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Dear Stitching Friends,

Whew! The transfer of information from my 2017 Lenovo desktop to the spanking new 2026 Lenovo laptop was successful!

I have had plenty of 'Pilot Error' issues but think that I have managed to add both the hard copy and PDF version of the 'We The People' Etui that I taught in Minnesota to my Gentle Pursuit Designs website.

Admit that I seem to have disappearred the charts from my PC Stitch Pro 11 design program but luckily found the charts saved in Adobe. How did I do that?

It must be there somewhere...I hope!

One grandson is back in school and the other goes back to 4-year old preschool on 9/8. I will have mornings to myself again soon but will not be lonesome because I have Charlie, Cinder, Joy and a horde of newly hatched Monarch Butterfly caterpillars for company.

I bought the Zoom that allows me to host up to 100 people for 30 hours yesterday so I am one step closer to hosting my first self sponsored Zoom class on September 19. One of my students was leaving on a trip and I had enough linen to kit up her materials so she will have them for her trip and the class. The Needle & Flax linen and Gloriana threads for the other students will be here soon so I can kit them up and send them out.

I was on a lovely Zoom call from Scotland this morning! It will be wonderful to be back in Scotland with friends before I teach during Mrs. Parkman's Academy of Needlework 2027 in England.

I should have my Margaret Hughes 1771 Ten Commandment model back from framing soon and will introduce her on my rarely used Cissy's Gentle Pursuit Designs You Tube. Michelle of MommaLovesYouGB kindly reviewed the sampler to see if it might be Welsh. She found one Welsh sampler with a nearly identical border, but no other firm matches other than the name Hughes which I learned from Michelle during her Western Reserve Sampler Guild presentation, is one of 10 names in Wales accounting for 90% of the population. The text of the Ten Commandments Margaret stitched is identical to one of my English Ten Commandment samplers and slightly different from two of my other English Ten Commandment samplers. That and the mirror image aspects have me leaning toward the sampler being English. 

Now, where did I put all the borders and motifs I was working on for a tiny sampler to go with my 'Dancin' to the Blues' Shaker Sewing Shoe adaptation? I remember charting them but guess what...the design seems to have escaped from my PC Stitch Pro 11 program.  Hope I made a copy!

Life is filled with challenges, be kind. <3

Warmest regards,

Cissy

(Contact me at Cissy2449@gmail.com if you would like to discuss interactive lecture options, available classes, and dates)

 
 
 
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