Merry Christmas - Happy Holidays

Now a little humor

Appreciation for my country and those who serve it.

Merry Christmas!

 SAL time - the last for 2021.

Here is Do Different the last time:

and I have made progress

but alas it will not be done in 2021.

Here is Dec 19th version:

plus some close-ups

overall view

and the toes of my shoes

left side

right side

I thought my photos were better than this.

Yikes!!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Holidays!

Check out the others

Avis, Claire, Gun, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Renee, Carmela, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, AJ, Cathie, Linda, Helen

and a Happy New Year to all!

 We are sad to announce the death of Pat Carson. Pat was a tireless promoter of counted cross stitch and is probably best known for her interpretation of the Precious Moments paintings. Her pattern book "Cross Stitch for Special Occasions" was the first pattern book to sell over one million copies! Lately Pat was the originator of Pat's Needles which were so extremely popular. She also worked tirelessly on her charities to raise money for elementary schools in southeast Asia.

 Time for a Pandemic Update

I have now used 3 cards of splendor - 12 ply of 8 yards of threads which equals 96 splendor.

this was one card of silk

this is what was labeled one card but there was a lot on the left not shown

Two cards

Three Cards

Note that I am leaving the 2nd part of the date off for now

I have an alternate design for the top middlish area

but just have not gotten around to stitching it yet.

Have a great stitching week!

SAL time

 Check out the members of the SAL:

Avis, Claire, Gun, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, Deborah, Renee, Carmela, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, AJ, Cathie, Linda, Helen

I almost forgot.   I did my photos late last night and loaded them in this morning then the rest of the day got  away from me.

Here's  Do Different 3 weeks ago

I was bad and didn't do a good shot of everything.

Today's shot is of everything then each side.

Here goes:

This overall with books trying to keep the left side from curling over.

I worked on the third band of the saying, working on finishing the side

triangles on the left side (not finished though)

I did the side triangles on the lower right and the bottom right triangles.

I blocked off the area which will be stitched in black on

both the left and right sides (look in the middle)

Under the third band of writing I started a small area on the left

It will remind what color is also going in on the right side.

See the blank area in the middle of everything

(more or less)

It looks like a vase to me and I am debating with myself as if it should be 

the solid red or black stitching.

Please let me know what you think.

Now for a closer look at the sides.

Left side

Right side.

Don't expect huge amounts of stitching for the next three weeks.  

I have lots to do to prepare for the Christmas events in our life.

Shopping is not my thing

unless it involves stitching.

Don't forget the other stitchers at the top of the post.

Good Stitching to one and all!

 

 Where has the time gone?!   The last photo I took of Pandemic was in September.  yikes!

I am a lot further than this.  Another photo after the Thanksgiving holiday.

I'm taking the week-end off to stitch and relax.

 It's SAL time again and there is something to show!  It has helped tremendously to switch projects and the needle has been flying..  I don't think I even skipped a day of stitching.  It felt wonderful!

Here is the start point of the section I wanted to do first.

and now.

Do Different is making progress.

The last number (for the year will be left til the end.

I doubt that I can finish it in 2021 but then again

you never know.

Make sure you visit the other stitchers as well.

Avis, Claire, Gun, Constanze, Christina, Kathy, Margaret, Cindy, Heidi, Jackie, Sunny, Megan, 

Deborah, Renee, Carmela, Sharon, Daisy, Anne, AJ, Cathie, Linda, Helen