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!