Another WIP Wednesday

Hey Blog Buddies,

I'm back, with just a tiny bit of progress on my Spring Logs piece.  You'll recall that the designer is Kathy Rees of Needle Delights Originals, one of my favorites.

I had gotten this far by the early part of January.

This is where I'm at now.

Pretty impressive, huh?

I'm officially at the halfway point.

The instructions for the green border

were to do every other row,

then fill in the skipped rows

in order to get a stripey look.

Since there's a lot going on with the various logs,

I decided not to skip rows as I stitched,

giving the variegated thread (Watercolours)

a more gradual change, which I prefer.

I find that the borders on these log designs

are the only things that actually take less time

to stitch than I think they should,

probably because they are such fun to stitch.

I flipped this photo around

so that you can get a better look at the stitches.

This piece will get put away

until next month.

I still haven't started anything new

as I threatened to do after my quilting finish

because I just don't like starting projects!

It's a wonder that anything gets started around here.

Well, that's it for today.

Thanks, as always, for visiting!

WIP Wednesday

Hey Blog Buddies,

Here lately I've been working on only two projects, so I thought I'd catch you up on the one you haven't seen yet.  But first, a Molly update.

She's Not Happy

First she had to go "under the knife"

and now there's this indignity.

She doesn't wear it all the time,

only at night and those infrequent times

that we need to leave her alone during the day.

I'm convinced she would chew open her stitches

if left to her own devices.

But other than hating her collar,

she is fine and acting like her old self.

Today we received the pathology report from our vet.

There's good news and bad news.

The bad news is that her growth was malignant.

The good news is that the vet removed

the entire thing (including one of her nipples!),

was happy with the margins,

and feels that the surgery will be "curative."

Let's hope so.

Back to the WIP.  A little while ago I showed this blackwork chart that I wanted to start...

...Blackwork Journey's Wandering Star.

Looking at the black-and-white chart above, 

it took me a while to figure out the star reference.

So I thought I'd make the stars a different color.

I will admit that some of the

filling patterns in this piece

almost make my head explode,

but I'm happy with how it looks so far.

That's it from here.

Hope your February is going along swimmingly.

Thanks for stopping by.

Two Years and Three Months

Happy Ground Hog's Day, folks!  Woodstock Willie, our local prognosticator, saw his shadow this morning (bright sun all day today for the first time in forever), so that means six more weeks of winter.  January has been extremely mild and dry so far, so I wouldn't be too upset with more of same.

As for the title of this post, today I finished something that I've been working on for two years and three months.  OK, part of two years--I started it at the end of December last year--and part of three months.  I did work on it every single day in January, though.

...a bee skep...

...and a lovely gazebo.  You know what this is.

The Prairie Schooler Alphabet inches forward.

That's it for today.

Thanks, as always, for visiting!