New Project Started

I started on Jeannette Douglas's Rocky Mountain Sampler last night. It took me about an hour to do the first row which is all backstitch. Should have taken me 15 minutes but I kept starting over trying to decide where on my fabric I wanted it to start. Then I got the row done, tore it out and moved it over some more. I don't know why but I always take forever to start a new piece. It's like I need to get warmed up or something. I put another hour into it tonight and finished the 2nd row which is pretty trees.

I ordered Vikki's silks for CHS's Sampler Stocking and am going to stitch that on Saturdays with the rest of the stocking stitchers on the Legacy board.

In other news I've been a stash shopping maniac. Is it the weather? Am I the only one going nuts? There have been some really great lots on Ebay lately and I just can't pass them up. I'm watching some fabrics that end in about 5 days and then I think I need to put the brakes on for awhile.

Haven't Had Time

I miss my stitching. We went to Vegas for a long weekend (yay we did pretty good too and had a GREAT time) and then once we got home last Monday Gordon's been off work on vacation all week. I haven't had any time at all to even think about stitching. I did get to go to Needle In The Peak in Colorado Springs yesterday though and splurged big time. It's been fun having Gordon around all week and doing stuff together. It'll be nice though once I can get back into my own routine again. My business has been fairly busy this week but fortunately I've been done by about 1pm so we could play.

I've been taking a little time to decide what I want to do next. I'm finally going to really give a rotation a try. I pulled out Jeannette Douglas's Rocky Mountain Sampler and was pleasantly surprised to find that I had the fabric I needed in my stash and had all but one skein of DMC needed so I picked that up yesterday. Today I ironed the fabric, fidgeted with putting it on Qsnaps and I think I'm all set to go with that. I also decided to work on another CHS stocking - Sampler Stocking to be exact. I'm going to try just stitching that on weekends. I've got the fabric but I need to figure out the floss. I'm going to pull out all the DMC colors and see if I can convert them to Weeks I have on hand. If I'm not happy with what I have on hand then I think I'll just order Vikki Clayton's silks.

Lastly I'm doing a mail art exchange and want to get that worked up and sent out this week before we go to Vegas Friday. I have the fabric all ready. I just need to pull out some Drawn Thread designs that are spring themed and decide which motifs to use.