Spring Break

Daddy and I went fishing for Spring Break.  We stayed in a wonderful cabin (The Sun and Sand Cabins in Grand Isle, LA) and had a wonderful time fishing.  We chartered a boat with Captain Danny Wray (Calmwater Charters) and caught 8 redfish and 2 speckled trouts.  Yummy yummy.  We caught a few small specks on the Bridgeside Fishing Pier, but we threw those back.  Daddy was trying to catch flounder.  No one was having luck with that, but there were a lot of black drums caught on the pier.  One guy even caught a ray! 

Anyway while fishing our hearts out, I of course stitched mine out, too.  I decided to start a new project while I was at it (I don't have enough projects started, IMHO).  I began stitching on Stitching Row by Bent Creek.  I am over halfway finished with it.  Of course, mom has claimed it for her sewing room so I don't know why I'm in a hurry to finish it.  ;0)

Stitching Row by Bent Creek

In Memory

I finished a piece tonight.  I made a memorial for our beloved Girlfriend.  We lost our precious kitty February 8.  He was  a special kitty in many ways and I wanted to make the memorial for our family to remember him.

A Little More Progress

Another section of my Fairy SAL done!  Woo hoo!

Halfway Point

I'm at the halfway point on my Fairy Mystery Stitch!!  I can't believe it's halfway done.  The light at the end of the tunnel keeps getting brighter.  If I just keep stitching, it might get done.

the halfway point

Visit from Vicky

Tonight was a special stitching night.  Vicky's back in town for a while.  She came to stitching tonight and we had a riot.  We were so rowdy, we were almost asked to leave the children's section.  That tells you what a great time we had.  Not only was a visit from Vicky fun, but I finished part 8 on my mystery SAL.  Now I'm only 6 months behind!

Part 8 close up



the whole piece

Quilter's Retreat

Momma and I went to a quilting retreat last weekend.  It was a lot of fun.  We stayed in a lovely house with everything a quilter could dream of having there.  We brought our own food for lunch and had dinner out with our friends Mrs. Cherry and Mrs. Katherine.  We quilted our hearts out, but we did take a few shopping breaks.  I'm glad we did, because we bought fabric for a group project at All Brands.  We all made a fun Halloween table runner.  Mrs. Cherry figured out the pattern.  The beauty of being a hand quilter is that by the time I was finishing mine the others had already worked out the kinks in the pattern.  Here's mom and me posing with our table runners.

No Stitching Today

Bobtail and I did not get any stitching done today.  We've been tackling our craft room instead.  So instead of cross stitching, I began organizing my cross stitch patterns.  First I made a list of themes that I stitch a lot of (ex. Dragons, Wild Animals, Christmas, etc.).  Then I created binder spines using teacher software for each theme.  I bought cheap 1 inch binders from Target and labeled the binders with the pretty spines.

 

Then I began going through my boxes and boxes of patterns (okay I've only actually gone through one box so far, but you get the point).  I kept the patterns I wanted from my cross stitch magazines and leaflets and placed them into page protectors.  I put the pages in the correct binder and voila--organized!

 

However, that doesn't mean I haven't been stitching lately.  I finished part 5 of my Fairy SAL and I'm almost finished with part 6.  Here's part 5 completed:

 



Part 4 for comparison

Part 5 updated progress