After record-breaking rainfall AND record-breaking low maximum-temperatures last week (66 as a high on May 6 – that broke records, since we are usually in the 70-80s by then, or higher, NOT 60s), the sun decided to come out yesterday! It was windy, and cool, but the sun WAS out, and man was it nice! A good Mother’s Day, all in all – we actually cooked out on the grill TWICE yesterday – hamburgers for lunch, bar-b-que chicken for dinner 🙂 We had the windows open – we rarely get to do that in the spring, since by the time the pollen is over, it’s too hot and we’re on Month Three of A/C running 24/7. I was given the gift of music for Mother’s Day, via iTunes 🙂
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_PMGabbWM5s
In stitching news, I worked on a few different things over the week, including a new (yes, I know – I’m bad) start. But I’ll get to that later 🙂 First off, an update on Thursday night’s progress on Whoo’s There? from Prairie Schooler – we now have a house 🙂
I continued to work on Samplar 4 Saisons, and completed another row of pages; I think I have 6 to go, out of 15? Though, now that I have the branches of the tree about 90% done, the motifs for the last two seasons will go quicker, as will the tree trunk, the next time I have this out. And since I have put it away for the time being, I actually ironed it and took a picture of the whole thing:
And a detail of the Winter color, which I wasn’t sure was going to contrast enough with the tree color, but now that I have some in, I like it 🙂
And, speaking of Ink Circles, it would seem that I fell into another SAL, this time, Tracy’s Roll Your Own SAL, where you get to pick your own colors for a mandala design 🙂 And strangely enough, besides the combo I came up with after 45 minutes in Hobby Lobby on Friday, there are a couple of others that have been posted that I am “prepared” to do, as well, one in PURPLES, of course, and one in greens, to go with mine, titled Flower Garden 🙂 This is what it ought to look like:
And well, because I may or may not be entirely right in the head, surprise, I’m doing MINE over-1 on 32ct linen 🙂 On a piece that I could fit all three that I have kitted on together 🙂 And after a few hours yesterday on it, here’s where I am already:
It was actually pretty cool before I started putting color into it 🙂 And nice to not be using variegated threads, so I can go //// and then \\\\ if I want! ANd speaking of flower gardens, look what showed up in mine this week:
And here are a couple more that also emerged….
And these:
So, this week, I will put more color into my Flower Garden, though I probably won’t work on it all week – I think Chat Noir needs to come out and get some attention, before I get out the Halloween Quaker. I also think one of the projects I have closest to finishing (or quickest to finish, maybe) is PC Romeo, so that may come out soon, too, and see if I can’t add it to the list to finish this year 🙂 We’ll see – I want to work on everything at the moment, so it’s really hard to choose 🙂 I won’t get any progress on my travel pieces, as we have the last band concert on Thursday, Music of the Orient, so I won’t be at IHOP this week. So check this space next week to see if anything I planned to do actually happens or not 🙂 Happy Stitching to everyone!