Winner!

A few days ago I mentioned that Lisa of Accoutrement Designs sent me a needle magnet from her Mag Friends line to give away to a lucky Blog reader.  This morning I sat down and counted nine individual comments on that posting.  Random.org obligingly did a random drawing and came up with the number 9 which means Donna is the winner of the darling little witch magnet, yellow face, purple hair and all.  Donna, if you would kindly email your address to me at chilly hollowathot maildotcom I'll pop this in the mail to you today or tomorrow.
http://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2012/09/magnetic-genius.html

Thanks to everyone who entered the tiny contest, but special thanks to Lisa who offered!

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What's My Name? UPDATED

Mystery Stitch Without a Name

Anyone recognize this stitch? I think it is either Parisian or Hungarian stitch but I can't find it in any of my stitch dictionaries. Do you know what it is called?  Either post a comment or email me at chillyhollow at hot mail dot com.

UPDATE:  When help from Pat and Jena, I was able to locate both Parisian and Hungarian stitch in Jo Christensen's Needlepoint Book.  Jo put the final touches on our figuring out what the stitch above is called when she wrote:  "It is a Parisian stitch.  I found it on p. 145 of The Needlepoint Book (Jo Christiansn).  The difference between this stitch and Hungarian is that there is a space in between two motifs (over 2, over 4, over 2) while Parisian has no horizontal spaces and is simply over 2, over 4, over 2, over 4, etc.  Of course the vertical size can certainly be varied and each size stitch may be doubled, tripled, etc.  Or it could even be slanted to a diagonal."

My stitch does seem to look more like Parisian (page 145) than Hungarian Ground (page 147), except that Parisian is over two and four threads, not one and three like mine. I guess that makes it more  a Parisian variation than a Hungarian variation, so I'm going to call it Paris Baby.  LOL

Many thanks to everyone who helped!

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Do It Yourself Snap Tray UPDATED

When I posted about the huge variety of snap trays available to hold your tools and threads while you work in style, Erica spoke up about this link to a site with instructions for making your own "travel trays."  Judging from the photo, there is a version that uses Velcro to join the corners instead of snaps, too.  Since this link was in a Comment, I wasn't sure many folks would see it, so I'm posting about Erica's find in a message you will see, in case you are interested in making these yourself.
http://patternspot.com/patterns/sewing-patterns/1617-travel-tray

Many many thanks, Erica!

UPDATE:  Here's Erica's new home made snap tray.  Cute!
http://ericasplaces.blogspot.ca/2012/10/its-snap.html

Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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Kaffe Says....

When I lived in Boston I managed to go to a lecture by the fabulous color master Kaffe Fassett. The one thing I remember from the lecture (besides the fabulous sweaters worn by the audience) is he told us to learn to see what is all around is.  Susan is making the same point here.
http://plays-with-needles.blogspot.com/2012/09/beyond-happy-brain.html

Open your eyes!

(and your ears)
http://maggiemaggio.com/color/2011/08/what-i-learned-from-kaffe-fassett/

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