Today was quite simply a beautiful day.  The weather is hot outside.  We reached 98 degrees before noon.  The problem with living in “hot Atlanta” is that  we have months of day after day in the 90’s and above.

I decided to make some lemonade and sit on the back porch and Stitch away.  There is something that brought me back to my Grandma’s house.  The long hot summer days stitching away with her, learning and perfecting my beginning stitches.  Life was simpler then, no cares, just pure enjoyment of being together.  The highlight of the summer would be when she would give me change and I would run down to Main Street to the Five and Dime to but some Aunt Martha design transfers.  I thought I was so grown up.

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What is it about monograms and initials?  We love to put initials on everything from towels to totes.   Today we have gone  crazy, we even are writing with initials now.  If I told you a story about my BF, you would of course know I was talking about my best friend.

Did you realize that monograms can be traced back to 350 BC.  Yes the first monograms were fund on coins.  Printmakers and sculptors used their monograms to sign their work.  Think of the beautiful letters and symbols drawn by calligraphers’ when creating books and even Bibles.

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Over the weekend I was able to find a chunk of time to work on and finish “All My Eggs in One Basket”. I had done the tracing and coloring earlier and did not have time to get the stitching done. It seems like such a complicated design, but I was able to breeze through it in no time at all.
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