Re: Stash in one piece!

Wow, you have been a busy person! Can't wait to see some of the
embroideries. (They go well in quilts -is that your plan?) And I'm sooo
jealous about the retreat in Spain.
Roberta in D

"Paul & Suzie Beckwith" <paulnsuzie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> schrieb im
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> Well hello there ladies and gents - I see that my stash remained safe and
> sound whilst Paul & I were in Warsaw - the QI obviously did a better job
> at guarding it than I hoped!
>
> We had a wonderful time, 10 days of wall-to-wall sunshine and blue sky,
> and I have mosquito/gnat bites all over my face (one right between my
> eyebrows like an Indian lady's bindi!) Paul had the occasional fright with
> a mushroom or two, but we were soon able to remove them from the
> equation - and we had a fabulous holiday which we sorely needed! Walked
> our feet off tho - I have a blister the size of Poland on my left foot...
>
> And to swiftly bring this on topic, we bought 5 metres of Polish linen in
> red and white - Paul wants to make Polish flags for his WWII re-enactment,
> and I wanted some decent linen to embroider on - Polish folk costume
> embroidery is something that I really want to get into, and have bought a
> couple of books on the subject - one unfortunately is written in Polish
> and comes with a CD with a "photo-to-cross-stitch" embroidery program on
> it - but its all in Polish! Luckily tho, the photos don't need too much
> explaining, and the diagrams on how some of the stitches are done are
> great, especially as I am working my way through Nikki Tinklers book
> "Quilting with a Difference" - so am thinking about using stitches which
> are definitely used in Polish embroidery as quilting stitches!
>
> And - whilst we're on the subject of Nikki Tinkler, me and my 2
> girlfriends Carolyn and Connie are booked onto a quilting retreat in
> Valencia, Spain in May next year to do a course on QWAD with Nikki - there
> are only 8 of us on the course, staying in a private villa with its own
> pool, up in the mountains... I can't wait!!
>
> Glad to see everybody is back playing nicely around the cyberframe - did I
> miss much?
>
> Suzie B
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    ... Well hello there ladies and gents - I see that my stash remained safe and sound whilst Paul & I were in Warsaw - the QI obviously did a better job at guarding it than I hoped! ... And to swiftly bring this on topic, we bought 5 metres of Polish linen in red and white - Paul wants to make Polish flags for his WWII re-enactment, and I wanted some decent linen to embroider on - Polish folk costume embroidery is something that I really want to get into, and have bought a couple of books on the subject - one unfortunately is written in Polish and comes with a CD with a "photo-to-cross-stitch" embroidery program on it - but its all in Polish! ... Luckily tho, the photos don't need too much explaining, and the diagrams on how some of the stitches are done are great, especially as I am working my way through Nikki Tinklers book "Quilting with a Difference" - so am thinking about using stitches which are definitely used in Polish embroidery as quilting stitches! ...
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