Hello stitching friends!
I'm slow in getting another post written. I can't believe I haven't posted since before Valentine's Day! Well, I have been stitching, going off to work everyday, reading, and doing the other usual things. I have finished "A Robins Song"!!! I actually finished it February 10. I'm going to try to do better this year in tracking start dates and finish dates of stitching projects. I'm very diligent about doing that with the books I read, but haven't ever been too focused on stitching completion lists. Nor do I have lists of projects waiting for their turn to be stitched. I guess I'm more of a free spirit and go with what strikes me at the time.
Right now the finished piece is languishing on the ironing board upstairs in my sewing room. I will share a picture soon. I think it will be going to my LNS soon for framing. I have several pieces there now since she had a framing sale late in January. I will share pictures of them after I get them home.
I've been catching up on blog reading. I was woefully behind at one point, but I'm happy to say I'm caught up for now at least. Mike was home sick from work two days last week with bronchitis. He rarely takes a sick day, so I know he felt crappy. But that threw my schedule off... I figured I would be the next lucky person to catch the bug, but so far it hasn't happened.
I did start the blue jay from the Prairie Schooler chart "birds and berries". I was lucky to borrow the chart from a stitching friend. I saw it online awhile back and couldn't get it out of my mind that I wanted to stitch 2,3 or all 4 of these to hang in our dining room. We have bird fabric valences in there, and I kept thinking these would look great with them.
So I took this photo last night. You can see I am nearly done. I just have to finish the second green shade on the remaining leaves and add the second color to the berries.
I will have to share pictures of the pretty flowers that brightened up Valentine's Day.
We opted for dinner at home instead of going out. We felt it would just be too crowded. It was a good choice.
I was happy to find these tulips at the grocery store as well. There's nothing better than some early spring flowers!
We had snow again last night and are supposed to have bitter cold for the next few days just to warm up a bit for another snow event on Sunday. I'm so tired of winter!
We went shopping for a baby crib for the much anticipated baby in our family. There's a baby shower and Dad shower planned for late March. The kids have been working hard on finishing up some remodeling projects at their house before the out of state family members arrive for the baby shower. Mike has been offering assistance and I have been doing meals for everyone fairly often.
Well it's about time to head off to work. Hope you are finding lots of quality stitching time!
