Adventskalendar Finished

I've finally completed the 24 motifs for the adventskalendar.  I believe I was the only person to do it all on one piece of fabric.  It came out pretty well, I think.   The biggest hurdle in it was the one motif that was fifty stitches square instead of forty.

The Hidden Room

When Gorbachev was in office, he tried to get Russians to stop drinking.  Futile, I know, but he ordered all the grape vines in the Soviet Union to be uprooted so there could be no wine making.  The people of Milestii Mici were afraid there would be wine destruction too, so they built a secret room with a hidden door and everything to keep their most special vintages safe.  That's what this (open) door is in the top picture.  The rest is yet more wine....

Feels Like Plodding

Back to feeling like I'm making no progress.  I -know- I am, but I'm approaching the middle doldrums with this again.  Maybe when it looks like I'm finishing this corner, I'll feel better about it again.  It's also probably because I've been stitching less overall lately, and projects like this are nagging me to get them done.

Starting On Part Four

I just started the last part of the tree and hopefully will get it done soon!

Bluing The Bells

I got both more bluing done and some leafies too!

Proof Of Large

 This certificate is from the Guinness Book certifying that the wine cellar is the largest in the world, as of 2007.  It has over a million and a half bottles in it.  The rest of the pictures in this set are of some of the bottles.  The little "houses" are labeled with the year of harvest, the year of bottling, the type, and the number of bottles in that particular set.  All the bottles were laid down after 1968, when the Soviet Union collectivized wine making in Moldova and concentrated it at Milestii Mici.  Milestii Mici is still state owned, but there are many other wineries in Moldova now.

TAST Week #9 - Couching

I couched some pretty thick gold torsade onto the sampler.  The purple was used to contrast with it and tone down the bling a bit.