IN WHICH THE SPINSTER'S HEAD SPINS ROUND AND ROUND

I feel like it took me forever to find it, but on the left is a basket big enough to hold most of my needlepoint projects that have been languishing under the bed since I went on the cross stitch binge. There are several painted canvases that need completing in there, as well as a few that need starting. Now that I have re-joined that guild too (ANG Hoosier Heartland), there just might be a chance that these lovely friends come back out to play!

Rosewood Manor's "Good In Everything" continues along. I was knocked senseless at the guild meeting this morning by Miss Julie's finish of another Rosewood Manor piece called "And A Forest Grew", so it inspired me to come home and pull this out immediately for this afternoon's fun:

I seem to be making pretty quick progress on the Kirk & Bradley canvas. This is a painted canvas that I purchased for an after transplant project, and I originally intended to stitch this one all in tent stitch. After a bit of deliberation, however, I decided to try some different stitches, and I am just tickled pink with the result! I selected each stitch from a few little stitch books that I have here, and feel like I've overcome a little bit of that "painted canvas paralysis" that usually causes me to fall into a big fat puddle of frustration tears when faced with a painted canvas.
My dear friend Lou said he'd like to see this as a beach blanket and asked if I was up for it. 😲 I don't have the heart to tell him that a needlepoint beach blanket stitched with these silk fibers would be a bit spendy, but that it would also take a small team of stitchers and a large team of therapists to see it to conclusion. 😬

And finally, because I just couldn't leave well enough alone, I decided to fish Shepherd's Bush "Come Tarry" out of the Naughty Basket and give her some love this week.

It's not her fault, actually. I'm the bobo that messed up the verse and am now having to do the rest of the sampler with the words all together instead of scattered throughout, but as Annie Hall likes to say...la dee da. La dee da. La dee da.

So now I've got this nice lovely stack of companions to conversate with this week. My next guild meeting will be on Saturday, and that will be the start of a new counted canvas piece, so I will truly have my stitchy bases covered!

I'm off like a herd of turtles, Dearie! It's 6pm and I've not hydrated very well today, so I better get moving!

 

Here's to the week ahead and all of its charms and shenanagins! What's on your to do list? Come tell me all about it!