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Done Haunting.

The Haunted House is done. and so I moved to the July Country Cottage Needleworks. I finsihed up the first half completely, both people figures and started on the second red house. Progress.  

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House with two faces

Remember I said that the house looked grumpy or cranky?  The update at the end of today – So now we have “two faces” and I am not sure what excuse the upper face has for being cranky. Now at … Continue reading

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Cranky House

Ok, really it is supposed to be the Haunted House, also from Cottage Gardens. But partway through the house, it most definitely has an attitude. This was after a morning zoom meeting. I will say that the upgrades in Zoom … Continue reading

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LightHouse

and a squeak by win for the Valkyries. I think I mentioned that I have season tickets. The home games are in Chase Center, SF in one of the revitalized areas of the city. Yes, I think a lot of … Continue reading

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Wrong Number

Not just the spam calls, of which, as far as I am concerned, are all wrong numbers. But inserting 729 in place of 927. Now, obviously if you are a fellow dyslexic, that mix up seems obvious. Same numbers, different … Continue reading

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Yes, stitching

It is about all I had the energy to accomplish today. So we have more progress on the Lighthouse (Cottage Garden Samplings) which is on the standard Smoky White Zweigart 18 ct and the threads are (splurge) silk from BeStitchMe … Continue reading

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Dr Who Snail

Every once in a while I get suckered in by one of those mystery stitch boxes. In this case it was a Tardis related collection. If you aren’t familiar with the long running British Dr Who series, all I can … Continue reading

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Fishy’s going on

Is complete! The pattern is from LongDogSamplers and is stitched on a 16 ct something or other printed by Fabric Flair. The thread is 12wt Sulky # 4016. It was only about 17k stitches plus a few hundred. The only … Continue reading

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Birds SAL

Well actually the name is something like Extraordinary Birds. Which is really a mouthful so I am just going with Birds. The vertical bits you see are part of the cage. The spoonbill was the last section and the bluefooted … Continue reading

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Claire

and I mean the pattern from Nora Corbett. Not my one daughter’s dog who is named Flair.. who I usually call Claire anyway. the thread is hand dyed black (not me) silk from Dinky Dyes, it is took about a … Continue reading

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May Mini-Village

Finished it up today – (1252 stitches) of a total of 3266 give or take. This is the first of four on the new piece of fabric… and back to more of the bird cage for this year’s LolaCrow Sal… … Continue reading

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Zwei Schnecken

and for the rest of you – today’s bad pun – snail mail. Bundled up and let it grow,,,,, the fabric is more of the Zweigart vintage smoky white in 18 count. The floss in the green one is what … Continue reading

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Soup of the evening

supper break saw George coming upstairs to the meeting/conference/ballroom to invite me across the street for supper. There is an “Irish” pub. Looking at their menu – there were equal offers of fancy drinks, wines, whiskey, and beer. Says tourist … Continue reading

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And on to Canon Beach

Which should have been extremely simple but I managed to make it quite a bit more complicated. In fairness – I had help. Not in getting out of Longview, I can follow directions, at least as far as managing to … Continue reading

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Bird Cage?

The Frame for the new LolaCrow SAL is looking more and more like a bird cage. Similar to the three previous SALs of hers that I have stitched, the frame has a lot of black and has about 6k worth … Continue reading

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Ooops

There I was, happily stitching along for the second day on the May mini-village. The first tree was done, the first house and almost done with the second. Then I took a close look at the roof of the first … Continue reading

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all that is needed

is to finish the rest of this section (Secret Grove SAL) and that bar of chocolate. The first went fine, the second, I am sad to report, was pretty dry and crumbly. I think it need to be used for … Continue reading

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Voyaging

Found the 935, finished #2 on the travel series. went to bed early. Just happy to be home..

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Last sea day this trip

As it turns out, making the decision to get off in San Francisco rather than continue on to Seattle was incredibly easy. Walked down to Guest Services and informed them that I would be departing the ship. Why? Family matters. … Continue reading

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extra company

The youngest stopped by this morning after doing a pre-school drop off of her nephew. With, of course, the other nephew in tow. Since she works remotely, I wound up with the little guy who really needed a nap while … Continue reading

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