Check 0ff the Greenhouse

This is the third of the Fabulous House Series by Cottage Garden Samplings. So far it is the only chart of theirs that I have stitched in the last three years that didn’t call for even one skein of a hand-dyed floss. Works so absolutely well for me.

stitched on 18 ct. My only issue is that the white doesn’t show up at all in the photos although it is pretty clear in person. Makes me glad that I substituted DMC#02 for white in the greenhouse frame. At slightly under 5k stitches, it may be one of the easier (except for all the twiddly fiddly scattered motifs) stitches in the series.

Now that this one is done, it leaves me only two active WIPs – the older Silhowitches –

with two motifs completed today. At this rate, it will be done in the next week and I can rotate in yet another unfinished one. 

and my daily dose on No Time Like the Present – by Modern Folk Embroidery

Currently at 20%,

Otherwise? Cat invasion –

let me assure you that my laptop did not appreciate cat toes or nose on either keyboard or track pad. 

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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