EmnEllie Cross Stitch Blog

Thanksgiving was wonderful, as always. The million dollar question is; what's better? Thanksgiving dinner, or the Thanksgiving leftovers?  Every year, I look forward to making the leftovers into what can only be called the ultimate sandwich. It's commonly called a Monte Cristo . The blog  Taste and Tell  describes a Monte Cristo like this: "It is believed that the Monte Cristo started off as the French Croque Monsieur, a grilled cheese sandwich with Gruyere and ham. Then, starting in the 1930s, more variations of this sandwich started to show up cookbooks, then in the 1950s, it made its way onto a menu in a southern California restaurant under the name of Monte Cristo. It then made its debut at Disneyland in 1966." There's a recipe at the link too. For Thanskgiving leftover purposes, I like to use turkey, pepperjack cheese (because that's the melty cheese in my fridge) and jellied cranberry. Give the sandwich a try, it's absolutely delicious . So since we...

Progress Update on Contemporary Flag Hi! So I didn't get a page finish on this one, but in my defense I grossly underestimated the actual size of the page I was working on. But hey! I made a lot of progress, and that makes me happy. Here's what it looked like the last time you saw it: before And here's what it looks like now: after  I apologize for the lighting, it's a dark rainy day here!  Stars! I stitched some stars! Isn't the shading in this chart amazing?  Next in the rotation is...  Drum roll, drum roll, drum roll... J is for Jack O Lantern Fall in April! Hurray! This one is so fun to stitch on. Fabric is pretty nice to. Stay well, and keep stitchin'! Happy Stitching! Marisol  

  Greetings from my Cross Stitch Citadel!  How's the social distancing going? Is anyone getting any stitching done? Sorry for not posting in awhile! I wanted to give Kanagawa an extra week, because I hadn't stitched on it much during the first week.  For the past few days the weather here has been really dark and dreary. But the temperature is cooling down too, so that's nice. This is such weird weather for the end of March.  Progress on the Great Wave off Kanagawa  I apologize for the poor lighting in these pictures, but like I said; it's a really dark day outside!  Here's what it looked like the last time you saw it: before And here's what it looks like now: after "But wait!" you're saying, "What about the page finish you were talking about in the last blog post?!" I know, I'm asking myself that question too. But at least I made some progress on the sky!  Next in the...