMyahoo.com
I like that. I might have to go looking for those issues, I know some one
that would love those charts.
Cheryl
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:33:08 -0400, Susan Hartman <...@dirtylinen.com
Love that design!
I've just been sidetracked from my big projects. A friend who subscribes
to the BritStitch magazines sends me stacks of them once a year -
actually two stacks: one stack I can keep/pass on, and the other she
wants returned. So for a couple of weeks I indulge in a new magazine
every night! Then I pass them along to another friend.
In this stack I found a series of charts for "postcards" from Europe,
and I'm stitching two Norwegian flags to make into ornaments. My mom and
brother are going to Norway later this summer to visit some cousins with
whom Mom has corresponded, but never actually met. So this is a jump on
holiday gifts - I'll give one to each of them (mom and bro) as a
commemoration of their trip. (I made a quilted runner for the cousin.)
Also found a "photo" chart of Marilyn Monroe, done in sepia-type tones.
Usually I don't go for celeb photo charts, but MM is far more than a
celeb - she's an icon. This will be a surprise gift for DD, either as an
ornament, or the lid of a fabric box, largely depending on whether I can
find appropriate fabric for the box. Maybe a silk fabric in a
coordinating beige-ish color? Or go with something glitzy/spangly?
Sue
--
Susan Hartman/Dirty Linen
The Magazine of Folk and World Music
http://www.dirtylinen.com
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 08:33:33 -0700 (PDT), Stef <...@nottingham.ac.uk
I just finished a free tulip pattern I received with Cross Stitcher
magazine (UK) for my mother and a sweet little tooth fairy box for my
daughter (it's a box with a open top for the cross stitch and the
pattern is done on the DMC pink striped aida with a little fairy and
my daughter's name on it).
I am about half way through a zodiac piece also out of the above
magazine which is a little doll dressed in yellow (it's for virgo).
It's very cute and will go to my sister who is a virgo.
I am also working on a WIP which is a Mr. Men alphabet sampler also
for my daughter. I have quite a bit of work to do on that but you
know how it is when you just need a break from a piece.
Happy Stitching!
Stef x
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 13:09:01 -0700 (PDT), bungadora <...@aol.com
On Jun 21, 1:24 pm, MargW <...@sympatico.caWell it seems like months since I was doing any needlework. However,
I dragged out a computer generated chart and a piece that I started a
year ago - Jrdin de bagatelle.
I've been working on it for 2 weeks now, and have done 2 rows.
Definitely not a 'fast' piece. I'll be lucky if I finish it by age
85.
Haven't really done anything else. I'm thinking of making some
necklaces. I might start another cardigan.
Dora
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:05:18 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
Hey Marg,
Wish I could send you some daylilies for your brother.
My summer stitching will be finishing my crewel pillow. Since there is so
much stem stitch and this one looks best very finely (closely) done, it will
take a while.
I'm also going to actively work on finishing WIPS and UFO's. I'm thinking
about buying myself some acid free foam board and finishing a few things for
then next big discount sale at work on framing.
I'm going to cull my stash some more too and finish organizing floss etc.
I'll have a few good breaks to get some work done on stitching - DD is at
camp (sleep away) for 5 days and DS will be gone the following 15 days.
Cheryl
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:21:38 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/22/08 7:31 AM, in article 00es...@4ax.com,
"lucretia borgia" <...@florence.it
Thought about that earlier. I love the way the stem stitch looks, I just
happen to like them about 10 an inch or so. Finished a whole section of vine
while I watched Gardening By the Yard (before the DD awoke).
I'm off to the garden after this cuppa.
Cheryl
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:33:02 -0400, MargW <...@sympatico.ca
Thanks for the kind wish. He's just getting his garden rebuilt since
they moved last fall.
It's somewhat bitter sweet. He was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma in January, and at first treatment seemed to be working. This
week we had the news that the cancer seems to have resurged very
aggressively, and they are not going to do further treatment.
He and my DSIL were to come down for a visit in July when we had planned
to get the daylilies. Now, we don't know exactly how long he has.
MargW
<SNIP>
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:09:57 -0700 (PDT), Shanti <...@gmail.com
I'm sorry to hear that, Marg. A dear friend of ours had non-Hodgkin's
lymphoma and went through 8 rounds of chemotherapy, so I know how hard
it can be. It is not unknown for the patient to react more strongly
against the chemicals than against the cancer itself, which makes
treatment very difficult. She's fine now after a year, but the only
way she said she could keep going back then was to have a number of
milestones to look forward to - daughter's first day at college, half-
term, Christmas, and so on. She found that it helped her enormously.
Perhaps the daylilies in July are a target your brother could aim for.
With much regards,
Shanti.
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On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 18:22:34 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/22/08 5:14 PM, in article 94gt...@4ax.com,
"lucretia borgia" <...@florence.it
That is hard news to get. The non-Hodgkins is supposedly one of the
treatable one.
Cheryl
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 06:26:36 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/22/08 6:26 PM, in article lakt...@4ax.com,
"lucretia borgia" <...@florence.it
My Dad is considered "cured" after getting it at 70+, but a kid nearby died
in a few weeks. I have wondered if non-Hodgkins is a catchall phrase used
for multiple types.
