Still Bordering

I'm still working on the top border of the eighth band. The soysilk is still shredding in single plies, so I'm having to take it really carefully. On the other hand, it's over halfway done.

Spring Flowers

I've completed my first motif for Ann K's favorite things block. She wanted flowers, so I gave her flowers in three different styles and added a few insects for good measure. I'll be doing a seam next.

Algerian Rhodes

I'm feeling happy about the progrss I made this week. One full corner (the top left) is done and half the Algerian eyelets are done on a second. I feel like I'm making real progress toward the next step on this.

Bringing It Down

This week I added more red to the flag, bringing the overall flag farther down. It's a biiiig flag, though, so there are several more red and white patches to go. I also outlined one of the major folds of her skirt, bringing it down almost to the end of the pole. Really beginning to make visible progress on this.

Another Gift

This afghan is going off to Kosovo. One of the embassy's locally hired staff is having a baby this month (at least, his wife is). He helped tremendously in getting Mattie back here to the States, and I wanted to do something to thank him. According to my information, the baby's supposed to be a girl. Afghan is made out of Bernat Satin and it's soooo soft. Worked up fairly quickly for being a dense all double crochet. I hope they like this. This also makes my third finish for the 25 project challenge.

Up to F

This is going fairly quickly and I should be able to finish it by the end of September at latest. I'm already on F, which is about a quarter done. The colors of the floss I'm using go really well with the other colors on the piece.

Darning the Leaves

See Anda? I got even more done! I did the darning stitches in the big leaves and started the satin stitches in the small ones. Those satin stitches were supposed to be cream colored, but I wanted them to look like real leaves, so I used light green. It's coming along pretty well, and I have more stitched than this picture shows.