The First Update of October!

Finally! I didn't think it would ever get here! The weather has cooled dramatically - we're now below average, in the 60s during the day, but getting back up where we're supposed to be by the end of the week - 70's, maybe back to 80ish. The house is cold in the morning, as evidenced by a 1 1/2 pound cat wrapped around my neck this morning at 4:55. It should be at least another month before leaves start turning - last year, it happened early, by the end of October; other years, it's Thanksgiving and they are just starting to turn. Who knows what'll happen this year? The weather people don't. Kinda like this hurricane season was supposed to be intense - I know it's not over yet, but, ummm, come on, we could use the rain :)


This is the late afternoon sun down in Milledgeville Saturday; a 3 hour drive, 3 hours for warm up and game, stopped for dinner at a local bar-b-que place that was the area's best (but not that great), then home in 2 hours, 15 minutes - basically a whole day shot to hell :( But this shirt was at the bar-b-que place :)


On to the stitching...

I finished the motif I started on Quaker Halloween, did another, and did the word SPOOKY. I was glad to see there wasn't that noticeable a difference between my single strand regular silk and my 6-strand regular silk once I got them stitched - I can tell just because I'm up close & personal with them, but I doubt the casual observer would pick up on it.


Then I got Nancy's RR back out, and finished the SNOW that I was working on; this is now just a smidge over 1/8th done, so I'm going to go ahead and send it back to Nancy, and she ought to be able to finish it in plenty of time for winter/Christmas decorating :) I really love that fabric; PTP really does these dark colors well....


And when I put Nancy's piece up yesterday, I couldn't decide on what to work on; I almost got Murky Manor back out, then I saw Starry Nights sitting there, so I decided to work on that, instead; as busy as this weekend was, I was too fried to do anything that required a lot of thought (which is totally the wrong attitude to take with SN, since it's hard for my brain to wrap around the 2-layer chart as it is), and though I didn't go back and fix all the stuff I screwed up last time, I did get a lot of sections done that will make me not mess that 791 up the next time. I really think this could have been done as a single layer chart, with a wider palette of colors in the key, since I can not always tell which blue or pink is what from key to chart... And for the record, the Kreinik holographic ribbon is as much of a PITA as anything else they make - but it sure is sparkly :)



This week, I don't know really what my plans are, stitching wise. I think I'll work on Starry Nights again tonight, then may work on Murky again. I'm tempted to start Sleepy Hollow, but my WIP pile is starting to bug me - I need to whittle it down, not increase it... The rotation may come back into play the first of the year, since L&U hasn't been touched in a long time now - I would prefer it not take 2 decades to finish....



Here's MissMatch sleeping in a spot of sun yesterday - she was OUT. If you go here, you can see how much the camera doesn't bother her, by flipping through to the Next...