Funny/weird how this has worked out. For probably the last year, I've been seeing stitchers working on A Peacock, A Badger and A Unicorn. It's one of those pieces that's beautiful when finished but when I look at the chart, I say "no way would I ever stitch that". As charted, the entire background is stitched so it's pretty much full coverage. Within the last four months or so, I've had ...
Big Foot?
It kinda looks like Big Foot has been walking through our yard! Yesterday Vince started digging holes for posts for a trellis and holes for four grapevines. He started digging and said "This ground is like concrete!" He made good progress but after a while he filled the holes with water to let it sit and soften the ground a bit. Then it rained 2" so hopefully the digging will be a bit ...
Friends & Family Progress
Since I'm kinda winging this project, I'm stitching it a bit differently than I normally stitch projects. First, as you know, this chart, Friends & Family by Fox & Rabbit is shown in one color. I'm going by a photo of a project beautifully done by another stitcher. I really cannot make out exactly what colors are where, some spots are harder to see than others so I'm sure mine will not be ...
Garden Update
This time of year I get very tired and sometimes, tired of the garden! I work out there usually 2 or 3 hours early in the morning, then in the afternoon end up going out to do one quick thing and then staying another hour or so in the garden. In the evenings I'm usually out there til almost dark - sometimes after dark. It's raining at the moment. I'm so thankful for the rain (1) we desperately ...
Flea Market Finds
A couple of weeks ago Vince and I had a few minutes before an appointment and, much to Vince's delight, we were close to a flea market. Vince said . . five minutes . . let's walk around in there. Briefly I thought about one of those shows that used to be on TV (maybe still are) where people ran around inside a store with a shopping cart trying to get as much in the cart as they could in a certain ...
Stitching on Friends & Family
I have made enough progress on Friends & Family that you can get some indication of the colors I am using. A reader had asked what my colors were and I replied that I would make this post after I had done a bit of stitching. The Chart & Background: Fox & Rabbit offers a free mystery every year with monthly installments. They are free to download during the year but at the end but ...