Rooted in Mississippi

As some of you may know, I am the Seminar Chair for Share-A-Stitch XXXI, the Tennessee Valley Region’s annual embroidery conference.  SAS XXXI is scheduled for June 2011. If you are a member of EGA (or want to be a member) please consider coming to Birmingham, AL for this three day event!

Anyway, I am headed up to Memphis to spend the weekend with the Dean of Faculty.  I am excited to participate in class selection for the event, in part because I have never been a part of this process before.  I mean, how cool to see all of the proposals and watch the process for selecting classes unfold.  From this point forward, the chairman job will demand more of my attention.  So please understand if I am distracted!

Oh, and on a completely unrelated topic.  Yesterday and today, my hair was curly.  I often let it dry naturally, but it has been too cold to do that for a few months.  My hair used to be super straight, but it got wavy after my thyroid problem presented itself.  I started using a straightening iron about ten years ago.  For the last two days, I have noticed a lot of soft curls, something that would have required a permanent wave to accomplish in the past. It has been so long since I had a perm, I can barely remember how to handle curly hair.

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I am home from the EGA National Seminar in Pittsburgh. The city was so much nicer than I had imagined it would be and the Omni was everything an upscale, urban hotel should be.  I took three classes, learned a lot and met a lot of really amazing people, including my CyberStitching friend from France, Virginie.

It was fun to dress up and put on make-up.

I am looking forward to Seminar 2011 in San Francisco, even though it is nearly a year away!  I am planning to make a corset to go along with the Stitching on the Barbary Coast theme, but I am worried that I may have bitten off more than I can chew already.

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So, by now, you have probably surmised that I am stitching a lot lately.  For my holiday, I stitched all morning, then my husband took me to lunch at Aladdin Mediterranean Grill.  Next, I ran some errands with Trish,  before I got back to stitching.

As I looked down, I thought my little stitch companions by my side were so cute that I dug my cell phone out of my pocket to take a picture.  If I had gone for my real camera,I am sure they would have shifted or moved.  Please note that neither Rudy (left) nor Roscoe (right) has been spared the indignity of random thread snippets.

In other news, there are now two belly dance classes at La Salsa!  The Saturday class has moved to 5 PM and they added a Monday class at 7 PM.

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I loved this color thread, but it was the most temperamental of the batch.  It left marks anywhere it went through the fabric.  Oh, well.  Again, I opted for the photo without flash, since the colors looked good. I am too lazy to retake the pictures with manual focus.

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I picked a slightly out of focus photo, because I think it more accurately represents the colorway.  I am already three quarters of the way through yet another one.  Who would have imagined that I would do so much counted work?  Not me!

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I finished yet another biscornu the other day, but the batteries in my camera were dead and my recharger is acting wonky.  Before it crapped out, I managed to take some pictures Rudy and Roscoe who sat with me while I stitched. The other dogs are a little more independent, but these two just love it when I stitch for hours on the sofa instead of in my studio.

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OK, so I had just a little of this thread left and some fabric scraps…and look what happened!  I figured it would be fun to photograph it next to its full sized cousin.

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I love this thread!  The bright green and bright blue parts are my favorites.

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I am on a roll here!

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I managed to finish yet another biscornu.  This one is on dove gray fabric with small gray pearlized beads around the edges and freshwater pearls top and bottom.  I am also using this fabric to start Harriet Scott’s Favorite Medallion #1.

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