A Crafty Finish!

 This was designed by Faye Walsh (Little Dove Designs) for the July 2020 Issue of CrossStitcher magazine.  It's supposed to have a sewing machine charm but the glue gun was what I had, and I consider myself a bit of a gunslinger haha so that's what I went with:

I also got some some more of my swans done this week:

..and some more sky and wing on Dinosaurs:

Lions fans I offer my deepest condolences.   That was harder to watch than our loss last week, and that's saying something.  There's always next year!

Go Pack Go!

Bookmark Finish!

This is some perfect spring color to balance all the rainstorms we're having.  I'm in heaven with this weather, I shouldn't say anything with all the flooding we're having but I wish it would never stop!

Here's "Blackwork Bookmark" by Susan Penny in from Cross Stitcher Magazine, April 2019.  Stitched with leftover threads from a kit.

DH had a very reasonable question about why this was called blackwork, haha.  It's funny that the    technique is named for the color, I guess backstitched bookmark would be a better title.  

In other stitching news, I'm glad I take pictures because otherwise some of these I wouldn't know that I had gotten anywhere at all!

Dinosaurs has more sky:

Zinnias has more leaves and flowers and it almost says Zinnias now instead of Zinntas:

Aliens has more of the stuff around the blast zone:

Triskele is almost done:

Celtic Angel has more wings growing - this is being stitched with the charted threads but it's on ivory aida instead of the blue in the picture.  It's amazing how much more purple the model looks!

And Octopus's Garden joined the rotation, there's a little more seaweed and border done:

Auntie thinks people are sneaking into her house and smoking her cigarettes and turning her lights on and off - she's definitely getting more suspicious in general, I think just because she can't remember anything at all now.  Sigh.  I'm meeting with a lawyer to get the conservatorship going and she may be ending up with a stranger coming into her house to take care of her.  She hates the idea but we're getting right up to the edge of what I'm willing to undertake in the caregiving line.  Double sigh.  I love her like crazy but I am so looking forward to going back to my proper job!!!

3 Finishes!

DH went hiking in Zion so  I had a lovely hermit and stitch weekend, even though it was a week late. His hikes are always my big chance to eat Chinese food and watch old movies while I stitch my heart out!  Our assistant at the restaurant is quitting so I may not have a weekend off for a while, but I watched Royal Wedding and the Shirley Temple version of Heidi and then Roman Holiday - heaven!  

My finishes are the rest of the Art Card series from Durene Jones in Cross Stitcher magazine. I'm throwing in the paintings that I think they're based on because until I checked I didn't realize that she was interpreting the artists style but not actually replicating their work.   There's Mondrian:

Inspired by this:

Warhol:

inspired by (?):

and Kandinsky:

based I think on this:

This is all four of them together: 

I loved stitching these because they were so bright!

I figured out that I need to have a finish every 11 days until I'm 100 in order to be done with everything. It's the first time I've ever thought that I really might not make it, haha.  I'd better get cracking, wish me luck!

This is Kuna in Flagstaff last month - that part of Arizona is so beautiful! My prayers for everyone affected by the fires.