I am about to totter off to sleep like this happy baby as soon as I finish typing this post. :) It has been six days since I've written but I have been _doing_ in the interim. The weather has been rather pleasant - late winter, very early spring with sunshine and mild temperatures (mid 40s to mid 60s). The birds are starting to sing in the front trees - sussing out their summer nest sites and finding partners for a new round of generations.
I have been sewing this week on my daughter's sofa quilt project. I have three rows left to finish piecing the body of my interlaced design ... then I have to take stock of the borders I pieced previously. I have avoided looking at the second of each pair (top and side borders) because I _suspect_ that I will have to completely deconstruct and re-piece the lot. I think they are supposed to be pieced in the mirror image of the first two and they are not. Sigh.
Anyway, here is a small picture of the bit I am piecing currently:
Maybe you can recognize some of those Morris themed prints though I doubt you can figure out the interlacement without the borders to cue you in. :)
This afternoon I managed to get a number of rows done while chatting with friends (via Zoom) from the Columbia modern group. It is so much easier to fix errors when there is distraction (from my aggravation with my errors:)!
Yesterday (Friday) afternoon Barbara, Patty and I got together for our usual Sewing Together time. I took a new embroidery project along. Wednesday afternoon I _thought_ I had an appointment for a hair cut but when I got to the salon it developed that my date was really next week. Happily, I took the opportunity to visit Cloverhill Yarn Shop and The Stitching Post in Catonsville while I was in town. It has been a while since I've been in either shop so it was a pleasure to catch up! My quilt shop was located between these two stores so I know both of the owners personally (in a professional capacity:).
I bought some roving at Cloverhill - I have in mind repairing some of my moth-ravaged knitted scarves with needle felting and needed fodder for the patches. The shop was looking really sharp and I enjoyed browsing the beautiful yarns. :) I also bought issues of the newest Interweave magazines. The Stitching Post has been downsized since I was there last but it was looking bountiful and well appointed with great samples. She retained a line of Mill Hill beads (my favorites for needlework due to their good quality) and had a good array of perforated paper counted cross stitch kits. I decided to buy one to make for a gift and had fun deciding on a design.
When I went to Barbara's on Friday I took along the kit I had bought on Wednesday and broke into the package. The scale is smaller than my most recent embroidery work so my eyes are getting a good workout! The pattern mixes threads and beads to make a happy garden-ish scene. This evening I finished the little bluebird:
I put my embroidery scissors in the photo for scale. I have not measured the stitches-per-inch of that paper but the beads are pretty small. By the end of this evening's work, here was my piece:
Can you see the bed edging structure the bird is perched on? I'm looking forward to stitching the various flowers contained in that garden.
Tomorrow I promised to help my son package up his old gaming computer (he wants to ship it to a friend). I hope to call my sister to chat ... and generally chill out for the day. Monday will be Mimi's Grad Class meeting at Bear's Paw in Towson and I have decided to brave the pandemic and attend. My stomach is _finally_ starting to settle down a bit and I feel as though I've healed enough for my immune system to cope with adversity.
:) Linda
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