Scary Book update

I spent the weekend and early part of this week working on Scary Book (last pic is here) the big blocks look black but they are really DMC 939 wich is a really dark blue.


Not much else to add really apart from Mel has earned a shooting badge at Cadets and my back decided that although it felt fine first thing walking round town was not a good idea :(

Winter Exchange part 1

First of all I want to say Thank You for all your kind comments and emails about both my Dad's and mine hospital visits yesterday they are very much appreciated and although she doesn't comment I know my Mum reads my blog and feels the same. There's no news as yet on the hospital appointment for Dad and my back is still sore and I can't move freely as yet but it's so much better than yesterday, fingers crossed in the morning it'll be OK

On to the exchange :)
This morning the postman brought me this little beauty from Heather for the Winter themed Pinkeep exchange on the Rotation BB He's so cute and loveable, Thank You Heather

She also included some goodies, a pile of white aida squares for me to use for SOLAK stitching, a really cool Canada postcard that has stickers on the front and a couple of GAST colours

Thank You so much Heather, after yesterday it really lifted my spirits today

Oh and a quick question for UK stitchers, is anyone going to the NEC on Saturday for Sewing for Pleasure and wants to meet up?

Today was not a good health day

Both my Dad and I had hospital appointments and nither of us had a good outcome.

You may remember that last summer (around August I think is was) my Dad hurt his knee going upstairs and it's not been right since then. A few weeks ago he went to the Doc's about it and she arranged for him to see a specialist, today was the day. They took a look at the x-ray and immediately sent him for a MRI scan. He has a cyst on his tibia under his kneecap and if it continues to grow it could shatter his knee. They have sorted out the paperwork and within 48 hours he's going to find out when he has to go and see a different spcialist at Liverpool Royal to get it seen to. They think it's benign so please keep your fingers crossed it is.

Mine seems so trival in comparison! I had to go for another lumber punture today and it didn't go well at all. Even though she was dead central in spine she kept catching nerves and causing me alot of pain and some numbness in my foot. After several attempts she called it a day and has arranged for me to back again next week to have an x-ray guided one done, fingers crossed that is the last one has the same result as the one in December and I will get discharged when I go to see my Nurologist in a month or two. The downside is that it means at least one day again next week of not being able to move much and very intense back ache

Look what the postman brought

At the start of the month Laurel had a giveaway for 4 items and I was lucky enough to win #3 (the Sugar Maple) this morning it arrived along with a piece of Silkweavers and a pack of Piecemakers needles both of which were unexpected and very much appreciated.

Thank You so much Laurel, I'm really looking forward to stitching on them and I'm really happy to have some new Piecemakers to use, they are really hard to find over here so I enjoy them hugely when I get a new pack.

My Needleswork

I had a really good stitching day on Friday and got almost 8 hours in (what can I say I was up really early) around 4 1/2 hours of those were on My Needleswork for the Friday night SAT.

I'm hoping that I'll get her finished later in the month as I'm starting another SAL with Pat on Friday's in early April on Mary Busby so I'd like to be able to cross another WIP off the list before then. Yes I know I said back in Jan that I didn't want another huge start and to a degree that's still true (that's why I'm ignoring Cirque's call to start it) but with stitching it as a SAL I'm much more likely to stick with it.

I didn't go back to the UFO yesterday instead I pulled out Scary Book and it's progressing well, I will go back to the UFO at some point this month so I can get it finished.

Jo, I'd love to be able to keep up killing off 3 projects a month but most of them are large so I'm going to be lucky to do one a month in a couple months time(I mean old WIP's here not the new smaller stuff I start)

UFO RR

I spent most of last week working on Laurel's Tapestry Cat

As he arrived

And as he left me

The last few days I've been working on an exchange project which I finished this afternoon so tomorrow I'll get it made up and ready to post on Monday. Then in the spirit of killing my WIPs I pulled out an old UFO and put an hour in on it before picking up My Needleswork for the Friday night SAT (does that make me a WIP tart?), I rather enjoyed working on the UFO and may well work on it again tomorrow and could even poss. finish it if I want another case of stitch ass that is :)

Millie, the blog reading cat

I guess she thought I needed a bit of help catching up on my reader. Now I'm off to bed, night

February progress & March goals

For February I'd like to

Finish the Angel Box Done
UFO RR Done
Finish the SOLAK Square No but I did make progress on it
Finish Quaker Row Done
Finish the stitching on both exchanges I'm signed up for Only got one done

For March I'd like to

Finish the exchange project
Finish the SOLAK square
UFO RR
Make good progress on My Needleswork
Start one of the ornaments I owe Mel

I stitched for a total of 83 hours 30 minutes (my best Feb for a few years) had NO new starts and 3 finishes

Current WIP total = 46 (I've already started the other exchange project or it'd be 45)

The Darts Match

So last night was the Darts match and .......... Hartford WI team 2 were the runners up :)

I was Captin of Team 1 and out of our 3 games we only managed to win one but we only lost out other 2 games by 1 point and 2 points. Team 2 however won all 3 of their's and played the winners of our league who happen to be a team that practices alot but who have a habit of not standing behind the line, yanking their darts out of the board before the scorer has checked the score and then they suddenly decide that dispite having agreed the score with the scorer that it was in fact wrong and should be 2 points lower than it was. We all know what they are like and we make sure they don't get away with it very much if at all when they play against us.

Catching up

I was not a happy bunny on Friday evening when I switched the puter on to find that my ISP had cut me off even though I had payed the bill, they claimed I had more to pay and wouldn't switch me back on until it was payed so I payed it and still no net, after several phone calls and being called a raceist for saying I spoke to an indian (who knew stating a fact was raceist) it still wasn't on but then their priority team got involved and things happened not quite as quick as they should as the one person that could fix it wasn't in yesterday. It finally got sorted this morning (Mum's sick so I'm staying home, the lsat thing she needs is for me to get sick again!) and in a little while I'm going to write a letter of complaint to the MD.

Anyway I was coming on to post about the Freindship exchange, the one I sent had arrived safely that morning, as ever the fabric in the background is the backing and if it looks familiar, it is :) it's the one that was in the background on my DIY framing job that I did the same day I made this up. Nearly forgot I sent to Jane/Miss 376

This shows the fabric colour so much better

Friday night I took part in the SAT on Let's stitch and got about 3 hours in.



I was doing so well posting daily and I would of made it through until today at least with a daily post but it wasn't to be so I'll be doing a few today instead :)

Oh before I forget it's the Darts Match tonight and I'm one of the Team Captin's!!!!! Wish us luck