Tale of a Shooting Star…

Wow, it’s Wednesday already? How did that happen? Oh right, I took Monday off and then stayed home yesterday with a bladder infection. THAT’S how that happened. 😆

I have some stitching photos to share with you. First up is my last progress on Pretty Posies, which I meant to post back in January. This is the middle section of the design:

Next up is the yellow butterfly that I stitched while I was away this weekend. I finished up the last bits on Monday evening. This is the last of the butterflies for a little bit. I still have the green and orange (re-do) ones to stitch, but I’m waiting on some 32 ct. Antique White Jobelan that I ordered to arrive.

Finally, I actually pulled out Barnabee’s Quest and mounted it on my stand Monday night. I was able to stitch two bands, including the little over one bunny. I hope to keep plugging away at this one, now that it’s on my stand.

And that’s all I have to show, for now. I hope you enjoyed the browse. 🙂

I feel like I don’t have anything to blog about right now if I don’t have some bit of stitching to show, so here goes:

I’m still plugging away on Just Nan butterflies. This weekend, I started and finished an orange one and a blue one. Unfortunately, I realized today when I added the blue to the finished pile that the orange butterfly was stitched on 28 count fabric, while the rest are on 32 count. Bummer! So, at some point, I’ll finish it off and offer it up for adoption.

I also started, completed and finish-finished a small ornament for my friend Mary, in anticipation of being able to visit with her sometime in the near future. The design is a freebie from The Victoria Sampler called Friends Forever. I think it finished up quite nicely.

Now, I’m working on a dark pink version of the Just Nan butterfly. I could not believe that DMC didn’t have an appropriate set of graduated reds. So I found something that’s a cross between red and pink, as close as I can get. I’ll finish off the original charted pink completely as charted, with beads and extra bits to the design that I previously left off. I’ll finish that one off eventually and maybe offer it up for adoption, as well.

And now for the pictures:

Hippity hoppity, Easter’s on its way! And I have the bunny to prove it:

I decided to be bad yesterday and start a new piece. I kitted up Just Nan’s Peter Cottontail and worked on it for a good chunk of the day. I even skipped working on the laundry – bad me! I am at 75% or more on the piece, so I didn’t bother scanning a WIP photo, since it will be done and framed hopefully by the end of the week.

I still can’t seem to accomplish much stitching during the week because I am still tired when I get home from work and having to take naps half of the time. I wonder if I am setting a bad trend here and letting my body get used to all of that sleep? I am going to have to work on staying awake and hopefully my stitching will entice me, particularly this close to a finish.

Otherwise, on the stitching front, I love the Butterfly Heart design so much and am finding it such a quick stitch that I am considering doing it in a rainbow of colors – orange, yellow, green and blue – to add to the pink and purple ones that I have now. I’m just nervous that I will burn out partway through and be sick of the design before I actually manage to finish all of them. We’ll see, but I think I’m going to do it in a set of dusty blues next. First, I have to get some more fabric. Believe it or not, I don’t seem to have much in the way of white or antique white. I’m not sure how that happened. Shopping, here I come!

May I present Butterfly Heart in purple:

I’m not sure what to work on next, but I can’t seem to kit up Peter Cottontail yet, so he will have to wait. Perhaps I should work on something that I have already started? Hmmm… to be good, or not to be. 😉