Finish #5 for 2013

About 1am today, I finished the final mystery from Sticklounge.  Unless something drastic happens, the group will close at the end of June.  I've had a lot of fun stitching what was offered over the last three years.  Just to reminisce, I think I'll pull some pictures back up.

and finally there is the last mystery

Now, Dorothy is back on the q-snaps so I'm going to go pour a hot cup of coffee and work on the bargello band for a bit.

Summer

We've finally reached the end of the baseball season.  This is Jakob on 3rd base in his last game this season.  I broke down and bought him a baseball pants that actually fit him along with some black sport socks to he could look like one of the big kids playing ball.  He looks really tall and skinny and is growing up too darn fast!

I pulled Lust off the qsnaps Sunday afternoon.  I'm just a few hundred stitches past half way on this page.  Next time I pull her out, I should be able to finish this page and start the last two in this row.  I really like how realistic the waterfall is starting to look.

Tonight I finished Friendship Heart through the Sticklounge group.  I don't know how this one will be finished, but at this point I'm assuming in a frame on the wall.  For now, it is put away.  I have pulled the next Sticklounge project.  But I've only got a few stitches in it.  Not nearly enough for a picture.

This weekend was really hot and humid.  Perfect weather for building furniture!  Not.  I tried to get the parts I wanted to done in the morning when you would think it would be cooler.  Didn't quite work out that way.  All weekend, if you walked outside, it felt like you were walking into a blast furnace, but more humid.  YUCK! 

Anyway, Saturday, I finished cutting my lumber to so everything matched up and had some help staining it.  These are stained in Cherry.  Sunday, Ed helped me to drill the pocket holes and put them together.  Then I got the dubious pleasure of painting on polyurethane in the sunshine...while sweating buckets.  I won't share a picture of that because I don't have one and that would just be gross.

Here's Jakob's new bookcase.

And here's Joshua's.  His room is a little messier because he's got most of the toys, but hopefully, we'll be able to get a better handle on them now that we have some more storage!

Once the weather cooperates a little more and cools down, I'll be heading to the lumberyard to pick up some lumber to build this  I have an old desk in my office that I started stripping down before the tornado in 04.  Right now it has lots of stuff just piled on top.  I would dearly love to be able to get organized in there with that cabinet and a new desk and the desk that everything is piled on would be refinished and given to Jakob so he has a place to study.

More Friendship Heart

Here's the result of yesterday's stitching.  This is part four of Friendhip Heart.  I think there are only seven or eight parts to this one so another finish is coming!

After I took this one off the q-snaps I went downstairs to where the WIPs live.  I reached in and pulled out Frosty Knotgarden.  I only have the last two parts to go which are the border.  I have an eighth of it finished.  I would like to see a full side finished before it goes back into it's drawer again.

Friendship

Here's part three of Friendship Heart with the Sticklounge group.  I really like the font on that A

I pulled Winter Watergarden out and got it on the q-snaps last night.  I got one of the posts stitched and started with the border.  Then I realized it was 1am and it was time to go to bed.  Hopefully by the weekend, I'll have some new pics to share.

Friendship

This one is a newer SAL with the Sticklounge group.  It's call Freundschaftsherz.  The design is by Atelier de Circe, France.  I'm stitching with HDF silk on 40 ct Buttercream also from HDF.

Sticklounge

I've been working on Sticklounge pieces this week.  This is Homage to Japan.  I finished part 6 Wednesday night.  Part 7 was in my inbox yesterday and I started part 7 last night, but I didn't get very far. 

Here's a new one.  It's called Friendship heart.  When it's complete it will be in the shape of a heart.  The picture that was shown when it was introduced to the group had it finished in a pillow which was very pretty.  But, since I have three cats, I don't know how well that would work out for me.   I sent this picture to the group this morning before I left for work and by the time I opened my e-mail again, part two was waiting for me.  This stitches really fast so I should have part 2 done in time for part 3 on Monday. 

This morning, instead of packing Homage to Japan, I pulled One Nation out of my WIP pile.  I thought it would be a nice change and a little different while I wait for new Chatelaine parts to come out on May 1.

Later!