Monday, April 30, 2012

The End of April - an Update



Well, this year's flying by, just like last year did :( Can't believe tomorrow will be May already! My kid has 3 weeks of school left (or less). Then I will have unlimited free child labor again :) Well, I guess it's not really free, what with the WoW account and the lame internet that we pay too much for to power WoW. But 2 1/2 months of not doing laundry or unloading the dishwasher - totally worth it :)



Last Thursday, we had the Spring Band Concert; can't believe that's the last for that, too, though I do finally get to hear the Kid play steel drums at the last BPA meeting next week. You can see more photos and videos of various performances on the FBHS Marching Band FB page.



On to the stitching bits - a finish, and sampler/HDF month continue....



At Tuesday's night's stitching at IHOP, I made some good progress on Guilder. I also worked on that Saturday, at the April PINS (which, as always, was a great afternoon, and over way too soon). I was to having it done when we wrapped up at Loretta's, so I finished it Saturday after dinner:



During the week, when I wasn't at IHOP or at a band concert, I kept on with Quaker Halloween, wanting to get those two motifs finished, which I did:



This really is a fun piece, if I didn't have other things hollering at me, I could do another page :)



When I finished that last motif on QH, I put it away, and on Sunday, I finally got Samplar 4 Saisons back out, and started in on the tree. Which doesn't look like a lot, but as there are also a group of leaves that I had to go add, I feel like I did a lot more than you might be able to see...



This week, I will continue with 4 Saisons, try to make a decent dent in that tree before putting it up. For the rest of April, I think I will work on some of the other pieces I have that don't get much attention - Celtic Banner, Noah's Sub, Romeo. Then June, I think back to the two Chatelaines, in a desperate effort to NOT start Deep Blue Sea or desert or Hummingbird. Maybe if World Tree and EGS come home soon, the guilt of having all these big projects going will prevent me from starting 3 more :) Or maybe not! Me & best laid plans = not always the expected result...


On that note, Happy Stitching to everyone!


2 comments:

Susan said...

Steel drums?! I love steel drums. Definitely not something that my son's band had but I know they would have had fun with them. Your stitching looks great. 4 Saisons is really pretty - not a pattern I've seen before. Looking forward to seeing your tree grow.

Mel said...

So what are you going to do with Florin & Guilder now they are finished? Are you plenning on framing them as is or are you tempted to turn them into a biscornu or flatfold or ???

Quaker Halloween is looking better and better with each new motif, I can see why you're tempted to keep it out!

Samplar looks fantastic! Personally I'd be tempted to lay odds that Deep Blue Sea might be have a few stitches in before the end of August ....