Hobby Lobby Sale

 When we were in Shreveport, Hobby Lobby was having a needlework sale.  Needless to say, we went over.  Because Andreas was there, we came out with much more than I was planning. 

I told someone in a comment yesterday that I don't really do animals, but looking at this, I am now correcting myself.  I tend toward frogs and insects such as the Nora Corbett butterflies and dragonflies.

I also indulged in ribbon and some transfers that I can use in surface embroidery.

Afghan

If you've been following my blog since this spring, you'll know that our friends Florine and Saint are expecting their first baby.  It's due at the end of October, and I offered to make an afghan and quilt.  The afghan's done!  Here's a (not so good) picture of it  The yarn is a Turkish brand called Alize, and is an acrylic/mohair/wool blend.  It feels scrumptious and I plan on buying and using a lot of it in Moldova.  It's not available in the US.  It gets put in the mail today, so it'll be to them in plenty of time to cuddle the little one!  They're in temporary housing at the moment, so I hope this brightens Florine's day when she gets it.

On to Only Five

Started with stitching only part five now.  It's weird, but I'm halfway through this part even before finishing off the specialty stitches on part four.  It's progress, at least.  Maybe I'll get this part done before the end of the year.

Hearting It

Laughably expecting my air freight to arrive in one to two weeks, I put this in it from Montevideo.  It took more than four to reach us.  Because of that, this languished in darkness for a while.  It's back and going strong now, though.

I had yarn and some time and a lack of potholders while we were in Texas, so I made this one.

Over Halfway Now

I'm now over halfway done with my purple garden.  That middle part had a lot of stitching!  Now on to finish the rest.

More Leaves

I apologize for being so behind with my posting!  I should have set up some automatic posts, but I didn't.  Blame the Baltimore Grand Prix, where we were all weekend.  It was fun, but I wish I had bought grandstand seats instead of the Grand Prix Club seats.  They didn't treat us premium people as well as the regulars. 
Anyway, on to the stitching!  This is Passiflora Trellis, and it's getting a few more vines coming down and the leaves are plumping.