Cottage Garden Progress 4/8/23

Friday night after I had finished stitching on Cottage Garden, which is an April Patreon chart by Teresa Kogut, I planned out what I want to stitch each day and wrote it down. Any time I write something down, I’m way more likely to do it. That’s how it is with my menu – once it’s written down . . it’s happening! Vince doesn’t understand, and honestly – I don’t either, why it’s so hard for me to deviate from what is on my menu plan. Back when Vince was working, I would write the menu for five days and that left two days that we could make changes, and move things around if we needed to. With him working, if we had to go to town, it happened after work so we’d usually run to two, eat, do what we had to do and come home. Now, anything he has to do, he usually does in the morning and I stay home so I’ve been writing the menu for seven days. I could go back to writing it for five or even six days but, I know how I am and if I did that, we’d go out to eat the days there’s nothing on the menu so I’d rather just stick with seven days. Here’s an example – Vince came home from having been in town Thursday and he said “Today is burrito day at the Mexican restaurant.” I looked at him and he said . . I know . . you have something else planned. I said “It’s roast beef day in Judy’s kitchen!” We stayed home and ate and afterwards, Vince said “That was much better and much less expensive than going out to eat.”

So . . I hope I can be as strict with sticking to the plan for stitching. Without a written plan, I tend to watch flosstubes, find recipes I think I should stop and make right now, wander around in the yard looking for edible weeds to save . . you get the picture.

My plan for yesterday was to finish the flower on the right side (it had been started), stitch the flower on the left side; finish the start on the left side (it had been started), stitch the star on the right side and finish the Peace sign.

Here’s where I left off Friday:

Here’s where I finished last night:

I got everything stitched that I had wanted to get stitched. The only thing not done is a two stitch stem on top of the right flower. I’ll use that green floss today in the left side border so I’ll add the stem then.

My plan for today is to stitch the left border, the tree on the right and the bird under the tree.