Remember that I said yesterday I was going to stitch til midnight? Nope . . I made a huge mess and had to clean it up. I had onions and garlic in the freeze dryer and about 10:00 p.m., it was ready to come out. When I go in there to get food out of the freeze dryer, I take a plastic drinking glass (that we no longer use for a drinking glass) in there full of vacuum pump oil. I have an old style ...
Stitching Day
This is the photo taken last night . . This is how much stitching I got done today. Does that look like a day's worth of stitching? No! It looks like a day of talking, watching some clips from floss tubes, looking at charts we need; looking at charts we have and need to stitch, looking at linen, ordering a chart and some floss . . it was a day of fun and just what I needed. I missed our ...
Progress on MH 1860
I had a debate with myself about whether to finish MH 1860 or finish Love is the Key. I decided that if I put MH 1860 away, it would become another WIP/UFO so I would stick with it and finish it, then finish Love is the Key. By starting MH 1860, which you may remember I started last week to test Vikki Clayton's new linen, and since MH 1860 is small and would be a fairly fast finish, it gave me a ...
Gardening on My Mind
There are some changes being made to my garden for next year. This past summer was so hot and so dry . . I know . . it's SUMMER, but this summer was miserable and with heat and drought, I spent way too much time outside watering. We used self wicking mineral tubs for some of our tomatoes in Texas and we're going back to that. Here's a picture of the early garden our last year in Texas. I ...
Such Different Dogs
I've never had two of the same kind of dogs at the same time. We had Chip (Chocolate Lab) and Speck (Dachshund) and later, we still had Speck and Rita (Chihuahua) but having two Dachshunds and seeing how different they are is often surprising to me. I only had Chad so I'm guessing that having several children you notice the same thing. No, I'm not comparing children to dogs . . just ...
A Funny Story
This may not seem funny to you but things like this happen to me all the time. I'm stitching MH 1860 by Needlework Press on Vikki Clayton's new linen. I have had her silk conversion for a while. The third row of letters calls for Wisconsin Woods by Classic Colorworks and the DMC conversion is 3042. I grabbed my messy little box of floss and there was no Wisconsin Woods listed. I checked ...