Pam of StitchNewEngland started a set of Zoom stitch togethers over a year ago. One is for the Hawk Run Hollow stitchers and a second one featuring all the “Fancy Ladies” such as designed by Bella Fillapina, Nora Corbett, Lavender & Lace, etc. It has been a good time and has encouraged all of us to make a bit of progress.
The fourth Thursday of the month is the standard time. This month it slid to the last Thursday which was more than fine with me. I pulled out Aquarius, one the dozen Zodiac Girls by Nora Corbet which are stitched but still need the beading. Since this one “only needed beads and backstitching, I thought it would be easy…NOT as it turned out. There are over 1200 beads on this particular lady. Over the course of the day and Zoom session, I managed 724,,, and ran out of one color of beads… which will go in the blank areas in her head dress. This still leaves me with four more bead colors to finish.

Rather than fret – I finally finished the paw on “I beg your Pawdon ” by Silver Creek Samplers/

which I believe was started in 2021 since that is the date on the companion piece.

I am going to finish them both off in those fake wooded hoops…
The expression on the second one is purrfect!