Another Monday Update

These Mondays are just coming faster & faster - I am NOT impressed. It doesn't help that the weather has been about 20-30 degrees cooler this past week then it was this time last year (and the year before that, and the year...); it feels like fall, which, gee, we might ACTUALLY have this year, as opposed to Sweltering one day, Freezing the next. THAT would be nice :)


Tonight, we're going to the fair, to see if I won any Big Cash Prizes :) Or to see if the lady at the extension office that I got into the e-mail barrage with over needlework classes managed to remember my name, and found a way to disqualify me on everything. For The Record: Double Cross (which us stitchers call the Smyrna Cross) should NOT have a class all unto itself, when no other "specialty" stitch does; in 25+ years, I have NEVER seen a design done entirely in Smyrna. Time to jump right on out of the 70s, folks...



Speaking of Smyrnas, that's all I have left on the main design part of the small piece I am doing for The Stitcher's Village Sampler Project. Lots & lots of Smyrnas to do still, and then to personalize it with my name & location, I guess. Would really like to have this done this week, and in the mail to Patty, if possible - as usual, what I think will be a quick walk in the park, turns into this 2-month odyssey...


At the Tuesday night stitch in at the IHOP with the Hooty Girls, I couldn't decide what to work on - so I dug out the poor, neglected AD Sampler 4 Saisons that hasn't been touched since it returned from Carolyn's earlier this year. I got one motif (below the starfish) and several letters of the next alphabet done - and I don't think I skipped any!! It was good to let this out into the light again for a bit...


And then, the main progress this week was again on Murky Manor - and I even took a picture of the WHOLE THING to date - just because I wanted to see it, too :) I am roughly 1/2 done, give or take - it's kind of hard to tell. I really wish I could get a picture of the GITD threads in the ghosts & spider web - not with the camera I have :(


This week, I think I will keep working on MM - I really need to get BoaF and Knotgarden out, and maybe I will later in the week, but I'm really enjoying MM at the moment, and hey, it's getting close to October, right, and all this Halloween stuff is just screaming at me, so - that's what I'm doing. But then, you just never know what I might do, do ya? LOL You'll just have to come back next week to see. Until then, Happy Stitching!