Our Intrepid Reporter Colleen

Needle Works of Austin's blog is posting photos of new items Collen the shop owner saw at the TNNA show and ordered. It's not always clear who designed what but given how tired the shop owners must be, I am surprised Colleen even managed to post news on her shop blog. But we are very glad she did!

http://theneedleworks.typepad.com/the_needle_works/2009/01/day-one-of-market-did-i-get-into-trouble.html

http://theneedleworks.typepad.com/the_needle_works/2009/01/cant-sleep.html

http://theneedleworks.typepad.com/the_needle_works/2009/01/more-marketmy-mind-has-been-racing-all-night.html

Keep up the good work!
Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow

Another Day, Another Halo

One of the things I thought I'd play with while stitching six different household pet guardian angels was the halos and the wings. I am going to attempt a different halo and a different wing treatment on each angel.

This may not be easy as I may run out of ideas and I do love how the Victorian Parakeet's wings turned out, but I am going to try. The silver (Kreinik #4005, my favorite silver!) halo was created by tent stitching an oval floating above the Baroque Fish's head, then stem stitching right on top of the tent stitches to give the halo a bit of Ooomph and dimension. Although you can't see the pretty silver shine, I think this is a very nice halo. (Although Pat's halo for the Georgian Rabbit angel on her Needle Art Nut blog is better. See the link and judge for yourself.)

http://needleartnut.blogspot.com/2009/01/tickled-purple.html

By the way, Three Women and a Peach is mostly assembled. The piece needs to spend a bit of time under heavy weights to both glue the additional magnets I put inside and flatten the quilt batting a bit. I will leave it alone a day for this to happen but hope to have everything together later this week. (I hope. Best laid plans and all that!)

Jane/Chilly Hollow
Main blog at http://blog.360.yahoo.com/chillyhollow