Egg Nearly FIlled

I'm almost done with my first egg. This is going faster than parts two and three. On the other hand, it's only four colors.

Yesterday, when I was walking home from the embassy, a gentleman in a car driving down the street stopped and gave me a lovely and unique compliment. He said I bring the summer! Isn't that sweet? I thanked him. Today the special at lunch was good - a savory crepe filled with ground beef and peppery spices. No sauce and just a little bit of the local cheese melted on top. Of course I couldn't eat all of mine, so it came home with me for lunch tomorrow.

I'm sorry I haven't been showing pictures yet. My host has been sick and we've gone no where. I've not even been able to walk downtown on my own due to scheduling conflicts. Tomorrow, though, we're supposed to go downtown and I'll make sure to bring a camera!

Nearly There

I'm still working on the last bit of band eight. The way the separated soy luster shreds, it's amazing I have any hair left. I've got just a little bit more to go and then I'll never separate the stuff again.

The Green Line Grows

This week, both the green line and the light green squiggles (okay, leaves) grew around the outer border. It's getting close to completion and I might go ahead and put things aside to finish it this week.

Just In Time

The next part of See the Star comes out this evening, and I completed it before it does. Something I'm not behind on, yay! I like the way the colors are coming together, and I hope to keep up to date with this one.

Charity Heart

I caved and started something else this week, but it's small and for a good cause. Elke, one of the owners of the Marquoir group, is taking hearts drawn by children and turning them into cross stitch designs. She has 31 of these and they're to be used for a German children's charity. I volunteered for one, and ended up getting two. This is the start of the first one. Since the picture on Saturday, I've almost completed this one. You can see more on her blog. Hopefully, this one will be done today.

A Bit of Blue

With my fondness for overdyed floss, is it a wonder I switched out a lot of the original colors of this for overdyed? I'm liking the results so far. This is still part three, and there's a bit more of it to do before Tuesday, as the new part comes out on Wednesday. I should have it done easily.

We didn't go anywhere this weekend; my host got sick, and though he wanted to travel, I refused to let him do so with a fever. Instead, we went over to someone else's house and played Pax Britannica. It was interesting, being the US in the late part of the nineteenth century. Yes, I'm a real geek. I play war games. I doubt many of you do, because it's one of those rare traits. I did work on this during the Congresses of Europe where the US wasn't invited. Got quite a bit of stitching done.

Getting a Leg Up (or Down)

Bibi's coming along. This week I did some white again and black. The black line going down is the front of Bibendum's leg on the bicycle. I'm definitely over halfway on him now, and the big white guy's end is in sight.