Final Row...

Yay, I've started the final row of squares to get this done.  And they're smaller, so I should maybe get it done this month?  I'm working on it nearly every day.

A Second Mongram

Ritva challenged us, on her block, to give her as many different kinds of monograms as possible.  She also asked to keep it in neutralish-pastelish tones. Here's how I got it.

And here is how it left my house a couple of weeks later.  I hope she likes it.

Last of the Brewery

Here are some last pictures of the brewery.  We spent the day at the countryside, and there are more pictures of Parque Salus (the area around the brewery) I'll be posting in the next few days.

When...

am I going to be done with this skirt?  It keeps going and going...

Steampunk for Kathy

I love the way Kathi pieced this block.  It looks so industrial and Modrian and steampunky!  It also reminds me of a Victorian curiosity box, so I took that angle with my embellishments, below.  I had to stop to leave room for others.

More of Patricia

I love original doors.  I thought this one was especially nice, since it's an elevator too.

Copper-clad vats.  Lovely to look at, but they don't use them anymore.

Done with the Hardest of Four

I was sent four squares to complete before getting the next parts, and the one with the most stitching was the first - which is now done (Yay!).  Now to get on with the other three, which will end with the third corner of the design being completed!

Getting a Space Done

I am almost done with the area in the middle between third and fourth windows.  It's all in peaches, and I even managed to do a bit on the bottom, too.

Visiting the Brewery

 Saturday before last, we took a group trip out to Minas and visited the biggest brewery in the country.  It's been in business for 75 years, and in the last decade was bought out by InBev, the company that now owns Anheuser-Busch.  They have another brewery in town,  but what's the fun of visiting something close?

They still have a lot of their copper-clad equipment, though it's not in use.

 Seeing their lab made me realize how much I miss being in one.

A chiller, vintage 1930's.

Views from the upper floor of the brewery.  You can see everything from the water treatment ponds (which smell awful) to the mountains in the distance.

Close

I am so close to getting the first (of four) peacock feather fan done!  Then I get to start the big part of the garden.

A Bit Wined

This has graduated into my rotation from the fifteen starts.  It's going pretty quickly, too!

Groundhog Day

If you see your shadow on Groundhog Day in South America, does summer last longer?  Actually, here in Uruguay, it's a different holiday.  Today's a sea festival honoring the African goddess Yemanje.  You'll see pictures of that soon.  In the meantime, enjoy the pictures of the beach and a view of Montevideo or two.

So Very Close

I only have a little bit of stitching to do in the non-metallic, then I have to wait for my order to come in to complete it altogether.  I ran out of the metallic gold!

Almost...

I am almost done with the penultimate row!  The next ones are mainly small, too, so they should go more quickly.

One World One Heart Time

It's that time of year - One World, One Heart is on!  You can click on the logo on the sidebar to get to the list.  I participated last year and enjoyed it, and I hope you who participate have fun looking at all the neat stuff. 




I am currently living in Uruguay and craft a lot.  I've at least tried everything I've seen involving a needle and thread.  I will be moving to Moldova later in the year, and it will be a challenge with one LARGE dog and two cats, especially with nearly two months in the US in the middle.  Anyway... on to the goodies:

I will be giving away three temari balls in your choices of color, mine of pattern.  There are a lot of temari in prior blog posts so you can see what they are.  The drawing will be around nine in the morning URUGUAY time (which is GMT -3 currently) on February 17th.  Just leave a comment with a way to be reached to enter!

It's a River

Even though all these pictures show the water as wide as an ocean, it's actually a river.  Montevideo sits about seventy miles inland from the South Atlantic.  The Rio de la Plata is the widest river in the world, and you can see that in the pictures.  When you get to Punta del Este, the point where the river meets the ocean, you can really see the difference in water color from brown river water to blue ocean.  And yes, the water here is brackish and tidal, too.

Three Starred

I got the third part of Quaker Star done.  I think it's looking very nice!  I'm in the process of finishing See the Star before coming back to this, though.

One Gilded

I finished the backstitching on the top acanthus leaf motif.  The corner is also coming along a bit.