Summer WordPlay Finish

Summer from the Seasonal Wordplay book by Leisure Arts.

Fabric 28ct Antique White Jobelan

Used Suggested DMC threads

Started for CJC Jan 15, 2015. Took 6 Days to Finish.

 

Wohoo a finish to report. Now I only have Autumn to finish from the Seasonal Wordplay booklet. This makes 5 of the 15 CJC starts now finished. That's my fault for picking mostly big pieces haha. I think I'll pick more small ones for 2016.  Wonder what will jump into my Qsnaps next?!

Busy IHSW

I had a very busy weekend but I still stole some stitching time. Here is where I got on my Summer WordPlay...

I got all the blue done. I agree with a lot of the comments on my last post. I love DMC 995 too! Now I just have the boat part which is done in 321. I'm going to stick with it since it shouldn't take me much longer to finish. Just need stitching time haha.

Now on to my busy weekend. Friday we went down in the evening to my mom's old church. They were having a 100 yr old celebration. It was really nice because they had a lot of old photos, including several of my grandparents. It was really nice and we got to see some old friends too. Saturday Fred and me went truck shopping. If you remember his truck quit working and wasn't worth fixing unfortunately. We had been out shopping for trucks and it was sure a wake up call. We wasn't able to find anything we wanted and could afford. So Saturday we went to several more lots and looked high and low. A lot of nope we can't afford those either. We were worried we would have to settle with not being able to get a truck and that's what my hubby really really wanted. One last stop before heading home and guess what?!?!?

We found our new truck!!! It's a beautiful 2004 Dodge Ram. Fred is a happy little boy haha. Everything we wanted except for more miles but at this point we couldn't find anything better that's for sure. So we very excitedly signed the millions of papers and we are now the proud new owners. We traded in my van since I gave up driving. Now we just need to find a home for his old truck. He has a guy looking into it so hopefully he'll get it. Then Sunday we went down to visit my family. We hadn't seen them for awhile but we also of course couldn't wait to show off our new truck. They were very happy for us. So it was a busy weekend indeed.

IHSW

According to my calendar this weekend is IHSW (International Hermit Stitch Weekend). I have some things to do this weekend so I'm starting my IHSW after this update. I'm going to see what progress I can make on the Summer WordPlay. Here is where I am now...

It was one of my CJC starts. Here is a reminder of what it will look like when finished...

So let's see what I can get done in between the other things I have planned.

Day 15 of CJC

The last one in the bucket to be picked was Summer Wordplay from the Seasonal Wordplay booklet. I thought this one would be a lot of fun to do because we love beach fun. Here is where I got...

As you can tell I didn't get much stitching time yesterday haha. I will look forward to getting back to this one though. I'm thinking of making these into decorative pillows when I finish them. What do you think?

Now it's the weekend and it's the 3rd weekend of the month which means it's IHSW. (International Hermit Stitch Weekend) I told Selkie she can come back out to play. She was so excited. Well the sky was since that's all I'll get to work on haha. I'll update either Sunday or Monday on my progress. If you join in I hope you get a lot of stitching done. If you don't join in......well why wouldn't you join in?!?

We've been having some major household problems. Found out today we are going to have to get a whole new furnace. Fun Fun. So until Wednesday we will be getting by on just a little heat from our one furnace and space heaters. At least it's not negative temps out like it has been. We also have a drain that is plugged up so they are coming out Monday. Typical if it's not one thing it's 13 others. Well I think I'm off to finally get some stitching done today.