Name: Debbie Booth
Company Name: My Big Toe Designs
Years in Business: 10 years
Years Designing Counted Cross Stitch: 10 years
Currently Resides: Northern Idaho
Favorite Wichelt fabric color right now: anything in the
country French line. I love the feel of that fabric, and especially the weight
of the 32 ct.
Upcoming projects: For designing, I have some ideas in my
head for a new large design, scripture based, as well as lots of little designs
that relate to where I am in life. There will be at least two new releases in
September 2015: a new hymn and a new ornament set. The Building Block series
will continue, for at least a few more blocks. With my accessory line, Gingher
will soon have out their new Wren scissors, and I look forward to playing with
beads and creating the perfect accents for their lovely scissors.
About Me: Our family is currently in a state of transition,
between homes, and enjoying the temporary space of a cabin out in the middle of
a forest. There are challenges, but mostly we are enjoying the lack of
distractions so that we can focus on growing together, as a family, in our
relationships with God and with each other. We home school our daughter, which
gives us a lot of flexibility to help her pursue her passion in music. Most of
our married life, over the past 14 years, has been without family close by,
which has made us get into the community and create relationships with friends
who become family that we choose. Designing has been an amazing journey, over
these past ten years, that has allowed me to put to fabric, with needle and
thread, what has been going on in my life. It has brought people into my life,
through such a beautiful art, that have refined and encouraged me. I get to
express my faith in a quiet way, that both gives me comfort and challenges me.
I look forward to what is in store in the next ten years!
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Now for the more personal update. It has been a hot week for us, here, but we have spent time on the water and venturing out into the woods. Many of you know that we moved last summer, and part of that move was leaving the gardens, fruit trees, grape arbor, and berries that we had planted and tended at our old house. It has been a strange year for me - not planting, not harvesting, not canning. Well, God took care of that this past weekend! We were visiting a nearby forest and found plums growing! They are these delicious, yellow, small fruits and we picked a whole bunch. The past two days were spent making plum jelly. Yum! Then, yesterday we went and picked wild blackberries. Can you guess what I did this morning? The plum is a little soft set, the blackberry is a little firm, but I got to pick fresh fruit and make something tasty! Tomorrow morning I have every intention of going to get some more plums. Stitching?!? What's that?!? Okay, okay. I am working on the next hymn in the series. There's an old rugged cross in it, but I can't share any more than that.
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