~ Needle Night & other Musings ~

Hello Friends & Folk!

and a happy hot Wednesday to you all ~

well every electronic device that we have, has had 'issues' this past week!

first my operating system on this Big Mac here in my sewing room, then of course all of the apps needed to be upgraded once that was installed...then my iPad and my Big Mac had a dissagreement and wouldn't speak to one another for a few days...after many calls to the fab folks at Apple, that is fixed...then my huge commercial laser printer out in the shop office went berserk and we had to call in our tech-guy to help us...still waiting on a part for that ~ OH and did you notice that all of my favorite blogs are now missing from my sidebar down there???? what the what!!!???

Mercury in retrograde?

Oh me thinks so.

here's a brief article about this phenomenon in the Old Farmers Almanac:

https://www.almanac.com/content/mercury-retrograde-dates

SOooooo ~

Monday eve was our monthly 

"1st Monday Needle Night " here in the shop...

always good to have our friends visit,

 eat good food and laugh while we create and chat ~ 

Robin & Lee from Millstone Mercantile came out...

here is miss Robin working on an impromptu crash-embroidery lesson 

that she and miss Anita have been bugging asking me about!

miss Robin working on her small pumpkin...

~ these two were the first ones to inquire about an embroidery class 

back when I posted about the Bird Seed embroidery class earlier this year 

{ you can read more about that HERE }

miss Anita and her pumpkin...

 miss Heather showed up too!

she was working on a model for me, so I can't show you that just yet ~

stitch stitch stitch

 miss Joan came too ~ 

she is really cookin' on her stitchery progress!

{ your nails look fine } ♥️

~ In Other News ~ 

I enjoy using my Sit 'n Stitch Hoop Stand when I do my embroidery ~

and find it very useful when I want to use both hands to stab-stitch...

the original stand accommodates hoops from 5" to 8"

I have been wanting to stitch larger projects ~ 

so Peter made an Extender Bar for the stand and now I can work on my 14" hoops! yay!!!

 {we'll be adding these to our Supplies page in our Etsy shop this week}

here's the link to the Sit 'n Stitch Hoop Stands too:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/240962927/sit-stitch-hoop-stand-from-notforgotten?ga_search_query=hoop+stand&ref=shop_items_search_3

Here is another sweet old witch that I finished last night ~

I haven't decided what she should be holding yet,

so I put it 'out there' on IG & FB to give me your suggestions!

you can kindly comment here with your thoughts about what I should stitch for her to be holding ~

~ AND ~

Peter had surgery yesterday to remove basal cancer cells from his lower right eyelid ~

good news is they removed all cancerous cells! 

he has 13 exterior stitches, and some internal stitches...he asked the DR if he would look younger and she said yes, but only on the side she worked on! lol

Me, on the other hand ~

I have to go tomorrow for another eye exam to schedule cataract surgery for both my eyes ~

I'm excited and scared all at once, but they say I will no longer need to wear glasses full-time...

just those little 'cheaters' and I am A-OK with that.

**UPDATE ON WITCH SCISSORS ORDERS**

I am waiting on another shipment of scissors to come in ~

those of you who have purchased directly from Etsy ~ Thank you SO much!

yours will be shipped asap!

for those who's names I have on the pre-order list,

~ I will be contacting you soon to send you invoices.

We will be offering the same Witch Scissors in the beautiful Silver Finish as previously,

but also we will be offering them in Dull BLACK finish, 1/2 Gold Finish

&Titanium Rainbow finish :)

~ along with these new Scissors designs/finishes:

Egyptian - Full Gold 

Sea Horse - Titanium
Augusta - Black 
Augusta - Half Gold
Fish - Titanium
Snake - Silver

~ Last but not Least ~

I will be updating our Vendors List for our Gathering here on September 15th

{oh my stars!!!} so stay tuned for that info soon!

Blessings from the Farm

 ~ Lori