A is for a sampler

~~Autumn
~~Affection
~~Affirmations
~~Ability
~~Antiques
~~Angels
~~Apples
~~African Violets
~~Anticipations
~~Abbie
~~Abstractions
~~Absolutes
~~Admirations
~~Agility
~~Afternoons
~~Almost
~~Amazon books
~~Americana
~~Ancestries
~~Animals
~~Answers
~~Army
~~Art
~~Authentic
~~Adventures
~~Awakenings
~~Advocates
~~Authoring
~~August
~~Aaron

Letters of the Heart: A

designed by Feathers in the Nest

copyright 2011

CC Finley Gold ---yellow

CC Brandied Pears--lighter brown

GA Huckleberry---blue

you can substitute other colors for what the letter A means to you. An Autumn array of colors would be beautiful as well.

in memory of my son, Aaron, who would have had his 26th birthday today if he had lived. It's not a sad day, but a day of rememberance that his spirit is free, well, and held by angels in Heaven. I feel his spirit strongly at times and it''s usually when I need it the most.

When I dabbled with this piece over the weekend, in the few minutes I had to do that, I thought how versatile this little sampler could be. It's August, it's almost Autumn, and I love angels.   

So if you have the desire to stitch a small pinkeep, or even a gift tag to hang near your special A or to give to a special A, this may help.

I hope to stitch this as a pinkeep and put close with my angel collection.

Here's hoping your are having a great Tuesday!

Jennifer

Reading

I have a conflicted relationship with stitching and reading.

 You see, I love both. I'm torn between two lovers!

Recently, I read The Stolen Life, by Jaycee L. Duggard. It was intense, sad, emotional but I think everybody should read it, including cops, nurses, advocates, parole officers, and survivors of abuse.
It was a quick read and Jaycee is the bravest woman I've ever met. You can tell the book is from her heart.

I've also been reading Killing Frost by E. Don Harpe.

His can be found on Amazon as well. He is a great writer.

Tonight I started reading

Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

inspired by Oprah's website. This one will have to reach my kindle real soon.

and more to come this week. So whatcha been reading lately?

A Wooden Tool Added to My Stitching Basket

 About 3 weeks ago, I ordered from Amy Mitten's website Amy Mitten Designs and Fibers to Dye For, a wooden tool and I don't think I've shown you but the tool will come to great use to me when I EVER get settled enough to sit still for minute and stitch!

Here it is.

 It's a nice size, not to big, not to small. It basically functions for the reason of tucking in those hanging threads in the back of your work. I'm so glad you don't see the back of mine as it's not real pretty :o

However, I used to use the Star Detailer ( from any LNS) and it did the work great if I needed to pull threads through to snip. However it's so small, I keep losing mine. So, when I saw this little goodie, I got one.

It looks like a miniture crochet needle. The end is as small as a needle so one could loop those hanging threads in and under to snip if needed.

Another tool added to my sewing basket by the chair.

Now if only I could so easily fix all the things hanging around like this little tool in life then maybe I could make sense of things.

Hanging by threads,

Jennifer