2025 Finish #31

 Sweet little stitch on 40 count with chosen dmc.

Red mini poms.

Yes I changed the birds a bit.

Don't be impressed.  You can't imagine my piles of smalls never fully finished.

Stay safe.  Be well.

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Merry Pinkeep

 Available on Sub Rosa's Etsy site.

Here

It's cold outside.  Really cold outside.

Been somewhat off today, feeling better now.  Plan on catching up on blogs tomorrow.  So many appts every damn day and I'm exhausted by evening.  Canceled them for tomorrow.

Holding my breath after I learned my physical therapist's husband is bed ridden with covid.  They didn't test until that morning (his 4th day), never been that sick, just like others we know.  This variant is severe.  But no one seems to test until they have spread it.  Hubs is furious.  No, no mask, working on an elderly man and me.

Don't take chances, Paxlovid must be started in first days.  Does it still help with new variants?  Please be cautious and carry sanitizer gel.

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Searching for a stag

Several questions were asked on IG about that stag shown with Elizabeth.  Finally found the post and now I want the entire sampler.  Did I recycle it?  Was it in the download from SANQ that I lost to laptop death?

This is so interesting and would be fun to stitch.  I stitched this single stag from the fall 2015 SANQ but found this photo of a chart from Samplers Remembered.  I need to know count, could a drum finish work?  

 Hunting for that stag now!  

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EDIT - Found it and other SANQ files!  

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The error

 When a comment on Instagram asked about thread colors, I compared the chart to the photo before answering.  And ... saw that the house trim was not stitched to the bottom.  

A relatively easy fix.

When I worked for a framer mounting needlework, first rule was to check the piece thoroughly for missing stitches.  It surprised me to see some framed pieces online that were not caught.  I notified the customer about any possible omissions before framing.  Missing a few of my own on finished pillows, I went back and using the sewing method added the missing.  But I should inspect my own work before assembling!

Whew.

Mouth is quite miserable, root canal was back molar and my jaw is terribly sore from the shots and the work. Numbness caused me to take a bite out of my tongue, that's worse!  That molar and another tooth became the anchors to a permanent bridge.  I'm hearing about too many people having failures of their implant, especially the bridge type of several teeth.  This was much less $$, and much less prone to revision.  It's over, and I'm glad it is.  But there's more work to be done.

Getting old is not for sissies as they say.  When I tell someone my age, I am shocked to hear it out loud!

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Boom

Tons of snow over all the leaves on a day of root canal and crown.

Crabasses unite!

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2025 Finish#30

Am I sorry I cut the linen preventing the border I had no intention to stitch?

Of course.

Would I have been able to complete such a border during my era of errors?

Of course not.

Am I happy with this little sampler?

Yep.

40 count cappuccino, dmc, added the heavier outline.  Scrappy new tablet's photo looks like a row of pink.  Nope.  But I wondered if a light blue row between the red would be good.  Stitched the alphabet in eyelet.  Hope to final finish with subdued olive green backing.  Red would be too much.  Or not.

Boom.

Have a warm and sunny day. 

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