Mar 31/18

I have no pictures for proof of stitching but there have been a few stitches done here and there in the past few weeks. I just have not had much time or energy to stitch in between extra hours at work, several migraines and a mild case of shingles. That being said, today is a glorious Easter Saturday here at my mother's place in New Brunswick so we are headed out to enjoy the afternoon. Wishing all of you many blessings, good health and lots of stitching!

Mar 13/18 (I think.....dates are hazy on my days off!)

A snow storm rolled in today so what to do after a few chores and taking the dogs out to play...... Well, stitch, of course! A little progress has been made on my triptych. I have run out of scraps of the dark purple so I have to either find a matching colour in my stash of DMC or frog the colour.

The storm is still raging at this hour so I should head to bed in case I do have to go to work in the morning. The forecasts have been very inaccurate this winter for this region so who knows what I will wake up to in the morning.

Happy stitching!

Mar 13/18

The head cold is finally letting up so the stitching, reading, walking the dogs and general getting back to normal is in full force. Here is what is rolling off my needle these days:

I found the geometric pattern on pinterest, but once I was done stitching, I felt that it was missing something. I played with colour combinations until I found a handful of threads that were pleasing to my eye. Then, I started stitching. Initially, I had an idea of doing a vertical pattern of colour where I would fill in three little blocks with the same colour and then switch to another colour until the end of the row. The next row would have been staggered to prevent a block/square effect. Once, I started stitching, I decided that I preferred to do three down and then three across as a "row". After seeing the top right corner left uncoloured, I decided to break up the shading after the blue rows and the bit of purple is where I stopped this evening because my eyes were starting to droop. The movement and the colours are really pleasing to my eye and they should work well with the next pattern that I want to play with as part of my triptych.

Mar 6/18

Not much stitching has been happening around here because I have recovered from my recent brush with the flu to come down with a head cold. I CAN NOT WIN!! I can, however, have a great mail day. The Star Wars book came the other day and the Christmas books arrived today. My pattern stash overfloweth, but all cross stitchers understand the idea that one can never have too many patterns even if there is not even a remote chance that one will be able to stitch them all in this lifetime.

In other news, it is a good thing that I have borrowed a sewing machine from one of my book club friends. I had originally borrowed it to do a little fix job on a dog halter. The puppy decided to surgically remove one side of a zipper out of my new pillow cover so the sewing machine will come in handy to sew this shut since I know nothing about placing and sewing zippers.

We recently decided that we need to take time to reconnect with each other and disconnect from our electronics. It is so easy to veg out on the couch all weekend and tune each other out which has compounded some issues the fella' and I have been having. On Sunday, we put the dogs in the car and headed out to explore some beaches that we have not explored before. We had to use the electronics to get us there, but there is no cell service in many areas along the Bay of Fundy so we were forced to disconnect and focus on our dogs and ourselves. The dogs loved running along the waves that were higher than usual because of the wind and the storm surge.

I hope to get stitching again as soon as my head does not feel like it is stuffed full of cotton wool. Happy stitching!

Mar 2/18

I love Star Wars and I was so excited to learn about a book of Star Wars cross stitch designs from one of the stitching forums that I belong to on Facebook. My parcel from Indigo books arrived today and I can not wait to stitch one of the designs! Here is the link to the book. As a bonus, there is are materials to make some of the designs!!

Hopefully, the tiredness and weather related headaches will go away over the weekend and I will have time to do some stitching along with doing things like taking down the outdoor Christmas ornaments. 

Happy stitching!