Working on "Maytime" in wools…with a little help from my garden.

Yes, I picked (and ate!) that strawberry this morning.


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Also this month,stormsongk and I travelled to the mountains of Western Maryland.
On our way west, we stopped the the road cut at Sideling Hill.  It's an 810 foot tall cut through a syncline, exposing all the layers of folded rock.
Just gorgeous.


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This week, I finally completed the Medieval Unicorn needlepoint that I've been working on (haphazardly) since February.
Designed for wools, my version was stitched in cottons on 18-count aida.
As I got closer to finishing this piece, I even packed him up and took him to work so I could stitch on my lunch hour.


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Life was quiet this weekend.
We got some snow on Monday morning, so I stayed in bed, working on my needlepoint.  The sunlight helped tell the difference between two colours of cream on the pattern.
Hobbes insisted that he was being neglected.


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We had a very quiet, uneventful weekend. 
The weather was cold and we got a little snow (which melted by the end of the day).  I think Mother Nature delivers these little dustings to remind us that there is beauty even in the dead of winter.


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I've been working steadily of the Needlepoint Pattern of Doom (a.k.a. Candace Bahouth's Medieval Unicorn).  Several hours a night. 
Once I got my head around the design, it's been easy.

At the moment, I'm filling in the ground-colour and find I'm rather in love with the white tracery where the leaves and branches will go.
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Yesterday, I had a wonderful day with enemyfrigate.
She took me to an evil yarn shop where we looked at patterns, charts, and colours and dreamt of the things we could make...socks, jumpers, wraps, afghans... 
We only need to learn how to knit...


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Happy holidays, all.
I finally finished the major stitching on my Yule wreath pattern Friday night.
All that's left is a load of backstitching to outline the leaves and berries.

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This weekend was the Yule feast with our chosen family.
A bunch of us and a load of food crammed into my sister's tiny 1-bedroom apartment.
Crowded and sometimes loud, but fun.

During the weekend, I started a new cross stitch pattern (yay Etsy!) - a wreath of holly, ivy, and mistletoe.  On Sunday morning, I had some trouble sleeping, so I got up and ( Read more... )