Best Friends Forever? Or for me it could be Best Friends Furever? Best Fiber Friend? However you call it, Rainbow Gallery’s Petite Silk Lame’ Braid is that for me. It is really a hit to their ever growing thread line and I love it!

Silk Lame’ Braid is a wonderful mix of silk and just enough metallic to give your stitching a hint of sparkle. It has been around for a few years now, and it is great for basketweave on 18 or for some of those fancy stitches that we love so much. Rainbow then introduced a new size made for 13 mesh canvas and just recently they have added the petite line. I love the new size of the Petite which is great for lighter stitching.

One can never have too many threads or too many choices available! Stitching these trees for NeedleDeeva in the color pallette of tomato red that she has selected to paint these canvases has been a perfect project to select some of these colors. I have been using 3 colors so far, including Silk Lame’ Braid SP36 Chartreuse, Silk Lame’ Braid SP32 Coffee and Silk Lame’ Braid SP53 Crimson.

I do have another tree or two finished and soon I will share them you, I promise! I don’t have any pictures at the moment. I am on the prowl for a pot for the finishing ideas to talk over with NeedleDeeva when I see her in Dallas. I saw a container that is in these tomato red colors at Adelaide’s, so I am headed down there this morning to pick it up. Any excuse to go to La Jolla and have breakfast at The Cottage! I wonder what their special is this morning?

Well one of the finishing thoughts is to have it finished on a stick and then plant it in the pot. I can’t take credit for this as Missy is the one that suggested it. She also thought that you could have 3 finished together in a triangle! Isn’t that a clever idea? She is too smart!

Yesterday started off as a beautiful sunny day and I am thinking well there is no way that the weather man can be right and it will rain. Well I was wrong! by the time I got home mid afternoon the wind had picked up and the storm clouds rolled in. We did get quite the rainstorm. AlleyCat was glued to the kitty tv watching the rain and then the birdies. It was a great stitching night for me.

AlleyCat was at it again. Why would she pick a time with such lousy weather to make a break for it? You know I never know when she is going to do it….no rhyme or reason. I needed to back out to get something from the car and she is just sitting there waiting for me to open the door to come back into the house. As soon as she can get her face through the door, she announces in her meows that she is going out the door and you are not stopping me.

I used to chase her all around to get her back in the house…but she can’t really go anywhere. I finally learned after chasing her around all the time, that it is really just a game with her and if I just close the door and let her be, that she is usually waiting when I open the door again. This time I had her wait while she posed for her adoring fans. and until next time…keep on stitching