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Stitch That! Issue 88

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  • Started 13 years ago by Christine Berrett
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  1. Christine Berrett
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    ... has arrived this morning!

    Posted 13 years ago #

  2. Jean Strange
    Member

    Got mine too. Love the projects. Bit disappointed my name is not on the list as having contributed to the Flower Sampler Book but I noticed several others were missed too. Might send a polite e-mail to Jane. Will read the rest this afternoon when I have finished shortening a skirt for my daughter.
    Merry Christmas everyone.

    Posted 13 years ago #

  3. Su Maddocks
    Member

    Blow - John the postman has just been and no Stitch That - I shall ambush him each morning till it gets here now that I know it's on it's way !

    Posted 13 years ago #

  4. brenda midgley
    Member

    Oh - Mrs. Berrett - you should be so lucky!! - Postie has passed me by too with Issue 88 - never mind - still a few more days to Christmas. If it arrives before then I shall sit on my hands until Christmas Day so I can't open it until then! I will savour it as my treat for the afternoon when I shall sit down with a glass of something nice and enjoy it. Love Brenda

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  5. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    To Jean and all the others who contributed to the special Flower Sampler Book...

    I did give Jane a card with details of all the stitchers and their pages, tucked inside the Flower Book itself, so I was somewhat disappointed to see that the list published in Stitch That was not accurate. I have emailed Jane to say that the list of names was incomplete and given her the full list again. For the record, the 8 stitchers were:-

    Christine Berrett - Hardanger with Violets; Hemstitch
    Fiona Dunbar - Contents Page
    Sandra Harris - Assisi Patterns
    Jane Herbert - Pattern Darning; Pulled Thread; Envelope
    Su Maddocks - Little House Sampler
    Suzanne Spencer - Fritillary Alphabet
    Jean Strange - Cover
    Justine Waugh - Blackwork Pansy

    Posted 13 years ago #

  6. Tinouche24
    Member

    I feel better now, knowing that I was not the only one missed off the list, although I didn't stitch it to be mentioned in "stitch that" I too felt disappointed when I read my copy of it. I am glad though that Jane loved her surprise.

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  7. Brigitte Gant
    Member

    My copy was waiting for me when we returned from Gloucester tonight. I am waiting for the day when Jane stuffs a sackful of time into the envelope.

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  8. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    "I am waiting for the day when Jane stuffs a sackful of time into the envelope"

    Oh, if only...........

    Posted 13 years ago #

  9. Jean Strange
    Member

    Oh Brenda I couldn't wait until Christmas Day and anyway don't think I'll get much chance as 5 year old "inherited" Grand daughter will be here.
    I didn't stitch the Flower Book page to be mentioned in Stitch that either but was disappointed as it is my front cover stitching which is photographed with Jane Herbert's envelope.
    I agree with the comments about time. Went to Jane's Christmas stitching day and have managed to finish 3 of the little Hardanger "tiles" for the t-light jar hope to finish fourth this afternoon. They are quick to stitch if you don't make mistakes but am having a mental block on one little bit and keep putting it in the wrong place. Will have to be very careful this afternoon as have nearly run out of the Oliver Twist thread for that bit.

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  10. Anonymous

    Mine has just arrived. Looking forward to looking at it when all the family go home later today. Sally

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  11. Su Maddocks
    Member

    Went out at 7 a.m. today to get last minute veg and dairy - and a copy of Cross Stitch Crazy - don't normally buy it but wanted to read Sally's article about our trip to Scotland. Nowhere had any despite the due date being the 22nd! Came home dispirited - and there on the mat was my Stitch That 88 so feel much happier now.

    As one of the Flower Sampler Stitchers who did get her name in the magazine can I say that I too was upset that all the names didn't appear. What I loved about stitching "my" page was that I was part of a conspiracy along with other guild members and I somehow felt part of something special, a team of other like-minded ladies, many of whom I have not had the pleasure of meeting - yet but I'm working on that. Happy Christmas and New Year to you all and I hope I manage to continue putting names to faces in 2012 - Su xx

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  12. Tinouche24
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    I totally agree, it was talking to Jane and others with a thought of "I know something you don't know" that made it so much fun. It was just lovely using my skills to create something individual and special and to know that it would be appreciated, as we all know unless someone stitches themselves no one really appreciates how much time and effort it takes to create a gift.

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  13. brenda midgley
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    Yahoo - stitch That's arrived this afternoon. I have left it untouched and put the envelope under the tree for the Big Day. Geoff has put my other pressies there too and one is a magazine sized thickness/size! He's taken to doing that the last couple of years - I can just see him standing in Smith's looking very ungirly browsing the stitchy mags thinking 'which one shall I get her'. I purposely don't buy one now at this time of the year so I don't end up with two of the same thing. I had a nosey in there yesterday though and there were actually two or three mags I would've liked to buy. There was a Crazy marked January 2012 but I don't know if that was the one with Sally's article in it - it was wrapped up in one of those 'film' envelope things - maddening when you want to know what's inside!

