Cherylann Marois's Page

I disappeared from here about the time the leaves began to change. If you missed me I'm sorry. I got a new job mid-October that is taking up a lot of my time. I've also been busy making Christmas gifts and taking part in swaps at swap-bot. It is every bit as addictive as people said it was.

I hope to come back more often and get more involved in my groups but that may take a little time. Please be patient.

It is a fact in my life that I always have too many irons in the fire. This week is no exception. I am three stitches behind on the take a stitch Tuesday, I was two days behind mailing out a swap-bot swap, I have 4 days to make and send out a dotee doll. Honestly I wish I could get more organized. I have tried many methods but even the side-tracked sisters method has not worked for me nor flylady either. As it is some new yarn came in and instead of putting it aside and finishing projects I have… Continue

Hopefully you can see the herringbone in the bud. The green is backstitch

I have been working on the fabric ATC's the ones with the embroidery stitch. I even finished one but when I sewed it up I really messed it up. It is now way too small to be an ATC. I haven't even done more than glance at the stitch for this week. And I won't get time this weekend my GD and I are headed to Faeriefest this weekend. For anyone in Ontario it is in Guelph. Sounds like it will be a fun time for the girls. I hope I get them done soon they need to be in the mail in the next two weeks.

I have been trying to get to this weeks stitch but haven't been able to. Then it occurred to me, not today but tomorrow I need to make 4 ATC's in Red/Pink and I think I'll use the Herringbone stitch to make a design on at least two of them. I'll upload pictures to my Flickr once they are done.