Wasting time

Hello folks.  My plan to offer six boxes a month started off poorly.  February's box was going to be George (for president's day), our first president elected by the new Constitution, and also instrumental in the document itself.  Then I thought red would be more appropriate for Valentine's Day.  So George moved to January with no related reason for that month.  I have wasted days on end working on this three layer design,  and I still need more work to now shorten the width.  Before I go any further, can I ask for your opinion once again?   

 

There is a subtle suggestion of our flag as a background on ivory parchment paper, the beginning of the Constitution, and lonely George.  Cornballishness?  Certainly not related to stitchery but I've wanted something patriotic for quite a while. 

 

Working on Martha with the 300 thread.  It looks fine, no reason other than nitpickiness to change the color now.

 

 

We're warming up this weekend and Mark is waiting for a phone call to golf.  We got my car back from the hospital and I finally found a tube of O'Keeffe's for my hands.  Everyone was out.  Good stuff - thanks for the suggestions.

 

Hope everyone is doing well.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Copper penny

Hello people.  Hope those of you that are snowed in are safe and warm.  The wind looked vicious in the continuous news coverage.  Whenever I see people stuck on highways for hours my first thought is always, where is the bathroom?  I would never make it!

 

This is Martha, in the series of offers that included little Robina Leadbetter that I stitched months ago.  And just found when decorating for Christmas.  My forgetfulness is still giving me double the excitement from my re-discoveries. 

 

 

 

 

Stitching with one thread only happened on 35 or 40, and that was only three small projects.  This is 32 but I thought the look was a little more subtle and stuck with it. 

Rust was my color choice but I think the 300 I chose is too red.  This little sample is 433 and it's more of what I wanted, so........ to be continued.

 

As for the copper penny linen, I love it.  It was used for Eliza Pomeroy and I only have a small piece left.  I purchased it at the only shop within a hour from me and she said other pieces had quite a bit of blue.  This one is perfect.

 

Just enough of the mottled bluish green with the coppery tone and here's a better look for those of you that are shopless and need to order online. 

 

So here's where I am, haven't removed the two thread portion and probably won't.  I'm sure there was a young girl stitching her sampler many years ago that did the same thing.  If not, an old lady in 2016 did.  But will I continue in this color since the 433 is calling my name?  Why didn't I choose it first?  The 430 series was in my bag from Sally and I had enough of those colors.   I can always do another small with it though, and just continue with the 300.  My house is dusty, floors need cleaned, drywall isn't finished, projects half completed, but thread color on a small piece bothers me.  I am so totally weird.  And another 5# heavier.

 

Thanks for visiting.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Martha

Martha Hards, a small marking sampler from Needlework Press was chosen from a pile of twenty.  I really want to do Ann Spence and Mary Elliott, both LARGE, and I am afraid the stitching desire may be gone before I ever get to them.  Maybe after this small project I will attempt one of them.

 

For Martha, I chose copper penny hand dyed, greenish bluish bronzy linen.  It's a monochrome sampler of blue on natural but I wanted something different. 

The only shop I have, a half hour from here, may have wool thread and I thought a rust wool would be a great option on this fabric but I need to start right now so I'm using DMC in 300.  The owner of the shop stitched the bag on the cover of SANQ (the one I modeled my sampler sack after) on osnaburg with wool threads.  It is fabulous.

 

Not sure if you can see the difference in my photo, but the right side top border and the F is using one thread and the rest is with two.  Not sure which I like best.  That's bad because any choice - chart, fabric, thread - paralyzes me and even after those are decided, I find something else to stall the process.  Then of course, I wonder if a dark blue would be better ALWAYS questioning my decisions and that drives me nuts. 

 

We missed the snow storm, just south of us.  Good thing because if I was any more crabby my shell would burst.  Hope those of you experiencing it stay safe.

 

Thanks for visiting.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

Synchronizing

...and the gold medal winners in the Brat Olympics, Feline Division,

Synchronized Snoozing catagory....

 

Carole's tests were within normal limits, kidneys are still doing good with double doses of Lasix daily for over a year.  She's lucky.

And I finished six boxes for the February sale.

 

Rough finish over black, black interiors.

 

I'm working on January's half dozen, bassackwards as usual.  And speaking of "bass", mine does not fit into my new skinny jeans.  Never got to wear them before skinny became skin on bologna.  There's a fine line in that style, no wiggle room, and spandex only goes so far.

 

Starting to snow again.  Just came back from Carole's errands and shopping.  Our usual winter task since she can't get down and back up her luge track on a steep hill driveway.  Mark's 4 wheel drive can most times, but on ice, we have to park on the road and walk that hill.

Stay safe!  Enjoy the week.

 

Thanks for visiting.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 

 

 

It's all over but the mailing

 WOW that was intense!  Thank you all, you got bargains!  That doesn't happen too often for stitchers.  Hope you are as pleased with your purchases as I am, I think you will be. Good thing I had them in individual bags marked with their number.  Good thing the number was embedded in the photo because I messed up and was off one bag number after 22.  Twilight zone moment until I realized my mistake and all was corrected.  It was hard letting them go.  So will my next project be a PS Santa?  We'll see because putz here gave away many of them.  I need to check my stash.  I had a few favorites of that group and some weren't Schoolers.  Question is, what do I stitch them on?  I really like the neat look of Aida, gave that away too.  I may have a small piece of 18 left.  Margaret (A Sampler of Stitches) gifted me with a P.S. on Davos and maybe I should continue with that.  I need to choose something soon.

 

Just wanted to say thanks and the seller is pleased that they went to homes of needleworkers.  He had two large boxes of other pieces, not all Christmas, and they sold at the estate sale.  There were so many others and downsizing was necessary.  I believe these were the last she stitched and were never displayed.

 

It's very cold here, good day to go through the stash again.

Stay warm!

Thanks again.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

 

 

Reminder

Hello hello.  Just a reminder about the sale at 7 this evening. 

 

Haven't chosen a new project after looking through many charts.  I would like to finish Mary Kitpin but the border and a little over one stitching seems like a mountain climb that I've not trained for.  I need as simple as can be, straight lines and alphabet or my slump will slip further.  Now that I've mentioned a mountain climb it reminded me of what we learned at the echocardiogram.  My sister had a very nice technician for many years who did not administer the test last week but we saw him in the unit. She told the new tech how nice the man was and how she enjoyed speaking with him.  He told her that this man's wife has been ill for the last 30 years and just this past August, they lost their son in a climbing accident in Utah.  He was only 40 and fell 1800 feet to his death when training for a Mount Rainier climb.  Tragedies happen to good people every day and we never know who will be the next victim.

 

We're having a blizzard right now so I'm crabbed out.  The deer don't seem to mind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And the brat pack, one of which put holes in my sweatshirt yesterday, are snoozing.  We had another upsetting incident.  The cats were in the house, and the yellow and gray (tight collar) must have been in the garage looking for ours.  There is blood and fur everywhere and especially in a corner where items were knocked over.  I don't know what to do about this and didn't even hear the fight. 

 Dinner is ready - Steeler's half time. 

 

Enjoy your evening.

 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~