Saturday Update

Final pics of Dove Love for a while, BoInk update, and a Lizzie*Kate finish-finish!
Dove Love at the stitchery "spa" - can you see the pins? Ahh, relaxing all the tension on the left side.



Time for a back massage! I mean, press. LOL, for those who like to check others' work, here you go. Remember, this is over-1. Go ahead, compliment me.



BoInk week 5 - I did more of the black knotwork at the bottom, just to be sure I was all-good. Then I went back to the top of this motif to start filling in. Very much enjoying this project, I wish I could do more than one day a week on it!



And Lizzie*Kate! Gift #1 is stitched and finished! This is an L*K snippet, "Ask Me About My Grandkids", Silkweaver Solo 28ct Cashel Linen, DMC flosses. Finished as a photo frame, using satin stitches to reinforce the cutout. The fabric is glued, but the picture can be changed. Yay, me! It even has a ribbon hanger (it's hanging on a coat hook in the pic), and handmade cording to cover the seams. Backing fabric nearly matches the linen. I'm not sure why it's so weird looking in the pic - it's kind of a cloudy-aqua, and I had some quilting fabric on hand that matched. Thank you to Vonna (The Twisted Stitcher) for her flat-fold instructions - I'm adapting them to other finishing techniques, as you can see.

Just a quick post...

My stitching focus this week has been on the gift for my mom. I Fray-Checked it yesterday afternoon, and should be ready to finish this afternoon. I'll cut out the photo frame, and consider embellishing the Lizzie*Kate portion, or maybe just go glue happy so it can dry and be done.

House update - the selling agent has officially taken the house off the market. I'm glad that our realtor is looking out for us. There were some confusing boxes marked and not marked on the MLS, and he did a title search, and found some paperwork had not been filed, so he is amending the contract to state that all previous sale paperwork must be filed before we will move forward with inspection. This step could take until the end of April. The positive news - the seller obviously intends to get rid of this property, we think he was hoping to save some money by skipping a step and hoping no one would notice. We noticed. ;) That's where my mind has been yesterday and today - tough to focus on stitching anything, since the project I want to work on has to be done when my mom's not home.

Bunco at church tonight! I haven't played since college, and I'm looking forward to a fun night getting to know some other women from church.

Fun with photos!

I downloaded Picasa again today, because my default photo editor is dumb. I tried Picasa a few years ago and didn't like - they've definitely improved it! I made a collage of pics of the girls - my mom's birthday is Saturday, and she's been complaining that she doesn't have any pictures in her "office". This collage + Lizzie*Kate = gift! Shhh!