Think Big Finished

Think Big! by Heritage Crafts
Started for CJC Day 2 -- Jan 2, 2015

Finished May 19th
Took 6 Days

Wohoo I get to take off Think Big from my Turtle Trot list! Also this marks my 3rd of the 15 new starts for the Crazy January Challenge. What a fun piece. If you look closely I hide the 2015 in the left part of the branch. I always date my pieces and I thought it looked cute hidden there what do you think?

I heard a quiet yelling from my basket of WIPs after my finish last night. Remember this piece?

It's called Inner Tube a kit from Mill Hill. I started it for Day 10 of the CJC. I haven't worked on her since. So she said Um I think I deserve some time. Here is where I left off...

Great Retreat Weekend

This is where I spent my weekend. Sitting in my spot at the stitching tables working away.

Thursday I met up with two wonderful ladies to ride down to retreat with. One of them I've been friends with now for probably 15 years. We had fun visiting and we stopped in Bloomington, Indiana at a stitching store called Fancy Works. I was looking around but nothing screamed buy me. Mostly because of how many projects I knew I had at home. I thought we were about to leave when my friend spotted a piece she knew I just had to have...

The pattern is from Dinky Dyes and it's called Wave Dancer. The store owner had stitched a store model up and it was too beautiful to pass up. With my love of Dolphins and ocean I agreed it was a must have. We then stopped for lunch and chatted until time to arrive at the retreat location. I've always meant to get a picture of the outside of the building but I get so into stitching I forget to take pictures haha. Unfortunately the flu finally found me and crept into my head to cause problems. But I wasn't going to let it spoil my time. I got a box of Kleenex and lots of meds and I was able to get through. Several of the other ladies were sniffling too. Just that lovely time of the year here in Indiana. We spotted some snowflakes while we were stitching away. We just stayed inside warm and happily stitched away.

So Thursday I started and finished my Mill Hill pick for the month. After that I picked up Think Big by Peter Underhill. Friday I worked on HAED Selkie and got in over 1,000 stitches!! Love those LONG stitching days. I was able to finish the first page!! I will wait and share a picture of her on the 1st since we are so close. Saturday I picked back up Think Big and am really happy with my progress on it. Here are the pictures of my Mill Hill finish and Think Big...

Today was the day to return to reality. What a great time. There were 15 of us ladies. We laughed. We cried. We solved all the world's problems. We sneezed and sniffed the weekend away. We got a lot of stitching done! It was a wonderful time indeed. Now tomorrow we leave for our vacation. I'll be posting updates if you would like to travel along with me.

Day 2 of CJC

 

Today Jeremiah picked out Think Big! I noticed it's a different chart and uses some stitches I've not seen before. Straddling Stitches and these half stitches I've not done. I realized the chart is from England and then I understood why haha. Here is where I got with it today...

I had this piece of hand dyed fabric in my stash. I have no information on it but it was the right size. It looks like a sky in person. The only bad thing about this CJC is that I want to keep working on them and make more progress haha. I'm glad I kept my list down to 15 cause I really look forward to working on this one again.

Today Fred (hubby) had to work but the rest of our household didn't. We watched Dolphin Tale 2 together. It was really good of course it helps how much I LOVE dolphins! Jeremiah is still having a blast playing his new Xbox games. We are supposed to be getting some ice tomorrow so our weekend plans consist of nothing at all. Our heater stopped working the other night and of course it was freezing outside but when we woke up and messed with it I guess it felt sorry cause it started right back up. Just hope it never tries that again. Next week it's supposed to get really cold. One night the low is even in the negatives. Well I'm off to check the other blogs and see what others started today. This is so much fun! See ya tomorrow with another one.