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Mystery Spoiler Alert...

Don't scroll down unless you want to see a photo of my current Mystery project in process. These are the first three month's patterns. I'm just about done stitching the whole design so I have to cut and paste to edit the photo to not show it all. I have it all charted but have been writing the instructions a month at a time. I wrote the April instructions this weekend though so I am finally ahead of the game on something - this doesn't happen often enough for me! If you want to stitch along on the Mystery, you can still sign up -see all the colorways here. And here's another colorway from one of the people stitching along. It's upside down but didn't look right when I rotated it because of the angle it was taken from! I love seeing how designs look in different colors - even though I know it to be so true, it always amazes me how different it can look. 

Back from market...

Okay, I've been home a week but the days have been flying by. I've fortuately been making a daily trek (it's only 4 miles) to the post office every afternoon with piles of packages and then working some more when I come home. I can't seem to catch up with all the orders - distributors, shops, and also still liquidating the inventory from the shop on my website http://www.needledelights.com/ I'll be adding more than just patterns as soon as I'm caught up with all the current mail. Nashville was totally awesome. Everyone there seeemed to be in such a great mood and happiness pervaded the air in my room, for sure. [I love blogging because I can write like I talk and not necessarily grammatically correct]. This was my first market being only an exhibitor and not a buyer for a shop so it was incredibly wonderfully relaxing for me. I did still get to run around and see my designer friends and all their new goodies but not have to stress about what to buy and how mu