    That's strange; where have they gone!. I've just typed up a couple of sentences and caught a fingernail on something - I've looked up from the keyboard and my sentences have disappeared...... weird. I'll type them again but if this message comes up with the same sentences twice - you'll know the gremlins are on overtime!

    So - as I've said once already (hope you're listening very carefully as Michelle would say) -

    Hope you are all now getting your last minute stuff sorted out. I'm off to the hairdressers in the morning for a trim to tidy me up - look like a shaggy dog at the moment. I've got some Bovril Cubes for Sarah's tip. She says she can't get them where she lives (not sure where that is) so periodically I drop a couple of boxes off to her. Must help the girl to get her gravy right. In my opinion the first thing they should teach you in cookery class at school is how to make decent gravy and decent custard. You can cover a multitude of sins that way - as long as you get them the right way round on the plate of course........

    Love to all, Brenda

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  14. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    Yo Brenda

    Tips from Christine's Kitchen - The best way to make gravy is to pour a generous quantity of red wine into the base of the roasting tin whilst the meat is cooking and then thicken at the end with a little beurre manié.

    :o)

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  15. Andrea Thompson
    Moderator

    Hello,
    I got my Stitch That yesterday.
    I knew there had been a mix up with the 2nd flower sampler book roll-of-honour from reading the forum, but I hadn't realised I'd been given credit for it.
    I was involved with the first book (inside back lining page), but not the second one.
    In fact, the first I knew about the second book was when I met up with Christine at Knutsford Services for the trip to Scotland. She was as giddy as a school girl and clearly bursting with information. I'm not sure I've ever seen Christine that excited!
    So I got a sneek preview on the coach.
    I was quite impressed with Christine's silence because we had met up several times before then, while the book would have been in progress, and yet not a word passed her lips.
    When I rang to renew my membership at the end of November, Jane thanked me for my involvement, but I assumed it was for my involvement with the first book, or I would have put her right. So I think it's a genuine mix up, she just mustn't have found the list tucked in the book.

    < spoiler alert!!!! if you haven't read Issue 88 yet Stop reading now >

    I was massively impressed with Jane Napier's Heartsease... looks beautiful!
    And loved the ideas for decorating the tin. I'm always buying the MnS extra strong mints in their little tin and it does break my heart to throw the tin away when they are gone, but I'm trying not to be a hoarder. (recently cleared out many shoe boxes that I was keeping "because they are useful"). I will be saving my next tin!

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  16. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    Girl after my own heart - I can't resist buying things in tins, and then keeping them "because they are useful". :o)

    Posted 13 years ago #

  17. brenda midgley
    Member

    Mrs Berrett - Wot the 'eck is - hang on a minute - gotta flip back upwards to see how to spell it - 'buerre manie' (with the thingy over the e)

    I always thought a beurre was a donkey in Spanish so are you saying you make your gravy with a bottle of plonk stirred in with donkey's wee?. I suppose the alcohol in one knocks out the bacteria in the other. You must've gone to some funny domestic science classes in your school though.......

    Andrea - haven't yet looked at the current Stitch That but you refer to a tin so I assume there is something in it to stitch which covers a tin lid. I will add to the info here - apparently in America there is, or was, a craze for doing little stitched covers for Altoids mints tins (which you can get in chemists here). If you go on to the Victoria Sampler website and look in the freebie chart section you will see several designs for covering the lids of these useful little tins. http://www.victoriasampler.com There is a darling little design called needles and scissors which I printed off back in 2007 - God - that long ago!, but that's what it says on the bottom of the page. Love Brenda

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  18. Christine Berrett
    Administrator

    Brenda

    Beurre manié is butter blended with an equal quantity of flour - like an uncooked roux. It's very handy for thickening sauces, etc. Use it all the time chez Berrett.

    Cab.

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  19. 140559
    Member

    Mine hasn't arrived yet:-( Hope Santa hasn't put me on the naughty list! Alison xxx

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  20. brenda midgley
    Member

    Oh Christine - thickened sauces - well I suppose you do at your gaff - I don't know why I'm friends with you, you're so much posher than me.

    Now get off the Forum and look at your e-mails dear - there'll be one from 'chez' Midgley, I'm hoping the North West Four can meet up on the lst January (well, that's if you're still sober after your thickened sauces with wine - tell me, were you sober enough to remember to put something under that thickened sauce?) Love you dearly, Brenda.

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