Today I tackled the yard - mowed, trimmed, etc.  A great way to "work out" grief.  My husband won't let me trim the trees - evidently last time I did this, I took too much.

Stitching urge is slowly coming back.

RIP

Ann Bizzaro

Beader

Smocker

Stitcher

Friend

RIP October 2017

While I was stitching with a group of friends, a couple of them were stitching on "The Wave" - a charted canvas piece we did at a retreat a while back.  I was mentioning making one small change - changing a fiber - and was going to this new store after the group was done for the day.   It turned out that 3 cars worth all dropped in on the store. I found the new threads that I wanted plus several more.

It got me inspired to go back to work on my Wave.  I had been thinking I would work on my canvas pieces more in the winter.  I pulled it out anyhow.  I discovered I still had some beads to do before working on the border. After my digging, I found my needle threader and started beading.  The thread (from the kit) is slippery.  The needle kept sliding off. The second time I needed to thread the needle was a struggle  I never did thread and decided it was time to quit for the evening.

The struggle ended with a broken threader

and a bent needle.

So at the end of last night, this is where I was.

The 2nd line from the top only has beads half way across

Forgive the sideways view.

It's the correct position in my file but not here.

Anyhow the beading is complete with a different

needle - my trusty quilting needles.

The quilting needle has a larger eye which I can thread with no problem

an it is small (thin) enough for the bead to go over it.

Maybe tonight I can get to the border and the new threads.

WIP SAL

It's update time for the WIP SAL.

Check out the others as well.  Lots of great projects happening.

 Avis, Claire, Gun, Carole, LucyAnn, Kate, Jess, Sue, Constanze, Debbierose, Christina,

Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Helen, Steph, Linda, Catherine, Mary Margaret, Timothy,

Heidi, Connie, 

My WIP SAL current piece

Quaker Patchwork Mystery

as of 9-17-2017(last update) (with real sunlight)

as of 10-8-2017 (current) (lamplight)

I'm starting to feel like I am making progress and I will see the end.

I'm even thinking about how it might be finished.

Still plenty to go.

Here's an update on my other two SALS for 2017

last time

current

Mystery from Linens and Things 2017 SAL

and Three things Sampler

last time

current

This one has some great things I can do without having to pull the 

chart out.  The flowers in the border, and the fill-in areas of the flowers

in the very bottom row.  Plenty yet to do but I suspect/hope it will 

be done by the end of the year.

Back to stitching!