Come dance with me!!!!

September 19, 2007



Before I get into my happy dancing I have to show you a picture of our "Girlie dogs" and their toy box. Dan goes to yard sales and cleans up! The only problem is that Mollie (on the right) likes to chew the eyes out of the toys. Anyone else have a dog who does that? Now for my serious Happy Dance...here is my Coussin Mandala designed by Mariska and puschased from The French Needle. I started this ages ago to do as a SAL with Nancy. We both sort of dropped the ball on it but finally I got back at it, found that I had to order more thread....

A big THANK YOU to Myfanwy at Sassa Lynne for finding me a very close match ...so I could finish it. The thread is a perle called Hampshire Clay. Sassa Lynne's thread is available in Canada from http://www.cottonmillthreadworks.com/ and in England from http://www.sassalynne.com/

My photography skills are not the best but believe me it is a gorgeous pattern!

I'm so pleased

September 11, 2007

My Hampshire Clay thread arrived from Mafawny at Sassa Lynne in the UK today and it looks like it will work out just fine for my mandala. I am so pleased that I will be able to finish this great project and not have to rip out a border and settle for part of the design instead of all of it.

Coussin Mandala

August 29, 2007

This is my Mandala, designed by Mariska and pattern purchased from The French Needle.
Nancy and I were doing a stitch along on Fridays for the longest time then we both sort of abandoned the project. I hauled it out last Friday and became intrigued once again and worked on it all weekend till I ran out of thread!

I contacted the distributor, from whom I bought the thread here in Canada but alas they have none of this older dye lot. Then I contacted the dyer (www.sassalynne.com) and she may be able to help me out. The problem arose because there was a bad drought in her part of England last summer and somehow the drought affected the composition of the water which in turn affected the way the colours dyed into the thread. Which explains why the second skein of Hampshire clay I purchased last fall is so different from the one I bought in the spring. Anyway sassalynne is going to try to find me a skein of the older dye lot and she also said she was doing some dyeing this week so I am hopeful that I will be able to get thread to finish the project. If I can't then I will have to pull out the outer border and the pillow will be a smaller version than originally hoped for. I don't know why I did that outer border before finishing the inner potions.