The good thing about the flu

One has plenty of time to rest and stitch.

April round up

Time for some catch up. I was down at my mom's for spring break and snapped some things I had stitched long ago that are at her house.

Hummingbird at fuchsia. I think this is from 2005

Violets. I think this is from 2001.

Now on to current stuff. While I was on vacation I finished my Shepherds Bush sheep

Made progress on the needle book from my Ellen Chester class

I started a bookmark for the EGA boutique.

And I started a project from my EGA guild. I have missed both meetings for it. One due to snow and the other because of work.

So that sums it up for now.

March retreat.

  Every spring I try and make it to the stitching retreat hosted by my aunts guild. I missed last year, and was thrilled to go this year. I got great stitching done

I got all the little parts done from the hillside. 

I completed all the brown colored bands so I could start on the colored parts.  It made such a difference in how I felt about the piece. 

The giant bookmark

it's done!! And still giant.  It's bigger than a dollar bill!  I hope someone thinks it's the right size for them.

Bookmark - Floral Sampler Adaptation

I wanted to get back to my Fruit of the Vine sampler, but these last two things were on such large count fabric I needed a transition piece to get back into the swing of things.  I started a Shepherd's Bush kit "Behold".  I have the sheep almost done and it's going quite well.  This picture is from last weekend.

Behold - Shepherd's Bush

Last night I didn't get any stitching done since there was MUCH LAUNDRY, a bunny needed re-capitation, and a little boy's hat had holes.  This morning he told me it was good I fixed it so snow won't get on his head.

Near the end

Bookmark is almost done. I chose nuns stitch for the edging. Just have to do the knots for the last set of flowers and a little more than half of the edging is left.