One little birdie

 will be my project until linens are chosen.  Almost all of the charts I showed are in bags with all the threads.  I chose 46 count for a smaller tweet, and 221 to go with the mini red samplers.  It's more difficult than previous 46 projects.

My linens are mostly all light neutrals but I can always dye a smidgen.  I wanted the birdie on blue with ecru thread but the count was low.  I could make other sizes and colors if this one turns out swell.

First days of November (AUGH!) and my close to death petunia that I chopped off several months ago is still in the pink.  Not for much longer though. 

Pink will still be visible in my yard.  Taking no chances with this knee they insist needs replaced, I use that landscape marking paint to mark the roots that are hazards and can't be removed.

My almost cousin is doing marvelous.  She has no pain!  Not even from the sternotomy which really surprised me.  She is in a rehab facility (where Carole stayed).  Not permitted to rise from sitting using her arms.  What?  Who can do that at our age and she has ms!  Veins and artery harvested for the quadruple bypass were taken from arms and chest, so those areas plus the sternum cannot take stress from lifting herself.

It's dark.  I hate this time change.

Hope your week goes well.

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Monogamousity

Is not a word.  It's an affliction to stitchers like myself.  Decisions were difficult before menopause hot flashes melted brain cells.  Glenna said indecision=paralysis and I always remember that.  Not where I left my knee brace, the car keys, extra paper towels, or my Halloween tree, but that statement from Glenna.

Why can't I start each of these which would be less of a time suck than trying to choose one?  But then there's the linen.  Color, count, can I find a workable size to avoid cutting into a larger piece?  Because I won't.

These aren't the only charts I am considering, but I don't know where I set the others because the phone rang. 

I stitched this one and sent it to a new home years ago.

A few small sampler charts look familiar .... did I stitch them?  There is a pile I should look through and make a list for referral.   Or better yet, get off my lazy butt and final finish them.  When I find my knee brace I'll attempt the stairs, then waste time trying to decide which to finish first.  Pillow, drum, stand, on a box, what about backing fabric ... trim?  A vicious cycle.

Charted this years ago, never stitched.  And it's so sweet!  But that snoozing cat in the background is not.  Sixteen years old, still draws blood if I try to handle her.  She sleeps on that pet heating pad with her toys close by.

Can I put those big white cotton gutchies on and fight my monogamousity?  That's the plan.  

Be safe.

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Posted

Anyone interested in that chart, I posted it under the FREE tab.

My Halloween stitchery that I planned to finish for my tree, didn't happen.  I can't find my tree.  It's not small, stored in a tall box, always with the Christmas decorations, and now missing.  So I have these two, didn't bother with the others.  I used a black braided shoelace to outline the cat and finished with a loop.

Hope the weekend is a good one for you.

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Would you stitch this?

Not final proofed.

Had considered stitching this some time ago, found it while searching for next project.  Added the © and smear in case I decide to post online.  I've had many of my posted charts copied to sell.  If I pick this up to work on, I would back stitch curling vines along the branch like a grapevine.  Should I add this to my freebies?

Since my sampler bag was such a failure, I sort of hate to offer anything!

But the pears are still being downloaded, and except for one, I think they are pretty good!

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An ativan kind of day

MRI.  Claustrophobic I am.  If by chance you see an old woman with a hospital gown and socks screaming down the road .... it's me.

I've been checking our end of season tomatoes for others with a cute rotting pattern, no luck.  I will miss having several a day, store bought do not compare.

My pink petunia is still gorgeous, growing like a second chance revival.

I found the perfect fabric for Kindred, just like the 730s.  Gluing the full pom band to the back could not be better either.  Blends right in to this fabric.  

Taking small sections at a time to glue, using Tacky, this may be polyester or nylon.

I only had to sew this once, the corners were good, the opening glued shut perfectly, what is happening?

I may have discovered the reason for my body feeling like a slug, moving like 110 years old, and my Sjogrens has become unbearable around the same time.  They changed my pravastatin to crestor.  Makes sense.

Hope you are having a good day.

Any day being here is a good day.

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Scrimp or scrap

I save even the smallest pieces of linen.  It's the Stella in me.  I start projects in the corner that will leave the largest leftover.  This mini from the last project was barely enough to work this tiny sampler.  I saw it in a post, believe it was from a recent retreat, and very simple.  

I needed alphabet, this was a quick fix and quick stitch.  I've created small marking samplers just by using the letters on a old chart, and have also recreated from photos.  Like this tiny that I adore.

October is ending already.  Why does January through March take forever to leave?

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