Five Easy Pieces

Okay, if I'm being honest, maybe not so easy. Mostly due to my own ineptitude at counting and reading instructions. But here they are at last...

Those two rectangles at the bottom were much harder than I expected them to be due to having to stitch them on a diagonal. For whatever reason, I couldn't see the holes unless I tilted my head one way and turned the fabric the other. I also had to employ some crazy counting hijinks, yet still managed to make several mistakes. I swear, I watched the entire Aurora Teagarden catalog twice just doing this backstitching!

I need to run to Hobby Lobby for some interfacing before I can start assembling the pin cushion. Aida is napping here next to me so it'll have to wait. I took her out for a nice romp after lunch so she's a tired puppy!

Two Weeks Later...

Has it really been two weeks since my last post? At least I have a little bit of progress to share on The Little House.

I had to do a bunch of frogging on the front part because I had the 'pitch' of the roof wrong. I was off by one stitch, and as bad as I wanted to just leave it, I knew it might make assembling the pin cushion more difficult and goodness knows I don't need the extra challenge. I'm really hoping there's enough of the light pink thread left for the restitching. It's going to be a close one!

 

Aida is once again recovering from the trauma of having her nails clipped. To make matters worse, I clipped one too short and it started bleeding. I didn't realize how bad it was until after she'd jumped all over me and the living room furniture. If a forensics team ever came here, the whole place would light up like a discotheque!

Poor baby!

 

 

Wake Up Call

Good Morning!

by The Prairie Schooler

stitched with DMC on 28-count lambswool linen

I saw this in February 2002 issue of Just Cross Stitch and knew I had to stitch it! It turned out bigger than I envisioned, but then I stitched it on 28-count rather than the called for 32 so that's on me. I thought I might be able to snuggle it into my tier tray or maybe a basket of wooden eggs but it's having none of that. I have plenty of shelf space in my kitchen so I'll tuck it in with the cookie jars or teapots. It's a happy little piece and I want it someplace I can see it every day!

I worked on The Little House over the weekend and have the side pieces done except for the back stitching. There's at least a mile of it so I'm saving it for last.

 

Yesterday I started reading a book called A Lady by Hannah Honegger. If you ever watched the series Turn on Netflix, it is set in that same time period and follows the whole spy ring plot but is told from a woman's point of view. I thought it would be a good read since we are coming up on Independence Day. 

 

As soon as I finish my laundry, my nose is either going to be stuck in my stitching or a book for the rest of the afternoon!