There be dragons!

      Whew!  The red dragons are finally done.   could have done more but after 4-6 restarts, I am stopping here.  Yeah they know they gave me a fight.  Loo at those smirks on their faces,.  That's o.k.  

     That isn't my only finish this week.  I finished up my block for the August block exchange.  It will be mailed out to my partner sometime in the first full week of August.  I will have to trim it down a little bit but that is o.k.

     I was pretty excited to find a border pattern on Pinterest that I think would be pretty.  

     Well that is about all I have to share this time.  I am continuing working on Fleur blocks and Blackwork.  Perhaps the next post will have an update.  It's time to get back to stitching.

     Enjoy the rest of your week.  

YIPPEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    Today was a great day.  This will be a short post but since a couple of people were asking how my doctor's appointment went, I'll post.

   First of all...I had the last appointment at the wound doctor's.  Yep that is right.  I don't have to see him again unless I get another wound, etc.  :)

 So this is the news for this post...

    1.  Dan didn't have any problems with his vehicle and picked me up to go to the doctor's.  Considering that he was on an 1/8 of a tank for gas, I was holding my breath.  While I was at the doctor's he filled up the tan  He even got a pack of sigs and a new lighter.  He had forgotten them at home.  He timed it well so that even though we went through some heavy rain, it let up by the tie we arrived at the doctor's.

   2.  The doctor's visit went very well  In fact, I don't have to go back unless my foot gets wore.  H and his nurse both reminded me to be careful of space heaters.  I told him I will.  I will have to get extra warm slippers and socks for the winter.  

    3.  Dan then took me out to eat and boy did we eat.  We both had leftovers.  I had fajita nachos. I've attached a pix of what I ate.  LOL.

   4.  I weighed in, with all my clothes on as well as my shoes on, and I am under 200 pounds again.  not much under, but under nonetheless.

   5.    I even managed to get some stitching done on my swap block.  It was a great day.  I hope everybody else had a great day also.

DMC all sorted out!

    Yes, you read that right.  I finally managed to catch up on refiling my DMC floss.  I will admit it...it took a bit but it is done for now.  I have a couple of potential cross stitch charts that I had earlier pulled floss for and I don't think I will get to them anytime soon.  A couple of them have been pulled for a couple of years and I still haven't started it.  Time to be realistic.  I can always pull the floss when I actually get to the chart again,  In the meantime I have it organized again.

     In the picture you can also see my colorful block that I will soon start stitching on.  It will be sent to my swap partner in August.  This one will take a little bit to finish so I am starting it now.  Tomorrow I will start matching up my colors and then I can start to stitch it.  I will first stitch on the hearts.  Instead of going through three layers for stitching, I will do the red on yellow heart first and then sew that onto the blue and THEN sew it on it to the background fabric.  I should be able to start stitching tomorrow.  I like to stitch on Sundays.  It reminds me of hen mom would sit us down with her and we would work on stitching.  It is a good way to relax...until you get knots in your fabric that is.

   I am still working on my usual blocks:  Fleur, dragons, Words of Wisdom, blackwork, etc.  I also am working on the small table runner.  That came to a halt when I noticed one of the blocks has a red line on it that looks like it would be the stem of the maple leaf block.  I need to figure out what I will use.  I had thought about  perhaps putting it in with embroidery but I'm not sure.  If I do some applique on it, it will be fatter than the drawn in line.  Of course I'm still searching for the backing fabric so I have some time.

   Then I have the Arbor table runner.   will get that cut out soonish.  I also, finally, got my Storm at Sea pulled out and organized so I know what I need to do.  I will start pulling out the fabric  that will go with the paper pieced blocks.  I have the paper pieced blocks separated by rows so I can work on one row at a tie.  I have six more rows to do.  After getting one row done, maybe after getting three rows done, I will add them to the first three rows I already pieced together.

    On a side note, I saw some picture of a couple of projects that I'm thinking of doing.  This first one I would do in a different colorway.  

      This second one is a bit crowded for me but it does give me an idea to use part of it.  Not sure yet.

   That's it for now.  I am getting into the mood to dig out the sewing machine again so perhaps the hand work will have to go on hold for a little bit,  Maybe sew the blocks for one row and then switch over to some stitching on another project before going back.  That way I won't get bored always sewing on the same thing.

     Oh...wait.   I have kitten pix to share with you.  Enjoy and have a great day.

   NOW I'm signing off on this post.  Enjoy!

Happy Birthday to me!

      It has been a quite day and I really don't have much to report.    It is in the mid 90s and just too hot to car to do anything,  LOL.  I did get a great package from my friend Susan and her family.  It had lots of goodies in it.  Her daughter put in some handmade stuff and she also put in lots of goodies.  This is a pix of some of it.

