Memorial Day Catch-Up

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted – lots of things going on in the lead-up to our last graduation, including the OMG-Karen’s-going-to-be-gone-for-a-whole-week panic at work. The Little Kid’s graduation went well, and he is now officially on to the next chapter:

The Big Kid has joined the Navy, and has a ship date of 16 December, to Great Lakes, MI, for boot, then to San Diego for Sonar Tech school. He is very excited! And, Little Kid may be right behind him, though he was talking about Army Reserve before his brother started talking Navy.

While all of this was going on, Iris Season came and went, so here are a couple of shots I’ve been saving:

In stitching news, there hasn’t been a lot, because every waking moment before graduation was spent getting everything ready (for the end of school and for company coming). But since I last posted, I’ve had the following picks from the Project Randomizer:

I had an entire page of confetti where the wording is, and I got a decent amount of confetti done, as well as more yellow background. I am now officially all the way across for several rows; lots and lots of wording still to come, but eventually, I’ll wrap down to the next row of pages, and the main part of Chat Noir himself:

My next pick was:

I did not get much time at all on this, between the last band concerts I’ll ever get to go to, and band awards, and 10-hour workdays, but fortunately, the sky on this is all half-stitch, so I go about 2500 half stitches in, and got the Zebras completely done, as well:

Detail shot of the zebras and the sky – you’ll notice a void there in the pink of the sky, which will have a killer whale in it eventually:

I did manage to get the Music piece framed in time for Band Kid to give to his band director at the Band Awards night; he made some remark about how we have these things all over our house, and his mom thought the band director would like to have one for his house, too:

Since I had an opening in the travel bag – and I needed a break from Stoney Creek – I dug out a design I’ve had kitted for ages. I’d seen a finish of it online somewhere years ago, and when I found out it was a Vickery Collection chart, I looked for it and couldn’t find it. I e-mailed the designer, and at the time, it was actually available for free download from Free Patterns.com, to which they sent me the link. I downloaded it immediately and kitted it up with one of the first pieces of Silkweaver fabrics I’d received from my FOTM club from them. I got a start on it one night at IHOP, and then, worked on it a good bit out on the deck in the nice breeze yesterday:

My last pick from the Randomizer came up with this:

I have gotten almost nothing done on it this past week – haven’t even gotten 4 hours stitching all week, so hopefully I can breeze through the rest of Part 8 this week 🙂

And that’s the news for the last month plus. Back to work tomorrow 🙁 Of course, I’m sure I’ll spend all day tomorrow doing damage control on everything that happened last week while I was out; I turned my work laptop on once, just to check my e-mail count, and it was up to over 800 on Tuesday, so that can’t be a good sign 🙁 But I will be spending the rest of this Memorial Day stitching, and trying to prep myself mentally for what I’ll find in the morning…. Until next time, Happy Stitching and