Melitastitches4fun's Blog

The ANG Central Jersey Chapter (CJC) meet and stitch on the 3rd Saturday of every month (from 10 am – 3 pm). Since I last joined them at the November 2024 meeting, I have picked up Summer Fireworks by Ann-Marie Anderson-Mayes occasionally when a small, easier piece was what I wanted to do.

In January, it was all I could do thanks to a good old-fashioned head cold that I got from my husband after holding it at bay for 2 weeks. We went through two batches of homemade chicken noodle soup.

I hadn’t noticed it, but Rosie L is correct, Ann-Marie’s hand dyed skeins match perfectly when folded in half if you cut at the knot. There is no need to search for the repeating color, allowing colors to line up perfectly in the Scotch stitch border.

I didn’t make it to the CJC January meeting, but I did work on it an EGA Brandywine Chapter gathering yesterday where I started the outside Van Dyke border and finished it the next day during an Ellen of Serendipity’s 3-hour Zoom class on thread and stitch choices for snow scenes.