September Turtle Trot

Hey Blog Buddies,
 
It's time once again for the Turtle Trot update.  Claudette over at BAP Attack hosts this SAL.  We chose ten WIPs to work on at the beginning of the year, and post before and after photos of our progress each month.  This update will be short, since I worked on only two pieces since last month.

First up, we have Ink Circles' 99.

Here's my progress as of last month:

And here's where I'm at now:

As I was working on "The Bottles" this month, I couldn't help but think of SoCal Debbie, who was working on this piece for Turtle Trot, too.  For those of you who don't know her, Debbie was a stitcher and blogger who passed away suddenly at a very young age last month.  We all miss her bubbly personality and cyber-friendship.

And the other piece that I worked on this month?

Of course, it's Cross My Heart's Mates.

Here's where I was last month.

Here's the latest.

I feel like I've just been trudging along

on this piece this month,

but progress is progress.

The rest of my stitching time

has been taken up with some small pieces.

More on those in another post.

And as if I don't have enough to stitch,

I've enrolled in Tanja Berlin's

Blackwork Lovebirds cyber-class 

which starts this Friday.

This should be fun--I'll keep you posted

on my progress.

By the way, Tanja's blackwork elephant 

is to die for!

That's all from here.

Hope you are enjoying your September.

Thanks, as always, for visiting!