Saturday was just a purr~fect day! I was on the road by 6:12am…well give or take a minute  or 2, to pick up Brenda Hart so we could start on our day. It is about a 2+hour drive that early on Saturday morning. No traffic and no problems, except that I hit one ramp closure to change freeways. What were they thinking? Don’t they know I was on a mission?

I made it door to door in plenty of time and we started our day out with a great breakfast at Julienne’s in San Marino. Well between shopping and stitching, we need to have lots of energy! As we planned out our morning, we would have about an hour at the bead shop. OMG! I think we are going to be in trouble…big trouble.

This is my beady stash enhancement. This is for a project that I will be starting a little later this year. I need to make some color copies of the canvas first.

I think that you can figure out where all these beads are going! I can’t wait to get started on it either.

The time went by quickly at the bead store and all too soon we were out the door and on the way to A Stitch in Time.

This was the beginning of my stash enhancement. I wanted to get more of these needles from EdMar for a photo shoot and review for the magazine. I love the packaging that they have come up with…but I love these needles even more! There is also a beading needle that I picked up too since I see a lot of beading in my future. EdMar calls it an 11 darning needle, but I have been using the samples that they gave out at the last market and I like them very much.

I needed another thread for my Welcome by Annie Lane. A rather new designer and if you would like to see the rest of their line; Enriched Stitch just happens to have their trunk show right now! On my canvas, the screen door is all stitched, as are the Ugg boots, the light fixture and over the door decoration has been beaded and now I am working on the red wall. I am stitching this for a model for the designer, but this one I might have a very hard time giving it up!

These canvases by Annie Lane are wonderful, as I really like the big expanses of color. It really lends itself to great stitches, fun techniques and so much more. I could easily stitch each and every one of them. Later this week I will show what I have stitched on it so far.

What a great day as we stitched away listening to Vin Scully and the Dodgers/Cardinals game…after all we were in Dodger territory. All too soon it was time to head home and stitch some more.

I guess Sylvester had a tough day. and until next time…keep on stitching