Flowers!

Late Monday evening (yes, it was one of those days), I received this beautiful bouquet from Andreas.  The delivery guy had come earlier in the evening while we were out, then called and came back around ten.  It's beautiful!  I'm thinking of doing something with the green curly paper and I think the tiny sweetheart rose bouquet that it's tied with is adorable.  On top of that, they use eucalyptus as filler here, so it smells wonderful!

All Comparsa

This set is all comparsa.  It's bright, colorful, and costumes range from near-complete coverage to nearly nothing!  The noise is nearly deafening too, with all the drums.



End of the Row

Two edges of the piece are now complete and you can see how large the square will be.  Now to fill in the rest....

Murga and Comparsa

Murgas tend to have costumes similar to those in Venice.  They sing songs poking fun at Uruguayo life.  This year, that means about the trash strike, the World Cup, and the Chilean miners.  Plus the regular poking at Argentines.  Comparsas are the drum and dance groups.  Can you tell which are which in this set of pictures?

Thank you Kristin!

Sticklounge had its first exchange.  We were to make needlecases or pinkeeps.   This is what I got from Kristin in Germany.   It's  beautifully finished and she sent me some wonderful Tentakulum thread, too!  Thank you so much, I'm using it already.

One World One Heart Winners!

The winners of the OWOH doorprize are Electra, Connie, and Lamore Allure.  All were sent notes this morning, and I hope to hear from them soon.  Thank you to everyone who left comments, and I hope some of you decide to give temari a try!

Still Chilling

All the borders are done and I'm working on the middle now.  Amazing what you can get done in five minute increments.

Parading Along...

Still more parade pictures.  I was not at all thrilled with the print on the dancers' legs below ... it made their legs look really fat.  On top of the print itself being ugly.

Resisting

So far I've managed to resist starting the fourth rectangle and have kept working on just the third.  But I'm so close to being done!

Parading in the Dark

More pictures of the Inaugural parade.

This murga are dressed up as Chilean miners.  They did a whole song-skit about it in their performance at Teatro Verano.

A New Part!

I'm officially done with the first peacock feather section!  Now onto the main part.

Some Grapevine

This is beginning to come together.  I am about a third of the way down. 

Black Jewel for Wendy

 We are almost done with the jewels on black round robin.  I have one more block  to finish after this;  this one is for Wendy.  Here's a picture of the block naked.

Silk ribbon embroidery and beads were the asked for themes.  I added a bit of beads in a different way - I put a piece of beaded corset on the lower right side.