PRGRESS AND "OOPPPS"

 It is good and fun to show the 'good' stuff first--

This is June's Country Hart design for this month's BOM--a fun stitch to do!!

Some more ABC blocks were completed--

Getting those fabric highlight pieces to come to sharp points take a 'minute or two"--but these have been fun to stitch--

for Junes Attic Heirloom, BOM--

I did use a different fabric for the background with the School house--but used part of the fabric they sent me for the XYZ letters back ground--

And for May's color challenge--remember I decided to do purple (rest where doing Orange!!)

but I did not get them done--so decided to wait till Junes color came out and would do all 4 of them, then--Junes color was light colors--I went out of the lane again--probably with these 2 houses--

So am all caught up with the houses--

ON the Cross stitching front--

I forgot to show you that I had gotten Mrs. Claus out of time out last week and worked on her all week and this is where she is now--

her arm and shoulder sleeve was stitched in--see she is smiling cause I haven't forgotten her!!!!

And my hope and goal is, on Sundays, to work on the outlin

ing of the counted cross stitch that my daughter gave me back in Oct when I was there, to finish--I worked on it one time right after I got back and then it sat--and I can't believe that trip was 7 months ago now--what--how--when--where did those 7 months go?????  Last Sunday I got the branch with the flowers all outlined in the lower right hand corner--there is alot of outlining to do on this piece!!!!

And here is a photo of my Peace Lily--

I am so proud of her--when I first got her a couple years ago--she would get small flowers--but the center flower always turned brown before it became a real flower--then she stopped flowering for a good year or more--and then all of a sudden--look at this bloom---!!!!!!!!!!!!

NOW for the Opps--

I thought I had my hexie project ready for the background and to do the applique to the fabric--Kathy had used a black ground--can't say I wanted black--but couldn't seem to find any thing else-so got the back ground cut--laid it out and spent an hour hand basting it together--BUT--look

how wonky this is--it was worse looking in real life too--so got the pattern and kept studying it and discovered that the 5th row was a 6 hexie row and I needed a 5 hexie row--So--I unbasted it all and unstitched row 5--then restitched the top 4 rows to the bottom piece and then added that 5th row to the bottom of it all--   

Now I think I am cooking with steam--as they say--much better--and I think I have some Navy fabric I will try for the background--??????

WELL--GUESS SUMMER WEATHER IS COMING TO FLORIDA THIS WEEK END--AND THE HUMIDITY WILL BE BACK--GOOD THING I LIKE TO STAY INSIDE AND STITCH!!!

HAVE A GREAT WEEK WHERE YOU ARE--HUGS, DI