Time Flies When You Are Having Fun!

Wow, I skipped a whole month again! How did I ever have time to update weekly back in the old days? That must mean I am much busier now than I was then, though it’s hard to imagine, considering I had two soccer players on the road every weekend 11 months a year back when I had an update every week. Of course, I am a lot more tired, so maybe I am that much busier 🙂 At any rate, it’s time to get caught up, since Spring is more than half over already!

I forgot to post my 2nd Chatelaine mini bellpull finish, Mini Mystery J, which I finished back in January. It’s on the same linen banding the MMI was on:

Chatelaine Mini Mystery J, on 28ct linen banding, using DMC, silks, and RG PTB, with Sawrovski crystals and delica beads.

Okay, that’s taken care of… Now, when I left last time, I had just gotten the blackwork jellyfish out. I think I worked on it a bit over a week, and got a lot of the bell fill pattern in, as well as some bubbles:

Jellyfish by Ajisai Press. on 28ct Mystic from PTP. Using DMC Variations & Metallics – beads & sequins to come 🙂

When I put that away, I got out GP Plum Pudding; I worked on it for a couple of days, but it really wasn’t grabbing me. Fortunately, I was saved by an impulse start – Joan Elliott posted an Easter bunny freebie on her FB page, and I was compelled to start it instead of pretending to work on PP. Here’s a pic of the finished top – 28ct Silkweaver Dreamin’:

Bunny Biscornu by Joan Elliott. DMS & delicas on 28ct lugana.

I did not get a picture of the bottom side, since it only took me a couple of hours to stitch it, then I started assembling it. And just as a reminder to myself, I really don’t enjoy putting biscornus together – I always have a pucker of extra fabric left at the last corner (strategically hidden in this photo):

Biscornu done. Currently hiding on the craft table until a certain dog who thinks all toys are for her forgets it’s here…

And since Plum Pudding really wasn’t calling to me still, and because I got my Market Order:

Spring Market – Ink Circles releases, along with a piece of purple fabric and a new Milli Hill Laurel Burch kit.

I had yet another impulse start on that Saturday afternoon after returning from the March PINS with the Ink Circles charts above. I had just gotten a couple of cool greens from Thread Gatherer, so went stash diving, found 2 greens and a Gloriana orange that went together really well, and an opal Silkweaver called Spring Garden (which does not show up in the photo at all – it’s very Rainbow Sherbet colored, green & orange), and made this:

Green Damsel by Tracy Horner of Ink Circles. Thread Gatherer Tapestry Green & Irish Moor, Gloriana Bright Orange, on Spring Garden opal from Silkweaver.

I actually ran out of Tapestry Green before I finished the last corner dragonfly & corner motif; fortunately, I had just gotten it a month or so before I started this, so when I ordered another, the dye lot was a match. IF this fabric had been 32ct, I probably would have had enough.

At the March & April PINS, I worked on Stoney Creek Life is a Journey, and finished Block 4, and started the border on the fifth:

Stoney Creek pattern series Life is a Journey. On 28ct linen, using DMC, Gloriana, HDF, VMS and Glisson Gloss threads.

And then finally, Plum Pudding actually wanted to be worked on. I will continue on through tomorrow, probably, but am happy that I will be about 1/3 done when I put it up again:

Plum Pudding by Glendon Place. On 28ct Sprite from PTP, using my conversion to Carries Silks & delica beads.

I will probably get a Chat out next – Hummingbird has been screaming, though I may need a break from purple for a week or two, so IC Anatolia might actually come out first. We’ll see. I could finish Celtic Banner with another rotation, and my travel piece Field of Sunflowers would be a quick finish, too, I think, so maybe one of those will come out instead….

The INDIGO BUNTING* came back 🙂 The rufous-sided towhee did too, but I haven’t gotten a picture of him yet. Yes, this is a weird angle – hard to hang out the bathroom window and not scare off the bunting….

In other news, the Younger Sailor has graduated his school and is now at his first permanent station in Virginia, not too far from DC. The Older Sailor still has a few months of school, but hopefully we’ll know his first assignment before too long. We miss our boys! But we don’t miss all the vehicles all over the place, since DH talked me into getting a Jeep for our weekend car; we have to get the Miata and the VW out of here! Too many cars, too much shuffling out in the driveway!

Until next time, Happy Stitching!

* EDITED to note that my blue grosbeak – at least what I have seen this year – is definitely an Indigo Bunting instead. I am sure I have also had a blue grosbeak (it has brown spots in the blue & black on its sides), as well, but the blue bird pictured here ain’t it.

 

2 thoughts on “Time Flies When You Are Having Fun!”

  1. Such beautiful stitching as always. The biscornu is just too cute and I know you weren’t sure about Plum Pudding, but it is just delicious! The purples on your iris are stunning – now if they made threads to match that lustre … Happy stitching!

    1. I still don’t like one of the beads on PP – but I disliked the thought of taking them all off to start over more 🙂

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