I finished the Mermaid Tapestry! I started this donkeys years ago. I kept getting lost on the chart. But I was in a mood to work on this and even found it in the basket of shame. It's not perfect but it is done!
Love it!
Thanksgiving worked out okay. The turkey breast was very easy to cook but was done an hour before I expected. The stuffing was way too salty. Store brand cranberry sauce was good, I was full so I couldn't eat my pumpkin roll. I'll make up for that today.
A
I like watching YouTube videos by Katie Strachan. She shows the caskets she has made. She really like linen in the color Russian Teacakes. She had a giveaway of that linen. I entered but I didn't win. I thought I would buy some. I looked on the Needle in a Haystack site and they listed the Russian Teacakes color. Then I saw they had a sampler of four colors of this kind of linen, So I ordered the sampler. When it came in the mail I found out that it is Sotema Linen. Hey, not to brag or anything, I've been to the Sotema place. It is in Italy. We stopped there on the Italian needlework tour. I bought a bunch of linen when I was there but I didn't happen to have bought any in the Russian Teacakes color.
Russian Teacakes is the third one down, very creamy color. I also ordered a yard of it but Needle in a Haystack has it back ordered. One lady on our tour got enough of the linen to make herself a dress. I bet that cost her a pretty penny. The linen I got was 37 count.
My BFF sent me some Manor Red thread so I can finish Come to the Garden. Thanks BFF!
A
I started the next page of Come to the Garden. I've made good progress.
I made it down to the bottom left corner. Wow, it is nice to see how far I come.
It is cold today. It was 19 degrees when I woke up. I had a scan this morning. I don't mind a test that takes like ten minutes. DH found some donuts at the grocery store. They aren't as good as Dunkin' Donuts but so far I've eaten five of them. They are small, okay?
A
I told myself that I couldn't start anything new until I finished the Amy Mitten Queen borders. Well, I didn't finish it yet. I wanted to work on something else so I picked up a very old WIP.
This is Tapestry Mermaid by Sharon Cohen, Nostalgic Needle. I'm rather proud of myself as I have finished up the lower left corner. I have planned for this to go inside my double casket lid as it is just about the right size. I know I put it away because I kept getting lost. Now I feel like I can figure it out. I'm working on 32 count linen one over one. I feel confident I can finish this soon. (Famous last words?!)
The sun has just come out. DH is at the store and will buy me some donut holes if he can find any. So it is a good day.
A
As I stepped outside my front door this morning there was a package. It was from Kreinik, Our guild has scheduled the January meeting to be a talk by Doug Kreinik of Kreinik threads. We could buy a sampler of Kreinik threads along with color cards and information about all their different threads. The package was the sampler of threads. Wow, they have many more threads than I realized. I got quite a few whole spools of threads as well as samples of other threads. Did you know there was iron on threads? I look forward to hearing more about their threads.
What do you do with those orange circles? I think the circles are shapes of double stick tape. But how do you use them? I'll have to wait for our January meeting to find out.
A
Today is Friday.I sort of messed up this week. I thought I had published a post on Wednesday but it didn't show up. I went back and fixed it so it appeared late Wednesday night. Infusion on Thursday and nothing got done. I got my last kit in the mail from a club I signed up for. I am very glad to be done with club kits.
This is what I got in the mail:
It isn't "me" so I'll give it to somebody. I got a nice thread holder with the kit.
I like it. I also got a needle minder and a chicken. I don't use needle minders and the chicken, well, I have too many goofy things already.
We got snow last night but it is warm enough that most of it melted.
A
I got an Inspirations kit in the mail. It is for a pin cushion.
