Testing ...1...2

 3!  On thread changes, on chart choice, on apple pie or fritter.

Recognize this huge house?

I will be selling these two linens soon, maybe on that FB site.

Enjoy your day!

Fritter it will be.

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Clearly

If you stitched the Nash Sewing Bag, were you able to easily read the chart?

On a tan background, bold symbols are readable but some are outlines, not distinct or clear enough for my eyes.  I need to use high magnification and certainly would not be able to glance at the chart while stitching to verify thread color.  I'll try enlarging with high contrast at Staples, hope it helps.  Not today, not tomorrow, maybe Friday.   I tried using my tablet to photograph but it became very blurred when enlarged.  So I will kit a few projects and maybe start a very small until then. 

Got out my Halloween tree this year.  Moved it, moved it, moved it, and I'll move it again.  It's like elf on the shelf.

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The players

 

 Too lazy to look through charts for a small sampler, these were in the basket next to my chair.  If IA 1812 is chosen, the top alphabet will be left off.  

The fun is at the bottom, the middle alpha is different, the top is routine tedium for me right now.

I made two previous attempts to have more than one project going at a time, didn't work.  The third time may be a charm, we'll see.

Still fighting mojo so I can't take long to start a new project.

Choosing fabric is always a chore.

Enjoy your day,

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Miss Jane Plews

The birds are as charted.  Because of the placement error that caused the right half to be off (no correction), my modified bird did not fit properly on the other side.  So I went back to the chart and its colors, used my brown stamp pad and a stiff angle brush to darken the outline of the bird's light thread.  The original sampler's center area is quite dark from age or soiling, so I added more aging with the brush in that area.  Rather than red along with the bright blue, I decided the cartouche outline should be one color

Boom.

This 2016 design

 from Inguna Krastina was offered free on the Facebook group Sampler Heart under the files. 

click here to join 

PTP Legacy 36 with DMC threads, very few changes where thread was too light for my taste.

Be safe folks.

Thanks for visiting and putting up with me.

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Two minor decisions

 and this sampler will be finished.

The critter was worked from antlers down, removing the grass as needed.  Since the three stitches off were in width, I never checked height.  That's where the problem was.  Adding more horizontal rows than charted caused the angled edge to increase in width.  Never thought of that!  

So the two birds will be stitched, 

and after removing the bright blue in the cartouche border, I need to either choose another color or leave as is.  With so much going on in this area, the blue was too distracting.  I am sorry I didn't study the chart more, would have moved the first row up one.

Border is done!!

I will list Jane's link and info next post.

Enjoy your weekend.

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The critter, the cake, and the crab

I have lost count of the number of times this corner has been counted.  AUGH!!!!

I know the body is one stitch to the right, the outline for her name is not.  But the grass is three off!  So I stitched the bottom border hoping to shed light on the error.  Nope.  WTH?

So the critter will be stitched and the grass will grow around it, no more counting.  Even its shape can take a few errors so except for the tail that's sort of a shrub, and the wonky antlers, the rest will be filled as I go.

Now about that cake.  Carole's birthday (85) is Sunday.  The great grands go back to their mom tomorrow.  I thought one of the three adults would get a cake so she can celebrate with them.  I should have known better.  I had to buy a costly last minute cake and gifts from the kids for our (kids and Carole's) caregiver's birthday a month ago.  So last minute today, boxed cake.  They have skimped on package sizes in everything and no exception here.  The damn thing is less than an inch at edges!.  They used to be much higher.  From now on, scratch cakes from my 50 year old cookbooks.  I line the pan bottom and overlap the paper so easy lift out, at least that went well!

We bought Carole a curved transfer board, hoping it will allow her to get into a car.  The straight one is not usable when the car doors don't open wide enough.  Her wheekchaur can't get far enough forward to line up with the car's seat.  If this works, we'll take her for a ride to see leaf color and a Rita's custard.  She has not been in a car for several years, just the back of a transport van.  Fingers crossed.

And the crab?   Need I elaborate.  Hello!

Be safe.

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