Cross-Stitch for a Shower

Another customer's finished piece! I love getting these pictures. (keep them coming.)

This one comes from a cross-stitcher whose been doing it since she was in preschool. How cool is that! She made it as a wedding shower gift for her friend.


She did make some additions to the pattern. You'll notice the back-stitiching added to the border and the "area fill" added to the pdf curve. Pretty groovy. :)

Thanks for sharing, Michelle!

Quick Project: Tyke Hike Chair

Over Christmas at my inlaws (that sounds pretty cold, we're actually quite friendly!), we went through some old boxes of things. Found in one of those boxes was an old toddler chair from when my husband was a, well, toddler. It has a TYKE-HIKE patch on the original seat. But doing a quick search just now shows that you can get the same chair from Hoohobbers.

The old seat was quite worn. It had been glued back together (perhaps a couple of times). I took the old seat off, made a pattern from it and then made a new seat with duck cloth.

Now its all clean, seatable, and ready for Keagan!

Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture

This past Monday and Tuesday, Nausicaa Distribution had it's first appearance at a conference (or show of any sort), at the K-State Conference on Applied Statistics in Agriculture. We had a great time!

Sunday we helped Dr. Boyer set up the poster room and set up our own table. But I didn't have everything finished, so the table was a little bare. Not to worry! Sunday afternoon and night my mother-in-law and sister-in-law stayed up with me till about 1 am sewing, turning, and stuffing plushies! We finished 21 plushies Sunday.

Monday was the first day of the conference for us (there was a workshop Sunday, but we did not attend). It was great to hear live comments from people and to see what they thought. Not only could we see what people thought, but we had a great crowd of statisticians to get feedback from. One woman told us we would do great at JSM. I don't know if my little fingers can work fast enough for that, even figuring it'd be too late for the 2011 meeting. :)

Monday night there was a dinner event at Konza Prairie Research Center. Konza is set up to do long-term research about the tall-grass ecosystem. It's pretty impressive when you think about what they are doing out there. That night, there were dinner and tours. One tour was a walking tour of some research tools and set-ups. The other was a bus tour through the "bison lands." I'm not sure what it's actually called, but they have some 200+ bison in a 20+ square mile setting. The tour was sweet! We saw a lot of bison and some turkey and deer too.

Tuesday was the second (and last) day of the conference. We did some more visiting, promoting, and sales.

Over all, it was a great experience and we are so glad Dr. Boyer and Dr. Neil allowed us to come. We learned that the MCMC Hammer cross-stitch is well enjoyed by those in the know and that the Poisson distribution is among the most popular for agricultural statisticians (that's the only one we sold out of).

Hopefully we can attend again next year!