Requested Mattie Update

It snowed here on Monday. I -hope- it was the last snow of the winter. Obviously, Mattie the wonderdog doesn't. She will sit out in the falling snow and just let it cover her, happy as a clam. She's around a hundred pounds now and a very gentle and loving dog.

Here she is in the snow again. One of the other things she does is play in the snow by burying her muzzle in it. Sometimes she'll try to dive and bury her whole body in it, making snow puppies all over the yard.

Green Squiggles

I could call them something different to go with the measles, but I think I'll stay with squiggles. I think they're actually leaves.

Architecture

The town looks like the beginnings of an architect's drawing now. I like that I get to work on different parts all the time, and I'm certainly not bored with it.

Under the Flag

This week has really been all under the flag on the left. Doing this part makes me realize how much of this I've already done and how little there really is to go. I hope I can speed it up, but probably not.

Spring Captured

Here's the spring mystery from yesterday all stitched up for part four of ten. It's going really fast. I've already got part five, but I'm going to do part three of Zentangle before returning to this.

March Finish First

I was the first to work on Lisa B's spring block for this round robin. Here's an overall view of what I stitched.

And this is a closeup of the tulip I did in petit point on the somewhat-evenweave fabric. To me, tulips are exemplary of spring. I also did this faux-ribbon seam. I think it came out pretty well.

We have a yard covered in trees. I know it's spring when they start budding -not leaves, but flowers. So I made this branch to show that, too. Then I added little white flowers for another seam. Lisa's already said she likes it. Now on to try to complete some more things before I leave in thirteen days.

Springing Along

This week, I got all of part four of Tam's spring mystery done except the cross stitch outline. After the picture, I finished it on Saturday. I'm kind of surprised that I have been able to keep up with all three of the stitchalongs from my German group so far. I have a feeling it won't last much longer though, since I'll be leaving two weeks from today.