Edgy

This week, I got to do a bit of dark along the left edge!  It felt good to thread up a different color.  On the bright side, I have less than a hundred rows to go.

Cognac In Space

Here's a picture of the old factory building.  They actually did the distilling in it until they built a bew builing about ten years ago.  Now it houses their store and sports room and some offices.

The rest of the photos are of the corporate "love me" room.  It traces the company's history from 1889 on.  If you scroll down some, you'll see some bottles in a display with photos of cosmonauts.  Trust the Russians to take cognac into space.  Supposedly, it was to see how distilled liquids acted in reduced gravity.  That sounds weak to me!  They also gave John Paul II some for his 25th anniversary of promotion to the papacy.  Next Kvint post, it's off to the bottling plant!

Orange Rooftiles

Three orange rooftops are mostly done, along with the bulk of the central tower.  Surprisingly, I still have some sky to do.

Two Buildings

Yay! I have two small buildings done toward the edges of the bottom.  Both dark brown ones are completely stitched.  That's progress, right?

Jellyfish Framed

We sent my finished Jelly Bellies to Knots n Needles in Bossier City, Louisiana (sorry, no website) to frame.  We picked them because they are a needlework shop that has a framer on site and they were close to my husband's parents.  They agreed to call the parents when the piece arrived, and they did!  They also worked with Betsy and Mike to frame this to their liking.  Here's the final result.  I think it looks great, and they even managed to have the three dimensionality show!  It's hanging now in my in-law's house.

Moldovan Sport...

Baseball came to the former Soviet Union in 1989.  By 1991, the Kvint team had won the CIS Champoinships.  It was the only year of the series; the CIS fell apart soon after.  It was not, however, the end of Kvint's sponsorship of baseball.  They sponsor teams from little league to senior men's teams, and do very well in competitions.  Their men's team went to the US for a tour last summer, and their pony league team won second in the European championships last year, too.

Supposedly, they have a 16 year old on the pony league team that regularly hurls an 85 mph fastball.  This is also, partially, your tax dollars at work.  Transnistria is the poorest part of the poorest country in Europe.  USAID and the US embassy have worked to help make real baseball diamonds (about the level of upkeep and upgrade of a regular little league field) in the city of Tiraspol for these athletes to practice and play on.

Kvint is very, very proud of its sponsorship of this American sport, despite having been a Soviet concern for fifty years.  It's nice to see reminders of home, and I hope to see them play this summer.

Lots of Arcs

I think I'm on a curve.  Lots of arcs here, and then to fill them in to ovals...