Her87monte's Weblog

Meet Maria

her87monte — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 18:23:21 +0000

Good day!!! Beautiful day here in North Florida, sunny and warm…. we had about 2 inches of rain over the weekend….. not out of the woods yet, but anything is better than none…..

This is a picture of ‘Maria’ a design by John Clayton…. this is the 12th portrait I have stitched…. Maria took 58.5 hours to finish and now she’s off to the frame shop….

will get back to you with a picture of her frame when I get her back….

if you’d like to meet her friends you can go to my webshots albums….. just click on the ‘John Clayton’ album…..

Happy Thanxgiving

her87monte — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:24:35 +0000

Just wanted to drop in for a moment and wish you all a Happy Thanxgiving…. hope you all have a great day!!! and don’t forget to save me a piece of pie!!!

Meet Hannah

her87monte — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:19:47 +0000

Hello again….. just finished stitching my 11th portrait by John Clayton…. her name is Hannah….. finished her in 58 hours….. off to the framer shop on Tuesday….

if you’d like to meet her friends you can go to my webshots albums….. just click on the ‘John Clayton’ album…..

next project till the last part of Martina Weber’s Mystery 10 will be ‘Maria’, another of John Clayton’s designs…..

The Gates Are Done

her87monte — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:10:12 +0000

Another beautiful day here in Florida…. the nights are getting colder, but the days are still warm and sunny…. still no rain in the forecast tho…..

All the plants that were put out for the summer are safe and warm on the screen porch….. I’ll post a few pictures when I get a chance….

Here’s a picture of the Chatelaine Mystery Ten that I’m working on after 339 hours…. it is a mystery in 12 parts and copyrighted by designer Martina Weber…. part 12 will be out in December and when I’m finished that I’ll be doing all the beading…..

I am up to date with this by finishing part 11 last night….. one part to go and it will be done….

Taking a break from this intricate design, I’ve started working on John Clayton’s ‘Hannah’ again….. progress picture in a day or so….

I Think Fall Is Finally Here

her87monte — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:01:54 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve been here, but wanted to catch up a little on the Quaker Sampler Stitch Along I finally finished….. here is a picture of the finished product which took 125.75 hours to finish:

will post another picture when I get it back from the frame shop….

The weather here has finally broken and it seems more like Fall….. the water in our fountain froze the other night….. but this isn’t all bad because now we should get good weather for another week or so…. our cold nights only come one or two at a time and maybe only every other week…..

have to get back to working on my Chatelaine Mystery Ten, so I can be caught up for the last part in December….. one more corner and 6 gates and I’m ready….

will try to get back to see you sooner the next time…..

Another boring Florida day – sunny and hot

her87monte — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 15:54:21 +0000

this is a picture of the SAL (stitch along) I am working on…

last night I finished stitching page 11 (59 hours) of a Quaker Sampler SAL… this is a copyrighted design by Martina Dey of Weihenburg Designs… it isn’t a mystery, but it does come out one page a week… we are almost half way thru…

I am stitching it one over one on 28 count, antique white, evenweave with Vikki Clayton silks from Hand Dyed Fibers…

didn’t stitch much today, maybe tonight… I did catch up on some of my reading… I have many authors whose books I collect… mostly, I lean toward mysteries and psychological thrillers… some of my favorite arthors are, James Patterson, John Sandford, Dean Koontz, John Saul, Alex Kava, Stuart Woods and Sandra Brown to name just a few…

right now I’m reading ‘Invisible Prey’ by John Sandford… this is the seventeenth ‘Prey’ book he has written and each one just gets better… I would suggest that you read them in order, since there is a small thread thru them, but not enough that you couldn’t just pick up any one and love his writing…

Sunny and Bright

her87monte — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:52:08 +0000

Good Morning….. another hot and sunny day here in Florida….. but since this is the reason we moved here I try not to complain…. as my husband says, ‘at least we don’t have to shovel it’….

not much on tap for today…. I started stitching a new design last night….. ‘The Berries’ a bellpull by Karen Kluba of Rosewood Manor Designs…. but I think I’m going to do it as a band sampler and frame it instead of hanging it…. so far I have one band done…. hope to do the second one today…. the picture above is of the first band…. it is stitched on 28 count, antique white, evenweave….

I usually have several things going at once so I don’t get bored….. I try to do a rotation, but have found that I don’t have enough willpower to stick to one…. so I just do which ever shouts out to me the loudest….

Hello world!

her87monte — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:49:16 +0000

I’m not much of a blogger, but thot I’d give it a try… today was a normal day, which is good!!! did some stitching on my main project – ‘Secret Victorian Garden’ a copyrighted Chatelaine Design by Martina Weber… this is a 12 part mystery and I’m working on part 8 now. here are parts 1 thru 7…

part 8 continues out from each side of each of manses with vines and flowers. will add a progress picture as soon as there is enough of a change to see…