Cheryl
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:37:07 -0700 (PDT), Shanti <...@gmail.com
There are indeed many kinds of non-Hodgkins lymphoma. They could be T-
cell lymphomas or B-cell lymphomas, and many sub-types in each
depending on the cell lineage. Some of these are fast-growing and some
slow-growing, and they may all metastasise, which adds to how one
describes the stage of the cancer, ie, how advanced it is.
-Shanti.
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:36:50 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/23/08 3:37 PM, in article
0766...@59g2000hsb.googlegroups.com, "Shanti"
<...@gmail.com
I just find myself wondering why lump them all together?
Cheryl
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 17:45:41 -0400, Jenn Ridley <...@chartermi.net
Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
They're not, really. They're all a type of cancer called lymphoma (as
opposed to other kinds of cancer) and they're not Hodgkin's lymphoma
(which has a treatment method all its own). There is no *one*
treatment for non-Hodgkins lymphomas, so there's no medical accuracy
lost by lumping them all together.
I suppose that it might be clearer if they were called "lymphoma,
non-Hodgkins", but qualifiers tend to stay with nouns better if
they're in front of them.
jenn
--
Jenn Ridley : ridl...@gmail.com
WIP: Poppies (Art-Stitch), two knitted tops, Oriental Butterfly
Most recently Finished: Floral Sampler, Insect Sampler
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 19:21:18 -0400, Tia Mary <...@aol.com
IIRC, non-Hodgkins means cancer of the lymph but not like it is with
Hodgkins. Not sure what Hodgkins type is but my mom had non-Hodgkins
Lynphoma and died within about 1 1/2 yrs just before her 75th b-day.
One thing I DO know is that if your "lumps" stay in one quadrant (like
above waist on left only or below waist on left, etc.) there is a VERY
good cure rate because the lumps can be removed. Once the lymphoma
crosses the body, either from left to right or top to bottom, you are
pretty much not expected to have any sort of cure.
My mom had a lump in the groin on the right, got scared, didn't go
to the Dr. until it was the size of a baseball and learned that she also
had small lumps in her armpit lymph on the left side. Dr. gave her a 1
to 2 year survival expectation BECAUSE she had waited and didn't have
the first lump removed as soon as she found it!
The moral of the story is that you don't KNOW how bad you are until
you find out. Ignoring it and hoping it will go away is almost NEVER a
good idea!!! CiaoMeow
PAX, Tia Mary Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
their whiskers!
Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:41:09 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/23/08 7:21 PM, in article 6cap...@mid.individual.net, "Tia
Mary" <...@aol.com
Strangely, my Dad's was in the groin and in the brain (and supposedly a
common pairing - no jokes please) and he's fine now.
C
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:26:25 -0400, Tia Mary <...@aol.com
Is there any sort of lymph in the brain? I mean, non or not,
Hodgkins is lymphoma which is some sort of cancer of the lymphatic
system. I don't know enough about the brain to know if there is lymph
stuff up there or not! I think when the Dr. told my momo about the
whole quadrant thing I'm sure he meant from the neck down and
specifically the groin and armpit/chest area. CiaoMeow
PAX, Tia Mary Angels can't show their wings on earth but nothing was ever said about
their whiskers!
Visit my Photo albums at http://community.webshots.com/user/tiamary
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On Wed, 25 Jun 2008 00:17:00 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/24/08 11:26 PM, in article 6cds...@mid.individual.net, "Tia
Mary" <...@aol.com
Don't recall the full details; his started in the scrotum and the protocol
said check the brain for "lesions of type???" which were present. He had
chemo and is considered in full remission. They did get it very early.
C
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 04:43:04 -0700 (PDT), Shanti <...@gmail.com
Sorry I've been offline for the past week or so; the power supply to
our lightbox gave out on Monday and I've just come back online. Well,
lymphoma is primarily cancer of the lymph nodes. Hodgkin's lymphoma is
easy to identify under a microscope due to the presence of a
"Hodgkin's body" in the affected cells. It is also more easily
treatable by chemotherapy. In fact, in something like 80% of the
cases, the patient goes into remission for many years. The non-
Hodgkin's kind is so called, because it is not immediately identified,
and the cells have to be cultured before they can determine what kind
it is. As I said before, depending on the lineage of the cells, it
could be T-cell or B-cell lymphoma. That is the broad classification,
and they are further classified depending on the specific tissue
involved. As for your question about lymphoma of the brain, well, it
is usually due to metastasising tumours, i.e., secondary tumours
usually caused by rogue lymphoma cells getting into the central
nervous system. Primary tumours in the CNS are known to occur, but so
far as I know, the cause is not very well established.
It's just that I'm a research biologist, and I know about these
things. If it's too much information, I will desist.
-Shanti
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 07:47:54 -0400, "Lucille" <lzoltynospam@now at comcast..net
"Shanti" <...@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
I think a lot of us will agree that there's no such thing as "too much
information." When we stop learning, we stop...............
L
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On Sat, 28 Jun 2008 09:32:05 -0400, Cheryl Isaak <...@comcast.net
On 6/28/08 7:43 AM, in article
f848...@k13g2000hse.googlegroups.com, "Shanti"
<...@gmail.com
Best and shortest answer I've ever gotten. I like it.
C
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