Dummy Says - Damn, It's HOT (an update)

It's true, it's freakin' hot - been 94+ for two solid weeks now, with the heat index over 100 with the never-ending humidity hovering right around 3000%. And in the 3 weeks I've been back from Ohio, it's rained once, for about 15 minutes. I'd gladly welcome a nice, cool 88 right about now :) Don't get me wrong, I love the heat; I just can't stand the humidity, where breathing feels like you are under water, and everything outside smells ozone-y and moldy (or like ass). Yuck. I want to go wherever it is October in GA all the time - 80-something during the day, low humidity, 50s & 60s at night. THAT'S what I'm talking about! We are supposed to have chances of thunderstorms this week - slim-to-none chances, I'm sure. I'd just take a day of overcast, so my house would be cooler...

(duhhhh, damn, it's almost too hot to bark... ALMOST.)

On to the stitching bits...

I couldn't decide what to work on last week, so many things were calling to me. But the older, smaller things are calling the loudest. So on Tuesday, I went out to the ol' travel bag, and pulled out Purrfect Summer Day - and worked on it through Saturday, getting through the AQUA finally and getting it that much closer to done! Lots of white - the white blocks that I did int eh border went quicker than I thought they would, and I wanted to get all the white done before I put the other colors in around it, so the white wouldn't pick up any contamination...


And then, Halloween Quaker kinda started hollering at me Saturday night, so I knew I'd have to switch out on Sunday. But instead of Halloween Quaker, I went back to the ol' travel bag, and got Mary Wigham out. I last touched this at a PINS get together a couple of months back, and started a motif that I just could not get the flow of - I blamed it that Saturday on needing to go to the eye doc - which I have since done, and now have an expensive pair of $12 cheaters :) - but this particular motif (bottom left-most - Moon Called Sea HDF) was completely frog-ridden to the last stitch. I just could NOT get that design to flow for me, and I probably stitched it twice, with the amount of ripping out & redoing I did. Grrrrr. The 3 sets of initials and the orange flower (BeWitched - which looks a LOT like the old discontinued Ochre that I did St. G in) went down on the fabric without a fight!

And that's it for the week. I think I will probably be rotating these close-to-done pieces - Purrfect, Knotgarden, MW, and maybe even bring Tanglewood out of the ol' bag, too. Purrfect, obviously, is the closest to done - would probably have it done this week if I worked on it like I did last week. It feels good to get these moving towards done - the stitching "goals" I listed earlier are actually making progress here near the half-way mark of the year! As much as I have 20 projects yammering to be started - and now that Kokopelli that Sue sent me is adding his voice to the chorus - I am definitely feeling like I need to get some stuff DONE, still - so I'm going with it!


In other news, I sent several items to Pennsylvania, to the First Annual HDF Exhibit at Vikki Clayton's Silk Emporium - 17 June through 4 July :) World Trade Center quilts will also be there, ONE DAY ONLY, June 18th. For more information, see the HDF site - in the menu on the LEFT, see ARTICLES & INFORMATION - there are 2 sections of articles on the Exhibit. Hopefully this will be a HUGE SUCCESS and give a much-needed boost to the needlework industry! IF you are in the area, check it out - she's having classes on all kinds of things, and lots to see while there - as if piles of silk wasn't enough all by itself! Some day, I'll get to PA....