     I know it is hard to see, but next to the pattern is a cross stitch key.  Here is a close up of it.,

     It will help me get organized with my aida cloth.  Also in that picture, on either side of the cross stitch key,  is a pattern that Susan put in and a beautiful coaster.  Well that jeweled coaster is too pretty to use as a coaster but it works wonderful as something that I love to rub my hands over it.  It is like a worry tone.  I love the feel of it.  And yes, that is a plug Grogu next to it.  He is helping George watch over everything.

    In the front row, is some stationery as well as a couple of plastic boxes filled with needles.  It came at a good time since I had to recently throw out some old ones which are no longer sharp or are bent.  Susan knows me so well and knows I am constantly using notebooks and stationery so she put in some of that as well.  You might also see a pressing sheet in that front row as well.  She didn't know it, or at least I don't think she knew it, but my old pressing sheet was on its last legs.  Not pictured is a beautiful writing pen,  It is glittery and aqua in color and I have been using it almost nonstop.

     My birthday box wasn't the only package that I received.  I also received an envelop that had some beautiful fabric in it.

    Isn't that beautiful?  I can see so many possibilities!

      That is about it for this week's update.  I did some more work on the Candlewicking but it is slow progress so I will take another pix and share later.  The red dragons are fighting me and I haven't done any more work on it.  I will get back to it after they are in time out,.

     Until next time - happy stitching and remember to take time out to relax.  :)  

  

Ups and Downs!

    That's right.  My day started out with some ups and downs.  Around 2 a,m. I got up from bed and took half a step and tripped and fell.  Now don't worry, I'm ok,  Just a little banged up,   I tripped over a cord that I thought I had hidden and tucked away.  When I fell I hit my head but we all know how hard THAT is.  I just stayed on the floor until I got my bearings and by that time I realized that my side was all scraped up but no blood so just still today,  Oh yeah,  I hit my elbow on the opposite side and scraped a bit of my elbow and stuff.  Just all scrapes.  After fixing the offending cords, I made my way to the bathroom and took some Ibuprofen.  After that I went back to bed.  I slept well and slowly got up this morning.  Of course my body is letting me know that I am not as young as I used to be.  LOL.

     I did manage to get laundry done and was pleased to know that the dryer also cooperated this morning so the clothes all dried in regular time.  I also was productive enough to get my SCA paperwork finished and now it is just waiting for Dan to come over and sign off before I scan it and send it off.

     I also managed to take a few stitches on Geometrica.

     This is the 3rd start of trying to do it  My plan is to do the center and then work on the weekly stitches (the empty shapes in the picture).  Then I will do the border.   I realized that I haven't posted an update picture on my weekly Blackwork.  Here it is.

     I also did some more work on Fleur blocks but since it is hard to see the black stitching, I will only post a pix now once the block is done.  Since it is black thread on black shapes, I only work on it in the mornings.

     I did a little more work on the Candlewicking.  I haven't moved the hoop yet but I did change the color.  It is had to see the lighter stitching but here is the update pix.

    I won't be working on it today since my hands are stiff from the fall etc.  I will probably do more stitching tomorrow.

     I did get my swap block from my partner and I love it!

     That's about it for now except for an update on my foot.  Does this picture tell the story?

     Yep.  You seeing it right.  Today is my first day of wearing an actual shoe over it.  It is still bandaged but just a little bit.  If I wasn't allergic to adhesives, I could put a regular bandage on it but since I am allergic I still have to wrap it up with gauze.  The doctor says it might be totally healed by the next time I go back and see him.  YAY!  So that means I go back to see the wound doctor on the 22nd and get the boobies squished at the Imaging Center on the 23rd.  A busy week!  I don't go back to my regular doctor until September 26th.  Another YAY!

    I think that is all for this post.  I am waiting for the mail to get here since I know that I have a package to be delivered.  Then later in the week or next week I have another package arriving. I'll, of course, share pix after they get her.

  Enjoy your day!

Happy July!!!!

   Do you believe it is July already?    Today is a decent day.  It is around 84F and no rain so that is a decent day in my books.  LOL.

   My house looks like a tornado went through it.  I got a bug that said to start to go through stash and containers to do a thorough cleaning.  I figure that I have one more day before that bug moves on.  It is too hot to do too much cleaning.  So, while I was pulling out everything from some totes, I ran across my things for July so I put them up.  

     Now I have to feed the cats and figure out what to fix for dinner.  I have half an hour before I will eat.  That will give me enough time before I have to test the blood sugar again.  I might have some chicken and some spinach (both leftovers).  I might make some mashed potatoes since I haven't had that in a bit.

    I did finish up my block for the exchange.  I will put it in the mail sometime this week.  I have to find where I put everything to mail which is now buried under what I pulled out. 

     That's about it for now.  I am wiped out.  :)  I hope everybody has safe holidays.  In the meantime, keep on stitching.