Spinning with Spinney

Looking through charts while jumbled thoughts are spinning, Mary Spinney seems a good option. 

She was completed on dark green linen, now lounging in the chaos with her neighbors.  But she was in the iffy pile to eBay, and I realized her center area would make a perfect 5" soft finish.   Working the top down to her name would work too, but the center is more interesting.

The bottom people and motifs are wacky but without other portions of this sampler, make no sense.  This may be the next project.

Went in to my old dentist this morning, he can't fit me in for extraction for three weeks.  Had I known that I would have stayed with the 3 day a week doc and saved a few hundred.

Have a good day folks.

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Not a good start

to 2026. 

Spent Monday with brother in er, now trying to get heart tests we no longer have locally.  Waiting for appointment.  

Nephew needing surgery, waiting for a specialist to schedule.  A small sore red bump on a decades old scar indicates an abscess.  Who knew?  We did not.  After antibiotics and blood work, he needs a plastic surgeon to remove the old very large and messy appendectomy scar and take care of abscess, restitch. If it wasn't for his girlfriend having a sister that spent a week in ICU because of a little bump on a scar, this would have become very serious.  Chris cannot be in that house with a large incision to heal.  It's that bad. He has told them to leave before, no response.  There are grandkids involved, it's difficult and upsetting.  After making calls, no help, no agencies willing, no options that are humane and acceptable.  I may explain later.

I haven't made the appointment for my tooth extraction, too many calls and such happened and they are closed for their 3 day week, need to wait until Monday.  My old dentist is 4 days a week, closing at 1:00 daily.  No opening tomorrow and I need to go to new diabetic doctor with Chris anyway (out of town of course). Taking antibiotics for a week now, still painful, swollen, draining.

I hate my newer Samsung tablet.  Horrible photos, green, blurry, have to tilt to get a level photo.

This is CrowsfeetStitching Hannah Schofield that I started before.  Not a large sampler but is for me.  Can't think straight right now to choose something else, don't even feel like stitching.  I did start a new sampler a few nights ago but decided to quit.  On the for sale pile now.  Will continue on Hannah until I can focus.

I hope to get some sleep tonight.  Dealing with my brother and this situation is exhausting.  Tremendously exhausting.

 Hope all is peaceful for you.

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2026 Finish #1

I need another shelf.

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The alpha

Finally.  

I did chart this a while back but made changes that I no longer wanted.  Plus, the chart was in color, not symbols, and that made it even harder to adjust back to the original photo since the greens and rusts were not being used.  So I tried to work from the photocopy best I could.

The alphabet will be followed from the chart.  I wasn't able to get the flower stitches counted, quite blurred, so the shape is different.  Not a problem.  I may add a small motif to the top right of the bottom section to sort of balance it.  The heart interior is done with half crosses.  I like the texture.

Stuff happening this weekend.  I've had the days wrong for over a week, holidays shuffled me.  And my previous root canal is killing me so I'm hoping another will correct this and prevent extraction.  They only work three days a week as most around here.  Seems in order to keep employees, you have to make sure they don't have to put too much time into responsible productivity.

Hope your year started peacefully!

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Tough

Working from a copy is slow going.  Trial and error as I stitch.

No way it will be a 2025 finish.  I had too many distractions and calls today to complete a good amount of stitching, plus the lack of chart issues.

Wishing you all a healthy and happy 2026.

Be careful!

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Tiny tiny lights

I found these at Kraynak's today, perfect for my two and three foot trees.

Requires 3 AAA batteries, beautiful light, almost invisible wires.  Never saw them before.  I may return and get a few more packs.  These are 100 lights on 33 feet, others are double lights, copper, silver, or gold wires instead of green, multi colors or pure white light.  Not bothering to add to trees this year.

Weather/wind is brutal.  Stitching more tomorrow, not making much progress.  

Using 3722, 221, and 355 for the reds on this.  Didn't realize it would be this wide, perfect little drum.  The bird is center, dividing band is to right side edge. 

Stay warm, safe, and well.

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